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Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
The sky may have been clear and blue over Las Vegas during the giant Consumer Electronics Show (CES)but few of the 130,000 people attending failed to see dark clouds on the horizon in the shape of a looming recession. "It's not an easy situation," said Ke...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Researchers at MIT have made pure, dense, thin films of carbon nanotubes that show promise as electrodes for higher-capacity batteries and supercapacitors. Dispensing with the additives previously used to hold such films together improved their electrical...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Researchers at the University of Toronto, in Ontario, have increased the speed of their new color-changing material tenfold. The material, which uses photonic crystals, reflects bright, intense light of any color from red to blue, switching color based on...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
According to industry estimates, there are already some two million television sets in homes that are ready to show 3-D video. The only problem is that there aren't a lot of 3-D broadcasts ready to roll. At this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in L...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
This little slide show by eWeek is a bit short on formatting, but it does make some excellent points. The ten slides feature ten important facts about Web 2.0, where it is going, and what is hot!
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Move over, Pandora. There's a new music service in town--well, in some towns anyway.
TorrentFreak has an in-depth write-up of a new music streaming service called Spotify, which shows an awful lot of promise--so much so that the music piracy-focused blog ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Technology legend Gordon Moore may have been working at Intel when he thought up the law that bears his name, but it applies to any and every microprocessor. Be the chip inside a PC, or mobile phone, the logic of Moore's Law dictates that they will get p...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
An economic crisis changes the way you think about gadgets. Is a $400 game console bundle really what you want to be spending your hard-earned money on, considering that you could be out of a job in six months Maybe not — though we're sympathetic to th...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
The iPhone alone is an amazing device. But it's the phenomenal App Store that's made the iPhone truly revolutionary, by giving thousands of independent developers the ability extend and transform the device with their creativity. Not even half a year old,...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Most gadgets do not play well together. This exclusivity means using separate chargers for each device, which makes traveling light difficult. Innergie, a maker of power adapters, has created a charger, the mCube90, that lets you charge many models of not...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Everyone wants to reduce waste, but computing equipment lifecycles are shrinking, and discarded electronics represent the fastest-growing waste category. Many states and municipalities are passing or consideration legislation to make manufacturers respons...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Rather than make predictions about what Microsoft might do next year, we take the bolder approach of giving unsolicited advice, whether or not it's wanted. The list of recommendations is in order of importance, from least to most, from 10 to 1. For those ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Here's a radical idea: a 2009 Apple computer with an AMD processor. Maybe this isn't in the cards, but it should be. Especially in light of Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming ultraportable platforms. I see an upscale Netbook-like Apple computer with, let'...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
A couple of freelance writers for the blog VentureBeat say they have ported Google's Android operating system to an Asus Eee PC. But does this constitute a new trend in Netbooks Matthäus Krzykowski and Daniel Hartmann said in a post Thursday that they c...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
There's a scam spreading through Twitter. Direct messages (DMs) are showing up in Twitter accounts with appealing come-ons to visit a site on blogspot.com. The text is, "hey! check out this funny blog about you..." The URL in the message then redirects to...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Researchers in Scotland have been given nearly half a million pounds to try to improve digital camera images. The team, lead by scientists at the University of Glasgow, are developing small nanostructures that would be used on light detecting image senso...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
It looks like President-elect Barack Obama’s promise to improve the nation’s broadband Internet access has been embraced by both politicians and the telecommunications industry. As usual, however, things get tricky once we dig into the details. The Wa...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Our collective obsession with social-networking sites continued in 2008, as did their search for a viable business model. (See "Social Networking Is Not a Business.") Although economic conditions have been grim for the industry in the past few months (see...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Robotic research marched ahead this year: biomedical robots performed less invasive and more complex experimental surgeries, winged robots copied each other to perform potential military maneuvers, and researchers began work on robots that may even be abl...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
When Anwar Ghuloum came to work at Intel in 2002, the company was supreme among chip makers, mainly because it was delivering processors that ran at higher and higher speeds. "We were already at three gigahertz with Pentium 4, and the road map called for ...
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