Posts Tagged ‘technology’Apple to make Tablet announcement on January 26th?Friday, January 15th, 2010Rumour has it, Steve Jobs is to make an announcement on January 26th about the highly anticipated Apple tablet… On June 15th, we brought to you a piece written by the Financial Times detailing the Apple tablet and what it is expected to look like, (http://bit.ly/5OmlhR) well the wait may just be over. Medion wins PC Advisor’s Readers’ Best PC Brand awardFriday, January 8th, 2010Medion has won the PC Advisor Awards 2010 – Readers Best PC Brand award, after being ranked highest by PCA readers based on a combination of customer service and hardware reliability. TECH NEWS: MEDION launches new 10” widescreen Windows 7 netbook with 250GB hard driveMonday, December 7th, 2009 7th December 2009: MEDION, a leading German consumer electronics vendor, today announces the MEDION AKOYA E1217 netbook with Windows 7 Starter Edition. The stylish new netbook, with its capacious 250GB hard drive, will make a perfect gift this Christmas. The MEDION AKOYA E1217 is priced at £299.99 and is available now exclusively from www.medionshop.co.uk. Last order date for Christmas delivery is December 18th. iPhone robot, is there an end to what the iPhone can do!Thursday, July 30th, 2009This story has been picked up on technology websites all over the world today. A robot hobbyist has developed an application that lets the iPhone 3GS function as the brain and face of miniature humanoid robot, Robochan. It’s made from a Kondo KHR-2HV humanoid which has had its head replaced by an iPhone which controls the machine. Helveta’s timber track and trace technology receives £3m investmentThursday, July 2nd, 2009Oxford, United Kingdom, 2 July 09: Helveta Limited, the leading provider of global timber track and trace technology, today announced that it has raised £3m in a new funding round. French technology investor Succés Europe led the round to completion, supported by existing investors Albion Ventures and Oxford Capital Partners. The investment will finance the continued international growth and expansion of the company. Personal Computer World magazine closes after 31 yearsFriday, June 12th, 2009It is with great sadness that we learnt this week, our friends at Personal Computer World (PCW) are no longer in employment with Incisive Media (PCW’s publisher). After 31 years, the magazine has been forced to close citing the poor state of the advertising market as the reason behind the decision to declare the title as “no longer economically viable”. Bear Grylls uses OverBoard waterproof bagsMonday, June 1st, 2009Bear Grylls broke his back in three places in a parachuting accident, but two years later became the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest aged 23. Now thats tough! IRIS helps implement scanning stations for South-African general electionTuesday, May 26th, 2009Quite an interesting press release from one of clients using their OCR technology in the South African Elections: Louvain-la-Neuve, May 18, 2009 – I.R.I.S. Group, a publicly traded company (Euronext Brussels: IRI), market leader in Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR), Electronic Document Management (EDM) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) announced today the successful implementation in South-Africa of 400 scanning stations running IRISPowerscan to process the national election results slips. Will Wolfram|Alpha change our lives?Tuesday, May 19th, 2009In between the worryingly enthusiastic posts about Eurovision, Twitter was all a flurry this weekend over the launch of the Wolfram|Alpha ‘computational knowledge engine’. So what does this mean? A search engine for nerds? Google for geeks? Well…sort of! Enjoyed the gadget show today…Friday, April 17th, 2009Interesting day today at the gadget show, not as big as I thought it might be, but my god it was absolutely rammed with people… Didn’t really see anything new, however I am spoilt in the sense that the job takes me to ces, cebit and ifa etc… Guitar Hero ‘Greatest Hits’ on it way says GizmodoThursday, February 12th, 2009Seen by many as the most enjoyable console game on the market, Guitar Hero’s makers Activision Blizzard (AB) are planning to cash in on this by launching a ’Greatest Hits’ edition before the end of the year – according to Gizmodo.
Missing the Flackenhacks…Thursday, October 30th, 2008Bad news people, I’m afraid I missed the Flackenhacks… I bought a ticket after Rob Kerr reccomended I do so, so I could hobnob with all the big PR boys and girls, but it seems an act of God intervened and decided that I shouldn’t… |
