Posted on 31 July 2008
Lately, there were some rumors that pointed to a change that Apple could make and this is that Apple might replace Intel chipsets with AMD or VIA chipsets for their products. Some consider this very unlikely, but so far nobody explained why. Also, nobody said to us why this change would be good and why [...]
Tags: AMD, AMD Chipsets, Apple, Chipsets, Intel, Intel Chipsets, Intel Larrabee, Intel Nehalem, Larrabee, Nehalem, nvidia, NVIDIA SLI, Snow Leopard, VIA, VIA Chipsets
Posted on 31 July 2008
Well, as you know, a while ago the Pheonix Lander took some photos of an ice sample from Mars and this thing send everybody into raptures. Today, NASA revealed that the Mars probe discovered water in a soil sample that was scientifically analyzed.
“We have water. We’ve seen evidence for this water ice before in observations [...]
Tags: Ice On Mars, MARS, Mars Ice, Mars Lander, Mars Pheonix Lander, Mars Probe, Mars Water, NASA, Pheonix Lander, Space Probe, Water On Mars
Posted on 31 July 2008
Last night Apple has released the iTunes 7.7.1 which can be downloaded via Apple’s Software Update utility. The update is supposed to fix the problems regarding performance and stability, but it doesn’t bring another features. The size of the update is 48MB and for the moment we don’t know how if it works good. Try [...]
Tags: Apple, iTunes, iTunes 7.7.1, iTunes 7.7.1 Update, iTunes Update, Software, Software Update, Update iTunes, Update iTunes 7.7.1
Posted on 30 July 2008
XM Satellite Radio And Sirius Satellite Radio have completed merger and they have plans to change its name to Sirius XM Radio. After the merger, they now have over 18.5 million subscribers and expect to earn over $400 million in 2009, due to this deal.
The existing radios will continue to work and the subscribers will [...]
Tags: Mel, Mel Karmazin, Sirius, Sirius XM, XM
Posted on 30 July 2008
Sony has just announced on their blog that they released a new firmware update for PS3, the 2.42. The new update improves playback quality of software.
It is recommended to update your older firmware, because it does seem to work better and it doesn’t crash, at least it didn’t until now.
Tags: 2.42, Firmware 2.42, Firmware Update, Firmware Update 2.42, Gaming, Playstation, Playstation 3, PS3, PS3 2.42, PS3 Firmware, PS3 Firmware 2.42, PS3 Firmware Update, PS3 Firmware Update 2.42, Sony
Posted on 29 July 2008
Two reputable technology-focused universities from India, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science decided to work together in creating a 10$ laptop, one that anyone would afford to use for educational purposes. The government is also involved, trying to at least come up with a cheap low-powered Internet device that would [...]
Tags: 10 dollar laptop, 100 dollar laptop, cheap laptop, education, gartner, india, jointech, laptop
Posted on 28 July 2008
Sir Richard Branson has just unveiled its new space rocket and is very close to accomplish his dream of operating a commercial spaceline, world’s first. He presented White Knight Two in the Mojave Desert and its first flight is expected to be in 2009.
White Knight Two is a mothership of a much smaller ship, that [...]
Tags: Galactic, Mojave, Ship, space, Spaceship, Virgin, White Knight, White Knight Two
Posted on 28 July 2008
Even though there are bigger problems with this world than the cars or the transportation means of the future, it doesn’t stop designers to create and show their own ideas to the people. Maybe the cars of the future will have a good impact on the environment as the will not pollute the air so [...]
Tags: Car Design, Design, Future Design, Future Transportation, Magic Tricycle, Motorcycle, Motorcycle Design, Transportation, Transportation Of The Future, Tricycle
Posted on 28 July 2008
Google’s ex employees have just released a new search engine, called Cuil. Until now the Menlo Park search engine indexed more than 121 billion pages and it continues growing. The founders stated it has the biggest index amogn all search engines, but I will have to disagree, considering Google announced it has an index of [...]
Tags: Cuil, Google, SE, Search, Search Engine
Posted on 26 July 2008
For those who use the computer for a long time, mouse ergonomics is very important and Mizanur Rehman has tried to design the perfect mouse. Called the Alien Mouse, it offers comfort and a futuristic design, being build of soft gel and cellulose.
It doesn’t work just like any regular mouse, having a sphere-shaped section at [...]
Tags: Alien, Alien Mouse, mouse