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GoLive2 Introduces a Wiimote for PC Games

Jul 03, 2008 | User rating: 2.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | pda version

For 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

Jul 02, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

(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

Jul 01, 2008 | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

(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'

Jun 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | pda version

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 subscriptions

Jun 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' devices

Jun 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!

Jun 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 40 vote(s) | pda version

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

Jun 26, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

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

Jun 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

(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 equipment

Jun 25, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

The 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 blind

Jun 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 24 vote(s) | pda version

Last 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

Jun 24, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

(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 software

Jun 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 noise

Jun 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | pda version

The 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

Jun 24, 2008 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

(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.


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