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Richard is Computerworld’s Junior Content Manager and occasional reporter and blogger, responsible for making sure the site is full of the latest and greatest technology news from around the world. Richard joined Computerworld from the world of PR, which he likes to think of as like leaving the Empire to join the Rebel Alliance.
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Chinese company FiiO have been selling well-rated bits of audio kit to connoisseurs for some time now, and have acquired something of a reputation for building nice features into units that retail for less than most competing brands. The company’s portable headphone amplifiers have been no exception, with many audiophiles swearing by the ability of the E5 to wring decent sound out of even modestly-specced setups.
read more...A Swedish man who kept a blog chronicling his attempts to build a homemade nuclear reactor in his apartment has shut down the project after being arrested by police and held under suspicion of breaching radioactive material safety laws. If convicted of an offence, he faces heavy fines or up to two years in jail.
read more...The hisoundaudio Studio eschews any notion of pandering to video, and goes straight for the jugular with audiophile-pleasing sound chops. A flash memory-based player, the model I was sent reported 8GB of capacity, although shop listings claim only 4GB as standard. Regardless, storage capacity is expandable through a microSD card slot that keeps company with the mini-USB interface along the bottom edge of the device.
read more...Google has never been ashamed to admit that its services are continually in development. From the ‘Beta’ label applied for so many years to Gmail, to the amazing new tools and features constantly popping up and disappearing on the company’s Google Labs page, users have become accustomed to the knowledge that the application they use today may not be the same as the one they’ll be using tomorrow.
read more...While most people are content to stick with the poor quality speakers that come built into most modern laptops, discrete speakers produce a far more satisfactory quality and volume of sound. SoundScience pitches its QSB speaker model at the portable market, squarely at those looking for higher fiedlity music on the go.
read more...AC Ryan are certainly making a name for themselves in the connected media player space. Last generations offerings, the Playon!HD and HD Mini offered easy access to video and audio files both on local storage and over LAN. The new generation, denoted by the rather awkward Playon!HD2 moniker, improves on that impressive foundation with several useful fixes.
read more...Our IDG colleagues at Macworld UK are looking for an innovative business that has deployed mobility solutions in a forward thinking way to honour with their annual Mobile Champion Award.
read more...We’ve seen something of an explosion in the home media streaming market in the last year or so. Low power and low price Realtek chipsets have brought high definition media on the television within range of the average home user. While home theatre PCs have a greater range of features than the best media streamer, they tend to be far more expensive and power hungry.
read more...The developers of the popular web-based service Readability have hit back at Apple in a blog post after their application was rejected by the firm’s iOS App Store.
read more...A group of shareholders who pledged to stand for election to the company’s board of directors in an attempt to reverse the phone maker’s recent shift in strategy have admitted defeat after failing to attract enough institutional support.
read more...AdBlock Plus is one of the most controversial pieces of software you will ever encounter. This is not because it is inherently dangerous, or even because it will cause damage to you, your computer or compromise your data. It is simply because it allows a user to easily block the display adverts that so many of the best sites on the Internet use to generate the income they need to keep going.
read more...All this ease of use and ability to access your data from anywhere might be great for you, but it means the files you store in the cloud are easy for anyone who has your password to snoop on.
read more...UK mobile operator T-Mobile has backed down from imposing cuts to the amount of data available to mobile customers.
read more...Keith Haring was an American graphic artist and social activist who drew inspiration from the graffiti art he saw around him in the New York of the 1980s. An inspiring figure in the field of Pop Art, Haring sadly passed away in 1990 due to an AIDS-related illness. Eminent, a Dutch consumer goods company has launched a mouse range featuring his designs, and promised to make a donation to the Keith Haring Foundation, which supports AIDS research and education charities, for every mouse and mat sold.
read more...Are you the kind of person who can’t live without the radio on 24/7? Then you’ll love the free TuneIn Radio app for Android and iPhone, powered by RadioTime.
read more...Online music streaming provider Spotify has announced a native application for Linux operating systems.
read more...Online video sharing website YouTube has launched a new user interface option, dubbed 'Leanback'.
read more...Google has released an add on for web browsers that allows users to opt out of its Google Analytics website tracking service.
read more...There are certain dangers you can run into using BitTorrent networks. Here are a few steps you can take to protect yourself, and your privacy.
read more...Popular video sharing site YouTube was inaccessible to users this morning, displaying an 'Http/1.1 Service Unavailable' warning instead of the site's front page.
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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...
Fusion 4 is the newest version of VMware's virtualisation solution for the Mac, which allows you to run multiple operating systems within Mac OS X. Since we reviewed Fusion 3, VMWare has added support for Lion and the ability to create OS X Lion virtual machines, reduced the consumption of system resources to zero when you aren't running a virtual machine, redesigned the settings window, and much more. read more...
New 16-core AMD Opteron 6200-series CPUs in the Dell R715 bring huge bang for the buck to wide virtualization workloads, but not until your OS supports it read more...
Facebook is a lot of fun...until you realize that much of the information posted there could be found by someone you might not want to see it. Like your boss, or potential boss. Your mother, or your potential mother-in-law. Ever wonder how your Facebook page might make you look to someone else? NetworkClean can show you: This free service scans and monitors your Facebook account, alerting you to any problems lurking there. read more...
The HP Folio 13 is a sleek 13.3-inch Ultrabook that comes in a slim profile measuring just 18mm thick. HP positions it as a business-grade laptop that eschews an optical drive for portability and crams in a battery that the company says is good for up to 9.5 hours. The HP Folio 13 also includes a number of business-centric capabilities ignored by other computer makers. read more...
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