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Plastic Ocean

2008-02-07T17:11:00.000+01:00

Plastic OceanIt began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an ugly tangle of junk: nets and ropes and bottles, motor-oil jugs and cracked bath toys, a mangled tarp. Tires. A traffic cone. Moore could not believe his eyes. Out here in this desolate place, the water was a stew of plastic crap. It was as though someone had taken the pristine seascape of his youth and swapped

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision

2008-01-20T15:24:00.000+01:00

Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.

Mercury Flyby

2008-01-14T21:46:00.000+01:00

If you want to watch the NASA Messenger spacecraft flyby Mercury in realtime, download Celestia and the Messenger Addon available from the Celestia Motherlode

Stephane Halleux

2008-01-12T14:44:00.000+01:00

Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way

2008-01-12T14:14:00.000+01:00

A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is racing towards a collision with the Milky Way, astronomers have announced. Smith's Cloud, as it is known, may set off spectacular fireworks when it smacks into our galaxy in 20-40 million years.

Image Based Search Engine Created

2008-01-06T18:32:00.000+01:00

Finding A Whatchamacallit On The WebVizSeek is one of the first search engines on the Internet to use a photograph, a 2D image, or a 3D model and transform it into a 3D shape. The search can be narrowed with additional information. The image-seeking search engine produces search results in a matter of seconds.

Click to download

2008-01-04T15:31:00.000+01:00

Chris Salmon offers a guide to the best music you can find - for free - on the internet.Cover FreakiTunesTurtle's 78rpm JukeboxVinyl OrphanageSwedespleaseGet Your Bootleg OnThe "B" sideill-ec-tro-nicAmie StreetGarage HangoverPitchfork MediaDiscobelleGet On Down With the Stepfather of SoulFat PlanetCocaine BluntsAll About JazzLa Onda TropicalSmuggled SoundsHoney, Where You Been So long?Lost in the

Rally of Dakar cancelled

2008-01-04T14:39:00.000+01:00

"The 2008 Rally of Dakar, which was scheduled to start in Portugal's Capital City Lisbon on Saturday, has been cancelled over security concerns in Mauritania where four French tourists were killed last month."Based on the current international political tension and the murder of four French tourists last 28th of December linked to a branch of Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, but also and mainly the

NCR, VIVOtech Introduce Contactless, Mobile POS Terminals

2008-01-04T14:33:00.000+01:00

NCR in partnership with ViVOtech has announced a suite of contactless payment terminals for the point of sale (POS) that 'enable mobile and contactless payment at a variety of customer touch points, including retail checkout, restaurant drive-thru and the diner’s table.'

Majority of phones will support NFC once standards are finalized

2008-01-04T14:30:00.000+01:00

New study envisages that in the long term NFC will be a feature supported on the large majority of the phones sold.

NFC Mobile Phones Now in Georgia

2008-01-04T14:28:00.000+01:00

"For the first time in Georgia, Peoples Bank has introduced NFC-mobile phones, an innovative alternative to plastic cards."

Live Plasma

2008-01-04T14:07:00.000+01:00

Live Plasma is back online and as well as music it now features movies, actors and directors. Well worth a look to find new music and films you might like.

Merry Mayhem

2007-12-21T16:47:00.000+01:00

If you have 10 days free to play games then how about going for $30,000 worth of prizes playing Entropia this festive season:Join the Christmas carnage and compete for a pristine land area south of the scenic New Switzerland. Help the Imperial Government to cull Atrox and Exarosaur herds, and thwart the smuggling Mulaak'f by wiping out as many as possible between Friday December 21 18:00 UTC and

Comet Bigger than the Sun

2007-11-15T21:01:00.000+01:00

"A comet that has delighted backyard astronomers in recent weeks after an unexpected eruption has now grown larger than the sun. The sun remains by far the most massive object in the solar system, with an extended influence of particles that reaches all the planets. But the comparatively tiny Comet Holmes has released so much gas and dust that its extended atmosphere, or coma, is larger than the

Microsoft moves on F# functional language

2007-10-27T13:19:00.000+01:00

Microsoft plans to integrate F#, a functional programming language developed by the Microsoft Research group, into its Visual Studio application development platform, said S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, in his blog.

Avatar Machine

2007-10-10T13:29:00.000+01:00

"The virtual communities created by online games have provided us with a new medium for social interaction and communication. Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface."

Gemalto and Far EasTone partner on SIM-based NFC trial in Taiwan

2007-10-08T16:45:00.000+01:00

"Gemalto recently announced a partnership with Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecommunications to start Asia's first mobile contactless SIM-based NFC (near field communications) trial."

Dutch Supermarket Mobile Phone Payment Trial

2007-10-08T16:42:00.000+01:00

"LogicaCMG has announced 'a pilot project at a branch of the Dutch supermarket, C1000 in Molenaarsgraaf, near Rotterdam where 100 customers will be able to pay for their shopping by mobile phone."

2007-10-04T13:32:00.000+01:00

Larger Text

2007-09-18T22:37:00.000+01:00

You've heard of web 2.0, over at discovery you'll see web 0.1 back at work. In an attempt to recreate the 80's they have introduced unreadable small text with a "make it the right size button mofos" which you have to click on every page, I love this kind of interaction. Ahh for User Mode in Opera.and I've forgotten the real article I tried to read there and wanted to link to

Boffins develop Terminator-vision goggles

2007-09-13T17:01:00.000+01:00

"If you've ever wondered what it's like to trip on acid or experiencing life through the eyes of the Terminator, then a team of Russian inventors may have the gadget for you. The team has created a pair of virtual reality goggles that enables users to experience the world from a completely different perspective."

Sir Norman : Boldly Going

2007-09-11T13:28:00.000+01:00

"The Foster + Partners and URS team has won an international competition to build the first private spaceport in the world - The New Mexico Spaceport Authority Building."

Arctic Ice Melt Gets Stark Reassessment

2007-09-07T14:26:00.000+01:00

"Summertime sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is on track for shrinking by 40 percent below 1980 and 1990 levels by the year 2050, say oceanographers. That's twice as fast as the rate of loss estimated in the most recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)."The Old ModelThis NOAA illustration showing one model of future sea ice loss in the Arctic is not even the worst

The Questia Online Library

2007-08-30T19:21:00.000+01:00

The Questia Online Library has just made available over 5,000 books for free.

Over 40,000 participate in Spain's tomato battle

2007-08-30T18:43:00.000+01:00

Google Sky and Gigapxl in Google Earth

2007-08-22T17:21:00.000+01:00

Today Google added two new features to Google EarthMore information on space in Google Earth and Gigapxl

Incredible Machine

2007-08-14T02:31:00.000+01:00

All of these are extinct...

2007-08-08T17:21:00.000+01:00

Rare river dolphin 'now extinct'

2007-08-08T15:05:00.000+01:00

A freshwater dolphin found only in China is now "likely to be extinct", a team of scientists has concluded. The researchers failed to spot any Yangtze river dolphins, also known as baijis, during an extensive six-week survey of the mammals' habitat.Baiji Tribute courtesy of Another Chance To SeeNASA's animation of China's Three Gorges Dam construction over the yearsChinese Promotional filmA trip

Ordnance Survey and Google Statements on Virtual London in Google Earth

2007-08-07T20:26:00.000+01:00

The Ordnance Survey have stopped London in 3D becoming available in Google Earth, read more over at Digital Urban

Iconic London - 3D Tube Map Update

2007-07-30T20:33:00.000+01:00

Over at Digital Urban we have something very good

GeDenim launches RFID-based loyalty programme

2007-07-30T14:17:00.000+01:00

"GeDenim, a multi-brand lifestyle and clothing retail network that targets the 15-25 age group through ten stores in and around Paris, France, is to launch a contactless loyalty programme called GSPOT. The programme uses a branded, interactive smart token, interactive POS materials, and promotional contactless kiosks."

RMV ticket just three clicks away by mobile phone

2007-07-30T14:10:00.000+01:00

"Following the successful year-long pilot of the RMV HandyTicket in Frankfurt with over 5000 users, the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund transport network (RMV) is now ready to trial the next phase linking in with the global futuristic technology of Near Field Communication (NFC)."

