Coming soon: 'wallet phones' from Japan

"TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation's popular "wallet phone," a government official said Tuesday. ...

Self-assembling polymer arrays improve data storage potential

""In the past 20 to 30 years, researchers have been able to shrink the size of devices and the size of the patterns that you need to make those devices, following the use of the same types of lithographic...

LINUX CAMP batteling M$ for a while now...

now, i have at home three LINUX distro's sneaked in via PC magazines. however, i do not use them. here just what i found today (excerpt) "Apr. 19, 2007In Beijing, Bill Gates announced this week that Microsoft's "Unlimited Potential" initiative will now include offering a...

Amazon's E Book may fail to Kindle interest

Book buying as a measure of adult reading is down according to a new survey but in an electronic world, maybe the paper "codec" will be supplanted by an e-book. Amazon announces its "Kindle" today. Forbes notes that at $399, it might not catch on. Lots of folks are using...

Amazon's E Book may fail to Kindle interest

Book buying as a measure of adult reading is down according to a new survey but in an electronic world, maybe the paper "codec" will be supplanted by an e-book. Amazon announces its "Kindle" today. Forbes notes that at $399, it might not catch on. Lots of folks are using...

Drive advance fuels terabyte era

"A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage (4TB) could be a reality by 2011, thanks to a nanotechnology breakthrough by Japanese firm Hitachi. The company has successfully managed to shrink the read-write head of a hard drive to two thousands times smaller than the...

GemStone Systems Inc., opens operation in Japan

"According to Neil Katkov, group manager of Asia research at Celent, "Financial services institutions in Asia-Pacific are augmenting their investment in external software and external IT services far more than any other region." Celent estimates IT spending growth at...

Hitachi's Visual Search Finds Similar Images from Millions of Targets in 1 Se...

"Hitachi Ltd. has developed a search technology that can find images similar to a specified image from millions of images and video data in one second."

"Just Do It"

Opinion Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor The "Just Do It' attitude of the Land of the Rising Sun has done it again, a device in which your Brain can control everyday electronics with your thoughts. The...

Beyond Memory Spot & Memory Dust to Memory Powder :: Symblogogy

"Symblogogy visited the Popular Science Magazine's "Best Of What's New - 2006" breakthrough and application of Memory Spot manufactured by Hewlett-Packard thinking that this form factor was pretty much about as...

Hitachi becomes newest victim of Sony recall

"Not wanting to feel left out, Hitachi announced today that 16,000 of their notebook computers are affected by the worldwide recall of Sony laptop batteries. This adds to the massive recall from multiple PC manufacturers that have faulty batteries made by Sony. Hitachi...

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