From Logitech somes the QuickCam Sphere. Decidedly retro in styling, it looks to have come straight from the cult SF movie Barbarella. But what makes it different is its built-in subject tracking motors. All for a staggering 100 quid – if you can find a supplier who's got one in stock, that is. Its USB…
While Instant messaging is gaining popularity with workers trying to get around the restrictions placed on what they can do with e-mail, few firms subject instant messaging programs to the same scrutiny that e-mail receives to stop spam, viruses or abuse by employees. A survey by filtering firm Surf Control Survey shows that almost 40%…
Acknowledged by many as the ‘Father of the World Wide Web’, Tim Berners-Lee received a Knighthood in the New Years’ Honours List. Born in London in 1955, Sir Tim received an honorary degree in the OU’s first Virtual Degree Ceremony, engineered by KMi, in March 2000. The ceremony was aimed at the worldwide body of…
An audience of around 25 visitors, including members of the Milton Keynes mountaineering club, joined a number of webcast viewers from countries around the world (some as far away as Alaska) to witness Lorenzo Gariano's slide/talk presentation of his adventures in the Everest region. Lorenzo took part in the Adventures International expedition to Everest, organized…
Macromedia has made some changes to the cross-domain security model in Macromedia Flash Player 7. For the most part, the new restrictions apply only to movies made for the new player. However, data loading in older Macromedia Flash movies may stop working as intended when played in Macromedia Flash Player 7. Related Links: Macromedia article
One of the founder members of KMi, senior project officer Mary Taylor today leaves KMi to re-join fellow accessibilities staff under the Centre for Assistive Technology and Enabling Research (CATER) initiative, part of IET in Crowther. Mary will continue her work on the conversion of course material currently issued on tape cassette to an entirely…
Research assistant Mattia Lanzoni leaves KMi today. As part of the AKT project, Mattia recently worked on MnM: Ontology Driven Semi-Automatic and Automatic Support for Semantic Web, an annotation tool for populating ontologies. Although Italian, Mattia is strangely not interested in football. Related Links: The AKT ProjectMnM
AS HOME to Britain's first public lending library Manchester is well placed to join the growing urban phenomenon known as “bookcrossing”. This Saturday the city's Urbis museum plans to place thousands of books – each bearing a sticker with a unique number registered on its official website – at shops, bars and bus stops, and…
The biggest distributor of the Linux computer system has waded into a row over claims that its creators have broken copyright by suing the company making the accusations. Red Hat, which sells a widely-used version of the open-source operating system, has started a fighting fund with a $1m donation intended to cover the costs of…
Useful web page listing all the MIME types and the file extensions they represent. Related Links: MIME types
