Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Artists are lighting up London's South Bank with 1200 wi... as part of a digital arts festival.

New phone features 'baffle users'
Children using mobile phones, BBC
Setting up a new mobile phone is no longer child's play.
The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users ...
... ore new services if the technology was easier to set up.

In mid-April, Adobe released software called Creative Su... contained translation tools that automatically turn Flas... programs that run on the iPhone.
Shortly before the release, Apple updated the terms and ...
The revised terms placed strict restric

MPs hit streets for wireless net
Westminster
Parliament lacks wi-fi access points
The lack of wireless internet access within the Houses o ...
The Commons administration committee says tight security ...

Egyptian town's 'zero unemployment'
Despite the ongoing global economic turmoil, one Egyptia ...
The people of Damietta attribute this to the quality of ...
Christian Fraser visited one of Damietta's many workshop ...

Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have ... the mind works.
Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought ...
Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and ...
It could be this uninhibited processing that allows crea

A DARPA director argues that the end of the Moore's Law ... essentially why you now have a tablet in your hand -- co... because of insurmountable economic challenges.

Start off by explaining Geoloqi?
Amber Case: Geoloqi is a location based platform. We hav ...
We offer storage of raw location data, that allows it to ...
Explain what geofencing is?
Case: Say you have a house and you draw a virtual geofen ...

"Welcome to Project Holodeck, would you like to make my ...
(Credit: Project Holodeck)
Infiltrating the Borg or having dinner with Deanna Troi ...
Project Holodeck is exactly what it sounds like -- a ver ...

A prototype bra from Microsoft researchers uses sensors ... wearer's mood with a goal of helping prevent stress-rela...

Supersize me

Intel today announced its intention to actively commerci... Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your sm... from your notebook PC.
WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith ...

Brain Ball
Ready, Set, Relax! Brainball is a totally new concept of ...
Brain Ball

When Google announced that its new social-networking ini... extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land ... social web's attention became a whole lot more intense.
In a move that was anticipated for weeks, Google has unv ...
The initiative,

Young people are risking their privacy and leaving poten... information on social-networking sites, says the Information Commissioner's Office.
Millions of young people in Britain would not want a col ...

Chad Washington
Chad Washington with total artificial heart and pump device
Imagine living without a heart. It is possible — if yo ...
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has performed its firs ...
... advanced technology small enough to fit in a backpac

BBC GEL Social Media Icons v1.0
Back in April, before I left Clearleft, I started creati ...
The BBC’s icons were lovely, single-colour icons, and ...
When BBC News (my news source of choice) launched a beau ...
... d I claim no ownership of the logos

CRFClassifier is a Java implementation of a Named Entity... Entity Recognition (NER) labels sequences of words in a ... names of things, such as person and company names, or ge... names. The software provides a general (arbitrary order)... linear chai

What is NoseRub?
NoseRub is a protocol.
What currently can be downloaded is just an example impl ...
How is it a »decentralised« social network?
... . You can build anything on top of the NoseRub protocol.

Under the leadership of Pacific Northwest National Labor...
The R&D Agenda presents recommendations to advance the s ...
* The science of analytical reasoning
* Visual representations and interaction techniques
... Additional Reading (84K PDF)

Despite the attempts of various neighbors to help, Mosel... wounds proved fatal, and Farrar did her best to comfort ...
The murder of Kitty Genovese shifted from crime to legen ...
The Times piece was followed by a story in Life magazine ...
New York be

This is what OAuth does, it allows the you the User to g... private resources on one site (which is called the Servi... another site (called Consumer, not to be confused with y... While OpenID is all about using a single identity to sig... OAuth is ab

COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) is a simple, ad hoc comm... for publishing OpenURL references in HTML.

Investors’ behaviour on stock markets has been likened... irrationality described in Charles Mackay’s 1841 class... Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. But there i... positive view of what crowds can achieve. In his 2005 bo...
Fama’s wo

Early personal computers were nothing like present day c... personality!
Each was different and more exciting than the previous, ...
sharp-pc7000 This website is dedicated to the preservati ...

“I need a car to pick me up at my hotel and take me to... as collaborative as “my yard looks like crap and I rea... cheap landscaper.” You’re talking about buying and s...
Let me ask you this: if someone pushed out an escort-boo ...
Context mat

Understanding the reality of poverty is the critical ste... problem. Time and again, microfinance has been proven to... effective method of combating poverty. With the goal of ... to the reality of living on a dollar a day and helping t...
To achieve