TECHNOLOGY Archives
New technologies in surveillance and identification are changing the way police work is done. In one pilot program, police use high tech equipment to scan license plates of passing cars automatically. Suspect vehicles are identified by automatically checking license plate numbers against a central database, and are pulled over. The driver's fingerprints can then be digitally scanned and sent to a fingerprint database for positive identification.
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The rapid rise of Digg.com, a social bookmarking, blogging and syndication website may hit a new snag. The idea of Digg is that users submit stories of interest, and registered members can vote stories up to the top of the list for others to read. The community becomes the editorial voice. A new site has come along that may lead to Digg's demise.
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Sept. 26, 2006:
AP reports that Google services were slow or inaccessible to some users Tuesday. “We've received reports that a small portion of certain Internet service providers' users are having difficulty accessing Google services,” Google Inc. said in a statement. “We are currently working with the ISPs to investigate.”
There have been other serious outages among major website, including Yahoo, Myspace, YouTube and others.
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Our company recently switched from hosting our email internally on our own servers, to outsourcing to Google Hosted Services, the new Google Apps service which is an extension of Google's Gmail for Your Domain. This article is about our experience with the service, and with Google's email system in general.
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It used to be that the average American would come home from work, make dinner and then snap on the TV. For the next few hours, the television set would stay on. Maybe even a couple of sets for various members of the family.
Today, things are changing, particularly among the 13-26 age group, as more and more people turn from television to the Internet and other forms of media.
Not only are an increasing number of people watching videos on the Internet, but more significantly, they're also producing content themselves and broadcasting—or netcasting—via video websites such as YouTube, Break, Google Video, Yahoo video and MySpace.
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Universal Music Group's CEO Doug Morris says that social networking sites such as YouTube and MySpace encourage their users to violate copyright laws.
"We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars," said Morris. "How we deal with these companies will be revealed shortly."
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Will Fox buy YouTube? We'll call this speculation for now, and I'll tell you why a bit later. But first, is YouTube for sale, or can the company make it on its own, covering its $1 million plus in monthly bandwidth charges, potential lawsuits, and timid advertisers?
It's rumored that YouTube CEO Chad Hurley has a vague price in mind. Let's say it's a shade over a million oop... Billion Dollars. Would Rupert Murdoch buy YouTube for $1 Billion Dollars?
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Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has issued an open letter of apology, along with an update to the company's controversial "News Feed" and "Mini-Feed" features, that will allow users greater controls on personal privacy issues. The move was in response to a Facebook Boycott that was called by users in response to the feeds. Many users found the feature to be an invasion of their privacy, and more than 500,000 signed an online petition against it.
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Data stored by search engine companies, such as Google, Yahoo and MSN represent a ticking privacy timebomb. These companies store massive amounts of data on the personal search histories of millions of Americans, and the data may be susceptible to access by hackers and governments.
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The first photographs of Paris Hilton's recent DUI arrest have surfaced, as well as Video after her sister Nicky, Nicky's boyfriend Kevin Connolly, and PR agent Elliot Mintz escorted her after her release.
According to Mintz, the police apparently detected a blood alcohol level of 0.8%, the legal limit in California.
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Although not many iPod users listen to music while submerged under water, scuba divers might. H2O Audio has solved the underwater music problem by creating waterproof cases and headphones for the popular Apple iPod and other mp3 players.
The newest line of H2O Audio products for the Apple allows you to submerse your nano, iPod Video, and shuffle up to 10ft (3m). While under water you will maintain complete control over your iPod and enjoy being underwater with full sound!
Bruce Crower of Crower Cams, a performance engine parts business, has developed a prototype of a six-stroke engine. The additional strokes are introduced by harnessing otherwise-wasted heat energy, and injecting water into the combusion chamber creates additional power through a "steam stroke." In addition to creating more power, the water also cools the engine, so no extra cooling system is required.
Crower believes his new design could revolutionize engines and provide much more efficient systems -- especially in the area of commercial trucking where vehicles use huge radiators for cooling the engine. He claims that his model increases fuel efficiency by 40%, and that emmissions are lower than conventional engines.
MacRumors is reporting that on February 13th someone posted a link claiming to have screenshots of the latest Leopard Mac OS C 10.5. The link was to a file named "latestpics.tgz". The file decrompessed into a Mac trojan, a Unix executable file disguised as a JPG image.
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Robert Scoble of the Scoblizer blog is doing an experiment to test how long it takes blog search engines and web search engines to pick up blog posts.
