Archive for May, 2006
$100 Laptop Prototype
25 May 2006If you haven’t been following the story, the $100 laptop is an initiative cooked up by millionaire philanthropist Nicholas Negroponte to provide cheap laptops to kids in Africa. That is a very condensed version of the story, but it is the essence - check out the official site for more information.
The rhetoric and opinions […]
Google Maps does Australia
20 May 2006For all those who feel as if we’ve been missing out on the love here down under, despair no more google maps has finally come to the party. Big props to cebidae for breaking this one before the official google blog did. It also appears as if the database has had some extra high zoom […]
Airport Security
19 May 2006I just saw a couple of articles on a company called Vidient, who are in the process of rolling out their SmartCatch technology to the international airport in Helsinki. They claim to offer the ability to “automatically monitors CCTV footage and can recognise
potential security threats. It also flags up operational issues […]
Google Releases AJAX Framework
18 May 2006If like me you’ve been impressed with the spiffyness of the recent spate of google applications such as Gmail, Maps, Notebook etc… but don’t have the faintest idea on how you could possibly make web applications to rival them then good news is at hand. Google have recently announced that they will be releasing their […]