A year from now, capturing a crisp, clear image of a candlelit birthday party could be a piece of cake -- even with a camera phone.
Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday it has developed a color-filter technology that at least doubles the sensitivity to light of the image sensor in every digital camera, enabling shutterbugs to take better pictures in poor light.
While most of the crowd at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address was eager to hear about all of Leopard's new features, Benjamin Rudolph was only interested in one.
VMware has launched an offering which it claims will increase the reliability of hosted services and applications for end-user organisations.
On Wednesday, the company launched its Service Provider Program (VSPP), which is aimed at Web hosting providers, application providers, telecoms companies, outsourcing companies like IBM Global Services and EDS, and managed services companies.
The first car in the world propelled by compressed air is scheduled to be cruising India's city streets sometime next year.
Developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Negre, the Air Car will be built by Tata Motors, India's largest automaker. Tata Motors anticipates producing 6,000 Air cars by 2008.
The Air Car uses compressed air to push its engine's pistons and should be practical and reasonably priced. The CityCat model's top-end speed is 68 mph with a driving range of 125 miles.
Mobile telly may yet be set for the big time - research predicts the number of subscribers will jump from a niche 4.4 million today to 155.6 million by the end of 2012.
That's according to analyst Datamonitor - which predicts mobile TV's global subscriber base will swell to 65.6 million in 2010 and then more than double to 155.6 million by the end of 2012, a year-on-year growth rate of 66.2 per cent.
A new transparent film for windows has been developed which is claimed can block or seriously degrade radio signal penetration. While aimed at companies seeking to secure internal wireless communications, doubtless some organisations will investigate the possibility of using this to block mobile phone signals.
Next time you fill up at the pump, there's a good chance you'll be injecting billions of nanoparticles into your tank. These marker molecules are in much of the gasoline at U.S. pumps, allowing gas companies to determine whether the fuel you're buying is the real stuff or some adulterated mix.
China is expected to invest at least four billion yuan (519 million U.S. dollars) to procure home-grown 3G phones around October, a prelude to issuing the long-awaited 3G licenses, industry sources said yesterday.
China Mobile, which has paid six to seven billion yuan to purchase 3G network equipment in 10 cities nationwide, will buy two million TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) phones in October, according to Chen Haofei, the secretary general of TD-SCDMA Forum.
First there was the Do-it-Yourself home improvement boom driven by a bullish real estate market, and now its the build your own optical transmission system.
Siemens and Infineon have developed a simple broadband transmission system for use in home networks.
The system uses optical polymer cables that can be laid and installed without requiring any special skills. As is the case with fiber optics, the new system uses light waves to transmit data.
In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all -- a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
Sony Corp. released video of the new 2.5-inch display Friday. In it, a hand squeezes a display that is 0.3 millimeters, or 0.01 inch, thick. The display shows color images of a bicyclist stuntman and a picturesque lake.
Although flat-panel TVs are getting slimmer, a display that's so thin it bends in a human hand marks a breakthrough.
