Mary Jo Foley says,
I’ve been puzzling over transcripts of a couple of recent speeches by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates where he discussed his vision for the end of phone numbers. But it wasn’t until today, when I learned more about Microsoft’s “Echoes” services platform for telcos that I began piecing together how Gates & Co. thinks Microsoft can do this.
This is from one transcript of an early
It’s take 2 for the One Laptop Per Child project–version XO-2 of its laptop geared for children in developing countries features two side by side screens. The XO-2 is expected to arrive in 2010.
Some highlights of the new laptop, according to a blogger at Zdnet, Larry Dignan:
“The day may be getting a little closer when robots will perform surgery on patients in dangerous situations or in remote locations, such as on the battlefield or in space, with minimal human guidance.”
Engineers at Duke University believe that the results of feasibility studies conducted in their laboratory represent the first concrete steps toward achieving this space
“Windows, Linux and OS X supported”
Microsoft’s revolutionary Surface computers have already hit the shelves of a few selected companies such as AT&T and it seems that this kind of approach will revolutionize the way we interact with our computers. The extremely intuitive software teams up with a natural user interface (the hand) to put all the necessary data at your fingertips.
Following Microsoft’s
With Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and soon Ultra WideBand and Wireless USB polluting our airwaves, why does Sony think another wireless technology will prove a success?
Unlike the four mentioned above, Sony’s TransferJet technology isn’t proposed as a disruptive transmission force: it uses electric induction to transmit data rather than the radiation field antennas used by 802.11 Wi-Fi kit.
This means that TransferJet won’t interfere with or
Biometric access control was one of the hot themes among exhibitors at the recent RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. Several companies showed off their wares, which include a back-end system for integrating biometric authentication into existing systems as well as readers for fingerprints and palms.
Passwords are not the best of security solutions, as enterprises and individual users have
The format war might be over for Toshiba’s HD-DVD, but it seems that the next target on the list of casualties will be the victorious Blu-Ray. Those of you who are already prepared to toss the Blu-Ray movie titles and jump in the new format’s bandwagon, are advised to wait a little more, as the new format is still in diapers
‘The new technology uses solid compounds instead of the traditional Li-Ion electrolytes’
A group of German researchers have just announced a new type of lithium-ion battery that promises to be safer and more reliable, even when used
in extreme conditions.
Recent incidents involving exploding batteries have put their reliability under question. You might remember the massive Sony battery recall in 2007 or the extended investigations conducted by LG
IBM researchers are working on a new hi-tech form of memory they believe could eventually replace hard drives and flash-based memory altogether.
Based on the recently discovered spintronic phenomena, the new memory format has been dubbed racetrack memory by the IBM researchers working on it and uses tiny magnetic boundaries, known as domain walls, to store data.
The domain walls are read by exploiting the weak magnetic
‘The technology will be perfected during the next years’
Supercomputers could be able to create extremely detail-rich virtual realities, that are strikingly similar to the ones presented in The Matrix. Researcher Michael McGuigan claims that extremely powerful supercomputers could be able to render virtual worlds that are so accurate that they can be mistaken for the real environment.
The new worlds would allow the subjects to interact
