Posts Tagged ‘TechNewsWorld’
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
The smoke and haze from the 190-square mile Station Fire near Los Angeles isn’t just making it difficult to see in the area of the San Gabriel Mountains. It’s also having an impact on advanced forms of communications in Southern California: cellphone signals, television and radio broadcasting, even transmissions among the police, sheriff and fire crews battling the blaze and directing evacuation procedures for suburban residents. Federal Communications Commission officials are maintaining close contact with first responders and commercial broadcast interests in the region.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Consider the juice inside a hot new portable gaming device: It has a speedy processor, a powerful graphics chip, plenty of memory and wireless capabilities for instant downloads. You can play the latest blood-soaked first-person shooters like “Resident Evil,” dizzying platformers like “Assassin’s Creed” and some killer racing games that don’t even require punching combinations of buttons and triggers; just lean the device this way or that, thanks to a built-in accelerometer, and you’re careening down boulevards at top speeds in a shiny red Ferrari.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Web 2.0 enables companies to build dynamic networking communities and foster ad hoc collaboration. This can be great for businesses, as they can gain insights and feedback in hours instead of weeks or months. However, the trusting, collaborative and open nature of the Web 2.0 environment is precisely what makes it ripe for malicious exploitation. Social media, file sharing, instant messaging, streaming media and mobile apps have not only taken over our personal lives, but also have made irreversible inroads into our businesses.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
You can look at it as the beginnings of real interactive television — or simply one big episode of the cult comedy TV series “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ brought to life. In any event, thanks to forthcoming plans from IBM and Fox, viewers will soon be able to talk back to their flat-screen televisions via social media such as Twitter and Facebook. The blogosphere has dug up a Big Blue patent application involving Texas-based researchers for a remote control device that will let viewers blog, tweet or Facebook-update their thoughts about what they watching on TV.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Wikipedia plans to roll out a new feature with the goal of enhancing the site’s credibility. Called “WikiTrust,” the optional feature color codes entries based on reliability, according to a Wikipedia page describing the new development. The color-coding tool gives users a “check text tab” that reveals author, origin and reliability of the text. The intent is to highlight spam, surreptitious changes and outright information-tampering by contributors who might have ulterior motives for making changes.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Microsoft is giving its operating system for smartphones a new look in time for the holiday shopping season. The world’s largest software maker said Tuesday that phones running the next version of Windows Mobile will hit store shelves worldwide on Oct. 6. “Windows Mobile 6.5,” as the new system is called, has an updated look that brings Microsoft’s offering more in line with competitors such as Research In Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
As the DARPA approaches its self-imposed deadline to make high-tech prosthetics that begin to approach the abilities of natural limbs by 2009, the research communities that have made it happen are beginning to ask, “Can we create companies that can turn a mind-blowing prototype or demo into real products?” Veterans, amputees and other people living without limbs ask, “Can you help me soon?” “People are always reading something in a journal or magazine and asking, ‘Can you help my grandson?’ Gerald Loeb of the University of Southern California told TechNewsWorld.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
An Alaska technology company hopes to hit the market with the world’s first laptop boasting two identical 15.4-inch displays by the end of this year. At nearly 12-pounds and equipped with two 15.4-inch screens and a full-sized keyboard, gScreen’s planned $3,000 Spacebook series definitely doesn’t track the “smaller is better” ethos prevailing in the notebook space these days. However, it could have a place in the high-margin world of desktop replacement notebooks, especially for engineers, graphic designers and others who require the additional display space.
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Tags: creative, desktop, keyboard, laptop, market, news, notebook, notebooks, TechNewsWorld, Windows
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Last week’s big news was that Apple pushed up its Snow Leopard release by a month to provide a 60-day buffer between it and Microsoft’s biggest launch of the decade. Apple can’t match either Microsoft’s resources or price, but the feat of snagging an unchallenged 60 days during the back-to-school and early holiday shopping season points to Apple’s greatest advantage: Its marketing leader is also its CEO. Microsoft is fielding its best marketing team ever for the Windows 7 launch, led by Kathleen Hall — but she isn’t the CEO.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
You know it’s a good day when included among all the dry-as-dust press releases that arrive on your virtual desk is one that promises to combine Linux, Twitter and “dangerously outrageous” fun. Sure enough, from none other than the Linux Foundation came the tantalizing announcement of the “Fake Linus Torvalds” promotion, which it kicked off last week. Believe it? It’s true, and in no time Linux Girl’s spine was tingling with excitement.
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