Microsoft released the Xbox One today. Also a recent research says that Game Play Has No Negative Impact on Kids, UK Study Finds: A massive study of some 11,000 youngsters in Britain has found that playing video games, even as early as five years old, does not lead to later behavior problems. So there is →
The trend in professional audio systems seems to be that audio signals are move and more moving from balanced analogue interfaces and proprietary digital interfaces to Ethernet networking. There are many good reasons for that, which I am not going through in this post, for more information on reasons for transition look my earlier postings →
I have written earlier about problems in banking security and credit card security issues. But what about some other banking issues? Banking is Broken: A Financial Revolution is Coming article tells that a trio of startups are seeking to change the way we manage our money, by focusing on the customers traditional banks are ignoring. →
Linux Journal has published several interesting articles on Linux networking. Here are some of the most interesting of them. Queueing in the Linux Network Stack tells that packet queues are a core component of any network stack or device. They allow for asynchronous modules to communicate, increase performance and have the side effect of impacting →
Finnish Internet Users are Most Avid Consumers of Online News article says that news and information sites capture a large proportion of the European on-line audience with 8 in 10 Internet users accessing one of these sites in September 2013. 338 million people visited a news or information website via a desktop or laptop during →
At AudioVisual 13 there were some equipment teared down to point you can see what in inside them. Here are some. First picture shows what is inside a moving light. Here is a look inside a professional high power Barco HDX video projector. As you can see there are some similarities to what is inside →
It’s often said that pop culture fails to provide inspiration to aspiring engineers. Design News magazine article Slideshow: Engineering the Silver Screen attempted to capture a few exceptions to that rule. In truth, Hollywood occasionally writes engineers into movies or television plots. In some rare instances engineers serve as central characters, or even as stars. →
I took a quick walk-trough on AudioVisual 13 fair in Helsinki Finland. Here are some pictures from the event. In the morning there were not too many visitors as you can see. The audio and video stuff was pretty much similar than on previous years. Nothing really spectacular new. Multitouch showed very big touch screens, →
I got pretty many Facebook updates related Slush 2013 start-up event that started in Helsinki Finland today. It means that pretty many people I know have something to do with the event. The world’s largest startup event will host over 5,000 participants, and the capital of up to 60 billion euros. The event brings 1200 →
I moved ePanorama.net to a more powerful server some hours ago. Hopefully everything runs better now. →