http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Picking a Christmas gift for the nerd in your life is never easy. In the holiday stampede, it's all too easy to end up with an outdated gadget or obsolete program. And mistakes can be costly. http://www.physorg.com/news177788060.html Electronics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:40:01 EST news177788060 (AP) -- Palm Inc. is fighting harder than ever to snag a chunk of the smart phone market, and just six months after releasing the stylish Pre it's back with a lighter, more petite and affordable version called the Pixi. http://www.physorg.com/news177783898.html Electronics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:25:32 EST news177783898 IBM on Monday announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs. http://www.physorg.com/news177592959.html Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:23:31 EST news177592959 (AP) -- To give more room for game, movie and music downloads, Sony is launching a PlayStation 3 with a larger hard drive on Nov. 3. http://www.physorg.com/news174847564.html Electronics Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:30:02 EST news174847564 With Windows 7 scheduled for release Oct. 22, the question many readers will be asking is, "Should I upgrade?" The answer depends on your circumstances. http://www.physorg.com/news174207089.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:00:03 EST news174207089 Question: I'm in the market for a new laptop, and I want to be sure it has four gigabytes of RAM. My friends tell me to buy the cheapest configuration and upgrade the RAM myself. How hard is it to upgrade RAM in a computer? http://www.physorg.com/news171826229.html Technology Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:10:02 EST news171826229 Just the other day, my son was looking for his flash drive that is a requirement for all college freshmen. His mom was the one who found it due to the loud clanging noise coming from the automatic dryer. Yes, he had neglected to empty his pockets before washing his jeans. I had to say goodbye to a 1-gigabyte flash drive that cost me 50 bucks when I bought it for him when he started high school. Actually I was amazed it lasted that long. http://www.physorg.com/news171279201.html Electronics Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:10:04 EST news171279201 (AP) -- Interead, a British company that sells the COOL-ER e-book reader, is adding more than 1 million free public-domain books to its online bookstore. The texts are available from Google Inc. through its book-scanning project. http://www.physorg.com/news171101913.html Technology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:19:11 EST news171101913 Hitachi Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. and some other organizations plan to jointly develop a next-generation optical disc that can store 25 times more data than a Blu-ray Disc, with the aim of putting the technology into practical use in 2012, industry sources said this week. http://www.physorg.com/news168803868.html Electronics Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:00:01 EST news168803868 (AP) -- Thirty years after revolutionizing portable music with the Walkman for playing cassette tapes, Sony is trying to master the digital media player with the X Series Walkman. http://www.physorg.com/news168714063.html Electronics Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:30:02 EST news168714063 Video-sharing site YouTube announced on Wednesday that it was doubling the size limit for uploads to its website to allow users to post more high-definition (HD) video. http://www.physorg.com/news165694671.html Technology Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:18:08 EST news165694671 (PhysOrg.com) -- The world`s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world`s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The successful dress rehearsal proves that the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) is ready to analyze and manage real data from the massive machine. The United States is a vital partner in the development and operation of the WLCG, with 15 universities and three U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories from 11 states contributing to the project. http://www.physorg.com/news165680293.html Physics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:50:01 EST news165680293 SanDisk today announced the SanDisk Netbook SDHC removable flash memory card, offering consumers an easy way to significantly increase their netbooks' storage capacity. Consumers simply insert the SanDisk Netbook SDHC card into a netbook`s card slot to add capacity instantly. This news expands upon the previously announced next-generation SanDisk pSSD product family, which serve as drop-in replacements for hard disk drives (HDDs) in netbooks. http://www.physorg.com/news163181759.html Electronics Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:16:59 EST news163181759 Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today that it is ready to launch 16-gigabyte Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM), the world's largest capacity FB-DIMM. Based on its own unique integrated packaging technology (stacked FBGA or sFBGA) with 2-gigabit DDR2 SDRAM Elpida has achieved development of FB-DIMM products that feature an ultra thin thickness of 7.7mm along with the world's largest capacity of 16 gigabytes. http://www.physorg.com/news137253827.html Technology Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:03:47 EST news137253827