Do hundreds of gallons of used vegetable oil belong anywhere near a data center, let alone inside? Phil Nail thinks so. Nail is CTO of AISO.Net, whose data center gets 100 percent of its electricity from solar energy. Now he's considering waste vegetable oil as an alternative to using diesel fuel in the Web hosting company's setup for storing solar-generated power.
HYBRID-electric vehicles (HEVs) could become cheaper thanks to a breakthrough that would allow inexpensive lead-acid batteries to replace the nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries they now use. Similar battery systems could also be used to smooth out fluctuations in the power output of wind turbines.
NASA's attempt to resurrect the Hubble Space Telescope hit a roadblock on Thursday, further delaying an attempt to resume its science observations.
Engineers successfully bypassed a faulty computer on Wednesday in order to wake an 18-year-old onboard spare from hibernation. But the telescope re-entered a standby, or "safe", mode on Thursday, when the telescope's science instruments were turned on for calibration.
Work on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) began in 1996 and the first standards track specification (RFC 2543) was out in 1999. The expectation was that SIP, as a peer-to-peer protocol, would redefine the very nature of telecommunications. No longer would telephony depend upon a central agency — the “phone company.” Instead individuals would directly connect with other individuals. But a decade later SIP’s peer-to-peer story has been lost. VoIP is deployed but SIP’s impact has been limited.
Back in 1995, Time magazine published a cover story called "On A Screen Near You". It highlighted the results of an 18-month Carnegie Mellon University study (with the dated title "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway") that looked at how much porn there was on the Net. And as demonstrated by the magazine's cover image of a shocked little boy in front of a computer, the internet was overrun with porn and perverts, and the kids weren't safe any more.
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed technology that can fence off microprocessor bugs and keep them from seizing up a PC.
For the past two years they've been working on what they call a "semantic guardian." It's a tiny monitor that lives on the microprocessor, checking it to see if the chip is being asked to do something that its designers hadn't predicted in their quality assurance testing.
As one Japanese lingerie designer introduces the solar-powered bra and pants set that can generate enough energy to drive an iPod, we felt duty bound to investigate this, and other, tech innovations involving breasts...
Triumph International Japan, and to be honest where else would it be located, has revealed a green bra and panties set. Green in colour, and green in principle.
What better time to release your thoughts and hopes for the future than the 10th birthday of what has been the most successful online company of all time?
Vint Cerf has long been regarded as something of a guru at Google with his predictions for the future of the internet often grabbing the headlines, but is he now seeing the internet superhighway through rose tinted spectacles?
Dell Inc. is switching to mercury-free light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, to illuminate laptop screens starting in mid-December, a move aimed making the computers softer on the environment and easier to recycle.
Dell said the LED displays consume less energy (43 percent less for 15-inch screens) than ones lit with CCFL — cold cathode fluorescent lamps — the technology that is standard in Dell's existing notebook computers.
A NEW Japanese mobile phone will automatically unlock the doors of its owners' cars and let drivers start their engines without using an ignition key.
The phone, built by Sharp Corp., uses a technology previously developed by Nissan Motor Co. called 'Intelligent Key' that allows drivers enter and start their cars without removing their keys from their pockets or bags.
