Posts by Lee Richards

Sony Ericsson site indicates Xperia 'arc slider' set-back

Website blunder apparently.

....from Sony Ericsson Corporate Vice President of the Global Communications Aldo Liguori, who told the Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog that "I can confirm that we will be launching the X1 product in 2nd Half of 2008, as per our announcement of 10th February."

SETI@home needs You!

Go on, try again.....

After getting back into this distributed computing malarkey with Folding@Home on my PS3 I thought I'd give SETI another go. Been running the BOINC client (SETI@Home and FightAIDS@Home) on a Vista machine and two XP boxes for over a month now with no problems whatsoever. Suggest all ex-BOINC users try again as I'm sure this new version (which I assume it is) is much more stable.

Transformers director blames MS for HD DVD/Blu-ray format war

Superior? Yes.

"Theres nothing superior about blu ray other than some extra storage space"

Sorry, that simply isn't correct. Blu-ray has also adopted a higher data transfer rate for video and audio (54Mbps vs 36.55Mbps). The greater capacity and data transfer rates for Blu-ray will allow the movie studios to release their movies with higher quality video and audio than the HD-DVD format.

China goes lunar

Once and for all

I know this has been asked on nearly every China/Moon post, but is there actually any chance that China will look for and photograph the previous US landing sites? I mean, they are there (sort of) and taking photos anyway.

Chinese lunar orbiter on its way

Any answers for conspiracy theorists?

Is there any chance that this probe will be able to take close-up pictures of the surface and prove once and for all whether that US flag is there!?

Blu-ray outsells HD DVD 2:1 in US

Blu slowly heading towards victory

It appears that people aren't being blinded by the lower price & lower spec of HD-DVD and see Blu-ray as the true next generation (higher bit-rates, greater disc capacity etc). Sales in Europe and Japan show an even higher bias towards Blu-ray. Sadly, the £150M pay-off by Toshiba is only adding to consumer confusion and extending this 'war'.

Pee-powered battery unveiled

Groan.

Wee-chargeable batteries? Whatever next?