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Dell Releases Adamo XPS: World’s Thinnest Laptop

Anil — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:50:34 +0000

Dell officially launched the Adamo XPS, the highest-end version of its designer ultra portable. Dell says it expects to “begin taking orders and shipping the Adamo XPS in time for the holidays.” The ultra thin luxury laptop starts at $1,799. The system is championed as the thinnest notebook ever and measures just 0.39 inches at its [...]

Is Charging Your Gadget Overnight Waste Of Energy?

Anil — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:13:59 +0000

Many times we leave our gadgets Mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players, Cameras, Laptops etc with charger plugged in overnight. Lets check if this is a major waste of energy.. What happens if you leave the mobile phone plugged in all night? According to measurements from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the average cell phone draws 3.68 watts of [...]

Nokia Unveils Its First Linux Phone N900

Anil — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:45:41 +0000

Nokia unveiled N900, its first smart phone running on Linux software, aiming at improving its offering at the top end of the market. The Nokia N900 runs on the Linux-based Maeme 5 software, featuring true multitasking with applications as well as Web browsing with Adobe Flash support. Nokia’s workhorse Symbian operating system controls half of the [...]

Galileo Telescope Reaches 400th Anniversary

Anil — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:06:02 +0000

The telescope was the first instrument to extend human senses, revolutionising our view of the heavens and our place in the world. Exactly 400 years ago on 25 August 1609, the Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants a new creation, a telescope, the instrument that was to bring him both scientific [...]

IBM To Build Next Generation Chips Using DNA

Anil — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:21:29 +0000

In future DNA wouldn’t just control human evolution but also computing evolution, if IBM succeeds to use DNA in development of next-generation microchips. Scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to pack more power and speed into tiny [...]

Verizon Wireless Set To Rollout 4G In 2010

Anil — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:55:16 +0000

Verizon Wireless completed its first successful Long Term Evolution (LTE) Fourth Generation (4G) data call in Boston based on the 3GPP Release 8 standard; the company also announced that it had earlier completed the first LTE 4G data call based on the 3GPP Release 8 standard in Seattle. While Verizon previously disclosed its intentions to [...]

Internet Connection Speed: The Top 10 Countries

Anil — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:01:06 +0000

At the end of 2008, approximately 19 per cent Internet connections around the world were at speeds greater than 5 Mbps — a 21 per cent increase over the average global connection speed at the end of 2007. This is according to the State of the Internet report, a quarterly study by Akamai Technologies, the US-based [...]

Dive Into The Ocean With New Google Earth 5.0

Anil — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:13:38 +0000

Continuing the trend of online search, Google launched a new service that allows Internet users to explore the depths of the oceans from the comfort of their homes. Google Ocean expands this map to include large swathes of the ocean floor and abyssal plain. Users can dive beneath a dynamic water surface to explore the 3D sea [...]

India Unveils World’s Cheapest $10 Laptop

Anil — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:21:05 +0000

The ‘world’s cheapest laptop’, developed in India, was unveiled by Union Minister for Human Resources Development Arjun Singh at the Tirupati temple on Tuesday evening. The laptop, jointly developed by several organisations, such as the University Grants Commission, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will be priced at around $10 [...]

Technology In 2008, Some Important Trends And Events

Anil — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:22:29 +0000

A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2008, improving and influencing our daily life. Here is a quick look at some of the technology events that happened during 2008. Big Bang Experiment: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of protons or lead ions, each [...]