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According to the Korea Times, the major AC maker, LG Electronics, plans to sell a line of air conditioners that they claim will prevent avian flu with a special filter coated with a substance from fermented kimchi (cabbage). The machines will be marketed in Southeast Asia where bird flu is a major concern.
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Yahoo, the worlds most visited website, has just introduced tools for users to search, organize, rate and upload podcasts at podcasts.yahoo.com.
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The Department of Defense's research arm, the Defense Advance Research Project Agency (DARPA), has announced that 23 robotic vehicles have successfully qualified to move on to the next leg of DARPA's Grand Challenge competition in the Mojave desert on October 8 to compete for a $2 million prize. The challenge is designed to encourage research for the development of autonomous ground vehicles for use on the battlefield.
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Palm, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. yesterday announced the new Treo smartphone. The Treo 700w is a new device for mobile professionals and businesses. Palm has licensed the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system for an expanded line of Treo smartphones, the first of which will be available on the Verizon Wireless' network.
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The new Nintendo Revolution will not only take home entertainment into another dimension by expanding the definition of video games, but it also will give you access to the great history of gaming.
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The most common methods of transferring files over the Internet are through a browser using "http" and through an ftp client. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer application, where files are accessed directly from one computer to another, without the intervening use of an official server. Some examples of commercial peer-to-peer software are programs such as Kazaa and Gnutella.
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Not only has Apple started shrinking down their products with the recent release of the new iPod Nano (white iPod Nano, or blackiPod Nano), but Nintendo also has a tiny surprise for consumers.
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If you want to learn more about the concept of internet search and the rise of Google as a business technology, you should read this new book "The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture", by John Battelle.
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Forging into product endorsements at full tilt, Hilary Duff now has her face—and music—emblazoned on a new mobile phone. And if any phone is targeted directly at the lucrative teenage girl market, this one's it.
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This is not an ad for Sprite, but it is an endorsement for a hot product: Google Search, with it's mobile phone capabilities. And the anecdote of the Amazing Google comes from Google itself.
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If you are a fan of Harry Potter and digital audio, then you will be excited to learn about the new Harry Potter collector's iPod from Apple Computers.
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The much anticipated iTunes enabled cell phone is finally here. The Motorola ROKR is the next best thing to an iPod and can hold up to 100 songs. The handy iTunes interface lets you scroll through your playlists, select a song and play it. You can even shuffle songs right from the main menu. Putting your music on the ROKR is as easy as syncing to iTunes. Just connect the ROKR to your Mac or PC, then choose the songs you want to sync.
Buying Information: Motorola ROKR E1 iTunes Phone (Cingular)
As exciting as this announement is, the phone is currently only available to Cingular wireless customers, and the phone does come with a pretty price tag of $249.99. Some poeple have noted that the phone is a little too bulky and lacks a signature Apple design. The iPod nano might be a more exciting purchase.
The newest addition to the infamous line of Apple iPods is the iPod Nano. The new iPod Nano, which will replace the iPod Mini, weighs only 1.5 ounces and uses flash memory instead of a bulky hard drive. This switch to flash memory is what makes the Nano's ultra thin design possible.
The iPod Nano comes in black or white and in two sizes: the 4GB holds about 1,000 songs and the 2GB holds 500 songs. They cost $249 and $199, respectively. The Nano also features a color LCD screen that can display photos and album art.
Buying Information: 4 GB iPod Nano (white) or 4 GB iPod Nano (black).
Canon introduced some new Mini-DV camcorders recently, with a number of advanced video and photo features, including true two-in-one video and advanced photo features, as well as video viewing on wide screen TV and printing photos at home.
Geared toward beginners and hobbyists, the new 2.2 megapixel Canon Optura 50 and the Canon Optura 60 can capture quality video and photos using the high resolution 16:9 widescreen video recording mode and the same advanced photo features found on Canon's digital cameras.
Both of these new camcorder feature Canon's exclusive DV Photo Plus system, a combination of features and technology that allows users to achieve high quality video and high resolution photos.
With widescreen televisions growing ever more popular, Canon has responded with a high-resolution 16:9 Widescreen video recording mode found on both the Optura 50 and Optura 60 camcorders. You can capture high-resolution 16:9 home videos with up to 33 percent more picture than standard video and play-back on a widescreen television.
According to Canon, the new Optura 50 and Optura 60 Mini-DV camcorders represent the strongest two in one product Canon has ever offered. The new Optura series includes a 2.2 megapixel CCD with an RGB primary color filter for color reproduction that contends with three CCD camcorders.
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