Matthias Wandel likes building Lego (TM) machines. So he used Lego to test this pager when he was working on a project in 1998 at RIM (Research in Motion, who you probably have heard of as the makers of the Blackberry phone/communications device) and billed the Lego bricks to the . . . → Read More: Industrial Testing using Lego
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Having taken on Microsoft by offering free web-based word processing software, Google announced today that they are muscling in on the telecommunications sector next, by offering a free in-home wireless broadband service. Sounds impossible, but at Airkix they have a vertical wind-tunnel, and offer an hour of indoor skydiving training which includes 2 “flights” for £40, or once you’ve got some experience you can skydive for £10 per minute. Sounds like it would be fun to try! (You generally have to weigh less than 114 Kg . . . → Read More: Go skydiving indoors Spotted – this judgement on Toyota stocks in my bank’s online portal today: Translated: Our vote – UnattractiveToyota continues to do almost everything right So what does an enterprise have to do to be recommended as a hot buy? Adobe is planning to release a simpler version of Photoshop, which will be a web-based graphics editor. If you need a graphic editor today – for example to edit photos in an internet cafe on holiday, then Picnik (still in beta testing at the moment; requires Flash 9.0) offers a similar editor: . . . → Read More: Picnik – a handy web-based photo editor Paul Baker has produced an aLPHaBeT 26 font which can be used if you agree with Bradbury Thompson’s idea that children are hindered in learning to read because they have to learn different symbols for capital and lower-case letters. On the other hand, a recent study in the UK points to support at . . . → Read More: aLPHaBeT 26 Ruth and I like listening to Ben and Marina’s Spanish podcasts in Notes from Spain, so I decided to buy the book he published last year about how he came to live in Spain. It seems to have become a collecter’s item – we looked on Amazon.co.uk: It’s listed on the German site at . . . → Read More: Invest in “Errant in Iberia” The BBC plans to launch an on-demand TV service which uses software that will only be available to Windows users. If you’re a British resident or a British citizen, you might consider adding your name to the online petition to Tony Blair. |
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