30 Jun 2010
The long-awaited software developer kit for the Surface tabletop computer will be made available to those attending Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference at the end of the month.
The company has also promised multitouch will be a part of the Windows 7 interface, but has yet to detail how that will work.
“Hear about the unique attributes [...]
28 Jun 2010
Meanwhile, Congress has given no indication it will approve any of the three trade deals in question.
Gornick’s business, which designs and builds high-performance loudspeakers, would benefit from lifted non-tariff trade barriers in countries with large middle-class populations like South Korea. She said the efficiencies created by free trade would, counter to common belief, create new [...]
23 Jun 2010
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Dreampact )
The I-Ball can be tossed into a room, fired from a grenade launcher or even a mortar, and its advanced image stabilization technology will still deliver a steady picture and easy to see “high-value” video, according to creator Edinburgh-based company Dreampact. The grenade-size, wireless camera will allow the redcoats to have [...]
22 Jun 2010
New features
Article updated at 8:05 p.m. PST.
This glowing orb is your home.
Where possible, images will be getting time stamps for easily seeing when they were created. Since so many photo sources populate Google Earth, not every image will bear a born-on date, but those that do will add another layer of information to this simulated [...]
18 Jun 2010
Skype
The revolutionary VoIP service was acquired by eBay, which someday may be seen as its downfall. A noncore service to the auction site, eBay may well want to spin off Skype to maintain focus. But who would buy it at the valuation that would make eBay stockholders comfortable?
The problem is that being [...]
16 Jun 2010
How the Large Hadron Collider works: Animation shows the scope of the facility and how the subatomic particles will zip along at the speed of light before colliding with each other.
Below are some clips from the 60 Minutes story:
The machine in question is the Large Hadron Collider, the goal of which is to reproduce the [...]
04 Jun 2010
A service launched on Tuesday lets cell phone users unmask the Caller ID on anonymous calls.
However, TelTech President Meir Cohen responded to those charges by defending the service as merely utilizing a process that has long been available to anyone with access to an 800-number.
TrapCall instructs new users to reprogram their cell phones to send [...]