Archive for October, 2007

Apple to Allow Virtual Mac OS X Server Instances

“Apple has changed its license for Mac OS X Server 10.5 (Leopard Server) to allow virtualized instances. VMware and Parallels are poised to offer support. This probably presages a thoroughly overhauled Xserve product with greater capability for acting as a virtual machine server, too. ‘Ben Rudolph, Director of Corporate Communications for Parallels, told me, “Enabling [...]

Wolfram’s 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal!

October 24, 2007–Wolfram Research and Stephen Wolfram today announced that 20-year-old Alex Smith of Birmingham, UK has won the US $25,000 Wolfram 2,3 Turing Machine Research Prize.
In his 2002 book A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram hypothesized that a particular abstract Turing machine might be the simplest system of its type capable of acting [...]

Steve Jobs Announces 3rd Party SDK for iPhone for February 2008

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful [...]

Apple to Launch Official Development Kit for iPhone in January?

Businessweek reports that Apple may indeed be launching an official software development kit at this January’s Macworld Expo.
According to “sources familiar with the company’s plans”:
Apple will release a software-development kit for the iPhone in early 2008, enabling programmers to create games, business-productivity tools, and countless other applications for the device.
This is the latest iteration of [...]

Apple release osx.5 (leopard)

Available 26th Oct.
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Does Computer Use Actually Cause Carpal Tunnel?

“A geek physician has reviewed the medical literature that explores if a relationship exists between computer use and carpal tunnel syndrome. ‘Typing at the keyboard or using the mouse for hours and hours upon end just seems like it has to be horrible for your joints, right?’ His conclusions certainly seem to contradict the thinking [...]

Hitachi achieves nanotechnology milestone for quadrupling terabyte hard drive

TOKYO, Oct. 15, 2007 — Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501) and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST), announced today they have developed the world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes (TB) on a desktop hard drive and one TB on [...]

BT invites homeowners to share their broadband with passers-by

Homeowners are being invited to share their internet connections with passers-by in return for the right to access the network via other people’s connections.
The attempt to expand the nation’s wi-fi network will mean that anybody with one of the latest mobile phone handsets, such as the Apple iPhone and some BlackBerrys, can access the internet [...]