Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee has entered the world of blogging. From his first post: "In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute."
Engadget is reporting that as part of Apple's push to get Intel PowerBooks to market, the boys in Cupertino have hired a Japanese firm to round up as many current and ex-VAIO engineers as possible, as quickly as possible. Don't forget that Sony helped Apple design the first PowerBook 16 years ago.
Take a look to this photo gallery of James Curry's amazing "pole barn" Cray Supercomputer Museum. There you will find several generations of Cray Supercomputer represented by artifacts, large and small, including the Cray-1, Cray Q2, Cray 3, Cray X-MP and others as well as documents and other memorabilia.
According to New Scientist, a large object has been found beyond Pluto travelling in an orbit tilted by 47 degrees to most other bodies in the solar system. Astronomers are at a loss to explain why the object's orbit is so off-kilter while being almost circular.
Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server. Download 1.0 now!
According to MacFixIt's Mac OS X Intel transition special report, Apple's move to Intel makes developers large and small rally their efforts in an attempt to deliver Universal Binary (able to execute on both PowerPC and Intel processors) applications before, or as the first x86-based Macs are brought to market.
According to Think Secret, Apple appears on track to deliver an Intel-based iBook early next year, sources report, and in doing so will replace its long-standing 14.1-inch model with a widescreen 13.3-inch WXGA display.
According to Billsdue, a college dropout in Nanjing has spent the last 6 months in a Internet cafe sleeping, eating and playing World of Warcraft. The woman who delivers food to him no longer wants to get near him because of the smell.
News.com reports this shocking news: Black Friday 2005, which posts information about retail deals, posted scans of what appear to be future Wal-Mart newspaper inserts featuring a $398 laptop and a $398 desktop with an LCD monitor from HP.
Most of you remember that Sun created a rent CPUs by the hour service about a year ago, to allow companies use a computation grid for about $1 per CPU hour, but, did you know that, according to this Register's article, Sun has not made a single customer?