News tagged with mobile computer


Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) Aims To Change The Way We Interact With Our Car

AIDA Robot Aims To Change The Way We Interact With Our Car (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (17) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project ...


Acer to offer Google's Android in netbook PCs (AP)

Acer to offer Google's Android in netbook PCs

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Small new "netbook" computers from Acer Inc. will come with Google Inc.'s Android operating system if buyers desire, instead of Windows from Microsoft Corp.





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Glasgow scientists predict the unpredictable to guide future nano-chip design

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and York universities, have developed technology which will help microchip designers create future integrated ...


Teachers begin using cell phones for class lessons

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Ariana Leonard's high school students shuffled in their seats, eagerly awaiting a cue from their Spanish teacher that the assignment would begin. "Take out your cell phones," she said in Spanish.


Lenovo buying back mobile phone business

Technology / Business

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Personal computer maker Lenovo Group said Friday it is joining the race to develop products that link phones and PCs by buying back a mobile phone business that it sold last year.


Apple's iPhone set to make splash in South Korea (AP)

Apple's iPhone set to make splash in South Korea

Technology / Business

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The iPhone's arrival in South Korea is generating considerable buzz among consumers and industry watchers amid expectations it will shake up a market dominated by world-beating domestic manufacturers.


Suggestions for tech-happy holidays

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The holiday season is as much a time for tech as for toys. Electronic gadgets are at the top of many wish lists and account for an ever-growing share of holiday shopping budgets. Fortunately for shoppers, tech gifts don't ...


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Gartner forecasts 2.8 percent growth in PC sales in 2009

Technology / Business

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Worldwide sales of personal computers, which had been forecast to decline this year, will instead post modest gains, Gartner research group said Monday.


Trust Linux!

Trust Linux!

Technology / Software

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive ...


Building the smart home wirelessly

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Like the paperless office, the smart home has been a long time coming, but a report published in the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, suggests that radio tags coupled with mobile communications device ...


P2P comes to the aid of audiovisual search (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer ...


Nokia N900

Nokia N900 now available in US

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Nokia today announced that the highly anticipated Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers who jumped on the opportunity to be among the first to pre-order the Maemo-powered ...



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