In 1995 the physicist HvL was employee of an internal software house of a large electronics company. His speciality was the creation of scientific software. Then he got the invitation from a software…

A story about impending U.S. legislation has hit the news in the last few days: Senator Patrick Leahy, along with ten co-sponsors that include Dianne Feinstein and my own senator, Chuck Schumer), has…

In the wake of the Pepsigate scandal at Scienceblogs.com and the departure of some two dozen bloggers, a variety of companies decided to capitalize on the disarray and start their own blogging…

I have a few notes on home networks, which notes come from recent experience with some network setup issues. Encryption: How to secure one’s network — or whether not to — continues to be a point of…

It may seem like a waste of time that young people play video games for hours on end but, at least for some, it may help them in surgery one day.   A new study says reorganization of the…

It’s managed to stay out of the general press, mostly — probably because it’s geeky, it’s hard to explain what it really means, and it’s not likely to affect anything any time soon — but the tech…

The Macmillan Coffee Finder is a new, free iPhone app from Macmillan Cancer Support to help people find the best cup of coffee nearest to them.   And make some new friends.  And help people…

Last week, I talked about Amazon’s email-in service, which lets you send documents to your Kindle by email. The nicest part of it for me is the PDF conversion feature, but you can, in general, sent…

The La Jolla, California-based company BUMP launched earlier this week with an eponymous web service that uses license plates as a means to connect with drivers around you. As reported by Technology…

The spread of mass panic through Short Message Service (SMS) and text on phones and services like Twitter is unnecessary and people need to learn to look at information with a more critical eye.…