admin @ March 5, 2009 # One Comment
With about three months to go, U.S. regulators say some consumers are still unprepared for the television industry switch to digital broadcasting, which will affect Americans who do not receive their signals through cable or satellite.The federally mandated transition was originally set for February 17, but lawmakers postponed it to June 12 on the theory […]
admin @ December 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
an attendee at WinHEC China snuck away with the VHD image (Virtual PC 2004 Virtual Hard Drive) file of Windows 7’s 6956 build and promptly uploaded it to a torrent site.
As expected world+dog are on the case, having a go at it. Unfortunately, the VHD isn’t a bootable disk, but some users have fiddled enough […]
admin @ December 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Way to go. ..good allocation of Foreign Aid ….gawd…
In a ceremony attended by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo told the press that his 16,000-square-foot ceiling artwork reminded him of “an image of the world dripping toward the sky” — but it reminded critics of money slipping out of relief coffers.
“In Spain […]
admin @ November 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Construction of the world’s first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin. The Dynamic Tower, which will be built in Dubai, will feature 80 pre-fabricated apartments, spinning independently of one another.
“It’s the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape,” said David Fisher, the […]
admin @ October 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A “Star Wars” inspired hover chair, a 125 mph electric motorbike and hi-fi speakers that cost as much as a small house are among the attractions at Britain’s biggest gadget show in London this weekend.Organizers of Stuff Live hope thousands of visitors will forget their financial worries for a few hours and dream instead about […]
admin @ October 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In letters to the heads of nine major U.S. banks getting propped up with billions of taxpayer dollars, Waxman said he “question[s] the appropriateness of depleting the capital that taxpayers just injected into the banks through the payment of billions of dollars in bonuses, especially after one of the financial industry’s worst years on record.”
Those […]
admin @ October 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape.
It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray […]
admin @ October 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Two U.S. fighter planes were scrambled and ordered to shoot down an unidentified flying object (UFO) over the English countryside during the Cold War, according to secret files made public Monday.One pilot said he was seconds away from firing 24 rockets at the object, which moved erratically and gave a radar reading like “a flying […]
admin @ October 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“The basic idea is still unbelievably cool, in theory, and nearly useless in real life,” he said.
“Even quantum cryptography does not ’solve’ all of cryptography. The keys are exchanged with photons, but a conventional mathematical algorithm takes over for the actual encryption.”
Schneier explained that the weakest point of any network is not in the transmission […]
admin @ October 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just a quick post to mention a silly (or is it?) experiment that Google has released to the public: Mail Goggles. This feature is designed to prevent you from sending stupid e-mails in the small hours, when you’re most likely to be inebriated and at risk of making a complete idiot of yourself.
Google launches Mail […]
admin @ September 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Secret Intelligence Service, which has traditionally scoured the country’s elite universities for recruits, launched a series of online adverts this month as part of its attempts to attract people from a variety of backgrounds.”A number of public channels are used to promote job opportunities in the organisation and Facebook is a recent example of […]
admin @ September 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It is that anonymity that’s at the hub of a debate and vote that takes place in the European Parliament tomorrow. An Estonian MEP, Marianne Mikko, is worried that a growing number of blogs are written with “malicious intentions or hidden agendas”. She proposes that bloggers identify themselves and declare any interests they have in […]
admin @ September 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The first mobile phone to use Google Inc’s Android mobile operating software will cost $199, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Wednesday.The phone, which features a slide-out keypad, is being manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC Corp and will be sold by Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA unit, which plans to unveil the device at […]
admin @ September 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Uwe Matt, has done nothing illegal in buying the site, the authorities should never have allowed this to happen. According to the company, it’s likely that Matt bought the site in order to get higher rankings on search websites like Google, but that there is nothing to stop him selling the website domain on to […]
admin @ September 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Google Inc plans to launch a web browser called Google Chrome in a challenge to Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Monday.The browser launch is likely to be announced soon, the paper said, citing unnamed sources.
Google plans to launch web browser: WSJ | Technology | Reuters
