Email and Text make you stupid
It seems that there is some research that is going around claiming that people who are prone to using text and emails are actually affecting their IQ, in fact the claims go so far to say that by using the computer or mobile phone for communicating regularly can actually affect your IQ more than if [...]
March 28, 2008Paying bills online saves forests
The trend for paying bills online these days has spread really fast, in fact this method of keeping on top your bills is not just convenient and safe, but if you think about it, can be great for the environment too.
In a recent US study it is was found that if just one household stops [...]
Computers made from DNA and Enzymes
It would appear that researchers in New York have been making giant steps to create the worlds first computer built from DNA and Enzymes, these will replace the transistors, silicon chips and of course good old plastic.
There are many uses that this sort of product could be used for; needless to say the military are [...]
Life after XP
Normally when Microsoft brings out a new operating system most computer users cannot wait to replace their existing operating system with the latest offering. However as we have come to find out, there has been several problems with the new Vista system, despite all of the hype and it has to be said the promises [...]
March 21, 2008Who do doctors blog about?
As blogs and blogging become more popular we are finding that many people are using this form of communication to vent their problems in public, of course many blogs get little or no traffic at all. Although as with any website the content can always be searched etc.
But questions are being asked as to the [...]
Firefox 3 outperforms competition
Much has been written about Firefox and the recent release of the third version, normally you would expect the memory use to increase, but it would seem that the in the case of Firefox 3 this may not be the case in fact during tests the memory usage has actually fallen, which has to be [...]
March 18, 2008Computer replaces Prozac
There cannot be many things worse than having to take Prozac only to find that doctors feel that it is no use at all, if the patient wasn’t depressed before, they would certainly be so now. So for people who have been taking this drug thinking that it may be making them better or at [...]
March 17, 2008Computer system could save NHS billions
A new computer system being tested in Bolton is believed that if it proves successful could save the NHS as much as a £1 billion by 2014!
The system includes summary care record, which works with patient records to make them available online, this would mean that any health care professional no matter where they are [...]
SPAM move into SMS
SMS has become a rival for the email message in the amount of use that it gets, but unlike email the text message has managed to steer clear of the huge amount of spam that flood into the inboxes of virtually every email address in the entire world! Causing problems for some users who spend [...]
March 12, 2008Molecules that mimic the brain
No matter how far advanced computing technology gets, it still by no means matches the computing power of the human brain. Or so we thought!
The human brain is so complex that it can manage to simultaneously carry out sixteen times more operations than a regular computer transistor. But researchers have managed to create a computer [...]