CLibra's Tech Report

Office CD in auction laptop

Seeded on Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:02 AM EST (BBC News)

A highly confidential Home Office disk was found hidden in a laptop computer sold on eBay. The CD was found between the keyboard and circuit board of the laptop by computer repair technicians in Westhoughton, near Bolton.

ebay, politics, home-office, confidential, cd, disk, encrypted

Copying CDs could be made legal

Seeded on Tue Jan 8, 2008 10:44 AM EST (BBC News)

[Millions of people already "rip" discs to their computers and move the files to MP3 players, although the process is technically against copyright law. Intellectual property minister Lord Triesman said the law should be changed so it "keeps up with the times".]

technology, music, legal, mp3, rip, cd

Netscape set to Shut Down

Seeded on Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:28 PM EST (BBC News)

The age old web browser, NetScape, is set to close down due to Lack of users.

technology, aol, internet, close, browser, netscape

Cock Inn is caught in blaze

Seeded on Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:38 PM EST (East Anglian Daily Times/Personal Account)

At 6:30pm on the 11th December, the Cock Inn in Hadleigh caught fire from an extractor fan. Luckily, nobody was hurt, but the roof and interior of the pub were severely damaged, which is a misfortune because the owner spent this summer renovating the pub.

fire, town, fan, pub, blaze, hadleigh

Windows XP Speed Boost Coming with SP3

Seeded on Sun Dec 2, 2007 1:03 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

"After pronouncing Windows Vista SP1 a "performance dud" two weeks ago, Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based software development firm, reported that an upcoming update for Windows XP will offer substantial performance gains."

technology, speed, windows, vista, xp, sp3, service-pack

Maintaining Application Consistency

Sun Dec 2, 2007 9:43 AM EST

How do you get an application to run with the same aesthetics and functions, wherever it is? Does this mean learning a new programming language? And what about hardware & software implications?

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technology

BitTorrent Bandwidth Battle

Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:48 AM EDT (BBC News)

Recently, users using the file sharing application BitTorrent have been swallowing bandwidth, and ISPs have been battling to keep up.

technology, tech, news, p2p, bandwidth, bittorrent

Broadband Speed to 'Quadruple'

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 2:52 AM EST (BBC News)

BT is said to be planning to increase there broadband services from 2Mbps to around 8Mbps. This change is good because most of the UK use BT Broadband, so a lot of people would benifit without having to do anything.

technology, broadband, bt, speed, mbps

Spread Internet Explorer

Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:11 PM EST (spreadinternetexplorer.com)

We have all seen spread Fire Fox, but Spread IE? The site gets flamed a lot with heated arguments about IE vs FF, but It's really up to you which side you chose.

web2-0, technology, firefox, ie, browsers, tools

Google extends searching to Offline Airports

Seeded on Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:27 AM EST (BBC News)

Google have Opened up what they call the 'Google Space'. This is an area of Heathrow Airport where people can come to use Googles Products for free, including GMail, Picasa, Google Earth, Mobile & Local searches and the toolbar.

google, technology, space, test, tech, search, free, beta