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Providing a life critical system with global scale is getting easier with Windows Azure. Microsoft partner, Active Web Solutions (AWS) has been testing new cloud services for use as a scaleable global datacentre for the MOB Guardian system. But without transactional support a different approach…

27 years ago (or there abouts) as a young lad, I desperately saved to buy a Heathkit Hero Jr. Hero Jr was the little brother of the Hero 1 (which featured in an American TV serious and got me hooked on robotics). By the time I had enough money to phone Maplin and order a Hero Jr they had…

We had a great night over in Nottingham at the Bluu bar as part of the Nottingham's GameCity07 festival of gaming. George, Nick and the gang from Rare had done a top job finding the venue and equipping it with over 12 - networked - Xbox 360/Elites for a night of competition gaming - …

Technorati Tags: Cross Channel, Alpha Micro, UK, Air Ambulance Congratulations to the Microsoft UK Cross Channel Charity swim team. Six brave individuals from Microsoft UK had been training hard for a cross channel swim (Dover to Calais) to raise money for the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air…

Are you watching the DARPA Grand Challenge progress? If not you should be. This is the cutting edge of autonomous vehicle development. There are plenty of exotic tools and technologies coming into play - although more off the shelf parts are now available compared to the first 2004 Grand Challenge…

My On10 blog is getting a bit rusty so I thought I'd better tell you want I did this weekend. I yomped 52 miles. 'Yomped'? Yeah, British Army term for walking over difficult terrain or with a heavy load. Ok so, the terrain I walked wasn't that difficult and I was only carrying a day pack - but…

Three beta announcements today covering Windows Live Writer V2.0 Beta, Windows Live Messenger 8.5 beta and Windows Live Mail beta. Windows Live Writer has been available since last August as an early beta providing a powerful Windows client for bloggers - but supporting US English only. The Windows…

Madeleine McCann disappeared on the 3rd May. The latest Police call is for holidaymakers who were at the resort a few weeks before Madeleine disappeared, to upload their holiday pictures that contain strangers to the web site http://www.madeleine.ceopupload.com. The Child Exploitation and…

The XNA UK user group have just launched their first competition! There are three categories one for each of the key skill sets required by modern games: Artist, Musician, Game Dev. There is a fantastic prize fund of £5000 worth of software and hardware including the latest graphics cards,…

This last week I have been following the adventure of four UK teams taking part in the First LEGO League Open European Championship in Bodo, Norway. It wasn't until I was flicking through the in-fight magazine on my SAS flight that I realised Bodo is inside the Arctic Circle! I could have packed…