RMV NFC-HandyTicket Parkour

2007-07-30T14:07:00.000+01:00

Embedding this video is not allowed for some weird reason (guess the PR is over 50 and hasn't got a handle on the interwebs yet, but hey, he can read email and sees this as a major achievement though he still wallows in delight at his ignorance about programming video recorders), anyway, trawl over to youtube for this NFC advert

Mobile payment - targeted coupon delivery in a few hundred milliseconds

2007-07-30T13:58:00.000+01:00

"Rather than simply doing a basic, boring payment transaction, the demo shows the payment terminal also delivering a targeted promotion to the customer, based on criteria set by the merchant. Enter the amount on the POS terminal, tap the phone and the payment receipt is printed, which now includes an offer that says “Buy one value meal, get a free dessert”."

Google LatLong: Where in the world is...

2007-07-27T11:14:00.000+01:00

Updates to the Google Earth images comes to us in the form of cryptic clues Two states known for their majestic peaks have gotten an upgrade.I can now see where my favorite maple syrup is made.Certain Florida beaches (and 1 mountain) are looking much improved.Try counting the warthogs in the Boneyard.Peek inside the home of the Brew Crew.You can read the Skin's logo painted on their field.An

Spitzer Finds Evidence for Planets with Four Parents

2007-07-25T13:00:00.000+01:00

"How many stars does it take to 'raise' a planet? In our own solar system, it took only one -- our sun. However, new research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that planets might be forming in systems with as many as four stars."

James Burke's Knowledge Web overview

2007-07-23T20:22:00.000+01:00

229k

2007-07-23T12:01:00.000+01:00

For anyone who wishes to see what $22k (10peds=$1) looks like when looted in Entropia

Mother Goose Rocks

2007-07-18T00:03:00.000+01:00

Mother Goose Rocks - Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes by Mono with ME2Well the pope joins in, checkout Bush getting it wrong, I'm really unsure who any of this is aimed at, if you get time checkout Wheels on the Bus done in the style of Madonna

University adds RFID tags to mobile phones

2007-07-17T14:19:00.000+01:00

"Slippery Rock decided to implement the NFC technology after focus groups found students were more likely to carry their mobile phone than any money.'It is easy technology,' said Barry Welsch, Heartland's manager of IT. 'The tag always stays in the consumer's hand - in this case, it's a phone.'The system is expected to work across the campus, which is approximately 2.4 square kilometres in size."

Retro-fitting mobile phones with RFID

2007-07-17T14:16:00.000+01:00

"The promise of NFC is about easily using mobile phones as a part of daily life: ticketing, paying with a credit card, opening doors, sharing, printing and downloading in the physical world. But until NFC technology is widely adopted, are there opportunities for using some of the features of RFID-interactions without the integration into the handset?"Nokia supplying Octopus contactless card

NFC Forum works on controller interface

2007-07-17T14:14:00.001+01:00

"The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association dedicated to advancing near field communication technology, has begun work on a specification for a host controller interface (HCI) between contactless controllers and application processors in devices."

Mobile Payments to generate almost 11 billion of transactions by 2011

2007-07-17T14:14:00.000+01:00

"Juniper Research predicts that P2P fund transfers and mobile payments in the developing world, together with the commercialisation in 2009 of NFC (Near Field Communications) based mPayments will generate transactions worth approximately £11 billion."

Korean Telco Signals Move To NFC

2007-07-17T14:13:00.000+01:00

"KT Freetel, South Korea’s second largest mobile network operator, will move ahead with plans to test phones that support Near Field Communication technology, according to France-based chip supplier Inside Contactless."

Snow in Buenos Aires

2007-07-12T18:12:00.000+01:00

For the first time since 1918, snow fell in Buenos Aires

WikiMindMap

2007-07-09T11:33:00.000+01:00

WikiMindMap is a simple mindmap to navigate through Wiki content.

Woman runner-up in one-horse race

2007-07-08T11:40:00.000+01:00

A grandmother won second prize in a cake-baking contest at a fete, only to discover she was the only entrant.She said her own baking was subject to another strange decision. "About 11 years ago I entered a show with some fruit scones. I was the only entrant but I came third."

Force Dynamics 301 LFS

2007-07-05T13:46:00.000+01:00

Mysterious Clouds Creeping Out of the Arctic

2007-06-29T15:46:00.000+01:00

"A new NASA satellite has recorded the first detailed images from space of a mysterious type of cloud called “night-shining” or “noctilucent.' The clouds are on the move, brightening and creeping out of polar regions, and researchers don't know why. 'It is clear that these clouds are changing, a sign that a part of our atmosphere is changing and we do not understand how, why or what it means,'

Astronomers look to quark stars for a fifth dimension

2007-06-24T23:57:00.000+01:00

"Since 1981, underground detectors on Earth have recorded sporadic showers of muon particles coming from the direction of Cygnus X-3. The cygnets are a puzzle because no known particles could last the 37,000-light-year journey from Cygnus X-3 to Earth without decaying."

