ICT magazine

Intel researchers are developing compact, sensor-equipped mobile devices that can measure environmental data such as air quality and enable people to share that data and impact real-world environmental action. With nearly everyone now carrying mobile devices wherever they go, a huge opportunity exists ...

Seat-of-the-pants estimates won’t be enough to cool the worldTHE human impact of climate change “is difficult to assess reliably”, say the authors of a new report from the Global Humanitarian Forum, a think-tank run by Kofi Annan, a former United Nations secretary-general, aided by a raft of eminent folk. But ...

: Click on the thumbnails below for a closer look at gum from 2017. We'll continue to create a new artifact from the future in each upcoming issue of Wired magazine, but we'd like to see your prognostications, too. What do you think our world will look like in 10, ...

Kenya's ethnic divisions have become so entrenched, since a disputed election 18 months ago, that even student politics have been tainted by tribal rivalry as Will Ross discovered.I stumbled across this story on my way to ...

No state or system has a monopoly on curbing liberty, as Amnesty (perhaps a tad grudgingly) agrees FOR an organisation that has tried to broaden the definition of human rights, Amnesty International has a lot to say about violations of the old-fashioned sort. Its latest report on the state of ...

The digitally deprived have rights too, says regular columnist Bill Thompson"President Sarkozy of France recently managed to get his Création et Internet law passed by the National Assembly, and if all goes well in the Senate then French internet users will ...

Future microprocessor chips will scale by adding new cores rather than increasing frequency. Programmers need an easier way of exploiting parallel processing than the current dominant parallel processing paradigms. As part of Intel's collaboration with UC Berkeley and Microsoft at the ...

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings have begun. Senators are sure to ask her tough questions about statements and decisions she has made in the past....

Here’s my first shot with the HD Video Camera, a Canon Vixia HD30. It was a classic software project – I got the camera, but I had to update to iMovie ‘09 so the file format would be recognized, and I had to update to Leopard to be able to ...

Rich food importers are acquiring vast tracts of poor countries' farmland. Is this beneficial foreign investment or neocolonialism?EARLY this year, the king of Saudi Arabia held a ceremony to receive a batch of rice, part of the first crop to be produced under something called the King Abdullah initiative for ...

Hundreds of research institutions around the world are looking into emerging devices that could someday replace charge-based CMOS, which forms the basis for today's computer chips. There have been predictions that as CMOS transistors continue to shrink, a point ...

Press-release: Prestigio began shipments to Europe, Middle East and Africa of a new PC for office use with a recommended end-user price of 169 € for entry level configuration (plus VAT).

My wife’s friend is a teacher and she has a sign that says “You are special and unique, just like everyone else”. So for the record, I am unique as the only John J. M. Wall III and in fact, the M. has never really been made public and even ...

In order to improve performance/watt in future processors, Intel researchers are exploring circuits to accelerate key algorithms. Researchers have developed an ultra low voltage special-purpose video encoding accelerator implemented in 65nm CMOS. This accelerator circuit could make video compression and encoding ...

I saw Eddie Izzard on The Graham Norton show and I couldn’t stop laughing about this for the next hour.  Aside from a few f-bombs it’s safe for work.

Intel researchers are developing concept technology, "UbiFit Garden," which uses self-monitoring and positive feedback to encourage people to be more physically active. As a user performs physical activities, a garden blooms on the background screen of their mobile phone. Activities are detected automatically ...

The pope’s visit to the Holy Land adds another public-relations disaster to the string that already exists. Why should this be?TO UNDERSTAND the personal baggage that Pope Benedict XVI brought to the Holy Land this week, it is worth looking at his most accessible book, “Jesus of Nazareth”, published two ...

How the church is faring in the world’s biggest Catholic countryTHOUGH Pope Benedict’s tenure has not had much effect on Catholicism in Brazil so far, it has entrenched an old conflict. The previous pope’s reign saw a “decapitation of the progressive parts of the church in Latin America and particularly ...

SugarCRM is an open source CRM system, kind of a David to Salesforce.com’s Goliath. It’s been doing very well, but there was a surprise last week as the Co-Founder and CEO stepped down. Check out this post: Never before has news been gathered and spread so fast. Is it any wonder ...

Press-release: ASBIS has signed an OEM Distributor Channel Agreement with Microsoft. The new agreement licenses ASBIS to distribute Microsoft software products to channel partners in Bulgaria.