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Starting Tuesday, this blog’s RSS feed will switch from publishing just a short ‘teaser’-style summary of the blog content to a partial full-text feed that will contain all the content down to the first page break — typically four to five paragraphs comprising around 500 words. This is an experiment, and because I genuinely don’t […]

UK researchers at Bristol University have shown that it is possible to control single photons on a silicon chip. The team developed ‘the world’s smallest optical controlled-NOT gate — the building block of a quantum computer.’ As said the lead researcher, ‘This is a crucial step towards a future optical quantum computer, as well as […]

Ad spending at newspapers and their Web sites totaled $12.6 bln in Q4 2007, compared with $14 bln in Q4 2006, the Newspaper Association of America said. Online ad spending jumped 14% to $847 mln, marking the 13th straight quarter of double-digit growth for Web-based newspaper ads. Spending for print ads in newspapers fell more […]

Pricing strength will contribute to a strong Q1 2008 for small/medium displays, with global revenue reaching $6.4 bln in Q1 2008, up 17.3% from $5.4 bln in the Q1 2007, according to iSuppli. Revenue in Q1 2008 will decline by 6.5% compared to Q4 2007, but such a seasonal slowdown is typical in the small/medium […]

Sandy Duncan, CEO of YoYo Games and the person responsible for setting up and running the European Xbox business for Microsoft, believes that console gaming will “die in the next 5 to 10 years.” “The industry is fundamentally driven by technology. I think dedicated games devices i.e. consoles (and handhelds) will die [out] in the […]

I bought a Fujitsu U810 UMPC a couple of months ago and while the device closes like a laptop to protect the display I wanted a case to protect the entire device. I searched online and the only case I found that was really made for the Fujitsu U810 was the Fujitsu leather portfolio case, […]

Telecommunications market of Asian countries (defined as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam) will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36% from 2007-2011, according to IDC. The data segment, which includes mobile data services, fixed line corporate data and Internet access services, grew strongly at 258% year-on-year in 2006, reaching $952 mln. […]

Google’s Blogger remained atop the blog site rankings with 37.2 mln unique visitors, up from 23.6 mln in February 2007 - or a growth of 58%, according to Nielsen Online. WordPress was up an impressive 209% YTY, increasing its unique audience to 16.5 mln. Fifth-place TheHuffingtonPost.com’s growth was also impressive: Its unique audience grew from […]

I bought a Fujitsu U810 UMPC a couple of months ago and while the device closes like a laptop to protect the display I wanted a case to protect the entire device. I searched online and the only case I found that was really made for the Fujitsu U810 was the Fujitsu leather portfolio case, […]

One of the measures of success for a tech website or blog is getting TechCrunched, Dugg or ’slashdotted’ — the sudden surge of visitors that comes as a result of being highlighted by one of these big-traffic sites, often crashing the target site (it happened to one of my sites once). But such visitor surges […]