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Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 weeks 6 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 6 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 6 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 3 weeks 12 hours 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 3 weeks 12 hours 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 3 weeks 12 hours 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 3 weeks 1 day 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 3 weeks 1 day 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 3 weeks 1 day 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 3 weeks 2 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 3 weeks 2 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 3 weeks 2 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...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 3 days ago.
by the BBC
In 2012 expect to hear a lot more about 4G as many big operators begin the process of upgrading their service to us. Forget 3G, 4G is so fast it could make your mobile quicker than your home PC while reaching the parts other networks have left ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 3 days ago.
By Dave Lee, BBC
John Locke was the first self-published author to sell one over a million copies on Amazon – making him a New York Times bestseller. “Company policy, not mine. Were it up to me, we would. The revolution is not yet complete....
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 3 days ago.
By Chris Vallance, BBC
Can a £15 computer solve the programming gap
A test version of the Raspberry Pi computer has attracted bids of more than £3,000 in a fund-raising auction on eBay. With the machine about to start its first major production run, co...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 4 days ago.
By Leo Kelion, BBC
A “smart” internet-connected television that has the ability to have its hardware upgraded every year has been unveiled by Samsung. It has an expansion slot allowing new kit to be added to boost processing performance and in...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 4 days ago.
By Clint Boulton, eWeek
MIPS Technologies scored some first-mover points for the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show a month ago when it announced its 7-inch, Ainovo Novo7 Basic tablet, the first slate to run Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich opera...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 4 days ago.
By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
Media who proclaimed carriers were keeping a low profile at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas were sorely mistaken. AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint all announced major handsets, most of which are based on Googl...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 5 days ago.
By Christopher Mims, Technology Review
Microsoft has developed a new kind of Wi-Fi network that performs at its top speed even in the face of interference. It takes advantage of a new Wi-Fi standard that uses more of the electromagnetic spectrum, but also...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 5 days ago.
By Duncan Graham-Rowe, Technology Review
Researchers at Samsung have developed a smart phone that can detect people’s emotions. Rather than relying on specialized sensors or cameras, the phone infers a user’s emotional state based on how he...
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