News tagged with downloadable applications


Let's see more of these technological innovations in '09

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As we begin 2009, let's take a look back at what 2008 brought us in technology. Here are four positive trends that I hope will continue.





Search results for downloadable applications


STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission

STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 5 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The STPSat-1, built for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program (STP) and operated by the DoD STP for the first year then transitioned to NRL for the last 16 months, was decommissioned on October ...


Gift Guide: Tech books that enlighten, entertain

Technology / Other

created 6 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Your holiday shopping list probably includes gadgets, games and gizmos that illustrate how technology is changing the way we work, play and communicate. So why not throw in a few books about the people and services ...


Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn

Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created 6 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have used lasers to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to ...


AT&T, Verizon end lawsuits over cell ads

Technology / Business

created 6 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless agreed Wednesday to end lawsuits accusing each other of lying in TV ads, taking their rivalry out of the court system for now.


Researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to 'see' (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 7 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.


LST builds first global nanotech regulation database

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created 7 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A global database of government documents on nanotechnology is being launched by three law professors at Arizona State University who, with their colleagues in Australia and Belgium, have corralled and organized ...


Dating the Bronze Age

Dating the Bronze Age

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) research has shown that an area of desert in north-western China was once a thriving Bronze Age manufacturing and agricultural site. The new findings ...


Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions

Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 10 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

cylinders of carbon about a nanometer in diameter -- have been highly touted for potential applications such as ultrastrong fibers, electrical wires in molecular devices, or hydrogen storage components for ...


NIST develops experimental validation tool for cell phone forensics

Technology / Software

created 10 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Viewers of TV dramas don't focus on the technology behind how a forensics crime team tracks a terrorist or drug ring using cell phone data, but scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology do. NIST researchers ...


Yahoo plugs into Facebook to become more popular

Technology / Internet

created 14 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. will lean more heavily on Facebook's popularity as it tries to give people more reasons to stay on its Web site.



List of search results for downloadable applications