The cost of creating a game
There was a time when a computer game like Pac man, would cost a mere £50,000 to develop, but that was in 1982 and that was when a £50k was worth about £100k at today’s valuation, but still that sort of cost would be small change to how much producing a computer game today.
In a [...]
The cost of filling up an iPod
When the mp3 was new tech, the memory was key to how many tracks one could keep on the device which was not too bad, but memory has become more readily available and as a result we have seen the memory of such device increase dramatically.
So as with devices like the Apple iPod which comes [...]
Yahoo Mail beats Gmail
There has been free email around for virtually all the time that the internet has been in existence. By far the most famous is the Microsoft creation of Hotmail, followed by Yahoo and Google. It was expected to be the battle to end all battles and at first Google’s gmail had cornered the market simply [...]
December 21, 2007Yahoo guilty of Copyright infringements
It seems that Yahoo China is in breach of some copyright laws, which involve the Yahoo China music search and concerns deep linking to sites that offer pirated music.
The Yahoo China is not wholly owned by Yahoo itself, but still the site has been reported to the authorities in China and even a court in [...]
Apple following Microsoft’s lead
the history of both Apple and Microsoft have been in twinned since the early days when a PC was just an idea and software as we know it now was a mere dream, but despite all of the twists and turns of the two companies, Microsoft came out on top and changed the computing world [...]
December 19, 2007Dell offers Ubuntu
The computer maker Dell will announce today that they will be offering PC’s with the Ubuntu 7.10 operating system as part of the new look Dell computer set up.
Dell have been offering Linux on the a range of PC’s since June 2007, but the Inspiron 530N desktop and the Inspiron 1420N notebook will be including [...]
uTorrent makes download gains
Having an install rate of around five per cent of what Windows has, may not seem to be a great deal. But utorrent has achieved this and by doing so it has made it the most popular installed application on Bit Torrent, while Azureus the favourite from last year has been pushed down to third [...]
December 14, 2007Increasing server speed
Speeding up a server is a dream come true for most website owners, but for most of the time it’s the queries that slow it down and MySQL has to handle these, but if they are taking longer than normal then it can become a problem which needs to be identified and this feature will [...]
December 12, 2007CIA start them off early
Probably one of the more famous US government departments the CIA, appear to want to get them started early in fact it is in the early school years that they like to put them on the right track.
They explain what the agency is about what they do and what sort of people they are [...]
Stupid filter on its way
It’s about time that something like this came along, working on the same principles as the Spam filters use, this piece of open source brilliance will detect any stupidness that appears on a web page and will grade it to certain degrees.
Exactly what the criteria is for stupid writing is not really known, it will [...]