Monthly Archives: June 2008

New IBM Supercomputer Runs At Petaflop Pace

New IBM Supercomputer Runs At Petaflop Pace

IBM has designed and developed a supercomputer that runs at incredible petaflop rates (a petaflop, apparently, is equivalent to one thousand trillion calculations every second). The new groundbreaking computer is twice as quick as the …

The World’s Most Expensive Mobile Phone?

The World’s Most Expensive Mobile Phone?

The latest technology rarely comes cheap. At least, until you pay the full price tag, and then inevitably the product you just bought becomes available in Asda and Tesco at a meagre fraction of the …

Sky HD – Is It Worth It?

Sky HD – Is It Worth It?

The SKY HD Box is actually a combination of an HD subscription package and the Sky+ service that acts like PVR, or Personal Video Recorder. With a 160GB hard drive as standard it enables you …

WWDC 2008 Preview

WWDC 2008 Preview

Next week sees the greatly anticipated Apple World Wide Developer Conference where there is expected to be a number of developments that will set the gadget world alight (like the announcement of the iPhone did). …

Trever Wilkinson (Mr TVR) Dies Aged 85

Trever Wilkinson (Mr TVR) Dies Aged 85

Trevor Wilkinson, the founder of TVR, has died at the age of 85 in his Minorca home. Since its inception in 1949 under the guidance of Wilkinson and Jack Pickard, TVR has gone on to …

Transformers Digital T-Shirt

Transformers Digital T-Shirt

Transformers, like many of the greatest cartoons, is a lifestyle. The film may have come and gone for most of us, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t cool any more and fortunately with the Transformers …

The 3G IPhone – 1 Week And Counting

The 3G IPhone – 1 Week And Counting

It’s always pleasant to pontificate on Steve Jobs’s keynote speech. Apple has a history of causing a stir during the Worldwide Developers Conference, with the iPhone the most recent example of this. The world was …

Smartphone Rankings Released

Smartphone Rankings Released

Analyst house Gartner has released figures of the most popular smartphones in the world, by market share. Despite the iPhone only having been available for purchase for around 12 months it has already taken third …

Google Moving In With NASA

Google Moving In With NASA

Google has never been particularly shy in its monumental achievements and certainly isn’t afraid of splashing the cash to ensure that its workers have the most productive environment. Reports last year showed the offices that …

IBM Shows Off Water Cooled Chips

IBM Shows Off Water Cooled Chips

While showing off their latest 3D chip development, chip manufacturer IBM has declared a need for an improved cooling system. In order to combat the increased amount of heat experienced when stacking chips on top …