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NASA's Mars life-detector

With the financial help of NASA, American and European researchers have developed a new sensor to check for life on Mars. It also should be able to determine if traces of lifes molecular building blocks have been produced by anything alive. The device has already been tested in the Atacama...

Tags: Harold Urey, life-detector, NASA

Blog posts 2007-03-11

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Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'

I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...

Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Will you forget about Android?

Chris O'Brien from the Silicon Valley Mercury News has an interesting article on why he thinks we will soon forget about Android. When you look at Android up against iPhone, you have to agree that it's going to be a an uphill battle. But if anyone can do...

Tags: Google Inc., Android, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-10-10

News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Stereoscope Theatre (exe)

Travel back in time with a look at life in Turn-of-the-20th-Century America with this fun, musical, 3-D slideshow ebook download for Windows. Features a background soundtrack of Scott Joplin ragtime classics. Big, beautiful vintage stereoview scenes come to life on your computer screen with the help of red-blue 3-D glasses....

Tags: 3D, Vintage Antique Classics, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator

We tend to say that information security is a small world. Conferences quickly become real-life demonstrations of the principle of six-degrees-of-separation. After a few years working in this industry, you either meet all or are within one hop of all the major players in the space; there just...

Tags: Information Security, Kevin Mitnick, Nobel Laureate, Osamu Shimomura, Productivity, Security, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Laptops with mobile WiMax now available

The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...

Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, 3G, Chipsets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Start-up looks to extend battery life

Intel-backed ZPower's silver-zinc battery is set to make its debut with a large laptop manufacturer next year, promising batteries that are 95 percent recyclable and 40 percent longer life. Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion laptop...

Tags: Battery, Intel-backed ZPower, Mercury, Battery Life, Engineering, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, batteries, laptops, ZPower, silver-zinc battery

News items 2008-10-09

Where are all the programmers?

Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software development

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Can the Motorola Q11 compete in today's market without a 3G radio?

The original Motorola Q was really the Windows Mobile device that started the trend of BlackBerry QWERTY competitors a couple of years ago, but had serious battery life issues. Since then Motorola has continued to improve the device so that today's Motorola Q9 devices are actually quite powerful, functional, and...

Tags: Radio, Motorola Inc., 3G, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-08

What happens when the "cloud" starts to precipitate? A hard rain's agonna fall . . .

i use a lot of online services and I try to push as many applications as I can into the cloud. This means that I can work from anywhere on virtually any computer device. I don't need a personal computer (but I do need a personal cellphone - the new...

Tags: Web, Web Service, Web Services Company, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.

More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Core i7 sensitive to RAM voltages over 1.65V

Core i7 sensitive to RAM voltages over 1.65VOf course people will!People will do it anyway thinking it won't happen to them...because we all know that these things happen only to others. And when the CPU makes a funny smell and suddenly the computer is like a big powerless door...

Tags: Memory, Manufacturing, TVs, TV & Home Theater, TripleII, RAM

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

$236m judgment against spammer couple

$236m judgment against spammer coupleSadly, it's pointlessSadly, in reality such a judgment is pointless.Let them pay it in jail time$236m is a fair bill to run up. I say let them paying it back in jail time.Let's even be generous and say 1 day in jail will reduce the bill...

Tags: Spam, Email Ads, e-mail, spammer, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo emailI bet he is praing for an Obama winin November, as that way he has a great change at receiving a pardon from him.If McCain wins, well five years in Guantanamo is not really [i]all[/i] that bad... ;)RE: Kernell indicted in break-in to...

Tags: Palin, Yahoo Email, Kernell, e-mail, break-in, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Teaching telecommuting

I had to commute this morning. I left the commuting behind about 5 years ago and dread the drive from middle-of-nowhere Massachusetts to Boston. We have a lot more horses than traffic jams out my way, so I've definitely lost my tolerance for traffic. The local troopers...

Tags: Boston, Tool, Telecommuting, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hackno luck for youseems your daddy wont be able bail you out of this one. Just remember to bring plenty of vaseline with you in prisonoh boy, is this kid in the crapperThis little jerky-boy is headed for a really miserable experience. Having a...

Tags: Palin, Palin e-mail, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad

Picture the scene. A small country pub in Canterbury, a warm, autumn evening, surrounded by friends drinking and smoking in the beer garden; relaxing after a difficult, hard day at work. The birds are singing, the breeze is light and feathering our very souls. This is heaven....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Meeting Space, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Koi Solitaire (exe)

Use your Solitaire skills to create gorgeous gardens in this relaxing and fun new card game. Grab cards from the conveyor and place them on the game board next to a card that ranks one higher or lower. Fill in the board and watch your peaceful garden bloom to life....

Tags: Card, Board, RealArcade, Corporate Governance, Games, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-08

Samsung Sway SCH-U650 (Verizon Wireless)

It's clear that Samsung loves two things: slim slider phones and midrange camera phones with a flip design. Indeed, we've seen a deluge of such models over the last few years, with the latest in the slider camp being the Samsung SCH-U650 for Verizon Wireless. Also called the Sway, (why,...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, keypad button, display, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Sway, phone

Product reviews 2008-10-07