W3C advances audiovisual presentation standard

W3C has announced the advancement of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) to Candidate Recommendation. SMIL (pronounced smile) enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. ...more

Google Earth pairs sound with vision

Google Earth will soon be able to provide sounds to accompany its satellite images when a California firm releases its archive of 3,500 hours of recordings later this month. Bernie Krause has spent the last 40 years collecting recordings from all over the globe and his company, Wild Sanctuary, will now link this to Google Earth. He has created software that can embed those sounds, together with information about when they were recorded, into Google's application. ...more

LinuxUser & Developer Expo: Broadband for Linux users

uklinux.net has launched ADSL for those of the Linux persuasion. What makes this broadband service different to any other broadband, for Windows users for example? The people behind it, uklinux. ...more

AMD launches Sempron for low power notebooks

AMD has released the Mobile AMD Sempron processor 3000+ 'for Thin and Light Notebooks'. The low-power processor is aimed at entry-level notebooks, as opposed to the 3000+ Mobile AMD Sempron Processor for Full-Size Notebooks. As with other Semprons, features include 802. ...more

Are you a sexy geek?

It seems there is an award ceremony for just about everyone. The Sexiest Geek Alive contest returns after its successful launch last year, which saw unprecedented media coverage and over 18,000 registrations. If you intend to take part, there are three stages to fight your way through. ...more