The Kiwi software development company Dinther Product Design launched the first version of its free ship simulation, Ships, the other day, which leverages on the browser-based Google Earth plugin as the primary graphics engine, according to the Google Earth Blog.
First of all, let me point out that I was never much of a gamer, save for a brief Amiga period some 20 years ago, but this one actually had me impressed. Not so much by the game’s features and functionality perhaps as by its availability, as a free of charge …

Amazon’s Kindle DX launch stirred enthused response in the media business the other day, which shouldn’t come as a surprise really, seeing how the old media for the time being seem to be on a desperate search for ways out of the current downturn.
The Kindle DX, Amazon’s generation 2 ebook board, with a larger screen, specially designed for newspapers, is by many expected to be the salvation for a newspaper business in utter distress. The very idea is, of course, brilliant. Save the forests and reduce costs! But is it …

Apparently, there’s a new war going on, or a campaign, rather, launched in order to convince corporations and websites to make Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 usage impossible on their sites. There’s plenty of information out there, on why phasing out IE6 is imperative. You could go here or here, or to a number of various international and national campaigns to that effect.
Allegedly, maintaining websites for IE6 users takes too much of a toll on web developers, as well as bandwidth and server resources, as I understand it.
It would appear that …

Oh the irony! Only days following my blasting our die-hard feminists I learned today that I’ve been assigned to write for a supplement on women in science, technology and engineering in one of our business dailies. But rest assured, I know how to be perfectly PC when recquired, so this is all going to be about missed opportunities by not recruiting female expertise – or how to attract it, as it were. The usual HR crap as we know it from numerous publications (of which I’m responsible for quite a …

I’ve been visiting a few websites recently, which took my breath away, almost literally, alternating with an occasional fit of hyperventilation, one of which makes Google Earth and Maps look hopelessly obsolete — Norwegian search engine Sesam’s “Sesam 3D-kart” (plugin installation required):

Here’s the Oslo royal castle, as observed from a random angle, altitude and latitude, provided with continuously updated geodata. Pan, zoom, rotate… You have to try.
Fliff-flaff-fluff. That is the (extremely rapid) sound of me opening what ever digital device at hand, kung fu-style, on responding to foreigners asking directions.
I’ve …

There can be no doubt. After seeing a brief walk-through of Google’s Android platform, I know, with something very close to a 100 percent certainty, that my next mobile is very likely to be an Android. German (US-based) T-Mobile launched their HTC-manufactured G1 yesterday, sporting Google’s brand new, Linux-based Android platform, and I have to tell You: For my purposes this beats the crap out of Apple’s latest iPhone. An absolute must-have if you’re depending on net-based applications in your everyday life, which I do. But I can tell you …