Mobile phones come to the pulpit

In a bid to increase revenue, the Church of England invited 16,000 parish churches in England and Wales to offer their church towers, spires and flagpoles as telecommunications masts to mobile operators. A list of interested churches will be published in January, with preferred bidders being announced in April, reported the Financial Times today. Revenues from the initial bids will go to the Church of England to cover the costs of organising the tenders, but individual churches will receive around ?5,000 a month in rent. ...more

Blu-ray is 25GB paperback writer

There's a new twist on the concept of electronic paper. Sony and Toppan Printing have developed a paper disc that can store 25GB of data, using the next-generation optical drive format Blu-ray. The new disc - 51 per cent of which is made of paper - is the result of a year-long collaboration between the two companies. ...more

DTI puts data security at the heart of good business

The DTI's UK Online for Business portal sports a new section today, devoted to advising businesses on security issues. As well as protecting business assets such as data from widely known threats, eg viruses and such like, it also helps with putting in security policies that protect the more concrete assets of the premises and that govern employees' practices and appropriate use of email and the Internet. It also points out the importance of business continuity plans in the event of disaster, be it from loss of data or otherwise. ...more

IDF Fall 2003: Intel demos Personal Server prototype

Imagine if your whole life was recorded on a device. This could be the future according to Ray Want, a Fellow of Intel Research, as he introduced a prototype of the Intel Personal Server platform. He calculated that 80 years of audio (based on 16 hour days, with 16Kbit/sec compression) could be recoded as 3TB of data. ...more

Analysis: Dual Core technology

After the massive acceleration of Intel's dual-core processor plans, dual core has arrived. And it's set to make a huge impact. The processor previously codenamed Smithfield has become two parts: the Pentium D and the higher-end Pentium Extreme Edition (EE). ...more