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Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 6 days ago.
by the BBC
Internet firms carried out a successful trial of the new net address system last June. Leading internet firms have set 6 June as the World IPv6 launch day. IPv6 is the new net address system that replaces the current protocol IPv4, which is abo...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 week 6 days ago.
byJon Kelly, BBC
Wikipedia last week pulled its English-language articles in protest against a US anti-piracy bill. Wikipedia blacked out its English-language site for 24 hours. So how will its regular readers get information Work-averse students, corner...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 10 hours ago.
By: Nathan Eddy, eWeek
People logging in through mobile devices and those accessing the Web in rural areas also increased compared with 2010. More Chinese are using the Internet than ever before, with more than 500 million users in China accessing the Web...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 10 hours ago.
By: Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
While many enterprises in the past year have turned to Apple’s iPad for their business tablet needs, Microsoft is looking to change that in 2012 with its Windows 8 operating system. Despite a host of challengers entering t...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 10 hours ago.
By: Fahmida Y. Rashid, eWeek
A day after the primary house sponsor of the controversial online piracy bill said he was dropping DNS blocking from the legislation the White House said it would not support any legislation that tampered with the naming syste...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
By Antonio Regalado, Technology Review
Smart phones are creating radical new ideas for getting around. Technology Review picks five of the most promising. Click through the five reviews – all very intriquing; great potential as the mobile smart phon...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
by David Zax, Technology Review
Reviews are coming in of the Nokia Lumia 710, a low-end smartphone and Nokia’s first to run Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. The L.A. Times, for instance, gives it a nice little review, saying, “Is the Lumia 710 a good ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 1 day ago.
By Brian Bergstein, Technology Review
An organization that maintains a huge database of academic research plans to soon let the public view some of the trove of information for free—a big boost for the idea of “open access” to the world̵...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 2 days ago.
by Stephen Cass, Technology Review
While the picture quality and screen size is likely to be the most immediately striking thing about the 55-inch Super OLED TV Samsung unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, some of the less vis...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 2 days ago.
by David Zax, Technology Review
As soon as things get smart, something stupid also happens: they become vulnerable to attack. This was the case (though over-hyped, perhaps) of printers that cybersecurity researchers warned could be hijacked and theoretica...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 2 days ago.
by David Zax, Technology Review
One of the joys of the Kindle, as I’ve discovered anew while traveling in summery Argentina, is that it enables you–indeed, encourages you–to read in the brightest of sunlight. Now, with a new cover called...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 3 days ago.
by the BBC
Tom Clarke has appealed for the man in the photograph to help him trace his iPad An IT consultant is attempting to track down his missing iPad by using photos taken on it. Tom Clarke, 26, from Hove, in Sussex, either lost or had his iPad stolen...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 3 days ago.
by the BBC
There are two WiFi frequencies that are used. That’s 2.4Ghz, a lot of people know it as 11bg, and there’s something called 5Ghz. [The challenge is] convincing the world to use 5Ghz and the 24 channels offered in this band, versus th...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 3 days ago.
by the BBC
The groups of atoms were built using a scanning tunneling microscope Researchers have successfully stored a single data bit in only 12 atoms. Currently it takes about a million atoms to store a bit on a modern hard-disk, the researchers from IB...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 4 days ago.
By Clint Boulton, eWeek
At last year’s Consumer Electronics Show here, Toshiba piqued attendees’ curiosity by showing off a prototype tablet with a rubberized back and removable battery. That reference device evolved into the Toshiba Thrive, a...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 4 days ago.
By: Darryl K. Taft, eWeek
IBM researchers have created what they claim is the world’s smallest memory bit using only 12 atoms. This accomplishment by IBM scientists is the culmination of nearly 30 years of nanotechnology research, IBM said. By demonstra...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 4 days ago.
By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
MIPS Technologies had reason to be proud when earlier this month after it launched the world’s first tablet computer to run Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Indeed, even at the 2012 International ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 5 days ago.
by Christopher Mims, Technology Review
Mining, textiles, retail—these are the industries that are most likely to violate worker’s rights, right Nope— turns out the electronics industry is worse, according to a recent report from Oekom, a sustai...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 5 days ago.
by Christopher Mims, Technology Review
You’re not actually running Windows on the iPad, just streaming a continuous video feed of Windows directly to your iPad. So you have to be on a reasonably fast connection (wifi, not 3G) for it to work. Windows...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 5 days ago.
By Kevin Bullis, Technology Review
As part of our special report on manufacturing, we asked Neri Oxman, a professor at the MIT Media Lab and an internationally recognized artist whose work is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in...
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