Apple’s latest iPhone is a winner, adding faster data-network access and GPS-assisted searching and mapping to the slick, innovative platform of its predecessor. Competing phone makers have taken their shots at iPhone’s touch-screen design, but haven’t made a dent. That is, until recently. Samsung’s Instinct touch-screen phone, available exclusively from Sprint Nextel, has been flying […]
Month: September 2008
With its exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights, NBC will televise a whopping 1,400 hours of the 2008 Summer Olympics Games from Beijing to American homes. HDTV owners will see some stunning moments—from tonight’s opening ceremonies to the closing ceremonies 17 days later—in crystal clarity on their TVs. (To ensure that you enjoy world class viewing, see […]
The Electronic Bastille
smooth wombat writes “Imagine a database whose aim is to centralize and analyze data on people aged 13 or above who are active in politics or labor unions, who play a significant institutional, economic, social or religious role, or who are ‘likely to breach public order.’ At first glance one might think the country in […]
Anti-Globalism writes “Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing not only where a remembered experience is registered but also, in part, how the brain is able to recreate it.”
In what probably amounts to good news for consumers eyeing a hybrid for their next vehicle purchase, Honda is resurrecting the “Insight” name, this time in the form of a five-seat, Prius-like hatchback. The automaker’s announcement included the tantalizing statement that the cost would be “significantly below [that of] hybrids available today,” but provided no […]
centuren writes “In response to the reaction to Chrome’s terms of service, Google has truncated the offending Section 11, apologizing for the oversight. The new Section 11 contains only the first sentence included in their Universal Terms of Service, now stating: ‘You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you […]
Roman Phalanx writes “OLPC had promised that it would be possible to mass produce a sub-$100 laptop. The folks at OLPC tried to realize that dream by re-imagining what a laptop looks like. How large of screen and keyboard it has. What OS runs on the laptop. Now that OLPC has decided to super size […]
Ian Lamont writes “Comcast has filed a court appeal of an FCC ruling that says the company can’t delay peer-to-peer traffic on its network because it violates FCC net neutrality principles. A Comcast VP said the FCC ruling is ‘legally inappropriate,’ but said it will abide by the order during the appeal while moving forward […]
CHAMELEON_D_H writes “For some time, now I’ve been working on a short, geek/nerd oriented, animation. It’s nearing completion, and I’m starting to look for a method to share it with the anyone willing to spare a minute. There are dozens of video sharing and streaming sites out there, making my choice very difficult to make. […]
mocoloco writes “A week after the rumored date, Dell has begun selling their entry into the netbook/subnotebook/UMPC market, the Inspiron Mini 9. The base system for $349 includes Ubuntu 8.04 “with custom Dell interface”, 512MB RAM, and a 4GB SSD. There are options with XP, one that includes an 8GB drive and a $40 instant […]