Turing Lecture with Fred Brooks

January 20, 2005 | Comments

Sims Reality show?

January 20, 2005 | Comments

EA wants a Sims reality TV Show: "When asked by reporters which television company would want to buy such a show, the SpokesEA jerkily stood up and went into the kitchen for no apparent reason."

El Reg complains that this would be "like watching paint dry", which seems like a good description of most reality TV to me...

PledgeBank

January 20, 2005 | Comments

PledgeBank: "the site that lets you say "I'll do something if other people will do it too.""

Phone purse

January 20, 2005 | Comments

The phone purse: "Different light patterns would appear on the surface of the bag: each colour would be assigned to a group of callers: someone you know, an unknown caller or a blocked caller."

Open Mobile Platforms?

January 20, 2005 | Comments

Mobile open-standards group recruits key players: "The OMTP's goal is to bring network operators, software and operating system developers, hardware designers, and device manufacturers together to create products the offer a greater level of interoperability and user-interface consistency than they do today."