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29/11/11
Europe’s Largest IT Company To Ban Internal Email
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Thierry Breton, CEO of Atos, Europe’s Largest IT Company, wants a ‘zero email’ policy to be in place in 18 months, arguing that only 10 per cent of the 200 electronic messages his employees receive per day on average turn out to be useful, and that staff spend between 5-20 hours Read more…
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29/11/11
Free Software Activists Take On Google Search
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Free software activists have released a peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. The free, distributed search engine, YaCy, takes a new approach to search. Rather than using a central server, its search results come from a network of independent ‘peers,’ users Read more…
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29/11/11
Terahertz Wireless Chip Will Bring 30Gbps Networks
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Rohm, a Japanese semiconductor company, has created a silicon chip and antenna that’s currently capable of transmitting 1.5Gbps, with the potential to scale up to 30Gbps in the future. While this is a lot faster than anything currently on the market, the significant advance here Read more…
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29/11/11
Making a Privacy Monitor From an Old LCD
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Instructables Member ‘Dimovi’ utilized a spare LCD monitor and converted it into a ‘privacy’ monitor. He took apart the monitor’s plastic frame, cutting out the polarized film with a utility knife and removed the film adhesive from the glass panel before reassembling the monitor, which now Read more…