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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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

I picked this up via TechCrunch. Jim Gray - famous computer scientist who led research into transaction processing and database development - is missing at sea. The US coast guard has searched for days but gave up after finding no sign of his 40-foot yacht. Amazingly, the DigitalGlobe satellite did…

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 >>>>>   …

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…