Source: The Register
Normally, "strategic relationships" aren't worth much of a look; but a deal done between Transat and Gemplus could open up a new universal roaming system from phone to WLAN and back again, as users move around cities.
As announced, the agreement is merely "to extend secure WLAN access to enterprise and home markets" - by using smartcard security.
Source: CNN.com
After seven decades, reality is catching up to Dick Tracy's wristwatch phone -- Japan's cell phone giant NTT DoCoMo will soon start selling a mobile phone that's worn around the wrist and snaps off to become a regular handset.
"We are targeting young businessmen in their 20s and 30s as the device looks a bit rugged," DoCoMo spokesman Takuya Kono said.
Source: CNN.com
It's time to make "Happy Birthday" the ring signal of your cell phone -- Thursday is the 30th anniversary of the first public demonstration of a call from a handheld wireless phone.
Martin Cooper, a researcher at Motorola Inc., made the call from the corner of 56th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan on April 3, 1973.
Bystanders were agape at the spectacle, Cooper recalls.
Source: CNN.com
Kazutoshi Obana's gray, hooded coat doesn't just keep him dry in a downpour. It can also make him seem invisible.
On a clear day at Tokyo University, Obana stands outside and dons the coat. Viewed through a special projector lens, the people behind him appear as images in a fuzzy, greenish tint on his coat -- as if he were see-through.
The new IBM Toolbox subscription, now includes the industry's first customizable CD option for developers to access exactly the tools they need from IBM's extensive software collection. The Toolbox subscription offers WebSphere Studio products at significant savings (40%-50% off stand-alone product price) AND includes a comprehensive range of IBM middleware, and technologies from WebSphere, WebSphere Studio, DB2, Lotus, and Tivoli for development and test purposes.
Source: CNN.com
If you're wondering why your pooch howls at the moon, growls at the mailman or barks uncontrollably at squirrels, the answer may be only a click away.
A Japanese toy maker claims to have developed a gadget that translates dog barks into human language and plans to begin selling the product -- under the name Bowlingual -- in U.S. pet stores, gift shops and retail outlets this summer.
"Smart dust" devices are tiny wireless microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that can detect everything from light to vibrations. Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon and fabrication techniques, these "motes" could eventually be the size of a grain of sand, though each would contain sensors, computing circuits, bidirectional wireless communications technology and a power supply. Motes would gather scads of data, run computations and communicate that information using two-way band radio between motes at distances approaching 1,000 feet.
Source: CNN.com
The world's busiest international airport, London Heathrow, unveiled a new electronic "sniffer dog" Monday, becoming the first in the world to trial the new screening technology.
The "Sentinel II" portal "sniffs" passengers as they pass through a detection arch, analyzing air that is blown across their bodies for particles of explosives or other banned substances, according to airport operator BAA.
Source: CNN.com
Computer scientist Jon Kleinberg is taking a virtual stroll down the information superhighway, surfing cyberspace for verbal megatrends.
Did you wince?
Those hopelessly passe terms were passably hip just a few years back. Then, due to overuse or a feckless public, they fell out of fashion. (Linguists suspect Al Gore of wearing out the superhighway quip.)
If you read The Star Daily, you probably know that they are currently
having a SMS competition that gives RM500 each day for two weeks and the
grand prize is RM10000. See their website at thestar.com.my.
