![]() GoLive2 Introduces a Wiimote for PC GamesFor all Wii-lovers out there, GoLive2 has recently announced the Stix, a motion-sensing remote control that can be used to play PC games. |
![]() Calif's hands-free cell law for drivers in effect(AP) -- Millions of California motorists have had to put down their cell phones or risk a ticket as a new law takes effect requiring hands-free devices for those behind the wheel. |
Keeping a landline number on your cell phone(AP) -- Q: I want to get rid of my landline phone service and go all wireless, but I don't want to lose my home phone number. Can I transfer it to my cell phone? |
Tufts to develop morphing 'chemical robots'Tufts University has received federal funding to develop chemical robots that will be able to squeeze into spaces as tiny as 1 centimeter, then morph into something 10 times larger, and ultimately biodegrade. The "chembots" ... |
Verizon Wireless gets Rhapsody music subscriptionsJun 30, 2008 | pda version
(AP) -- Cell phones are becoming more useful devices for listening to music. Verizon Wireless is introducing Rhapsody's subscription music service Monday, allowing its customers to download as much music as they want to ... |
Wireless company to allow other carriers' devicesJun 28, 2008 | pda version
(AP) -- MetroPCS Communications Inc. has become the largest U.S. wireless carrier to say it will let customers bring cell phones from other carriers, which it will then reprogram for use on its own network. |
![]() Not a Quirk But a Quark ... a Quark Star!Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star. |
Oak Ridge pegged for national ecological network Dozens of instruments to be deployed on the Oak Ridge Reservation and other sites around the nation will provide valuable information related to climate change, biodiversity and invasive species, infectious diseases and ... |
![]() Wireless carrier tests eye controls for electronics(AP) -- Rolling your eyes to turn up the volume of a portable music player and tapping your fingers to turn on a DVD player are among technologies Japan's top mobile carrier is testing for "wearable" gadgets. |
Electromagnetic interference from some identification devices may pose hazards to medical equipmentThe use of radio frequency identification devices appears to have the potential to cause critical care medical equipment to malfunction, according to a study in the June 25 issue of JAMA. |
Microchip is helping restore vision to the blindLast year, Wentai Liu watched as surgeons implanted a microchip he had designed into the eye of a blind patient. For Liu, a professor of electrical engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, ... |
American Airlines set to test in-flight Web access(AP) -- American Airlines says customers will be able to test in-flight Internet access on two flights beginning Wednesday, with broader service expected to begin in the following couple weeks. |
Nokia to buy rest of Symbian, free its softwareJun 24, 2008 | pda version
(AP) -- Nokia Corp. is buying the consortium that makes the software for its phones and making it available for free to other manufacturers, in hopes of blunting the influence of competing software providers. |
Cooperative system could wipe out car alarm noiseThe persistent, annoying blare of an ignored car alarm may become a sound of the past if a cooperative, mutable and silent network of monitors proposed by Penn State researchers is deployed in automobiles and parking lots. |
Virgin Mobile introduces unlimited calling plan(AP) -- Virgin Mobile USA is introducing a plan with unlimited calling for $79.99 per month, helping feed the price-cutting frenzy that has washed over the cellular carriers this year. |