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X Marks the Spot: Mystery of the ‘White Crosses’ all over London. SOLVED!
1st February 2010Last week I noticed a poster on the tube which was entirely black with a white cross on it. I didn’t pay much attention to it until I noticed someone lurch over me on a packed carriage one evening to take a photo of it. Not your normal behavior, admittedly. It struck me as quite [...]
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The name: iPad. The wait is over. New Apple Tablet finally announced.
27th January 2010Well the wait is finally over. After months, nay years, of speculation on whether and how Apple would dip into the tablet market. Today we have our answer. The name is iPad. The device, essentially an iPod Touch on steroids. Composed of a uni-body style aluminum exterior, the device keeps the style of the current [...]
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Haiti: An Exercise in Humanitarian and Social Informatics for a new decade.
19th January 2010On Tuesday, 12 January 2010 a devastating earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. As the first week following the potentially disastrous events reaches an end, it has been remarkable to witness and examine how web has played its part in facilitating communication, disaster relief and fundraising .
With reports coming in of vast sums of money being donated through online and text appeals, it is interesting to see who is doing what and how it is being reported.
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MySQL open-source future under threat as Oracle looms. Sign the petition now.
13th January 2010As of April 2009, Oracle announced that it had agreed to take over MySQL. The biggest closed-source database provider. Now the future of MySQL as an open-source platform is under threat.
