Because office workers don’t waste enough time in their day, Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, and IBM are partnering to develop their own virtual world that will be hidden away behind the corporate firewall. The system is said to be useful for sales training and collaboration exercises and will be integrated with other back-end applications. This will allow workers to manage business data from within the virtual conference room. Is this something we really need? I never got into Second Life, and as such, I am not sure if I can really understand the fascination with adding such tools to the workplace. I feel like Second Life doesn’t provide Read more »

Ask any geek what his dream is when it comes to the Internet, and one of the first responses they will probably give is a faster connection. DOCSIS 3.0, a standard that promises more speed for cable Internet users is already being rolled out. Originally scheduled for 2009, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota have become the first markets to test out the new technology. The speeds promise 50Mbps down, and 5Mbps up, and that will allow you to download a 4GB DVD quality movie in about ten minutes. The upgrade in speed will set you back a wallet-hurting $149.95 per month, but with Hulu, Skype, and other online services, do Read more »

A friend of mine on Crenk, just let me know that AT&T is looking at getting in bed with Microsoft when it comes to their Surface platform. With AT&T the Surface will have the capabilities of dragging videos, photos, ring tones, songs and dropping them into the phones. Sounds to me like the feature was already planned, but now they have someone paying for its development, and AT&T will probably get nearly exclusive rights to have their products work in a more advanced way with regards to the Surface product. If Surface ever really catches on. I really don’t think Microsoft and Apple should take on such exclusivity deals as Read more »

I used to play the tabletop version of Warhammer 40,000. It included small plastic and metal figurines, but the set-up and take down time was just too long, and with the major rule changes, I just wasn’t enjoying myself as much. Add to that my love for real time strategy games on the computer, and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War was a hit in my opinion. Now, it looks like THQ is working on the second installment of the popular title. With three expansion packs out on the first game, I continue to wait for the Tyranids, an insect like race, to be added to the mix, but so far, Read more »

One of the most geeky, coolest, and cutest things I have ever seen: a three year old girl recounts Star Wars: Episode IV. Read more »

One of my loves is renewable resources, solar power, and other technology really gets me excited, but one of the biggest issues plaguing the technology is its cost and appearance. The Tesla Roadster might be expensive, but it isn’t ugly. The Tesla Roadster is an electric car that has acceleration that can push you back into your seat so hard that you can’t move your head from the headrest, and it is going into larger production than the one hundred boutique, collector vehicles that were previously sold. Tesla Motors is now taking orders for the 2009 run of the vehicle and already 900 cars have been reserved. I wonder how Read more »

As we get closer to the April release of the next version of Ubuntu, many people are already checking out the beta and helping work out any of the kinks or issues that the operating system may have. One thing that I’ve noticed is that there hasn’t been as much excitement about Ubuntu since the last release in October of last year. What has happened since then that we aren’t seeing an even wider adoption of one of the easiest Linux distributions? Well, one thing has been the increasing attention that Apple is getting with their products, as well as Windows continually trying to fix their Vista mess, but I Read more »

If you are a fan of streaming video like I am, you might have left the BitTorrent world for sites like Hulu, but now Mininova is launching a video streaming application service that will stream from Torrents. From TorrentFreak: The popular BitTorrent site Mininova is currently Beta testing BitTorrent powered video streaming. The new streaming feature allows users to watch videos instantly, streamed from .torrent files. The new feature will be integrated into the featured torrents section, which lists all the distributors taking part in Mininova’s content distribution platform. The Open Source “swarmplayer” which is used for the video streaming service is developed in collaboration with the Tribler team from Read more »

Here in Canada, we don’t get the latest in cell phone technology. While most of the rest of the world is enjoying the iPhone, Canada shows no sign of having the Apple product here any time soon, and so imagine my surprise when I saw HTC looking at creating a multi-directional slider cell phone. Sliders haven’t really even caught on here with only a few HTC models doing well. RIM’s Blackberry products are really entrenched here when it comes to QWERTY interfaces on a cell phone. The HTC 730 looks really interesting because it allows you to use the device like a traditional slider phone, while also allowing you to Read more »