Mastercard PayPass trials new mobile Tap N Go system in NYC

2007-06-23T18:39:00.000+01:00

"Mastercard is rolling out their trial of a new 'Tap N Go' mobile payment system through their Mastercard PayPass infrastructure in New York City."

Digital Credit Card Tested

2007-06-23T18:38:00.000+01:00

"Cellular South in Jackson, Miss., joined USA Technologies in Malvern, Pa., this week to announce a two-city consumer trial of WirelessWallet, a service that will let consumers make purchases and payments from a cell phone.The trial involves 75 customers who will test the concept at 50 retail locations in Memphis and Jackson, according to a statement from the Cellular South. They will use

The Mobile Phone Charger Powered by Wind

2007-06-23T18:28:00.001+01:00

"Orange is presenting an interesting mobile phone charger at Glastonbury festival in UK. developed at the University of Texas at Arlington, the charger can fit on your tent easily so that you have no worry on your mobile phone battery life when you go camping."And if you can't make it in person check out the BBC Glastonbury website where you can watch the live sets.

Sucia

2007-06-23T18:20:00.000+01:00

Update: Sucia is the company that is providing the NFC posters at JR Shinjuku Station

Mobiles to get a taste of Oyster

2007-06-23T18:17:00.000+01:00

Mobile phone companies Orange, O2 and Nokia are in talks with Transport for London about using phones instead of Oyster Cards to pay for tube tickets.Handsets loaded with bank account details would be swiped over a reader to buy tickets from Oyster Card machines, and swiped again at the barriers to pay for journeys.The handsets use 'near field communication' technology, which involves a

mobile suica2

2007-06-23T18:15:00.000+01:00

from RFID in Japan

NFC wristband

2007-06-23T18:10:00.000+01:00

"Mobile telecoms firm O2 is launching a trial of near field communications (NFC) technology at a music festival later this month that will see select guests given a crystal-studded wristband embeded with the contactless technology."

Building blocks for the identity utility

2007-06-23T18:06:00.000+01:00

"Neil McEvoy calls for the creation of an identity utility, to be used by government, business and individuals alike. Neil mentions that the NFC-equipped mobile phone could be the critical device to make this a reality, because the mobile phone can act as both the identity provider and the identity consumer. So will there be enough mobile phones, and will enough of them have NFC, to make this a

Dramatic Look

2007-06-20T21:32:00.000+01:00

Second Earth

2007-06-20T10:28:00.000+01:00

"The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an immersive environment combining Second Life and Google Earth."A thunderhead towers at knee level, throwing tiny lightning bolts at my shoes. I'm standing--rather, my avatar is standing--astride a giant map of the continental United States, and southern Illinois, at my feet, is evidently getting a good April shower.

Rain at Le Mans

2007-06-17T14:49:00.000+01:00

"After lying in second place since the first Audi crashed out at 7:45 this morning, the Peugeot No 7 came into the pit at 12:39 with an apparent engine problem. At this time the car is still in for fixing and the second Peugeot will take second place from Gene/Villeneuve/Minassian."Le Mans 24 Hour offical siteLe Mans on wikipedia

Motorola Joins GSMA “Pay-Buy-Mobile” Initiative

2007-06-17T14:44:00.000+01:00

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced its intention to participate in the GSMA Pay-Buy-Mobile Initiative. The Company will potentially participate in all trials facilitated by the GSMA which will drive forward developments on mobile payments. Motorola will also provide feedback to GSMA Near Field Communications Technical Guidelines white papers, and work with standardisation bodies such as

A map of Learning to Think Spatially

2007-06-17T13:54:00.000+01:00

"final project presentation for MAT 259: visualizing information, Professor George Legrady"

Optical illusion house

2007-06-17T12:42:00.000+01:00

His Holiness Pope Gregory XVII

2007-06-16T01:52:00.000+01:00

His Holiness Pope Gregory XVII: "No one shall be able to slow down his pace, for he has been chosen by God as His active instrument, violent and destructive towards the enemies of the Church."Don't ask, I just like his hat, turns out this bunny was held as the anti-pope just can't make this stuff upThe Spanish entry on wikipedia mentions that anyone who has seen Jesus Christ Superstar is

