Adventurer and long-time friend of KMi Lorezno Gariano this week set off on his second attempt to summit Everest and at the same time has flown into new unrest into Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. A seven-party alliance of Maoist rebels has called for a four-day nation-wide shutdown beginning this Thursday and a rally in…
Dell and Apple are phasing out PCMCIA card slots (sometimes called PC cards, or cardbus cards) in favour a new format that is not backwards-compatible. Whilst most modern laptops feature the sort of things that you once needed to buy cards for (eg: modems, firewire interfaces, etc). there are quite a few people continuing to…
Spanish International Carlos Pedrinaci made his OU 6-a-side football debut today as Internetzionale beat Fools and Horses 6-0. Playing in defence, team manager Kevin McLeod described his performance as Promising debut from Carlos, well played at the back! Internetzionale are scheduled to play again on Thursday 29th March. Related Links: 2006 Tournament websitePhotos from Internetzionale's…
A flock of pigeons fitted with mobile phone backpacks is to be used to monitor air pollution, New Scientist magazine reported on Wednesday. The 20 pigeons will be released into the skies over San Jose, California, in August. Each bird will carry a GPS satellite tracking receiver, air pollution sensors and a basic mobile phone….
Blogging takes another step with this “post your own news site” which is interestingly hosted in Canada. NowPublic is a site where you can publish news about events you care about. It's easy and let's face it, you are more interesting than your television. You can use NowPublic to share your photos and videos, get…
Today saw the presentation of awards for the first Making The News competition at London's Olympia. The awards were presented by Robin Cousins MBE, Olympic Gold medalist in 1980 and part of the London Olympic Team for 2012, for which easynet are official sponsors. Photo shows pupils from Mayhill Junior School (part of the South…
Nearly half of those affected in America's gulf coast region by last year's devastating hurricane “Katrina” turned to the Internet to make their claims for financial help. At a conference in Las Vegas, a senior executive from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, whose local director quit soon after the hurricane hit, said 45% of…
Nearly half of those affected in America's gulf coast region by last year's devastating hurricane “Katrina” turned to the Internet to make their claims for financial help. At a conference in Las Vegas, a senior executive from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, whose local director quit soon after the hurricane hit, said 45% of…
Seen as the best attempt yet at bridging the “digital divide” is a laptop set to cost just $100 each. Currently only at the prototype stage, the first production units, which use Flash RAM instead of a hard disk and a different kind of display technology to lower power consumption, will hopefully become available in…
Yanna Vogiazou today completed her PhD, focused on the notion of 'presence' in the online and wireless connected world. Yanna took a break from her new role as a Lecturer in Interaction Design at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Yanna's thesis, entitled “Design for emergence: collaborative social play using online and wireless, location-based media”, is…
