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By Joshua S. Hill
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
When you cast your mind back to the radio serials of the past century, depicting our future (or even the years we are living), the term 'heat-ray' will inevitably be linked to the mad ravings of someone known as "Doctor Dementor" or "The Professor of Pain". In reality, some will say that they should be left there, in literary -- or not so much -- peace.
By Joshua S. Hill
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
One of the greatest fears of many of my kind -- the geek -- is the underlying knowledge that, all the wonderful advances of technology, the internet and robotics is simply bringing us closer to being subservient to our robotic overlords. It is essentially a historical imperative, and we can see it coming a mile away.
By Joshua S. Hill
Thursday, September 13, 2007
They've had Classic Coke, New Coke, Vanilla Coke and the dreaded Diet Coke, but now Coke are going green; sort of.
By Joshua S. Hill
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Without a doubt, the sheer amount of hype that runs in tandem with a Steve Jobs run announcement event is possibly on scale with the Beatles making their way to America. However, just this once, all the hype was entirely based firmly in reality, with the sheer weight of announcements made almost tilting the earth out of its orbit for a few moments.
By Joshua S. Hill
Sunday, September 2, 2007
The iPhone is only fresh out of the box, but already Apple are gearing up for the release -- we think -- of the newest version of the iPod. It is big news sweeping the tech industry, with invitations going out for their "special event" held in San Francisco, on September 5th, entitled "The beat goes on".
By Jim Bray
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Looking for a fairly cheap way to get HDTV while upgrading your PC viewing experience? BenQ thinks it has your answer.
By Joshua S. Hill
Thursday, August 30, 2007
I wrote the other day on the iPhone and how it may or may not be coming up against competition when and if Google enters the mobile market. Well, according to John Biggs of CrunchGear, an insider from hardware company HTC has confirmed that Google is indeed narrowing down a list of phones that they will launch in the first quarter of 2008 as their GPhone.
By Joshua S. Hill
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
It has been the biggest technological release in history, there is no doubt about that anymore. After selling 270,000 iPhone's by the end of their third fiscal quarter, and with rumors suggesting that they might hit 800,000 by the end of this year, Apple are on a role and it doesn't look like there is much that can stop them.
By Joshua S. Hill
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
We've mentioned before the race for supremacy in the digital medium war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Well it looks as if both of those are going to be shown the door, with Israeli born Mempile claiming that they will soon break the Terabyte storage limit, and have discs the same size as a DVD or CD on shelves in 2 to 3 years.
By Joshua S. Hill
Thursday, August 23, 2007
You know the digital wars are going to heat up when names like Michael Bay step into the arena.
By Joshua S. Hill
Thursday, August 23, 2007
You're slowly patrolling down a sidestreet in Halo 3, ensuring to keep your step as light as possible, and your shadow all but non-existent. Your entire figure is built for stealth, and you can't risk anyone catching you. You're sneaking your way closer to your target, and up on your left, you see something that catches your eye and momentarily breaks your concentration.
By Jim Bray
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Digital technology is revolutionizing photography, threatening the very existence of film. And at the leading edge of this revolution is the digital camera, an item so hot it's even showing up -- with ever-increasing capabilities -- in the average cell phone.
By Jim Bray
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
You've probably seen those little manhole cover-like iRobot vacuum cleaners advertised, or maybe a friend has one. The idea's marvelous: they promise to end the drudgery of pushing or pulling a vacuum around your home by doing the job for you.
By Joshua S. Hill
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
1977 saw the launch of two of NASA's now venerable space workhorses, Voyager 1 and 2. And more than being a landmark for space exploration, it is a simple reminder of a fact that seems to have been lost to manufacturers of our own age; they built them to last back in the old days.
By Joshua S. Hill
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Ever since the Challenger disaster of 1986, and backed up by the tragic events that surrounded the space shuttle Columbia, there has been a collective holding of breath when a shuttle makes its way home. It was no different Tuesday, as the space shuttle Endeavor made its way home from the International Space Station.
By Joshua S. Hill
Monday, August 13, 2007
Technology can be said to be the doom of many industries and the bane of many an existence, but there is no denying the good it has done in the past several decades. Yet, it is often the seemingly trivial developments made thanks to technology that reap the most reward. And often, it is for nothing more than an ability to look differently at history.
