WayFinder Gets Better At Finding Way 9. May 2008
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���Mobile GPS software overhauled and compatible with almost any handset.
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Yahoo Teams with McAfee for Safer, More Secure Searching (NewsFactor) 7. May 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : PREVIEW , add a commentNewsFactor - Web searching can expose users to a whole range of malicious sites, so Yahoo is now teaming up with security vendor McAfee to make its search experience more secure for users.
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Joint Sprint, Clearwire network could boost consumer power (AP)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : PREVIEW , add a commentAP - Sprint Nextel Corp. has finally rounded up the financial backing it needs to build a faster wireless network. But for consumers and the electronics industry, speed may be the least important thing about the new network.
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Indian electronics firm has Moto device biz in its sights 2. May 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : PREVIEW , add a commentVideocon fancies a bit
Indian consumer electronics supplier Videocon has been on the blower to Motorola with a view to taking control of the mobe co’s devices division for an undisclosed price.
LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Dies at 102 30. April 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : PREVIEW , add a commentThe Swiss scientist who synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide — and accidentally took the first LSD trip — departs for the great beyond.
Drum machine, unplugged 28. April 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : PREVIEW , add a commentSimply awesome. - The Hand Cranked Drum Machine [Thanks, Tercero!]
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Photoshop-guru g�r til Microsoft
Posted by Nerdmaster in : PREVIEW , add a commentPhotoshop-guru Mark Hamburg slutter i Adobe til fordel for Microsoft.
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Motorola loss widens on weak phone sales (Reuters) 24. April 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Hacks & Mods, PREVIEW , add a commentReuters - Motorola Inc said on Thursday
its quarterly loss widened on cell phone sales that were at the
low end of expectations, signaling further market share losses
to Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and other rivals.
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New Galaxy Images Released for Hubble’s 18th Birthday
Posted by Nerdmaster in : IT Avisen, PREVIEW , add a commentNASA releases 59 new Hubble Space Telescope images of galaxies colliding to mark the 18th anniversary of the telescope’s launch. We pick the 12 most beautiful images of some of the most dramatic events in space.
Qualcomm profit up, 2008 view disappoints some (Reuters) 23. April 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Cellphones, PREVIEW , add a commentReuters - Qualcomm Inc posted a higher
quarterly profit on Wednesday, boosted by demand for chips in
advanced cell phones, but its forecast for the rest of the year
fell short of Wall Street expectations.
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Google and Yahoo fling earns Justice Department’s evil eye
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Notebook and Laptops, PREVIEW , add a commentSchmidt’s life raft also probed
Yahoo’s recent dalliance with Google’s search advertising business may be getting a little adult supervision from US trust busters, who are concerned it could violate antitrust law.
Hack into Obama campaign site exploited a coding flaw (AP)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Crafts, PREVIEW , add a commentAP - A simple flaw in the coding of Sen. Barack Obama's Web site led to a hacking switcheroo of presidential proportions just days before the important Pennsylvania primary.
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Google introduces brand-image ads for phones (Reuters)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Crafts, PREVIEW , add a comment<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080423/wr_nm/google_advertising_dc”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080424/2008_04_23t184956_314×450_us_google_advertising.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=KyFiHiQxcQEVNpFm3bsZ.A–” align=”left” height=”130″ width=”90″ alt=”A hostess holds a prototype of the Google Android mobile by British chip designer ARM during the Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM World Congress) in Barcelona, February 11, 2008. (Albert Gea/Reuters)” border=”0″ /></a>Reuters - Google Inc said on Wednesday it
has introduced brand-image ads for mobile phones, in a bid to
extend beyond the computer-based Web market into the emerging
market for advertising on phones.</p><br clear=”all”/>
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Tim Hunkin's giant automaton clock for the London Zoo
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Mechanical artist and Renaissance Man, Tim Hunkin, has created a giant automaton clock for the London Zoo. This complex kinetic sculpture is base on the theme of Victorian Era attitudes towards the animal kingdom - london zoo clock & making of via The Automata.
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The Secret life of Machines - videos.
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All about Charlieplexing LEDs 21. April 2008
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Too few pins, too many LED’s? It’s a common problem when working with micro-controllers. You might want to try a technique called “Charlieplexing”. This is a great instructable that describes how to implement this technique on your next project.
Learn all about Charlieplexing
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Striden om ip-tv hårdnar 16. April 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Notebook and Laptops, PREVIEW , add a commentPost- och telestyrelsen kräver att Telia ska öppna hela kopparnätet så att även konkurrenterna kan erbjuda ip-tv. Telia går nu till domstol för att slippa.
Body Technology Interfaces
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I’ve been working on a project where I knit sweaters to go from gadgets to your body. They’re supposed to be a fun commentary on how attached and concentrated on technology we are, and to highlight the lack of movement that happens when we’re engrossed in our laptops, keyboards, PDAs, etc. I plan on making many more, and would be curious what ideas fellow technologists might have for different iterations. the one pictured above is for privacy, warmth, and concentration in public spaces while using a laptop.
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Nedåt för Intel under första kvartalet
Posted by Nerdmaster in : PREVIEW, Review , add a commentIntel tappar 12 procent av sin vinst under första kvartalet 2008. Det är en rejäl nedgång jämfört med föregående år, men ändå i linje med vad marknaden förväntat sig. Företagets långa period av rekordartade resultat är därmed över.
DNS lords expose netizens to ‘poisoning’ 15. April 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Cellphones, PREVIEW , add a comment‘A dumbfounding mystery’
More than a decade after serious holes were discovered in the internet’s address lookup system, end users remain vulnerable to so-called domain name system cache poisoning, a security researcher has warned.
Australia requests bids for $8.8 bln broadband network (Reuters) 12. April 2008
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Computers, PREVIEW, The Register , add a commentReuters - The Australian government has called
for bids for a A$9.4 billion ($8.8 billion) high-speed
broadband network that will help the country catch up in
competitiveness with its peers.
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