I saw Steve Clayton demonstrate Microsoft's Live Mesh at the Thinking Digital Conference, way back in 2008.I realized straight away that this was going to make a huge difference to the way i worked. No longer would I need to carry around a pocket full of usb dongles containing files to transfer between laptops and machines at home and in the office, and wondering if this was the latest version. No longer would i get home, to realize i'd left the memory stick with the files i was going to on w... Read Full Story

According to an article published in the Telegraph, councils, police and other public bodies are seeking access to people’s private telephone and email records almost 1,400 times a day in the UK. The authorities made more than 500,000 requests for confidential communications data last year, equivalent to spying on one in every 78 adults. These requests for information have been made under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. The Act gives authorities – including councils, t... Read Full Story

Apple have always been amongst the most stylish of companies producing, what must be some of the most iconic of products produced. Not surprisingly MacWorld Magazine, has had to be be equally stylish to appeal to the mac faithful. This amazing time lapse video shows the deisgn process going into producing one of their signature cover pages.Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo.For the more technical amongst you the for the time lapse video, they used the Canon 5D Mark II with a 24mm-70m... Read Full Story

It seems Microsoft are in the dock again. This time it’s the turn of Norwegian browser producer Opera, to pursue the software giant. The case is an anti trust allegation, claiming that Microsoft are ‘abusing their powers, by only shipping copies of their operating system Windows, with only their own “Internet Explorer 8.0” browser and [...] Read Full Story

Within days of the official launch of microsoft's new 'bing' search engine, users have found ways to exploit it, in order to get around corporate firewall, filtering and policy options for viewing explicit pornographic and otherwise prohibited material. The site streams video and places images directly into to the browser on the bing page, bypassing the original web address and thus avoiding any url based filtering. Explicit content is only shown to users who have set there adult content filt... Read Full Story

I’m not sure whether to be amazed, impressed, shocked or dismayed to hear that Piratpartiet gain a seat in the European Parliament yesterday. Piratpartiet, translates to ‘the Pirate Party’, are a Swedish parliamentary party, that want to reform copyright law to legalize file sharing sites like ‘Pirate bay‘. According to their website, The Pirate Party ‘wants to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system, and ensure that citizens’... Read Full Story

This has been one busy month when it comes to search. In mid May, Stephen Wolfram brought us the first public release of  his computational knowledge engine, ‘Wolfram Alpha‘. Then there was the announcement that Google would be releasing their  new ‘Google Squared‘ product, and finally there was the release of ‘Bing‘ microsoft’s much anticipated successor to ‘live seach‘ . Microsoft CEO,  Steve Ballmer Unveiled BING.com at the ‘All ... Read Full Story

If the internet were a giant book, containing all of human knowledge, it would surely have a search engine as it’s index. And what an index that would be! With the seemingly infinite variety of data and the breadth and the depth of information on the internet, an index this big would probably fill the largest of libraries, on its own.When you think about it, the accessibility and indeed the popularity of the internet, is due of the humble search engine. I mean if it weren’t for search engine... Read Full Story

Google never cease to astonish me with their innovations. They are often criticized these days for being too big. Sometimes they seem to be into simply everything, and big powerful companies tend to scare us. But just when you think they can’t get any bigger, they up their game (again), and bring something out that is truly huge. In typical Google style, they waited until the second day of the Google Developer Conference in the Moscone Center, San Francisco on May 27 – 28, 2009, t... Read Full Story

Google never cease to astonish me with their innovation.  In a month when 'Wolfram Alpha' and 'Microsoft Bing' filled the technology headlines, and people were talking about Twitter and the way that real time search was changing everything, they announce WAVE and completely turned the whole communication model on its head.In typical Google style, they keep there best until last, waiting until the second day of the Google Developer Conference in the Moscone Center, San Francisc... Read Full Story