By Jim Bray
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Cell phones and related technologies continue to expand in capabilities and features -- but is that really a good thing?
By Jim Bray
Saturday, July 21, 2007
I watched the official presentation of Boeing's gorgeous new 787 Dreamliner on July 8th and was struck by a few things that relate to both technology and to business. I watched it live via webcast, from the comfort of my living room, my notebook PC on my lap. But more about that later.
By Joshua S. Hill
Saturday, July 7, 2007
The seventh generation of console gaming has been one of the most closely followed technology news stories ever. The Xbox 360 came first and thus acquired itself a natural lead on the scoreboard (what scoreboard? I'll tell you in a minute!). Then came the Playstation 3, closely followed by the Nintendo Wii. Ever since then, it's been hard to make it through a news day without at least one story popping up about one of the new-gen consoles.
By Jim Bray
Monday, June 25, 2007
If there's life after DVD, Sony wants it to be Blu-ray.
By Jim Bray
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Satellite radio is great. It offers a wider variety of programming than you can get locally, and you can go just about anywhere on the continent without worrying about the signal fading out.
By Jim Bray
Saturday, June 23, 2007
What good is your technology if you don't have the proper support for it?
Support, of course, could be anything from a dedicated IT department, to something as simple as a power bar. I've been messing about with a few items that, while decidedly low tech, can help make life with your notebook computer a little more pleasant.
By Jim Bray
Sunday, June 3, 2007
You could almost call it "Vista Vision."
Or maybe not, if you don't want to get sued by Paramount Pictures or whoever holds the trademark on that old widescreen movie format name. But the point is that this LG widescreen computer monitor is not only a terrific size for the average desk, it offers features that make it perfectly at home in small home theaters, corporate boardrooms or lobbies.
By Jim Bray
Saturday, June 2, 2007
The idea of mind control may fill your mind with fear -- especially since there are still liberals around -- but some kinds of mind control could actually turn out to be a really good thing.
By Jim Bray
Saturday, May 19,
Is there a Jolly Roger flying over your home theater?
By Jim Bray
Friday, May 18, 2007
Epson may not be a name you'd associate ordinarily with high quality home theater equipment, but if its PowerLite Pro Cinema 1080 is any indication, this is a company serious about being taken seriously.
By Jim Bray, TechnoFile Magazine
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Move over, plasma, LCD and DLP televisions. Sony has announced it's going to start building and marketing an entirely new type of TV--just what the consumer needs when faced with deciding which type of television to buy.
By Jim Bray, TechnoFile Magazine
Monday, April 30, 2007
Windows Vista may have gotten most of the hype, but it isn't the only bread-and-butter product to come from Microsoft this year.
By Jim Bray
Sunday, April 29, 2007
With downloadable ringtones doing big business and video now appearing on phone screens, it was inevitable that companies would combine the two into some new and interesting features.
By Jim Bray
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Boy, are inkjet printers and all-in-ones getting cheap and sophisticated!
Time was when a cheap inkjet printer cost four hundred bucks or more, a scanner cost a couple of hundred dollars more than that and may have needed needed a SCSI port - and I remember buying a very basic fax machine back in the early 1990's for about $1500.
By Jim Bray
4/9/07
It didn't get the hype of Windows 95 (which is probably a good thing), but Microsoft's latest version of its Windows PC operating system is a good step forward.
And just as Windows 95 ushered in a new look and feel for the OS, Vista also changes much of the appearance and functionality of the system.
By Jim Bray
4/8/07
Making your point with PowerPoint may never have been as flexible, thanks to a slick little gadget from Microsoft.
By Jim Bray
4/7/07
Talk about a sight for sore eyes, let alone a concept from science fiction once again turning into science fact!
By Jim Bray
Monday, March 19, 2007
With the cell phone market as competitive as it is, what's a company to do if it wants to differentiate its latest phones from the plethora of others out there?
By Jim Bray
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Voice recognition has come a long way in recent years. What was once no more than an interesting curiosity with plenty of potential but little practical impact has grown into a technology that really can help those who can't/won't/don't type and is now appearing in devices far beyond the PC.
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