http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000331777b,00.htm Rupert Goodwins's Blog - Mixed Signals - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:10:17 +0100 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:10:17 +0100 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) connectomics. A specialised form of neuroanatomy, connectomics is in the business of mapping out the brain's networks – in particular, how the various functional m...]]> zdnetuk/10008625 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008625o-2000331777b,00.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:42:56 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) Out in the blogosphere, a most intriguing story is – well, not unfolding, exactly. That's precisely what it's not doing. It's more like a well-written psychological thriller, where event piles on event but the truth becomes ever more difficult to untangle... zdnetuk/10008606 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008606o-2000331777b,00.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:46:04 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) new Select Plus licensing scheme is an intriguing modification to an increasingly problematic arrangement: the exchange of large amounts of enterprise money for the ...]]> zdnetuk/10008602 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008602o-2000331777b,00.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:23:51 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) ... and I think I'm recovering. There is something very odd about a place where I can take in an IBM press conference - IBM, for heaven's sake - where the presenter says "This is a nanobot we're going to INJECT INTO YOUR EYEBALL and GUIDE IT WITH INVISIBL... zdnetuk/10008542 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008542o-2000331777b,00.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:40:51 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) OK – end of play, following a morning at the IBM Zurich labs and an afternoon at ETH Zurich, one of Switzerland's leading universities. It counted Einstein, Roentgen and Pauli among its physicists, and regularly adds Nobels to its trophy cabinet. It's tha... zdnetuk/10008531 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008531o-2000331777b,00.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:27:59 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) Just in the lunch break (yes! Fed at last!) at the IBM Zurich labs show-and-tell day, which as usual is full of sessions that overrun and no time to do anything except scribble the most incomprehensible of notes. One of the more interesting things happ... zdnetuk/10008522 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008522o-2000331777b,00.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:41:16 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) It's half past one in the morning, Continental time, and I'm about to go to bed without any supper. I'm over in Zurich courtesy of IBM, which is going to be showing off a lot of its new nanotechnology developments tomorrow and has a big announcement – pre... zdnetuk/10008514 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008514o-2000331777b,00.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:35:41 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) Intel got on the phone on Monday to tell us chip-centric hacks about a bunch of papers the company was presenting to the 2008 Symposium on VLSI Technology in Hawaii. I've been trying to turn the notes from that briefing into a full news story, but on matu... zdnetuk/10008479 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008479o-2000331777b,00.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:03:44 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) Battling with daily info-load issues myself, I have never been much of a fan of the whole Twitter thing. The idea is fine - an extension of the status line update informal communications channel that's been a part of online life since the first time that ... zdnetuk/10008445 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008445o-2000331777b,00.htm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:32:52 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) Ha! ...]]> zdnetuk/10008439 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008439o-2000331777b,00.htm Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:27:05 +0100