Public donates to UW scientist to fund backward-in-time research

2007-06-13T23:41:00.000+01:00

Here we go again: "The most creative branch of the military-science-industrial complex (known as DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) also rejected Cramer's proposal. Officials at DARPA told the UW physicist his experiment is 'too weird' -- even though they recently gave money in support of a project aimed at creating Terminatorlike liquid robots."sorry about the writing at the other

EveryScape - Better than Google Street View (?)

2007-06-13T20:28:00.000+01:00

The folks at Digital Urban have posted about a new contender to Google Street View called EveryScape

The Stanford Prison Experiment

2007-06-10T21:49:00.000+01:00

What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University.

Hacking Google Maps Street View

2007-06-10T16:51:00.000+01:00

"Google Map's recent 'street view' development has led to a new trend of 'street view' spotting. A number of sites have sprung up to track the interesting and sometimes weird images that Google have captured."Virtual Tourism has gone a step further and hacked the actual 'street view' images and produced a fully interactive 'street view' Google Gadget. The gadget shows a different image from

Weird Converter

2007-06-10T15:35:00.000+01:00

The weight of 1 blue whale = 353.5353535353 polar bears and the length of the world's longest snake is 8.35208 giraffe's necks.

World Monuments Fund

2007-06-10T15:29:00.001+01:00

100 most endangered sites, 2008

A Wirelessly Powered Lightbulb

2007-06-10T15:05:00.000+01:00

"Researchers at MIT have shown that it's possible to wirelessly power a 60-watt lightbulb sitting about two meters away from a power source. Using a remarkably simple setup--basically consisting of two metal coils--they have demonstrated, for the first time, that it is feasible to efficiently send that much power over such a distance. "

Strong impression

2007-06-10T14:57:00.000+01:00

Playing around with a virtual car in the real environment. What you see is the mixed image shown on displays around the stage. The technology making this possible is called augmented reality. The music is by "My Fearless Friend". Source: Augmented Blog

Barcode, RFID and NFC technologies explained

2007-06-10T14:44:00.000+01:00

Sirit Signs NFC Contract With BenQ

2007-06-10T14:32:00.000+01:00

"Sirit Inc., one of the leading provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, announced recently that it has secured a Near Field Communications (NFC) contract with BenQ Corporation ('BenQ'), one of the largest consumer electronics original equipment manufacturers (OEM)."

NFC technology takes main stage at O2 Wireless Festival

2007-06-10T14:30:00.000+01:00

"This year's O2 Wireless Festival will be the first in the UK to use Near Field Communication, a new technology that brings Oyster card-functionality to mobile phones, making it possible for people to swipe their handset to pay for purchases, download content or even share information. O2 will be using the trial to examine its potential as a future solution for mobile ticketing."

NFC Developers Announce Licensing Fees

2007-06-10T14:29:00.000+01:00

"Makers of mobile phones and other consumers devices supporting Near Field Communication technology would have to pay up to $.49 per device they ship under a licensing-fee program announced today. Three companies that claim “essential” patents on NFC launched the licensing scheme, which other developers of the short-range wireless technology may join later."

Reveal Me

2007-06-10T14:20:00.000+01:00

via ogle earth and Pruned

A book will never let you down

2007-06-10T13:17:00.000+01:00

baby-type robot

2007-06-06T16:22:00.000+01:00

Google Developer Day's Videos

2007-06-01T10:25:00.000+01:00

Over at YouTube are the videos from the Google Developer Day. Lots of good stuff to watch.

