Just found a page with different theme + icons install-able on WindowsXP (at least I hope – there was a news article about the Vista one in a Czech news paper, however the page is in French). Related Links: Anyway, here it is (the first one should be the Vista)…
Just found a page with different theme + icons install-able on WindowsXP (at least I hope – there was a news article about the Vista one in a Czech news paper, however the page is in French). Related Links: Anyway, here it is (the first one should be the Vista)…
Never frightened of cutting edge research, today KMi ventured into testing RFC 1149: “A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers”. Who was our new guest? An intruder? Or part of a radical research development dreamt up by those boffins in the South Wing, investigating the comparative transfer speed of standard wifi…
KMi's six a side cricket team is through to the inter-department competition quarter finals. Winning three games out of three, our multinational team (two Czechs, two Indians, a Barbadian and a Brit) is getting ready to face a tough match this Thursday to win a place in the semis. Beating Earth Sciences “Main Boundary Thrusts”,…
KMi presented many of their internet-based research projects at the Open University's open day this year. This was the first open day in three years, and the University had gone to town on publicity for the event. Projects shown included Compenium, BuddySpace, FlashMeeting, ROSTRA/FlashBlogging, Bletchley Park's new text service and our involvement with the Climate…
Do you think you need a cable to transfer data into your mobile? Wrong! This SW can transfer data just using your computer screen and mobile phone camera. They say: “Our free software allows you to send any type of file (including software, images, text and audio) to your phone using nothing but the monitor…
Members and students, from five universities from around the UK, gathered in KMi for their annual AKT project meeting 14-16th June 2005. The AKT project aims to develop the next generation of knowledge technologies to support organizational knowledge management.
Looks like some technology from The HitchHikers' Guide is becoming a reality: “Robotic bins that move and chuckle, benches that flock together and sing when the sun comes out, have been unleashed in Cambridge.” What next – chatty doors? Related Links: Read the full BBC News story
KMi's showcase appears this week on the cover of Science, the high-circulation magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The cover story, about distributed computing, features the ClimatePredication.net project, in which KMi and the OU Department of Earth Science were partners with Oxford University and others listed at the link below. The…
Following on the heels of the Xtreme Webcasting events featuring Lorenzo Gariano's ascents of The Matterhorn and Everest-next-door-neighbor Lhotse, here comes Xtreme Podcasting from Mount Everest. As the site (complete with RSS/Podcast feed of Lorenzo's audio reports) indicates: “Adventurer Lorenzo Gariano is part of a ten-man collaborative expedition between 7summits.com and the 7summits club from…
