admin @ November 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There’s absolutely no doubting that Intel’s new Core i7 processor tears through the usual geek-pleasing benchmarks at a stupendous rate. But what difference do all those threads, channels and flops make to real-world performance?
In other words, forget floating point throughput and raw memory bandwidth. How much better is a PC powered by Core i7 for [...]
admin @ October 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Some new technologies are little more than shiny toys, but others change your life. Some of them can even change the world, spawning entire new industries and making everyone slap their heads and go “duh! Why didn’t we think of that?”
The following 20 technologies range from the tiny to the shiny, but they’ve all got [...]
admin @ October 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
If there was one site that would change the world for ever, it would be the first ever website, created by internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee.
It went online on 6 August 1991 offering people help with using the brand new ‘World Wide Web’, rather modestly described as a “wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give [...]
admin @ October 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
If there was one site that would change the world for ever, it would be the first ever website, created by internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee.
It went online on 6 August 1991 offering people help with using the brand new ‘World Wide Web’, rather modestly described as a “wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give [...]
admin @ October 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The use of virtual worlds and genuine 3D interfaces for anything other than fun and frolics has been a long time coming.
Granted, virtual worlds such as Second Life get an awful lot of media coverage, but until recently they remained a niche activity, even among the gaming community.
However, thanks to years of research [...]
admin @ September 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We’ve all been following the Cern experiment today with baited breath and, although I keep checking that my legs are still there and time is running forwards and not sideways or purple, the world is still here.
However, as we all know, switching the machine on is a bit different from actually testing stuff, so [...]
admin @ February 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
PC World’s offer of a free or heavily discounted laptop when you take out a 3 Mobile Broadband contract has now been extended to the [...]
admin @ January 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
PC World is waving its eye-catching ‘free laptop‘ flag again. After last year’s promo (a free laptop if you sign up to Orange Broadband), this year’s deal tempts you [...]