Category: Technology
Should I wait for Windows 8?
Should I wait for Windows 8? Microsoft’s new operating system is due out later this year, with crucial announcements coming in the next few weeks. Consumers in the market for a new laptop may be tempted to wait until Christmas, but unlike the previous upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, that may not be necessary. [...]
Sony’s designs on your computer
Sony’s designs on your computer The new devices, however, take a different approach to the ultrabook idea: where companies such as Asus and Apple have adopted very slim, tapering wedge shapes for their products, Sony’s £750 T adopts a much more rectangular design that is rather more functional. That allows it to pack in more [...]
A kinder, gentler DRM?
A kinder, gentler DRM? With Harry Potter fan site and e-bookstore Pottermore.com now using watermarking instead of heavyweight DRM on all the Harry Potter e-books, anti-DRM arguments are growing louder. Now the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the organization that oversees the EPUB e-book format, hopes to create an industry standard for “lightweight content protection” [...]
What you need to know about that $15 billion Facebook privacy case
What you need to know about that billion Facebook privacy case Lawyers tried to ruin Mark Zuckerberg’s big day with a sprawling lawsuit that portrays the Facebook founder as a rogue hacker, and accuses the company of tracking users on their computers and iPhones. The lawyers want to collect $ 15 billion for you and [...]
A journey through a water cleaning plant in Brazil
Simon Stanlake (@sedsimon) – Hootsuite Staff Portraits hootsuite.com A journey through a water cleaning plant in Brazil About an hour drive outside of the packed streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and into the sprawling Sorocaba region, GE has quietly been leading the way on clean water technology. There at GE’s Brazilian water filtration plant, the [...]