13th May 2006 Archive

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Nokia blesses Google Talk - report

Tablet seeks users

A device that no one uses will feature a chat service with no users, the Wall Street Journal reports today. The device is Nokia's next Wi-Fi tablet, and the chat client is Google Talk, the IM service which is capable of making SIP voice calls. To be announced Tuesday, the hardware will be Nokia's successor to the Linux-based …

Mobile 13 May 2006, 02:00
Google's Grey Goo problem

Letters 'God's brain' gets a migraine

At Google's annual Press Day, the company was keen to remind us that search still matters. The official Google commorative weblog entry for the day is titled, "Yes, we are still about search", and three of the four announcements were search-related - although one of them, an updated Zeitgeist page, is little more than a novelty …

Letters 13 May 2006, 02:03
Is it true my body is not entirely alive?

The dead bits that keep us kicking

So you think you’re all alive? Think again. As strange as it may seem, the human body is not entirely "alive". A small part of us is not alive, never has been, and never will be. Ironically, what's not alive is vital to what is. Ninety-six per cent of the human body is alive. This part is composed of living, "organic elements" …

Biology 13 May 2006, 08:02
Belluzzo's Nvidia pact 'sealed SGI's fate'

Letters Historical - but tasty

Shortly before SGI chief Rick Belluzzo joined Microsoft, he made three fateful decisions that appear to have sealed the great company's fate. We discussed these here this week. Now a former staffer who lived through the brief Belluzzo era has this to add to the intrigue. It's news to us, and the implications are ... well, read …

Hardware 13 May 2006, 09:32