Windows 7 Only Blocks 2 Out Of 10 Viruses, Website Claims
November 5, 2009
U.S. (ChattahBox) - Windows 7 is officially out on the market, and there have been mixed reviews from users. However, one man decided to run some tests, and he found that it’s ability to protect itself from malware is less than satisfactory.
New York Sues Intel for Antitrust Crimes of ‘Bribery and Coercion’
November 4, 2009
(ChattahBox)–New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, filed an antitrust suit against Intel Corp. in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware today, to put a stop to the chipmaker’s alleged reign of terror against computer manufacturers, illegally forcing them to use Intel’s chips. The world’s largest computer chipmaker is accused of making billions of dollars of illegal payments to companies, to ensure they would not do business with Intel’s competitors, such as Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Read more
Web Experts Say we Could Run Out of Internet Addresses Soon
November 3, 2009
(ChattahBox)—In two years, we could near the end of unique Internet addresses, say experts. To solve this problem, companies will need to upgrade their existing naming protocol to keep the Internet engines of commerce chugging along. Read more
Worldwide web at last - Non-Latin web addresses approved
October 30, 2009
(ChattahBox) — Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the private body that oversees the basic design of the Internet has finally approved the Internationalized Domain Names proposal for country-code top-level domain names. Icann, which is in charge of assigning the world’s Internet users their online addresses on Friday in a meeting in Seoul, Korea agreed to allow the use of any of the world’s scripts, not just the Latin alphabet.
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Compact Nuclear Reactors Gain Prominence In Japan
October 25, 2009
Japan (ChattahBox) - Toshiba Corp. has announced plans to begin developing small nuclear reactors to sell to developing countries.
Bing partners with Twitter and Facebook - Google follows with plans for Twitter search
October 21, 2009
(ChattahBox) — Microsoft announced that it is “fully integrating posts from Twitter into the search results of Bing.” Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Online Audience Business, made the announcement on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The Bing Twitter search can see tweets that match a search query listed in pure chronological order, or have the option to see search results in a mode that Mehdi called “best match,” where he explained that Bing’s team will “apply a bunch of our search techniques and relevancy to improve the results.” A beta version has since launched. In addition to this, they are also planning on integrating Facebook status updates into Bing results. Read more
Skiing robot hits the slopes
October 21, 2009
(ChattahBox) — Okay I am still trying to figure out the practicality of this advancement, but it could come in handy if we ever do an unmanned mission to a snow covered planet I suppose? Anyway Bojan Nemec of the Jozef Stefan Institute unveiled a skiing robot capable of navigating slalom courses at a talk at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems this week. The robot uses a pair of computer systems, one attached to cameras and dedicated to plotting a course down the slope, and one attached to gyroscopes and force sensors which keeps the robot stabilized. A GPS unit, is used to help measure speed, but not for trajectory planning. The video below (more here) shows the robot, around the size of a child, barreling down a snow-covered hill on a couple of practice runs before taking on a giant slalom course.
Via: The Telegraph
Apple Beats Microsoft To The Punch On New Multi-Touch Mouse
October 20, 2009
U.S. (ChattahBox) - Apple has announced the release of their new ‘Magic Mouse’, a multi-touch mouse that allows users to interface with their computers by lightly dragging their fingers across the top.
NASA puts space shuttle replacement rocket Ares 1-X on launch pad for test flight
October 20, 2009
(ChattahBox) — NASA rolled out its new next-generation spacecraft Ares 1-X to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center overnight in anticipation of the rocket’s first test launch next week. NASA’s current plans call for launching the Ares 1-X Oct. 27, on a brief suborbital flight. The Ares a towering, thin rocket will have no payload and will be unmanned for this test flight. Much of the rocket consists of mock-up hardware. NASA wants to see how well the partial first stage performs.
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Finland First Country to Make High-Speed Internet a Legal Right
October 15, 2009
(ChattahBox)— Finland is one of the most wired countries in the world, but the Finland government isn’t satisfied with its successful march towards technological progress. The Nordic country recently made access to high-speed broadband Internet a legal right, which would require the nation’s telecommunication companies to provide Internet access to every single citizen; all 5.2 million of them, by next summer. Read more