‘Baby’ celebrates birth of computing - 60 years!

On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world’s first stored-program, electronic, digital computer flickered into life in a laboratory at the University of Manchester.
The computer was immediately nicknamed ‘Baby’ — something of a misnomer, since it was an enormous device. Its size is illustrated by a picture of the device (below) that recently turned up [...]

Best of SEO mashup

Alltop SEO is an all-in-one mashup page where you easily browse through the latest news from all the best SEO blogs. It contains the five freshest stories from some 50 popular SEO blogs. Alltop is owned by a company called Nononina, who’s CEO is entrepreneur and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki.

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Video and Pictures of OLPC XO Laptop 2.0 look awesome!

OLPC founder Nicholas Nick Negroponte today announced the second generation of the OLPC XO laptop, which will be called the XO-2. The video and images look awesome!

Reuters Launches Calais 2.0 - Now With Pop-Culture

Thomson Reuters’ Calais, a semantic markup API that we first reviewed in February, has reached its 2.0 release. The latest version aims to fix one of the main issues with Calais — that it was too focused on business. Because Calais has roots as Clearforest, the rules it applies while parsing text are biased toward [...]

Video: Evilution Story

An animated classroom presentation debunking the lie of evolution.

The BlackBerry Bold (ex-9000) Finally Arrives

Research in Motion today introduced its slickest, speediest, most powerful, and most connected BlackBerry to date: the BlackBerry Bold 9000. Equipped with support for tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE (which means that it will support the highest-speed GSM-family data networks wherever they are available worldwide), 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth, and both assisted and autonomous GPS, [...]

Techmeme effect: if (on Techmeme) {Repeat in my blog}

Everyone seems to have a say on Facebook’s Connect announcement. Just look at the techmeme snapshot taken a few mins back, and these post snippets (see below)! And there is nothing new anyone is saying. Read on…
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MS Bashing is out of fashion

Microsoft-bashing was in vogue the last century!!!
My partner asked me recently why people hate Microsoft so much and it’s a question I’ve been pondering for a while, as well as thinking about my own attitudes towards the world’s largest software company. I consider myself to be in an unusual position in that I’m a Java [...]

OxygenOffice Pro: new version of most complete free office suite is available

OxygenOffice Professional is a free and open source enhancement of official OpenOffice.org. The OxygenOffice Professional Team has modified the source of OpenOffice.org and bundled lot of extras with it. Here are just a few of the extras you get with OxygenOffice Professional:
More than 3,400 graphics are included, both clip art and photos. These pictures are [...]

Apple to Licence Haptic Technology for iPhone

Apple Inc is in talks with Immersion Corporation to licence Haptic Technology for its iPhone. Immersion Corporation on Thursday announced that they have appointed former Apple executive Clent Richardson to the position of President and CEO.