More technical detail on Adnan Osmani's browser from a thread on Boards.ie:

I got to speak with Adnan (the guy who won) on Saturday at the exibition amongst a crowd while he was demonstrating the software.

It was a very "graphically enhanced" type interface - XBox logos etc - runs only as fixed 800x600 (?) window- which didnt look sizable (?). Not my kind of thing - kind of like browsing inside an WinXP Media Player 8/9. This window splits up into different panes - one for Searches, one for DVD etc.

Searches feature looked useful - and ran fast - but as the cgi interfaces to the smaller web search engines tend to change often I dont know how long all the searches will work for.

DVD player was an embedded windows media player in a tiny window. I dont know how useful this is really as it still does take up a lot of the screen space, and who looks at films while on the web?
DVD's are NOT streamed over the web as has been suggested in some accounts - it is simply a MS Media Player embedded. (I think it was Media Player 7 as it displayed the 3 coloured boxes while it was loading).

- Windows are docked panes (like the Search built into IE) - not the overlaping (MDI) multiple-document-interface. A few windows could be called up to give some low level access to the html and searches.
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Looks like he put a lot of effort put into this... [snip]
How did he do it?? Well there was a lot of jargon thrown around about broadband servers and such (how that related to POTS lines I dont know) but the apparent speed is by several methods -
* One is by making a more direct connection to the servers, by-passing Winsock as if it was on a Lan.
* Another is by every request after the First is made with a Higher Priority So index.html gets normal priority and all other items that make up the page get a High priority.
This I dont like -as its just speeding up pages by skipping other surfers in the queue for server items. [snip]

Fair play to the guy for his coding abilities though on the app itseld. A nice looking app, written in C++, that looked stable. And f it is all smoke and mirrors - it was 12 UCD judges that were fooled.

(Actually, not all the judges were from UCD, but a mix of places. Some extra help was also called in from UCD to get more academic computing expertise.)

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Hey, you can see them lifting the last piece of the Spire into place right now (11:25 a.m.). Looks like we'll get to see the full thing soaring into the (admittedly, grey) sky by lunchtime.
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Hack the Planet asks: I have to admit that I'm skeptical of the whole Open Spectrum thing. Is there no limit to wireless capacity or is there a really large limit? If I pile up a thousand radio-of-the-future gizmos all trying to talk to each other, what actually happens? And how much do these whiz-bang smart radios of the future cost, anyway?
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Segway Banned In San Francisco [Slashdot]
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Cycling up O'Connell Street just now at 1:30 a.m. I noticed a smallish but rapt crowd gathered around the mesh fence surrounding the Spire. A crane had the next silvery segment in harness and several workers seemed to be readying it for lifting. Perhaps, after the winds of the last few days, they'll try to erect it in the still night air. What a surprise that will be for tomorrow's commuters.
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