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MWC08: The XPERIA X1 is one slick Windows Mobile device!

MWC08: The XPERIA X1 is one slick Windows Mobile device!They saymimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but it would be nice if these phone makers could actually come up with something that isn't "look at me, I can be an iPhone, too."RE: MWC08: The XPERIA X1 is one slick...

Tags: Keyboards, Model Driven Architecture, Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, Handhelds, mimicry, mobile device, Microsoft Windows, High Tech Computer Corp., Apple iPhone, XPERIA X1, phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, start screen

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

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Flapping 'nano' aircraft takes flight

Engineers at Aeronvironment AV of Monrovia, California, have demonstrated the world's first successful flight of the smallest ever self-powered, rudderless, aircraft with flapping wings. The nano air vehicle NAV is modeled after a large insect or small bird, such as a hummingbird. It can hover indoors under...

Tags: Aircraft, DARPA, Nano Air Vehicle, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Birds can dance like humans, studies show

The basic human physical response to music grooving is shared with other species according to researchers. Two reports one and two published online today in Current Biology, reveal that birds â€" cockatoos and parrots in particular â€" can bob their heads, tap their feet, and sway their...

Tags: Beat, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Using Static Analysis for Ajax Intrusion Detection

This paper presents a static control-flow analysis for JavaScript programs running in a web browser. The analysis tackles numerous challenges posed by modern web applications including asynchronous communication, frameworks, and dynamic code generation. The paper uses the analysis to extract a model of expected client behavior as seen from the...

Tags: AJAX, Association For Computing Machinery, Analysis

White papers 2009-04-24

Lab Timer 0.0.1 (Windows)

All free desktop timers are just a mimicry of the real timer, though the computers are equipped with better keyboards than that of the handy gizmo. With this one, you can enter the numbers with hours (:), minutes ('), and seconds (") symbols and freely add comments to help you...

Tags: Personal, Microsoft Windows, Keyboards, Desktops, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-09-29

The most "dangerous" celebrities to search for in 2008

The most "dangerous" celebrities to search for in 2008obsessed with celebritiesWhy are people obsessed with celebrities? :)It's a good psych paper ...The most-often cited causes are:- Lack of family or community role models (father, local hero, etc.) to admire and emulate- False socialization (people feel more "connected" or socialized with...

Tags: TVs, celebrity

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

Envision a solar parking lot: cool, clean and green

Solar Trees. Solar Groves. The value of shade in the future economy. Bio-mimicry. My little brain was racing to absorb all the solar heat coming through the phone. I spent nearly an hour talking with Robert Noble. Trained as an architect, he's...

Tags: Acre, Kyocera Wireless Corp., Tree, Plug-in, Robert Noble, Envision, NREL, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-07

Oracle cozies up to Spring developers by making EJB runtime open source under Eclipse

Oracle has moved its TopLink Essentials Java persistence API set into the Eclipse Foundation community, the first time Oracle has overseen a runtime project with Eclipse -- and an indication that Oracles Java contribution days are numbered, if not over.Interestingly, TopLink, which was acquired by Oracle when WebGain disbanded several...

Tags: Apache, Oracle, Java, GPL, Intellectual Property, Web Services, Sun Microsystems, Developer Tools, Eclipse, IDEs, Software Development, SOA, Microsoft, Enterprise Java, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-03-06

A word of advice for robotic assistants: Mimic us

In what could be an evolutionary coup for a nation of androids, scientists have found that humans respond more favorably to sales pitches from someone who mimics their own body language, reports Wired News. In an experiment with 69 students at Stanford Universitys Virtual Human Interaction Lab, researchers conducted...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2006-11-30

Is Firefox 2.0 a dud?

Is Firefox 2.0 a dud?Glad it works for you!Do you have any extensions? Did you install it over the top of an oldewr version?Firefox 2You must live in a bubble then if you haven't had any problems.I think it's you who is uninformedProtected mode is a blanket term for...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Protected Mode, Mozilla Firefox 2.0

Discussion threads 2006-10-30

Are butterflies spying at each other?

An international team of researchers has decided to discover why some unrelated species of butterflies living in South America had similar wing patterns. And according to PLos Biology, they used genetics and genomics tools to find how butterflies got their spots. Their simple answer is that a 'supergene' controls wing...

Tags: species

Blog posts 2006-09-26

Birds can be grammatically correct

A few months ago, I told you about the gift of a parrot for mathematics. Now, American researchers have proven that humble starlings can learn grammar (read these two news releases -- here and there -- for lots of details). It took a month and some food as a reward...

Tags: starling

Blog posts 2006-04-28