Author Archives: Farquard

When we dig uranium out of the ground, 99% of it is U-238, which we don’t care about. 1% of it is U-235, which we use for all kinds of things, including conventional reactor fuel. Bill Gates and some of … Continue reading →

Theoretical area covered by one single 802.22 base station Tired of your Wi-Fi cutting out every time you take your laptop into the bathroom with you? IEEE (also known as the Institute of electronics geeks) has just released a new, … Continue reading →

Before hitching up with Windows Phone and Windows 8, Microsoft’s cross-platform rich Internet application framework gets a modest upgrade Microsoft Silverlight has had a topsy-turvy year. Apparently doomed or at least marginalized by HTML5, Silverlight found a foothold in Windows … Continue reading →

There’s a report making the rounds, spurred by a July 6 story in South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper, claiming Microsoft is seeking to charge Samsung $15 per Android device to cover patented technology owned by Microsoft. More

In April this year, Microsoft released a Bing application for the iPad. On July 5, it updated that app, adding a new touch-search capability known as Lasso, to the release. Lasso allows users to search outside the search box, the … Continue reading →

The chip watchers at iSuppli say that Intel continued to gain processor market share even though it was hit by a bug in a chipset used with its “Sandy Bridge” desktop, laptop, and entry server platforms. According to the latest … Continue reading →

AMD’s first desktop Fusion processors were detailed on Thursday, and the company marked their debut with a confident blast at its megacompetitor, Intel. “We win – that’s our competitive positioning,” Sasa Marinkovic, AMD’s head of desktops and software product marketing … Continue reading →

Smartphone users are being warned off the Motorola Atrix after claims that its WiFi features will not work in a growing list of countries. Frustration is mounting, as Motorola has failed to provide an estimated time span for a fix … Continue reading →

Image-Line studios on Tuesday released FL Studio Mobile and FL Studio Mobile HD, the first mobile versions of the company’s popular Windows-based music production and beatmaking software FL Studio, which is now in its 13th year on the market. Like … Continue reading →

As officials have been hinting in recent weeks, Microsoft has relaunched and updated its Windows Live SkyDrive cloud storage service. Microsoft is altering the SkyDrive user interface so that it is easier and quicker for users to see exactly what … Continue reading →