Immersive Media - Street View Technology

2007-05-31T18:18:00.000+01:00

Google Mapplets - Developers Demo

2007-05-31T10:47:00.000+01:00

Google Gears - Offline Functionality for Web Apps

2007-05-31T10:40:00.000+01:00

Entropia Universe Enters China to Create the Largest Virtual World Ever

2007-05-31T10:27:00.000+01:00

"One of the World's Largest Virtual Economies Partners With Chinese Cyber-Giant to Create a New Network Capable of Handling 7 Million Concurrent Users and $1 Billion in Commerce Annually Entropia Universe, the safest virtual world utilizing a real cash economy, has been chosen by the Beijing Municipal People's Government supported online entertainment company Cyber Recreation Development Corp. (

Google Maps Street View

2007-05-29T22:11:00.000+01:00

First 4D Virtual Human Created, Dubbed CAVEman

2007-05-29T17:39:00.000+01:00

"Scientists at the University of Calgary have created the world’s first complete object-oriented computer model of a human body. Recently unveiled, the 4D human atlas, dubbed the CAVEman by the team who created it, allows scientists to literally get inside their experiments by translating medical and genomic data into 4D images.""CAVEman resides in the CAVE, a cube-shaped virtual reality room,

Wirecard Explains How Virtual Banking Will Work

2007-05-27T17:13:00.000+01:00

"The virtual banking world now has the backing of an actual bank. German bank Wirecard is among the four investors that recently purchased banking licenses issued by the virtual community of Entropia Universe.""Only real life banks are able to offer a unique set of new and exciting but also trustworthy and secure services to the users of virtual worlds," Marsalek said. "The future growth and

Near field communications is the talk of the ID world, but what will it take to turn the talk to action?

2007-05-25T11:30:00.000+01:00

"Every time you turn around you see an NFC pilot program cropping up somewhere in the world. What you haven’t seen are many full-scale commercial rollouts. In fact, those could be counted on one hand. Sure, near field communication technology is still relatively new – but in a world where new innovations quickly become yesterday’s news, could NFC be starting to show its age?"

Step into the open ocean

2007-05-25T10:42:00.000+01:00

If your using Firefox then goto the TED website to watch the video

Flexible, full-color OLED

2007-05-25T10:27:00.000+01:00

"On May 24, Sony unveiled what it is calling the world’s first flexible, full-color organic electroluminescent display (OLED) built on organic thin-film transistor (TFT) technology."

Battle at Kruger

2007-05-25T10:24:00.001+01:00

Space Tornado -- Physicists Spot Interstellar Shock Wave Using Spitzer Telescope

2007-05-25T10:09:00.000+01:00

"The spirals of a 'space tornado' may be the first step in the formation of a new star. The structure, observed with NASA's Spitzer infrared telescope, is a shock wave created by a jet of material slamming on a cloud of interstellar gas and dust at more than 100 miles per second, heating the cloud and causing it to glow. Physicists say the jet may have been generated by magnetic fields."

google earth: Principado de Mónaco

2007-05-23T18:44:00.000+01:00

This weekend we have the Monaco Grand Prix and for anyone wanting to check out the local area and the route of the track in Google Earth download the KML file by APG from the Google Earth community (You will need to install Google Earth which is free and is part of the Google Pack). Originally posted in 2004 this is one of the first collections of placemarks that really took advantage of Google

Panoramic 360 Movie

2007-05-23T12:19:00.000+01:00

Over at map.movin360 the folks have created a panoramic video driving from Strecke Hauptbahnhof to Potsdamer Platz. The video is linked to Google maps so you can watch the progress and as it is a panoramic you can view any point of the journey from any angle. Go play, it's good...

The civil war in four minutes

2007-05-23T12:03:00.001+01:00

ABC's virtual site 'griefed'

2007-05-23T11:51:00.000+01:00

"ABC Island, the third-most-visited commercial site in the online game that has more than six million members globally, was found as a 'bombed, cratered mess' yesterday. Craig Preston, head of technology for ABC innovation, said only the digital transmission tower was left standing on the island, which cost the ABC tens of thousands of dollars to create."

Maldives opens first virtual embassy on Second Life

2007-05-23T11:47:00.000+01:00

"The Maldives Tuesday became the first country to open an embassy in the virtual reality of Web-based Second Life, a fantasy world inhabited by computer-generated residents, the Maldives mission to the United Nations in Geneva said. The Maldives thus pips Sweden to the post; the Scandinavian country had hoped to be first off the block when it opens its own virtual embassy May 30."

New easy-to-use and safe NFC-enabled services from Elisa

2007-05-22T15:26:00.000+01:00

"Elisa is the first operator in the Nordic and Baltic countries to test Near Field Communication technology (NFC technology) where a SIM card is used as a security platform. SIM card, provided by digital security leader Gemalto, enables safe transactions and payments, and makes it possible to transfer services from one telephone to another."