Category: Linklog

June 27th 2008 marks the day that Bill Gates steps out of his role as nerd-baron and into the shoes of full-blown immortal philanthropist. Thank You! Read more →

Honda’s ASIMO robot conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to raise awareness for music education. Read more →

ISPs and authorities increasingly use Deep Packet Inspection hardware to block access to BitTorrent sites, or spy on users’ browsing habits. To offer its users more privacy, isoHunt has now added SSL encryption, making it impossible for your ISP or the authorities to monitor your activities on the BitTorrent site. Read more →

SourceForge, the world’s largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications, appears to blocked in Mainland China on the eve of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.The current blocking may be related to the recent anti-China protests of Beijing Olympic Games, which began on 8 August in Beijing. Read more →

Speaking at a conference in New York, Microsoft’s chief architect, Ray Ozzie, said open source is a bigger threat to the software juggernaut than Google is. He says open source developers are not restricted by the best interests of shareholders and potentially are, therefore, a stronger market force. Read more →

With the help of an Australian partner, Google is close to landing a contract to support 1.3 million students with Gmail. The deal for student e-mail accounts at public schools and colleges in New South Wales is not quite finalized. But it is expected to be worth roughly AU$9.5 million (US$9.05 million) over a three-year… Read more →

One of the most interesting questions considered by astrophysicists deals with the start of our universe. Indeed, there is a great deal of speculation on the subject, with different theories about how the universe began, and what may have existed before the universe came into being. Read more →