In March, NASA launched an experimental jet that reached a record-setting speed of about 5,000 mph. Now researchers want to leave that milestone in the dust.
NASA's third and last X-43A "scramjet" was set to streak over the Pacific Ocean on Monday at 7,000 mph for 10 or 11 seconds — or 10 times the speed of sound.
ControlFreak enables remote control of Winamp and all of your PC from a Bluetooth enabled Series 60 smartphone. It fully supports the Winamp Media Library. The software allows users to search for tracks by name or browse by artists or albums. ControlFreak even helps keep your music better organised by automatically collecting compilation albums so they are easier to find.
Winamp's Media Library also handles videos so sit back, relax and enjoy the show. ControlFreak can be configured to automatically pause the media if the phone rings.
It’s official: UBL, or Universal Business Language, has been unleashed as a standard. On Monday, the standards group OASIS gave its final blessing to UBL, version 1.0, which functions as a standardized document format.
As explained by CNET’s Martin LaMonica, UBL is meant to make it easier to turn paper records into electronic ones and, ultimately, easier to share documents, such as purchase orders, between organizations doing business online.
SPIRIT (www.spiritdsp.com/voip), the leading supplier of embedded software products for telecom and VoIP, announces enhanced version of its NetJet software targeted for VoIP communication.
It seems the world still can't get enough of new mobile handsets.
According to research from analyst house ARC Group, mobile makers will be able to enjoy a growing market for at least the next five years, with posh smart phones being a particular favourite with phone buyers. ARC Group predicts the market will grow by 16 per cent and consumers will snap up 561 million mobiles this year - compared with 482.5 million in 2003 but the growth rate will start to tail off to reach 2.6 per cent in 2009, when 767 million handsets will be sold.
JAPANESE HARDWARE maker Pioneer has developed a technique which will allow optical drives to store 500GB of data.
That's according to the Nikkei Business Daily, which reported that the technique will use ultraviolet lasers, which emit shorter wavelength rays than blue lasers.
The paper reported that Pioneer uses the beam to write data holes in a master disk, each separated by 70 nanometres.
Bluetooth is best known for short-range, low-bandwidth wireless jobs: connecting a cellphone with a headset or syncing a PDA with a nearby computer. But just as a flashlight’s reflector focuses a small bulb’s light to make it appear brighter, the right antenna can boost a weak wireless signal. So I detached the stock antenna from a Linksys USBBT100 Class 1 USB Bluetooth adapter ($70; linksys.com) and replaced it with a larger HyperGain RE05U 2.4GHz antenna ($15; hyperlinktech.com). With that simple mod, I can make a Bluetooth connection up to a mile away—about 4,950 feet farther than most.
A file-sharing program called BitTorrent has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking notice.
For those who know where to look, there's a wealth of content, both legal -- such as hip-hop from the Beastie Boys and video game promos -- and illicit, including a wide range of TV shows, computer games and movies.
A complex supercomputer being constructed for the US government has demonstrated double the power of the long-reigning supercomputing champion, despite being only partially built.
IBM's BlueGene/L achieved a record-breaking performance of 70.72 teraflops, announced Spencer Abraham, US energy secretary, on Thursday.
A single teraflop is one million million floating-point operations - or intensive mathematical calculations - per second, and is about 100 times faster than the most powerful desktop computers.
A developer in Tokyo has created an add-on for Vodafone handsets that's meant to be used as a night filter to let people take pictures with their phones in the dark.
Unfortunately, the night vision camera has an unexpected side effect, according to Japanese developer Yamada Denshi. In the right circumstances, it allows users to see a lot more than they bargained for.
As well as taking snaps in the dark, the Yamada Denshi infrared filter apparently sees through people's clothes.
