7th October 2012 Archive

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TalkTalk's YouView: Why no Wi-Fi?

That's no way to penetrate Virgin Media, Sky punters

Better late than never has been a popular analyst response to the UK’s YouView hybrid connected TV platform, and it could equally well apply to the TalkTalk TV service re-launched on the back of that, just as BT Vision has been. It has got some things right, such as bundling the service free with broadband, and allowing …

Media 7 Oct 10:03
Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales marries Kate Garvey

Tony Blair tips up at wedding in London

Our congratulations to Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, who married Kate Garvey in London yesterday. Among the guests were former Prime Minister Tony Blair and wife Cherie, and A-list politicians drawn from the new Labour elite, including former Cabinet secretaries Lord Mandelson, David Miliband and James Purnell. …

Media 7 Oct 13:09
Man the floodgates! David Cameron takes to Twitter

Are you sure about this, Prime Minister?

Prime Minister David Cameron opened for business on Twitter yesterday (6 October) with his first message: I'm starting Conference with this new Twitter feed about my role as Conservative Leader. I promise there won't be "too many tweets..." It looks like he'll need a full-time Twitter secretary to deal with the barrage he …

Media 7 Oct 15:22
Home-grown drone finds ‘missing’ hiker

Search and rescue award goes to amateurs

The CSIRO’s long-standing UAV Challenge has borne fruit, with a hobbyist-built drone successfully searching for a dummy – representing a missing bushwalker – with no human intervention. The Canberra-built drone flew over the search area – 1.5 x 3 km – and successfully located the “Outback Joe” dummy. As the UAV Challenge notes …

Science 7 Oct 22:21
eBay frets as right to resell comes under scrutiny

US Supreme Court to examine first sale doctrine

eBay has launched a “grass roots” campaign to defend America’s first sale doctrine, as a Supreme Court hearing approaches that could subject second-hand and resale trades to the approval of rights-holders. The online auctioneer is lobbying in defense of the first sale doctrine, and has launched “eBay Main Street” to mobilize …

Small Biz 7 Oct 22:29
This supercomputing board can be yours for $99. Here's how

Feature Adapteva's parallel dash for community cash

Adapteva, an upstart RISC processor and co-processor designer that has tried to break into the big-time with its Epiphany chips for the past several years, is sick and tired of the old way of trying to get design wins to fund its future development. So it has started up a community project called Parallella that seeks to get …

HPC 7 Oct 22:40
SpaceX's Falcon places Dragon in desired orbit

First private cargo mission to ISS ascended without incident

Dotcom space cowboy Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully launched its Falcon rocket and Dragon orbiter on the first of twelve missions that will deliver cargo and supplies to the International Space Station. The craft soared skywards at around 00:35AM GMT on Monday, October 7. NASA provided the video below. Watch Video var …

Science 7 Oct 22:43