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The printed version of Wikipedia to hit the markets soon 0000-00-00 00:00:00 There is no doubt that Wikipedia
has become one of the important web services of today. Currently, Wikipedia enables us to find all the information we need to know almost about anything, only on its online service. According to several reports(as mentiond by Softpedia), Wikipedia will be released in a ... Read more:printed
, version
The Iron Man Suit - For Real! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Iron Man," the upcoming movie from Marvel Studios, will be on screens around the world in a few weeks. In the movie, a genius businessman invents a suit of armor with extraordinary strength. People everywhere have been looking at the previews, asking "Who will be first with a real powered-armored ...
Can’t Get Enough Of Blue-Ray? Wait Till You Here This 0000-00-00 00:00:00 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 ... Read more:Enough
Demonoid Is Back Online! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Hurray! Demonoid is back online! I know it's a bit late and most of you guys are already aware that the most popular Bit Torrent website was back online few days ago. Demonoid had to go down because some copyright holders alleged it to be distributing illegal material. Recently, TorrentSpy ...
A New Theory On The Big Bang 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A new controversial analysis by an astronomer of Indian origin has suggested that the Big Bang might not have come at the beginning of the Universe, but after a long and slow period of shrinkage.
According to a report, the theory has been put forward by Amit Yadav, an astronomer at ... Read more:Theory
Making Sense Of Windows’ Irrational Pricing And Licensing 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Ed Bott, a blogger from Zdnet says:
A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced it was cutting the price of retail, shrink-wrapped copies of Windows
Vista. The new suggested price for an upgrade edition of Windows Vista Ultimate is $219, down from $299. The cost of an upgrade edition of Vista Home ... Read more:Sense
, Irrational
, Pricing
2009 BMW 7-Series To Use Eight Speed Transmission 0000-00-00 00:00:00 With automakers like Chevrolet and Pontiac offering six-speed automatic transmissions, it just doesn't seem right that the world's leading car makers would offer the same number of cogs on their flagship models. Mercedes -Benz has been offering a seven-speed transmission for some time now and Lexus has stepped up its ... Read more:Eight
, Speed
, Transmission
The ‘Black hole’ Scientist Dies At 96 0000-00-00 00:00:00 'John Wheeler, the US physicist who coined the term "black hole", has died at the age of 96'
He died at his New Jersey home on 13 April of pneumonia, his daughter said.
Involved in the Manhattan project that developed the world's first atomic bomb, Wheeler was one of Albert Einstein's last ... Read more:Black
Exploding Batteries In Notebooks Finally Have a Solution 0000-00-00 00:00:00 '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 ... Read more:Notebooks
, Finally
, Solution
IBM working on a revolutionary memory format 0000-00-00 00:00:00 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 ... Read more:IBM
15 Must Have Freewares 2008-04-24 12:53:52 You know that there are tons of Freewares available on the web and most of them are useless and infected with at least an adware. They suck bad. Many people fail to get the right freewares to cover up all the computer browsing needs (well…almost) and they are forced to purchase expensive softwares that possess [...]
The printed version of Wikipedia to hit the markets soon 2008-04-24 06:28:25 There is no doubt that Wikipedia
has become one of the important web services of today. Currently, Wikipedia enables us to find all the information we need to know almost about anything, only on its online service. According to several reports(as mentiond by Softpedia), Wikipedia will be released in a printedversion
in Germany as [...]
The Iron Man Suit - For Real! 2008-04-22 02:02:48 Iron Man,” the upcoming movie from Marvel Studios, will be on screens around the world in a few weeks. In the movie, a genius businessman invents a suit of armor with extraordinary strength. People everywhere have been looking at the previews, asking “Who will be first with a real powered-armored suit like Iron Man’s?”
Well, exoskeleton [...]
Can’t Get Enough Of Blue-Ray? Wait Till You Here This 2008-04-19 02:56:00 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 [...] Read more:Enough
Demonoid Is Back Online! 2008-04-18 09:07:00 Hurray! Demonoid is back online! I know it’s a bit late and most of you guys are already aware that the most popular Bit Torrent website was back online few days ago. Demonoid had to go down because some copyright holders alleged it to be distributing illegal material. Recently, TorrentSpy was shut bearing the same [...]
A New Theory On The Big Bang 2008-04-17 11:22:00 A new controversial analysis by an astronomer of Indian origin has suggested that the Big Bang might not have come at the beginning of the Universe, but after a long and slow period of shrinkage.
