Tag archive: Prague

After some Czech pupils attempted to blackmail teachers by posting video clips of them online, the Czech education ministry is trying to stop cyberbullying by laying down new guidelines for schools. Cyberbullying is done via text, e-mail, or online, and generally involves one pupil bullying another outside school. This attempted blackmail of teachers is a different track, however. Ministry spokesman Tomas Bouska told the BBC that under… Read More

When Microsoft launched the Xbox 360 back in late 2005, the console was greeted by both rapt enthusiasm from the gaming community, but also a chorus of peristent complaints the video game consoles were prone to failure. In response, in December of 2006 Microsoft extended the warranty on Xbox 360 consoles from 90 days to one year; now, the "unacceptable number of repairs" to Xbox 360 consoles has caused Microsoft to extend the Xbox… Read More

At an international conference in Prague, Australia's Silverbrook Research announced a new inkjet printing technology which promised to be five to ten times faster than inkjet printers on the market today, yet still offer cost-effective printing solutions. Silverbrook's Memjet technology packs an astonishing number of ink nozzles into its print heads: each driver chip is just 2 cm across yet contains 6,400 ink nozzles, and… Read More

More than 200 university programmers, from San Diego to Seoul, and from Wisconsin to Warsaw, have earned the right to compete at the most prestigious programming competition of its kind. Seventy-eight teams of three students each will take part in the 29th Annual World Finals of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), April 3 – 7, 2005, in Shanghai, China. And, for the first… Read More

Dolby Digital 5.1 Creator is a sophisticated audio coding technology that formats audio content into a multichannel Dolby Digital bitstream, allowing consumers to create home movies with rich, full, surround sound that captures the entire setting. As a result of its superior coding efficiencies, 5.1-channel Dolby Digital requires less data than stereo PCM, resulting in savings in disc space and allowing consumers to make longer recordings or… Read More