As US technology giants including Google place a multi-billion dollar bet on WiMAX, backers of the wireless data-streaming format say it will radically change mobile Internet use. A WiMAX network of the kind to be deployed across the United States by a joint venture dubbed Clearwire may render cable or phone line Internet obsolete and […]
You may never make it to the moon in person, but you can send your name there. The Send Your Name to the Moon Web site enables everyone to participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit around the moon for years to come. Participants can submit their information at http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/ , […]
Listen Now [5 min 21 sec] How you appear in the virtual world could affect your behaviour in real life, according to researchers at Stanford University. Andrea Seabrook speaks with Stanford’s Jeremy Bailenson about his research into how people interact psychologically with their virtual-reality representations. Morris Miselowski’s thoughts: We have come so far in such […]
If there was any doubt about the power of the blog and social networking, it is now dispelled. Generacion Y – is a Cuban based blog that has recently sprung up as a result of Cuba relaxing its laws to allow locals to own computers, buy computers and enter hotels. Only in the last month […]
A Chinese research firm said China has surpassed the United States as the world’s largest Internet market based on number of users. BDA, a firm based in Beijing, said data from the China Internet Network Information Centre indicated China had an Internet population of 210 million at the end of last year, compared to 216 […]
California Governor. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan for a statewide network of hydrogen fuelling stations for fuel cell cars has stalled. Click here for full article Morris Miselowski’s thoughts: The issue of alternative fuels is a difficult one and one that we are years away from resolving. At best guess the reality is that we will […]