By now, most people will have heard of Virgin Galactic and Richard Branson’s plans of putting people into space for a short period of time for a “relatively” low price. For now most of that development has been going on over in the US and that’s where Virgin have planned their $200 million Spaceport America, but now plans have been announced to bring something similar to the UK. A report came out yesterday at a meeting at the Insititute of Directors titled “Space: Britain’s New Infrastructure Frontier.” praising the merits of having a space port built in the United Kingdom and it seems that Scotland is the place to be. Read More »
Sometimes people just can’t get away from their laptops or smartphones for their business and personal uses and with constant technological advances, things are getting faster and even more convenient. This has been taken one step further (or higher!) with the partnership between British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat and global aviation supplier, Honeywell. Inmarsat have plans to launch 3 satellites into orbit over the next couple of years, with the first being launched in 2013 which will be the beginning of their plans to provide global coverage.
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With the explosion of smartphones and tablet PCs in the past few years, mobile internet usage has also sky rocketed. Hundreds of new apps are released each and every day and many of them are heavily internet reliant, which means that the current speeds we get over the 3G network (and its variants) are starting to become “too slow” for the day-to-day needs of tablet and smartphone users. It’s no wonder then, that mobile network operators in the UK are trying to push for it’s snappy implementation, but even that doesn’t come without controversy. Everything Everywhere (the outcome of T-Mobile & Orange’s merger) have kickstarted a movement, however competitors are worried that they’re trying to shoe-horn their way in and have ulterior motives after they proclaimed that they wanted to be the first company to be providing the technology in the UK. Read More »
The Earth’s natural resources are running low, a decision has been made to send out space shuttles to mine asteroids for their raw materials and transport these back to Earth. Sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster right? That is exactly what Planetary Resources have planned though, it’s a company with some high profile backers including the Google co-founder, Larry Page & James Cameron (director of Avatar & Titanic) that plan on doing some revolutionary things outside of Earth’s atmosphere; using robotic probes to do some cool things to asteroids! What they intend to do is mine near-Earth asteroids that have high stores of Platinum group metals and water and in turn, have a massive effect on the global economy.
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There’s a new kid on the block when it comes to web analytics and it’s just been given a massive boost by being included in cPanel’s latest update. This has of course sparked an interest among users and admins alike and many are wondering “What exactly is Logaholic and why should I use it?”. Hopefully I’ll be able to give you an overview and some reasons behind using the new piece of software over its rivals such as Webalizer and Awstats.
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Meet Pebble, the watch that will change the face of the watches forever! Not only that, it will change it’s own face, whenever you tell it to.
E-paper is nothing new, it has been used in Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader since 2007, mobile phones, USB drives, digital photo frames and even other watches (though the Seiko Spectrum SVRD001 would set you back nearly £2,000!). So, what is it that makes the Pebble revolutionary? There’s a number of things, not least the way they have approached this project. Unable to secure funding through the traditional venture capital route they did what any self-respecting entrepreneur does these days… Read More »