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(Photos: Flying car readies for takeoff in New York)

(Photos: Flying car readies for takeoff in New York)it looks more like a plain to meI don't know why they call it a car.Do the wings fold, or the is the traction on wheels?Yeah... great idea..... NOT!Our roadways are already crawling with morons who act like they are at their...

Tags: Flying Car, takeoff, wing, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

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Photos: Software clears flights for takeoff

A visit to Adacel, which develops software primarily aimed at the air traffic control industry. by CNET News.com

Tags: Software, Photograph, Aerospace & Defense, Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Management, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-06-13

(Photos: Phoenix armed for testing; more landing images)

(Photos: Phoenix armed for testing; more landing images)AMAZINGJust simply amazingRE: (Photos: Phoenix armed for testing; more landing images). . . The picture of the descending lander in the few moments it was parachuting, against a telephoto-distant crater background, is indeed remarkable and fortunate! . . . The eighth image on...

Tags: image, Phoenix Technologies, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

News to know: Microhoo redux; Mobile Linux; Jive; Google; Let XP die

Notable headlines: Yahoo launches 'stock market for ads' Larry Dignan: The three week Microhoo countdown begins... Mary Jo Foley: Ballmer tells Yahoo board: Get off the pot Microsoft's letter to Yahoo Paula Rooney: Backed by Intel, Ubuntu, Google, mobile Linux is poised for commercial takeoff in...

Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Mobile Linux, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Backed by Intel, Ubuntu, Google, mobile linux is poised for commercial takeoff in 2008

Backed by Intel, Ubuntu, Google, mobile linux is poised for commercial takeoff in 2008Yup, iiiitttttt'sssss showtime !!!!Even Labour and the Conservatives in the UK are fighting for the moral high ground on who "gets" FOSS the most !!!!!Could it be the end of multi-billion failed backhander driven American Corp based...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Advertising & Promotion, Google Mobile, Ubuntu, Intel Corp., Linux, Google Inc., mobile

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

Backed by Intel, Ubuntu, Google, mobile linux is poised for commercial takeoff in 2008

The momentum behind mobile Linux is accelerating because several communities -- and commercial giants -- are finally backing it. Despite earlier efforts from pioneering companies like MontaVista, Lineo and Access, the open source operating system has always taken a back seat to proprietary mobile operating systems such as Nokia-backed...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Mobile, Intel Corp., Mobile Linux, LIPS Specification, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-04

FSFlyingSchool (exe)

Add-on for MS Flight Simulator 2004 and FSX that provides an onboard flight instructor, who gives realtime voice feedback of your takeoff, flight and landing. FSFlyingSchool also creates detailed log books for each of your flights, which include a score that can be submitted to an online high score table....

Tags: Flight, FSInventions

Software downloads 2008-03-25

News to know: Windows 7; FCC; Census IT; HDMI; MacBook mystery; Fave Windows programs

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Your turn: Readers choose their 10 favorite Windows programs Gallery right Mary Jo Foley: Why Windows 7 might go to pieces Michael Krigsman: Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau George Ou: HDMI survival guide...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., HDMI, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Rootkits, Federal Government, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Photos: Flying car readies for takeoff in New York

Milner Motors has taken the wraps off its flying car at the 2008 New York auto show. If you don't want wings, Milner also is unveiling its electric car. by CNET News.com

Tags: Car, New York, Photograph, Milner Motors, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-03-20

Fly the green skies at Mach 5

The European Union has launched in 2005 its Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project LAPCAT. Several companies worked on this €7 million EU-funded project. For example, Popular Science reports that Reaction Engines Limited has designed an hydrogen-powered hypersonic airliner simply dubbed A2. This plane would fly at Mach 5...

Tags: Hydrogen, Plane, Concorde, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-31

More on the MacBook Air battery

More on the MacBook Air batteryRE: More on the MacBook Air batteryIn all the notebooks that I have owned over the past 15 years, I have never ever physically removed a battery from any one of them. I simply limited myself to the available battery time or made sure I...

Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, Apple Inc., battery, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

Cellphones an in-flight hazard? "Probably not," says pilot, but...

For that less-than-conclusive conclusion, we should credit Patrick Smith. A technology enthusiast as well as a working airline pilot, Patrick writes the weekly Ask The Pilot column on Salon.com. "The answer is potentially yes, but probably not," Patrick writes in his most recent column,...

Tags: Phone, Policy, Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-04

Life-saving program BANNED by the Feds!

Life-saving program BANNED by the Feds!ntThanks for helping to bring this to everyone's attention:)RE: Life-saving program BANNED by the Feds!Your tax dollars at work! I would not have expected anything less from the clueless, inept, brain-dead bozos in the Federal Government. I'm sure she paid her political dues to get...

Tags: IRB, Banned

Discussion threads 2007-12-30

A flying fish or a seaplane?

University of Michigan engineers have developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle UAV after looking at real flying fish. Like the fish, this seaplane takes off and lands on water. The 7-foot wingspan electric UAV has been funded by the DOD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA and designed as 'an...

Tags: University Of Michigan, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Aerospace & Defense, GPS, Manufacturing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-06

The Amazon Kindle: One week and 3,500 miles later

Guest post: Josh Taylor is the director of ZDNet and its sister site TechRepublic. Keep an eye out for Josh's product review blog later this year. In the meantime, here's his first impressions of the Kindle. While my initial reactions to the Amazon Kindle were generally favorable, a five-day...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Engineering, Sales Channel, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Clueless flight attendant to passenger: Turn off that iPhone movie NOW!

My colleague Tom Krazit notes a Consumerist report that an ATA Airlines flight attendant tried to get a passengerto turn off his iPhone because, well, cell phones are not allowed to be used in flight and he was watching a movie on his iPhone. The passenger, who...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Movie, Apple Inc., Airplane Mode, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-13

A robotic Meridian to fly over the poles

The Meridian unmanned aerial vehicle UAV is a single-engine research aircraft with fixed landing gear designed by engineers at the University of Kansas. According to Technology Review, it will be used to see what happens beneath the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Two units are currently built for a cost...

Tags: Technology Review, Mean, Adobe PDF, Kilogram, Aircraft, Radar, Meridian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-16

Photos: Voyagers--strange visitors to other planets

It was thirty years ago when the first Voyager spacecraft left Earth. The ships have returned closeup views of four planets--and aren't finished yet.Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 followed on Sept. 5, 1977, for what was originally a five-year mission to study Jupiter...

Tags: Earth, Moon, Data, Photograph, Voyager 1, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter', Io, Great Red Spot, It', nnTriton, Here', Cassini, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-08-28

Photos: Commuter challenge in the skies

This weekend, NASA held its first Personal Aircraft Vehicle PAV Challenge, a test of experimental small-seat airplanes with a prize purse of $250,000.This weekend, NASA held its first Personal Aircraft Vehicle PAV Challenge, a test of experimental small-seat airplanes with a prize purse of $250,000. The contestants were all flying...

Tags: Monitors & displays, photograph, Cafe Foundation, Personal Aircraft Vehicle, Personal Aircraft Vehicle Challenge, flight simulation, purse, daylight, terrain, assortment, lamp, biodiesel, cabin, pass, aircraft, team, touch screen, USB, banking, Amazon.com Inc., mo

Image galleries 2007-08-14

Microsoft closes $6 billion Aquantive buy

Microsoft closes $6 billion Aquantive buyOn Motly Fools and Virtical IntigrationAny university level course on math of finance or stock investing will lead the student to question Virtical Integration, which is what the Aquantive buy is all about. If memory serves me right Aquantive use to count Microsoft as one...

Tags: Financial accounting, theory, American Programmer, aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2007-08-13