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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…

In 2001, the war in Afghanistan saw the first use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Predator and Global Hawk. Their success has led to significant funding into the research and development of UAV. One of the latest developments by VeraTech Aero is the 'virtually invisible' vertical take off and…

http://www.codeplex.com/MyWebPagesStarterKit is the place to download the 'My Web Pages Starter Kit'. This is a dynamic content management system that is designed to meet the needs of the computer enthusiast who wants to deploy and maintain their own web site. Well that is what the home page…

Will broadband Internet kill broadcast TV? This is a hot debate on the web and in the broadcast industry at the moment. Benjamin and I will be getting the skinny on the latest direct from Le Web 3 next week in Paris. It does look like we have moved a step closer to the demise of broadcast TV…

*Quick Post* This is a quick post on a very interesting experience, a video will follow with more detail... This morning at Le Web 3 we had a special guest speaker. Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres spoke of his belief for how the Internet and modern science will cause the world to…

So yesterday and the first part of today was a good conference experience. Not all the sessions were great (to much self marketing going on) but there were several interesting, thought provoking sessions - Hans Rosling, Ipsos, and Shimon Peres. Shimon Peres had a great vision for how blogging and…

Fancy being an Xbox 360 games developer?A new era of garage computer games development begins with the launch of XNA Games Studio Express. Games for Windows and Xbox 360 can now be built by anyone. The power of the XNA framework and the tools provided is amazing! I attended the UK launch event…

Sorry for the lack of entries over the last couple of weeks. Life is really busy at the moment what with Windows Vista general availability launch activities and NEW TOYS! Yes more new toys for the Foster household. After over a year of waiting A1-DW my PC-Bot 914 was delivered and after a couple…

As part of the UK launch of XNA Games Studio Express, Microsoft Games Studio company Rare ran a series of XNA workshops for academia at the Rare offices. I tagged along to get the tour of Rare and discuss game development with workshop organiser and Rare software engineer Nick Burton.I've had…

The purpose of this video is to explain Windows Vista to my Mum and Dad, and help them (and others like them) upgrade or buy a new PC with confidence. The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor can be found here. Be warned this is another of my experimental videos