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A UK company - BlueSky Positioning - have announced their A-GPS SIM product. This is an assisted GPS product meaning that some level of processing the GPS data is performed off the device, like on a server in the mobile phone operators network. The most amazing thing is that they have the GPS…

One of my geeky home projects is the development of my PC Bot 914 I call A1-DW. There are a growing number of us around the world that have 914s and we're all working away to enrich them with functionality so they become a must have assistant in this high tech world. A1's project site is…

Zeddy, a Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist in Indonesia, has a nice demo of using Windows speech recognition to remotely control a robot. The application is running on a laptop which controls the bot wirelessly. The voice recognition happens on the PC and the instructions are…

On my UK blog I have been really upset lately by the poor specification of PC Laptops - specifically the graphics capability. Basically, PC laptops are spec'ed in the main for business use and price is paramount in this world. So the graphics capabilities of these machines are pretty low. Well, how…

Several years ago I worked with Jim Hunt of PhoneThemes supporting his development of the PhoneThemes Media Player. This allows short video clips or animations to play in a continuous loop, in conjunction with the devices current theme or skin setup. Now there is quite a library of PhoneThemes to…

The UK final for the 2006 First Lego League competition completed recently. The competition is an excellant way for young people to get involved with technology; from researching the technical theme to building and programming a lego robot to complete tasks against the clock.The teams can be of up…

Video: The NxtGenUG Vista ReadyBoost Song by Dave McMahon The NextGen user group, in Coventry, UK,  had their own celebration for the launch of Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange 2007. During which members had two minutes to 'sell' to their peers features from these products.…

I just found these little video nuggets (one and two) on the NextGen user groups site. If you want to see a demonstration of Windows Vista's speech recognition in action have a watch, they are each 3mins in length. In the first, Richard uses the speech recognition to write text in…

Universal Music have a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget to make it easy for you to listen to your music collection, watch brand new videos and receive up to the minute music news for free! Go here to download the gadget.  Sits nicely like this. Expands to to this >>>>>   …

The launch of a new OS always brings cool applications to demonstrate its capability. For Windows Vista one of the most impressive applications to be demo'ed at the UK launch event was the British Library's Turning Pages application. An application exploiting Windows Presentation Foundation…