If youve been reading my posts over the past few years on a regular basis, youll know by know that Im a self confessed audiophile. My iTunes library is full of lossless tracks that Ive ripped from my growing CD collection (yes, until I can download music losslessly, I will continue to buy CDs and vinyls), but until now I havent had a truly great pair of speakers that can do all of those tracks justice.
The Bowers and Wilkins MM-1s caught my eye a few months back, with their promise of great sound and technology taken from their studio speakers, not to mention the incredible design work that is clearly present in every aspect of the units.
Fountain is a new markup language for writing screenplays
07 Feb
Posted by Kate Moffitt as Hardware News
Fountain is a simple markup syntax for writing, editing and sharing screenplays in plain, human-readable text. The language is flexible enough to work on any computer or tablet, and can be written in any software that edits text files.
But why in the word would a screenplay writer ever need a markup language? Its not like theatrical and film writers are known for getting particularly cozy with code.
The thing is, Fountain isnt code, but a solution for writers to turn to. It provides a consistent experience in comparison to working with most wordprocessors. It
Toy Fair 2012 Here at the Toy Fair 2012, the fact technology dominates kids’ entertainment is clear as day. Inspiration Works aims to capitalise on this trend with a tablet specifically targeted towards nippers.
The Kurio is an Android-based slate, spruced up with a kid-friendly UI and behind-the-scenes parental controls.
According to an advisory in the Vulnerability Lab vulnerability database, Dusseldorf airport closed potentially critical security holes in several areas of its web site in December. A database extract available to The H’s associates at heise Security says that the SQL injection holes potentially allowed unauthorised access to the entire database, which contains personal data and passwords of passengers and partners, as well as Airliner Lounge data that is normally only available to airline employees.
The extract also contains references to a “vip_personen” table that appears to be intended for storing celebrity passenger data.
Judge Denies Request to Block Twitter From Handing Over Account Data
07 Jan
Posted by Kate Moffitt as Hardware News
A federal judge has denied a request that would have temporarily blocked Twitter from turning over account data to United States prosecutors investigating the whistleblower site WikiLeaks and its publication of classified government documents. The request sought to prevent the transfer while a federal appeals court was considering the case.
U.S. District Court Judge Liam O’Grady denied the request because he felt the appeal has little chance of success since the law “overwhelmingly” supported the government’s case. “Litigation of these issues has already denied the government lawful access to potential evidence for more than a year,” OGrady said in his ruling.
The global economy is creating an atmosphere of uncertainty in the IT sector, but what can we expect in 2012?
This time last year there was mild optimism about growth in the economy following the carnage left by the credit crunch. But hope has quickly changed into despair and the Euro crisis threatens to push parts of the world back into recession.
Even the Chinese economy is growing at a much slower rate as European customers of its manufactured products tighten their belts.
Variables such as the economic backdrop and security threats will, as always, influence IT decision makers.
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