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'Hello, Gordon here...' Why the PM has been phoning voters at home Gordon Brown routinely telephones voters at home to talk about Labour policy, Downing Street confirms. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Aug. 15, 1877: 'Hello. Can You Hear Me Now?' 1877: Thomas Edison suggests using the word hello as a telephone greeting. The idea catches on. Edison invented a lot of things, for sure, but one thing he didn't invent was the telephone. The brass ring for that one goes to Alexander Graham Bell, although Elisha Gray filed his patent f Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Aug. 15, 1877: 'Hello. Can You Hear Me Now?' 1877: Thomas Edison suggests using the word hello as a telephone greeting. The idea catches on. Edison invented a lot of things, for sure, but one thing he didn't invent was the telephone. The brass ring for that one goes to Alexander Graham Bell, although Elisha Gray filed his patent f Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gallery: Distilling 2.0 -- Bye-Bye Boiling, Hello Health Care : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comPASADENA, California – For all you moonshine makers who thought your hobby was just a guilty pleasure, a new spin on distilling may actually help save lives. Using ancient technology reduced to a microscopic scale, scientists at Caltech have created new tools to d Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: Distilling 2.0 -- Bye-Bye Boiling, Hello Health Care : Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.comPASADENA, California – For all you moonshine makers who thought your hobby was just a guilty pleasure, a new spin on distilling may actually help save lives. Using ancient technology reduced to a microscopic scale, scientists at Caltech have created new tools to d Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Why SaaS could make your IT skills irrelevant Tom Clement has reinvented his career before. In 1984, he realized working in technology would suit him better than his job as a litigator in Texas. "I came home one day from work, and I was used to being really tense," he says. "But that day, my secretary's recorder Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Wanted: Gordon Brown's fingerprints, £1,000 reward No2ID and PI get after the Smith & Jones Brown ID heist team A £1,000 reward has been posted for the fingerprints of Prime Minster Gordon Brown and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, both of whom, claim perpetrators No2ID and Privacy International, are "wanted identity felons". In a campaign Wanted Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Boot into your own Hello World Application Here I will present a simple "Hello World" application that you can boot into from Floppy Drive, like an Operating System. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CodeProject |
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Is Voda's Colao the new Gordon Brown? Sarin jumped ship just in time? Come July Vodafone will have a new boss, one who has had his eyes on the top job for half a decade and has strong ideas on how the company should be run. But he takes over a company that has been expanding abroad while cutting costs at home - two strategies he's un Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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WiMax is here: What you need to know With the launch of Sprint's WiMax wireless broadband data service, called Xohm (pronounced "zome") in Baltimore in early October, Sprint was able to rightly claim it is the first carrier to offer the long-awaited official version of the technology to businesses and co Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The Final Days of DRM: Yahoo Music Store Closing, Will Eat Your Purchased Music ReadWriteWeb: "When the Yahoo! Music Store closes its doors this fall, the company announced today, past customers dependent on their music "phoning home" to get license approval before playing are out of luck. They'll be able to continue playing purchased tracks on a single computer, until t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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The three business tech risks you don't know about Business travelers will soon need to carry the name of their corporate lawyer in addition to their passport when returning home to the United States, and they may need to bring with them a different business laptop as well. This is because U.S. Customs can search and Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Letting Apple into the enterprise isn't easy Eighteen months ago, Serena Software began exploring the feasibility of supporting Apple MacBooks as an option for its users, most of whom are developers. It was interested in lowering support costs and increasing satisfaction among employees who used Macs at home, in Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Is U.S. innovation on the skids? It would be hard to exaggerate the angst that has gripped the U.S. in recent weeks as markets have continued to churn and assets have melted. But the headlines that have made us dread picking up the newspaper mask a long-term problem that may shape the nation's future Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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'Hello 911? I'm driving drunk'
(AP) AP - Police get calls about drunken drivers all the time, but rarely do they come from the alleged offender. A 17-year-old girl in Bismarck called 911 on New Year's Eve "to report herself driving under the influence," police Lt. Randy Ziegler said. "I've never heard of such a thing happening, and ne Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Hello Kitty gets claws into UK electronics Branded gear and mobile content on the way Brand developer Comment Retail Services has signed a deal to bring Hello Kitty into the hands of UK punters by way of mobile phone content and branded electronics, reports licensing.biz.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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The Race to Solidify the Base As they gear up their general election campaigns, the first goal for Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain is to shore up support among base voters -- a task made more difficult by tough primary fights. USA Today notes Obama "at last has won the endorsement of Hillary Rodham Clinton, t Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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The Race of a Lifetime Walter Shapiro: "What New Hampshire made clear is that we will have the next month to decipher what is happening in America as Obama and Clinton -- the first African-American and the first woman to come this close to the White House -- battle each other until at least Feb. 5. There will be no corona Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Wanna Harvest Power From the Sea? You'll Have to Test It Here First Giant whirlpools, 100-knot winds, some of Europe's mightiest tides: The icy waters off Scotland's northern tip are no place for pleasure craft. But they're ideal for power-generation systems that harness the restless fury of the sea — which is why the European Marine Energy Centre has set Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Wanna Harvest Power From the Sea? You'll Have to Test It Here First Giant whirlpools, 100-knot winds, some of Europe's mightiest tides: The icy waters off Scotland's northern tip are no place for pleasure craft. But they're ideal for power-generation systems that harness the restless fury of the sea — which is why the European Marine Energy Centre has set Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |