Archive for ‘February, 2010’

The Japanese are working on a decoder baby crying

The Japanese are working on a decoder baby crying

Researchers from Japan’s Hiroshima International University (Hiroshima International University) are working on a software algorithm that allows new parents to understand the cries of little children. At the moment the program with a 96-percent success distinguishes it hurt the baby or is it something else. During development, scientists rely on the experienced parents – obviously, [...]

Keychain Game and Watch – strong attack of nostalgia is guaranteed

Keychain Game and Watch – strong attack of nostalgia is guaranteed

Remember a couple of decades ago, were very popular electronic entertainment such as “Just You Wait!”? In one of the variations (I had a – oh, childhood!) Had to be, running Wolf, roll off the shelves to collect eggs, and the game speed has steadily increased – shaking hands with excitement and passion nedetskiy caused [...]

Google has developed a mirror for solar power

Google has developed a mirror for solar power

Google’s engineers have developed a prototype mirror for use in solar thermal power plants. Presumably, the use of such mirrors will reduce the cost of building such plants in half. Bill Weil, head of the “green” energy, said that if the new tests are successful, the device can go into mass production in the period [...]

LG plans to release a phone on the Windows Phone 7 in September

LG plans to release a phone on the Windows Phone 7 in September

According to Engadget Chinese, South Korean company LG called approximate date of release of the first phone to be built on a new Windows Phone 7. If all goes according to plan, the communicator LG released in September. LG GM730 on Windows Mobile 6.5 Note that Microsoft officials said the scene at the MWC 2010 [...]

Intel Sandy Bridge: one year prior to the announcement

Intel Sandy Bridge: one year prior to the announcement

Announcement generation processors Sandy Bridge is planned for early next year, which corresponds to the long-term tactics, “Tick-tock” (Tick-Tock), provides for the release of new models of Intel processors, each odd-numbered year. Each “tick” is responsible for the new stage of development of semiconductor manufacturing technology and improvements in microarchitecture. A “well” is responsible for [...]

Hybrid Hatchback-class golf on the Lexus – CT 200h

Hybrid Hatchback-class golf on the Lexus – CT 200h

Toyota moves steadily towards its goal – to have a wide range of vehicles with hybrid power plant. Another addition in the family – a hybrid 5-door hatchback Lexus CT 200h, which is an embodiment of the concept of serial LC-Ch. heir ideas of the concept is equipped with a 1.8-liter four-cylinder gasoline engine with [...]

Google suspects behind Microsoft complaint to EU

Google suspects behind Microsoft complaint to EU

Google has speculated in a blog post that Microsoft is the driving force behind a complaint about the search giant to the European Commission. The complaints were from the British Preissuchmaschine Founder, a legal search from France (ejustice.fr) and the Ciao price search engine that Microsoft is. Google is considering one’s own size is not [...]

Youtube Playlist function tests “Disco”

Youtube Playlist function tests “Disco”

Google is testing on its video portal Youtube a Playlist function for music videos. The “disco” called feature allows users to search by artist or song title, and created using the keyword automatically creates a playlist. The music videos are played back sequentially. Users can edit the playlists and titles to expand, for example by [...]

ZEW: social software facilitates innovations

ZEW: social software facilitates innovations

A study by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, concludes that use service providers, the social software applications that are more innovative than firms that do not. It is based on data from 505 information and communications service providers and knowledge-intensive services, which include tax consulting and accounting firms, consulting firms, architectural firms, [...]

Microsoft has dealt a blow by a botnet Waledac

Microsoft has dealt a blow by a botnet Waledac

With the help of the Federal Court of Eastern Virginia (USA), Microsoft has struck a serious blow to one of the largest sources of spam on the Internet – known botnet network Waledac. Recently adopted by the court ruling will block 277 domains in the zone. Com, associated with Waledac. As noted by Microsoft, it [...]

How dangerous is your phone?

How dangerous is your phone?

Controversy and debate about the harmfulness of mobile phone radiation have lasted for more than a decade, but to put an end to this question seems rather early. The American non-governmental organization Environmental Working Group (EWG) has once again published a list of the most dangerous and least harmful of mobile phones. According to the [...]

Intuit Quicken Essentials for Mac delivers

Intuit Quicken Essentials for Mac delivers

Intuit has begun shipping Essentials of Quicken for Mac. The U.S. retail price is $ 70. It is the first Mac version of financial software since 2007. For lack of substantial financial applications for private use under Mac OS many Mac users Windows versions of Intuit products in a virtualized environment. A year ago, the [...]

Twitter Tweets prepares localization of

Twitter Tweets prepares localization of

Twitter plans to expand its offerings to include a function for the localization of Tweets. In a message to outside developers write the company that it wants to make changes at this end of geotagging interface of micro-blogging service. Instead of longitude and latitude in the future to places in the surrounding area are displayed. [...]

Notebook PCs based on Sandy Bridge will be working longer

Notebook PCs based on Sandy Bridge will be working longer

Despite the fact that Sandy Bridge generation processors officially debut until early next year of updates already know quite a lot. Today, information resource Fudzilla pleased that notebooks based on the new processors will be very slowly consume battery power. More specifically, the platform-based notebooks will look Huron River on one battery charge two movies [...]

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.2

Mozilla Messaging has released a second update for Thunderbird third Version 3.0.2 improves primarily the safety and stability of the e-mail clients. It also fixes some bugs in the implementation of the Internet Message Access Protocol and problems when upgrading from Thunderbird 2 A total of 120 bugs were fixed. Thunderbird 3.0.2 is now available [...]