Sixth Sense ESP - ESP News October

Issue #7

Welcome to the latest issue of our eNewsletter: ESP News, we hope you like it!

In this month’s issue we look at Acer’s thoughts on how Google and 3G are going to revolutionise mobile computing and the latest developments to the Firefox browser.

Google has implemented new functionality to its Docs application and Tim Berners-Lee tells all about one of his major Internet regrets.

Finally, read about our race team’s all-nighter at Silverstone earlier this month.

We’ll keep doing our best to make sure we send you genuinely useful snippets and if you have any comments or suggestions for a future article, please drop us a line. And don't forget to tell your friends!

Mark Nutburn
Director, Sixth Sense ESP

	Acer : 3G and Chrome will revolutionise laptops in 2010 Acer chief executive Gianfranco Lanci has predicted that 3G will be standard in laptops within a year, and that Google Chrome will become a major competitor to Windows. Speaking at The Langham in central London, Lanci said: "We WILL start to see all-day computing connectivity. When today people think about connectivity people think about Wi-Fi, but I think 3G will become standard in notebooks six to nine months from now." > Read More
	Firefox 3.6 knows which way your PC's facing Firefox 3.6 will include an API (Application Programming Interface) which is capable of knowing what way your computer is facing according to Mozilla. The API will allow the browser to use a computer's accelerometer, allowing developers to create applications around the feature. > Read More
	Google Docs adds folder sharing Google has improved the features of Google Docs by adding the option to share folders with other users. Until now, sharing rights have been assigned on a document-by-document basis. The new feature allows users to drag all the documents they want to share into a designated folder and apply sharing rights to the entire folder. > Read More

Web Inventor's Regret is the Double Slash

The inventor of the World Wide Web has revealed his one regret - adding slashes at the start of links.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee said typing "//" wasted people's time and required them to use more paper.

"I could have designed it to not have '//'. Really, if you think about it, it doesn't need the '//' " he admitted.

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Silverstone race report

The home of UK motorsport became host of Sixth Sense ESP Racing's longest race of the season: the Silverstone Britcar 500. This six hour race provided an extra test as it involved driving into the night!

With one round of the Britcar series remaining, we needed our main challenger to not complete the race. This is because only the points from the best six results count, and Kevin Clarke's BMW had already won five rounds.

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