Source: Wired
How do you cool a 200-watt light bulb the size of a postage stamp?
This is the essential problem that computer chip makers the world over now wrestle with as Moore's law runs headlong into the laws of thermodynamics.
Source: CNN
A pager-sized device that's more likely to be found in a Wall Street briefcase than on a state trooper's belt could become an important new weapon in the war against terrorism.
Logan International Airport is the first in the nation to test the BlackBerry as an electronic gateway to state and federal criminal databases, giving law enforcement officers the kind of information backup they've long said they lacked.
Source: CNN
L33tdawg: I just hope it won't be like the over-hyped 'Wireless Internet through your phone' hype aka WAP. As most of you would already know, WAP and WML pages were sorely dissapointing, especially for those who swallowed the promise hook, line and sinker.
This may be the year it actually becomes possible to choose a wireless service without hiring a consultant.
Nokia (news - web sites), the world's largest mobile phone maker, is expected to unveil by March a color screen mobile phone to match an unexpectedly successful rival model from Ericsson (news - web sites), analysts said on Thursday.
``A couple of industry contacts tell us a color display version of the new 8310 phone is being developed by Nokia,'' said Peter Richardson, analyst at SoundView Technology Group.
Source: XFree86
Originally planned for a November 2001 release, Xfree86 has delayed 4.2.0 because of miscallaneous reasons.
This is quite upsetting, as I and many others have purchased computers with newer chips, which are not supported in lesser versions. A particular brand which has been great trouble for many, is the Trident CyberBlade model under BSD and any other OS which does not have fbdev support (which is precisely my situation -- laptop with OpenBSD 2.9).
YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Per-Eric Astrom spends his days hunched over a computer in his tiny Stockholm office, measuring out the hours with the click of a mouse. In this way he busted Sweden's biggest child pornography ring. Astrom, manager of an anti-child pornography hotline run by Save the Children Sweden, is one of a growing band of "infiltrators" who use the latest technology to combat computer-savvy child abusers on their own turf.
CNN.
The 1GB Microdrive offers plenty of capacity with the size and weight advantages of a flash memory card. It offers the best of both worlds as it serves that balance between capacity and size. It does it so well that it has a great competitive advantage over other storage media, one that can allow it to take over the digital music arena if leveraged correctly. There is just one issue IBM has to address very aggressively to achieve this - price.
Source: MSN/ZDnet
"Biometrics, a security method that uses a unique part of your anatomy--such as your fingerprint or your iris--to identify you, took on a new importance for many people this year. The technology is moving beyond natural markets, such as banking and government, to places as close as your home PC. The biometrics products I saw at this year's Comdex can be put anywhere you need them, easily and cheaply."
Source: The Register
You can now watch Star Wars on Telnet. No, change that: you must watch Star Wars on Telnet.
Telnetified by Snore (a "whacked Dutch hardware geek" called Sten) it takes all of 13,935 frames and the mad, delightful enterprise is here.
