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Silent Sound Technology: An End To Noisy Communications

Anil — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:02:13 +0000

You are in a movie theater or noicy restaurent or a bus etc where there is lot of noice around is big issue while talking on a mobile phone. But in the future this problem is eliminated with ”silent sounds”, a new technology unveiled at the CeBIT fair on Tuesday that transforms lip movements into a computer-generated [...]

Chile Earthquake Shock Effect On Earth’s Axis May Have Created Shorter Days

Anil — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:31:44 +0000

The earthquake that took more than 700 lives in Chile on 27th Feb 2010 probably have changed the entire Earth’s rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said. The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length [...]

Nokia Offers Free Ovi Maps Navigation

Anil — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:20:46 +0000

Nokia announced it will introduce a new version of Ovi Maps including free walk and drive navigation tools, a move the handset giant claims could nearly double the size of the current mobile navigation market. According to Nokia, the revamped Ovi Maps will include both vehicular and pedestrian navigation features including turn-by-turn voice guidance spanning 74 [...]

Nexus One, the Google Phone

Anil — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:56:39 +0000

Two years after announcing Android, Google answers the question “where’s my GPhone?” by launching Nexus One. It’s not the first Google-branded phone manufactured by HTC, but it’s the first Android phone sold by Google. Google set up an online store for Android phones and Nexus One is the first phone that’s available for sale. Andy Rubin [...]

Quantum Computing Closer To Reality

Anil — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:36:29 +0000

The ability to exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in novel applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, seems to come closer following with recent breakthroughs by an international team led by researchers from the University of New South Wales. In the two breakthroughs, written up in the international journals Nano Letters and [...]

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 [...]