Tech News : Amazon’s Satellite Broadband : 100% Success

Tech News : Amazon’s Satellite Broadband : 100% Success

Amazon’s ‘Project Kuiper’ satellite broadband moved one step closer following a reported 100 per cent success rate for its first two prototype satellites. Project Kuiper  Like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with Project Kuiper, Amazon hopes to set up its own low Earth orbit...
Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History …

Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History …

November 10, 2004 : What’s In a Name? On November 9th 2004, the well-known web-browser ‘Firefox’ was released, although it had earlier been called something entirely different altogether. Originally created in 2002 by members of the Mozilla community, the...
Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History :

Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History :

November 2, 1936 : BBC Basics “Gentlemen, you have now invented the biggest time-waster of all time. Use it well.”, said Isaac Shoenberg, head of the EMI research team that developed the first fully electronic television system to be used in regular broadcasting. On...
Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History …

Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History …

October 10, 2023 : “A Thousand-Year Name Extension” Around a thousand years before electronics, a monk called Poppo was asked to prove his faith, because Sweyn Forkbeard was having doubts about his baptism. Legend has it that Poppo proved his faith by holding a...
Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History …

Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History …

October 23, 2001 : “A Thousand Songs In Your Pocket” Around this time 22 years ago on October 23 2001, Steve Jobs promised to give people “A Thousand Songs In Their Pocket”. His timing couldn’t have been better because at the time, Apple was primarily known for its...
Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History …

Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History …

October 1980 : Halloween, Early AI & Ghosts … AI isn’t something that’s just emerged in the last couple of years. Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde had distinct personalities and if these names sound familiar it’s because they were the four ghosts that chased...