According to a report, the theory has been put forward by Amit Yadav, an astronomer at the University of Illinois at [...] Read more:Theory
Making Sense Of Windows’ Irrational Pricing And Licensing 2008-04-17 08:59:00 Ed Bott, a blogger from Zdnet says:
A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced it was cutting the price of retail, shrink-wrapped copies of Windows
Vista. The new suggested price for an upgrade edition of Windows Vista Ultimate is $219, down from $299. The cost of an upgrade edition of Vista Home Premium drops to $129 from [...] Read more:Sense
, Irrational
, Pricing
2009 BMW 7-Series To Use Eight Speed Transmission 2008-04-15 03:14:00 With automakers like Chevrolet and Pontiac offering six-speed automatic transmissions, it just doesn’t seem right that the world’s leading car makers would offer the same number of cogs on their flagship models. Mercedes -Benz has been offering a seven-speed transmission for some time now and Lexus has stepped up its game with an eight-speed box. [...] Read more:Eight
, Speed
, Transmission
The ‘Black hole’ Scientist Dies At 96 2008-04-15 02:53:00 ‘John Wheeler, the US physicist who coined the term “black hole”, has died at the age of 96′
He died at his New Jersey home on 13 April of pneumonia, his daughter said.
Involved in the Manhattan project that developed the world’s first atomic bomb, Wheeler was one of Albert Einstein’s last collaborators.
Wheeler, who was for many [...] Read more:Black
Exploding Batteries In Notebooks Finally Have a Solution 2008-04-13 06:44:00 ‘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 [...] Read more:Notebooks
, Finally
, Solution
Nokia soon to use Ubuntu in it’s Tablet series 2008-04-26 04:38:43 Nokia’s Internet Tablet
devices are set to get a port of the Linux operating system Ubuntu
, following the release of the latest ‘Hardy Heron’ v8.04 of Ubuntu this week.
The news also follows the announcement that Nokia is currently in the process of acquiring Qt developer, Trolltech.
Nokia informed Ars Technica that it is currently “exploring cross-platform [...] Read more:Nokia
, series
Microsoft servers hacked, this time it’s a massive, massive number 2008-04-28 10:46:00 Hundreds of thousands of websites, including ones owned by the UK Government and the United Nations have been hacked into and infected with malicious code that attempts to install malware on visitors’ computers.
The attackers are reported to be exploiting a security vulnerability in Microsoft
’s Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers
. Microsoft said last week that [...] Read more:massive
Trick to grab the online streaming media without any link grabber! 2008-04-28 04:45:48 The most common way to grab your favourite video from Youtube, Metacafe, and any video streaming network is to go to a link grabbing website or to use a link grabbing software. I agree with that, as it’s pretty easy and just a click away. But what can you do if you have already [...] Read more:Trick
, online
, media
Biometric access control, a new way of authenticating? 2008-04-29 05:09:57 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 [...] Read more:Biometric
Presenting the EyeOS 1.6.0.0 web operating system 2008-04-29 04:47:37 The eyeOS team and eyeOS Community are proud to present yet another great release of their popular eyeOS web operating system, version 1.6.0.0 (codename Gala Sync). This major release comes packed with
new applications, new tools and significant improvements on the overall usability. But the most important
feature of eyeOS 1.6 is the inclusion of eyeSync, [...]
Google spends a whopping $72 Million for employee’s food expenses! 2008-05-02 07:45:37 “According to Silicon Alley Insider“
Working for Google
is like a trip to paradise and most people who have been employed by the Mountain View-based company confirm it. Free food, swimming pools, restaurants, fast-foods, pool tables and gyms. They’re all free for the Google employees. But, have you ever asked yourself how much is Google spending [...]
‘Data Cable’ days will be gone, thanks to Sony’s TransferJet 2008-05-04 08:56:43 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 [...] Read more:Cable
Cubit: DIY Surface Computer for $500! 2008-05-06 08:08:45 “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 [...] Read more:Computer
Warning: This Math trick can actually improve your social image 2008-05-09 10:48:27 “Only if you can count are better than this”
I believe that Math is linked to everything we can see, feel and imagine. Math can help a human build something he has only dreamed of. It has the power to create, modify and destroy things. From the process involved in building computer applications to the preparation [...]
A Hint To The Future Of Playstation 2008-05-09 04:54:18 Sony Computer Entertainment head Kaz Hirai has confirmed that the company is looking into disc-free network gaming for future generations, but insisted that the global infrastructure is not yet in place.
With the PlayStation 3 finally beginning to look like the gaming powerhouse its legacy suggested it would be, Hirai is keen to promote the current [...]
Read more:Future