What’s that flashing light?
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 25th Apr, 2008
I always like learning about different types of technology. I was watching an old episode of Nip Tuck last week and one implement that was being used by the plastic surgeons was a flashing implement used to treat the skin. So I fired up my browser and tried to find out what it is.
Turns out [...]
Video Comment? Not for me thanks!
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 25th Apr, 2008
You may have noticed that some blogs around the Web, particularly TechCrunch have added a video commenting service provided by Seesmic who have recently come to market with this novel service. While I quite like the technology behind it, I’m not convinced video comments work for this medium. Any my concerns are also voiced by others around [...]
Announcing BizTalk Server R3
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 24th Apr, 2008
For all those out there still working in the Microsoft integration space, keep your eyes open for the next iteration of BizTalk Server 2006. I’ve just picked this up from Andy James’ Solidsoft blog:
Today, Steve Martin announced a few details about the next version of BizTalk that will be available in early 2009. [...]
Back from BCS Talk
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 17th Apr, 2008
Just came back from a talk organised by the BCS on Field Service Technology where Steve Burrows, group IT director of Vanilla group gave us some insight on how JLA, the UK market leader in commercial laundry equipment rental, have used technology to streamline their Field Service Operations and integrated them with their ERP, CRM [...]
The mobile web is very much alive (and kicking)
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 15th Apr, 2008
Some great debate today on ReadWriteWeb’s post asking whether the Mobile Web is still alive or not. It was very much in response to Russell Beattie’s throwing in the towel and Michael Mace’s pronouncing Mobile Apps dead.
What’s interesting about the post is the comment thread that follows, where a number of people debate this [...]
Turn your phone into a WiFi hotspot
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Mar, 2008
Here’s a cool idea. Thanks to new software from Tap Root Systems, you can now turn your phone into a Wifi hotpot, assuming you have the right model of phone and a phone that supports 3G and has WiFi capabilities. You end up using your phone as a proxy sharing your HSDPA or EVDO connection [...]
I lost my horse on Craigslist
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Mar, 2008
It was quite amusing (well, not for the person concerned) to hear that someone had been the victim of a prank on Craigslist where somone put up an ad in Craigslist saying he was leaving town and all his possessions were up for grabs. The poor victim got home to find 30 people ransacking his [...]
BCS Talk: Manx Telecom Next Generation Network
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 19th Mar, 2008
If you’re on the Isle of Man, the BCS is organising a talk tomorrow about the new Next-Generation Network currently being rolled out across the Island by Manx Telecom. Here’s a bit more about it.
The network will be one of the first fully converged ALL-IP networks in the world. It will be able to offer [...]
Grab something to watch with Graboid
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 26th Feb, 2008
Here’s a service I’m just about to try. Graboid Video is an application that lets you stream video straight off Usenet servers all over the world. There’s a huge collection of videos, TV shows and anything you want to watch. As the video is downloaded off Usenet, it’s supposed to be the fastest download around [...]
LED - lightbulbs of tomorrow
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 23rd Feb, 2008
Don’t you hate it when you know technology is moving on, but hasn’t yet got to the point you’d like it to be? This post relates to some lights that I just bought for our kitchen. We currently have 8 50W halogen lights (GU10) in our kitchen, but within a couple of days 4 of [...]
Microsoft embracing the real world ..
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 22nd Feb, 2008
Lots of people are commenting about yesterday’s announcement from Microsoft about their intentions to be more transparent, provide more information to the community and make their flagship products more interoperable. In a nutshell, they said that they are implementing the following principles:
ensuring open connections
promoting data portability
enhancing support for industry standards
fostering more [...]
Do you web conference?
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 21st Feb, 2008
I was playing with the video display in the our board room a couple of weeks back and noticed that it doubles up as a video conferencing display. It’s actually pretty awesome as the camera easily captures the whole room and it’s part of the IP network the runs through the whole organisation. I haven’t [...]
Time for a HoneyPost
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 11th Feb, 2008
For those who are new to this blog, I sometimes put together a Honeypost which is a collection of links designed to distract the best of us from the things we’re supposed to be doing. It’s a greymatter honeypot dripping with juicy gooey honey. So here goes:
Vista SP1 Roll out: Beta testers got it last [...]
The Twitter Debate
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 17th Jan, 2008
There are some interesting conversations on Techmeme at the moment discussing the merits and downfalls of Twitter. It seems to have been sparked off by Twitter falling over during the MacWorld keynote speech and made more public Dave Winer discussing whether Twitter would be more stable if it were decentralised, but there’s a very interesting [...]
A car full of gadgets
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 16th Jan, 2008
It’s funny how I seem to collect gadgets wherever I go. I have a number of toys in my car, but I must say, my favourite has to be my GPS unit. It’s a small device the size of a tennis ball, but it keeps me from getting lost. It has maps for all of [...]
