Archive for April, 2009

Gminder Adds Offline Reminders to Google Calendar

Technology.am (Apr. 30, 2009) — Gminder small desktop app downloads your scheduled events and provides you to see quickly what’s coming up without opening a browser, or even needing to be online. You can also get snooze-able pop-up reminders, a nice touch.
Gminder is a nifty little tool for Google Calendar users. You have to provide [...]

Hypersonic ‘WaveRider’ Poised for Test Flight

Technology.am (Apr. 30, 2009) — The US military are preparing to test an experimental aircraft which can fly more than six times faster than the speed of sound on ordinary jet fuel, and they hope to bridge the gap between airplanes and rocketships.
The X-51 or it is known as the WaveRider because it [...]

Toshiba, University of Cambridge Researchers Making Quantum Cryptography Practical

Technology.am (Apr. 30, 2009) — Quantum cryptography has become the soon-to-be-reached gold standard in secure communications. Researchers say Quantum cryptography, a completely secure means of communication, can be practically used.
Toshiba and University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory researchers have now developed high speed detectors capable of receiving information with much higher key rates, thereby [...]

Google Begins Tracking Swine Flu in Mexico

Technology.am (Apr. 30, 2009) — Google has started flu-related Internet search traffic in Mexico to create an online map to provide clues how influenza is spreading in that country.
Google has been doing the same for the United States at its Google Flu Trends website since late 2008.
It is based on Google’s observation that people [...]

Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop 1.0 Released

Technology.am (Apr. 30, 2009) — Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop 1.0 is available as a free download for Windows and Mac. It has diversity in sharing Zimbra documents.
Zimbra is open source server software for email and collaboration – email, group calendar, contacts, instant messaging, file storage and web document management.
Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop is a free email and [...]

Panda Presents Cloud-Based Free Antivirus

Technology.am (Apr. 30, 2009) — Panda Security announced the global beta release of Panda Cloud Antivirus, a new protection model with lightweight thin-client agent and real-time scanning-from-the-cloud.
This is the industry’s first and only free cloud-based antivirus. It is community-based protection system automatically classifies new malware in under six minutes with 50 percent less impact [...]

Moto Labs Scalable Multitouch Display

Technology.am (Apr. 29, 2009) — Moto Labs in San Francisco on Tuesday released a new touch-screen tabletop computer display, called the Scalable Multitouch display. The multitouch technology means you can use more than one finger as an input device.
The prototype measures just 19 inches right now, but it aims to cover an entire [...]

McAfee Launches Free Online Cybercrime Help Center

Technology.am (Apr. 29, 2009) — If you have visited a malicious Web site or opened an e-mail attachment with malware. Don’t worry; simply go to a new Web site McAfee.
A new Website McAfee is launching that is designed to help computer users to figure out whether they have been victimized and what to do if [...]

University of Illinois Developed Nanoneedle

Technology.am (Apr. 29, 2009) — This is truly amazing that the thinnest human head hair is about 10,000 times thicker than recently developed nanoneedle. This is a breakthrough device with applications for biophysical research.
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a nanoneedle with 50 nm diameter. It was created with a rigid, but [...]

Spain Plugs-in Largest Solar-Tower Power Plant

Technology.am (Apr. 29, 2009) — Renewable energy technology firm Abengoa Solar on Monday reported its second solar tower near Seville, Spain generates 20 megawatts of electricity, exceeding its expectations.
The 531-foot solar tower, located near Seville, Spain, is called PS20, and it is the largest in the world with a capacity of 20 megawatts, enough [...]