"Google has dipped its toe in the virtual world launching an alternative reality website similar to Second Life. The plug-in service, called 'Lively', allows users to assume online characters known as avatars and...
"Google's first developer conference, I/O, was definitely a huge success for the company. Hosted at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, it attracted more than 2,900 developers despite the $400 they had to pay to get in. However, Google made sure everybody got their money's...
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The Trials Of The Indy T-Team Ten
To say the least, watching the developments of the drivers and teams that were able to transition (T-Team) to the Indy Racing...
The computer does not even need to be shut down to extract evidence."Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online...
If heavy breathing and missed notes are to music what red-eye is to photography, we may soon be hearing cleaned up tunes without all the devil eyes.New software called Direct Note Access--the "Photoshop of music"...
A Japanese telecommunications company is testing a cell phone that can download and emit various scents by mixing "base smells" into a desired fragrance. Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer fresh flowers to Glade...
Hybrids, hybrids everywhere and now you can plug them in. "Toyota and Ford unveiled plug-in hybrid-electric versions of their vehicles at this week's Detroit Auto Show. This decision to give in and plug in is...
"Congress and the president have spoken: ethanol is America’s new renewable fuel.
Yesterday, President Bush signed into law energy bill H.R.6, which establishes a new renewable fuel standard in the United States...
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"Microsoft Corp.'s CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public beta availability of Popfly, the company's mashup creation tool for non-technical users introduced in alpha form in May.
During Ballmer's appearance on...
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"Purported Flash-killer supports audio and video streaming and playback, and will be ported to Linux.Microsoft is releasing its Silverlight 1.0 plug-in for video on the Web Wednesday and also will participate in Novell's porting of Silverlight to Linux via the Moonlight...
"Google has launched a tool designed to make it easier for computer users to use online applications offline.
One of the key limitations of web services such as e-mail, word processing and calendars, is that they require a net connection to function.
Gears allows access to...
A phone that releases a scent when it heats up? Interesting, if one has pockets that stink. The real coup would be a phone that could assign a scent to a particular caller! The people you like could have a chocolate...
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"In a “complex technology made simple” scenario, one does not need specialized GPS Satellites and the systems that pick up their signals in order to determine a specific location in most cities in the United...