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Solar power coming to a store near you (AP)

Solar power coming to a store near you

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (31) | comments 28

(AP) -- Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install.


GSM

GSM system about to be compromised

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in California and elsewhere are deliberately setting out to compromise the mobile phone system used by around three billion people. The system uses Global System for Mobile ...


Google Chrome

Google Chrome extensions to be officially released

Technology / Internet

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google is expected to release its Extensions Gallery for general users of the new Chrome browser this week, possibly at the Add-On Conference on browser extensions to be held on December 11, ...


Futuristic Intel Chip

Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (31) | comments 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...


Wikipedia

Report claims Wikipedia losing editors in droves

Technology / Internet

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The findings of a Spanish study claiming that Wikipedia's editors are leaving at an alarming rate have been refuted by the Wikimedia Foundation and by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.


IBM Researchers Lower Language Barrier With Text Translator

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

IBM Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously ...


Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

Technology / Internet

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (74) | comments 45

(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...


Apple iPhones dominate the smartphone market

Google phone revolution or misdirection?

Technology / Business

created Dec 19, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Google smartphones are either a daring foray into the telecom world or a misunderstood test of the next-generation of the Internet giant's Android mobile operating system.


Google-Fujitsu join 'smart objects' alliance

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Internet powerhouse Google and Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu have joined an alliance to promote the ability of objects from appliances to cars to communicate with one another online.


French publishing house Le Seuil claimed that up to 4,000 of its works have been digitised by Google without consent

French court orders Google to stop scanning French books

Technology / Internet

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A French court on Friday told Google that it cannot digitise French books without publishers' approval and ordered the online giant to pay 300,000 euros (430,000 dollars) in damages.


JooJoo

A new generation of computer tablets is on its way

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

I may have caught a glimpse of the future last week. In San Francisco, a startup company called Fusion Garage showed off the JooJoo, a touch-screen device that looks like the iPhone's big brother. The JooJoo ...


French technology upstart challenges Google

Technology / Internet

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to rely on help from American ...


IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years.


The Wall Street Journal reported that Iraqis had used software programs to capture live video footage from US drones

US fixed drones hacked by Iraqi insurgents: Pentagon

Technology / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The US military has fixed a problem that allowed Iraqi militants to use cheap software to intercept the video feeds of US-operated drones, a defense official said on Thursday.


Biden unveils federal broadband stimulus projects

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the first $182 million in federal stimulus money for 18 projects to expand high-speed Internet networks in rural areas and other underserved communities.