New government test results show that a proposed high-speed wireless broadband network being launched by a company called LightSquared could jam GPS systems used for aviation, public safety, military operations and other uses.
Dubai's Gulf News is reporting that United Arab Emirates-based carrier Etisalat is in talks with Apple to sell a 4G iPhone 5 later this year. Ali Al Ahmad, Chief Corporate Communication Officer of Etisalat told the Gulf News, "Yes, we are in talks with most smartphone manufacturers including Apple on the rollout of the 4G handset, iPhone 5 later this year.
Inductive charging stations like Palm Touchstone and Powermatts are all the rage among tech geeks these days. It looks real nice just to drop your phone on a charging pad and forget about all the cords. On the other hand, the charging pad or HP Touchstone still has to be connected to the power outlet via cord, which kind of defeats the whole purpose.
Legendary Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has been featured in Guitar Hero and had run-ins with hackers--but he can't always figure out how to get his gadgets to work for him.
"All of us are tortured by tech," he told the Huffington Post. "I still cant get my flashing light on my video machine from the 1800s to stop flashing. I have one of the old ones that played videotape. I cannot turn it off." Simmons, is the spokesperson for the real time social media translation platform Ortsbo, and acknowledges that technology has changed some things about how he lives his life.
Why doesn't my laptop have USB 3.0?. I've been asking myself that question a lot lately. None of my laptops has a USB 3.0 port. Not my 2010 MacBook Air, not my prior-generation Air, nor my Dell laptop. Nor do the laptops purchased recently by my business acquaintances, who typically buy earlier models that have been price-reduced.
Application development and testing in the cloud are gaining popularity, as more businesses launch public and private cloud computing initiatives. Cloud development typically includes integrated development environments, application lifecycle management components (such as test and quality management, source code and configuration management, continuous delivery tools), and application security testing components.
Is a long weekend the time to take a break from your tech?
The phrase "internet addiction" is thrown around too easily these days, but I think it’s fair to say that many of us spend too much time staring at one screen or another. Health experts tend to recommend moderation in all things and, just like an Alcohol Free Day or Week, abstaining from tech for a while might help recharge your batteries.
When people think of harvesting energy from the oceans, it's typically in the form of wave or tidal power, in which the motion of the water drives the production of electricity. A paper in Nano Letters suggests an alternate way to turn the ocean into power: using the fact that it's salty. There have been a few ideas about how to extract energy from the salinity difference between salt and fresh water, but the paper suggests a rather intriguing approach: treat the entire ocean a bit like a battery medium.
My VCR is stashed in a closet, right next to a couple of CD-ROM players, a laser disc player, and other forgotten electronics. Is my Blu-ray player about to join them? Strategy Analytics researcher Peter King recently said his analysts were surprised that DVD player sales continued to be so strong against Blu-ray players. That reminded me of what some critics have suspected: Blu-ray really hasn't caught on -- and probably never will.
When we talk about data theft, we’re usually talking about trojans and backdoors: hackers tunneling into your machine over the Internet and slurping down your most sensitive data.
