Motorola Inc.'s iTunes music phone, developed with Apple Computer Inc. and unveiled last month in front of an audience of more than 500, may have flopped. As many as six times more customers are returning the Rokr phones than is normal for new handsets, according to American Technology Research analyst Albert Lin.Enquanto isso a gente aguarda ansiosamente um telefone celular designed by Apple in California.
SUBDUE is a computer program that can find patterns in data represented as graphs. But what's more important is that this program can learn from its own discoveries. Potential applications for such a program include counter-terrorism, but also bioinformatics, web structure mining, social network analysis or seismic events analysis.Via Smartmobs.
The five robots that successfully navigated a 132-mile course in the Nevada desert last weekend demonstrated the re-emergence of artificial intelligence, a technology field that for decades has overpromised and underdelivered.
It plays music. It displays photos. Oh, and you can watch video on it, too. No, it’s not the newly unveiled video iPod—this is the Sony PlayStation Portable. And while the PSP has a very different core function—it’s a portable video game console, first and foremost—the are enough similarities between it and the latest round of iPods to merit a side-by-side comparison.
FingerGear and Atmel have teamed up to create the Bio Computer-On-a-Stick; now with fingerprint security. And just like FingerGear's sans biometric boot stick, this version runs on Linux 2.6.x with Gnome and bundles pretty much all the MS Office compatible desktop and Internet apps you’re gonna need. Drop data into the public partition to easily share it on a Windows or Linux PC or Mac without having to boot or authenticate.
With QuickTime 7 Pro, you can create your own videos that will play on the new iPod. Already have great home movies you want to play on your iPod? No problem. QuickTime 7 Pro helps you easily convert them to a format that iPod understands.* Just follow these easy instructions and you'll be watching your own video on your iPod in no time.
Gaming today is a widely recognized part of our cultural landscape. But those of us over thirty are just old enough to remember a time before gaming, before digital entertainment invaded the arcades, our computers and our homes.
Mike Frumin from Eyebeam has released VGMap. It lets you overlay Flash vector art on top of a Google Map. It's very cute (see the NYC Subway map demo app) and represents another step along the path that takes GIS technology from specialized desktop suites to general purpose web apps.
Dolby® Headphone technology allows users to wear any set of headphones and listen to music, watch movies, or play video games with the dramatic surround effects of a 5.1-channel soundtrack. Listeners can enjoy the spacious, natural soundfield for hours.Dica do meu amigo unblogged Bruno Goyanna.
It's always important for a tech company to monitor what's going on in the consumer market. Too often consumer technology is relegated to stepsister status and not considered real hardcore technology. The crossover phenomenon is real and can dramatically change the business market.
ABCNews is reporting that Microsoft has tapped the same team responsible for The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, including director Peter Jackson, to oversee production of the 'Halo' movie.Isso vai ser muito interessante... quem conhece Halo sabe que o forte é o background, a costura da história. E Peter Jackson, bom, se você ainda não viu a trilogia, veja.
Please note: these laptops are not in production. They are not - and will not be - available for purchase by individuals.
Mark Ghuneim, the founder and chief executive of New York City-based Wiredset Digital Agency, started using the Web site del.icio.us a year ago. He took advantage of its free technology to slap "tags," or labels, on interesting online articles or Web sites. That made it a breeze to go back and find everything he had tagged under "mashup" or "Live8."
What would you call a device that has a screen, a keyboard, storage for personal information such as contacts, email, documents, the ability to play audio and video files, some games, a spreadsheet program, and a communications capability? Sound like a personal computer? How about "mobile phone"?
The ultimate DIY IT story, and our first IT Garage podcast gives some background for a remarkable podcast, produced by IT Conversations. It's Surviving Katrina with DirectNIC, a talk I had last week with 'Sig' Solares, whose crew kept DirectNIC going thoughout Hurricane Katrina and its horrendous aftermath deep in the heart of New Orleans, where approximately nothing else was working.
An internet telephone. As simple as an instant messenger. Now you're talking. Make all your calls from the comfort of your desktop. With Gizmo, it's point, click, talk. For free.
Create your own express elevator using this trick. "The designers of some elevators include a hidden feature that is very handy if you're in a hurry or it's a busy time in the building (like check-out time in a hotel). While some elevators require a key, others can be put into "Express" mode by pressing the "Door lose" and "Floor" buttons at the same time.
AMFPHP is an open-source Flash Remoting gateway. It's fast, reliable, 100% free and open-source. Flash Remoting is a technology built into the Flash player core that enables sending data between the server and the client seemlessly.
First, it's important to note that if you decide to take your Mighty Mouse apart, do so at your own risk and be very aware that the process may involve breakage and/or sawing, so there's no turning back once you get started.
With the exact same look as the previously spread around the internet screenshots of Longhorn 5203 the Windows Vista Presskit images have been released.
Alright mixmasters, turns out that Numark dueling iPod DJ mixer we peeped back in April is indeed not vaporware. Numark will be announcing tomorrow the iDJ mixing console for iPod as part of their summer 2005 product lineup a two-channel mixer that accepts all iPod models with bottom connectors and breaks out their controls into its dedicated interface. Both channels sport a 3-band EQ and gain control, and the unit's got dedicated mic and phono/line inputs for bringing in additional signals. It's also rocking some USB connectivity, enabling it to converse with your portable rig as a music-loading base.