If you’re working in Hursley, sat a couple of centimeters in front of your screen, coding away all day, where do you go for a break? Well, Hursley has a Japanese garden, with a fish pond, fountain, trees and bits of modern art. It’s a cool place to get away from the technology [...]

VMware have released the VMware player a cut down play onlyVirtual machine that will run images created using their VMware Workstation, ESX and GSX products.

Google recently announced that they are changing the service’s name here in the UK due to a trademark dispute. From today, all new invites sent to people in the UK will be for @googlemail.com (rather than @gmail.com) addresses. Nothing changes (so far) for existing users.

The Gmail logo.

The new Google Mail logo.
Why is [...]

The web evolves quickly; not so long ago AJAX was the hot new thing and now it is increasingly main-stream. Predicting the next big thing is very hard but I think one new development in particular is not on people’s radar in the way that I would expect. The WHAT-WG (Web HyperText Application Technology Working [...]

Some people in D block have made this very impressive dome of vending cups. It’s in a very quiet corner of the building, meaning that not many people have come across it yet. News is spreading though.
It makes me wonder if geek-made creations might be the future of corporate art.

- Roo Reynolds (Pervasive Messaging [...]

A new wave is emerging in an always online, standards based world. The fifth wave is enabling more innovation than ever

Mapping and GIS systems just got a whole lot easier with Arcweb services from ESRI

Over the past few years I’ve done a lot of work on social networks, in particular in their visualisation. Some of it has been on customer projects, but a lot has been on the side, during lunch breaks and weekends – I just thought it was kind of cool. The sort of thing [...]

We have seen a cool idea at milliondollarhomepage. But will our advert on it work?

The Hursley site tends to have a few oddities, which differentiate it from other IBM locations. One of them is that we have a pub on the site (IBM sites are generally alcohol free). The Hursley Clubhouse also acts as the focal point for all the clubs and societies running in Hursley. [...]