Archive for May, 2009

CDOT Using Google Maps to Display Live Traffic Conditions for Denver, Ottawa

Technology.am (May 27, 2009) — The Colorado Department of Transport is using Google Maps to display live traffic conditions for Denver.

Scour Search Engine Rewards You for Searching

Technology.am (May 27, 2009) — Many search engines have come and gone like Lycos and AltaVista against Google.
But Scour, the little-search-engine-that-could wants to pay for your loyalty while it tries to steal market share from the Google-Yahoo-MSN triumphant.
Scour.com is a social search engine that bridges the gap between algorithmic and human powered [...]

Watch TV Shows on the Desktop with Joost Media Player

Technology.am (May 27, 2009) — Initially, the free web service Joost required users to download a desktop application for watching Internet TV but now Joost.com lets you watch popular TV shows, music videos, podcasts and even some movies on the Internet.
There is one of the most useful feature in Joost Desktop is the [...]

Microsoft Confirms Zune HD Coming This Fall

Technology.am (May 27, 2009) — Microsoft confirmed its plans to take on the iPod Touch with a new, touch-screen Zune, which will be available in the U.S. only starting this fall.
Microsoft said Zune HD that will be able to surf the Web, play high-definition movies, and tune in to digital radio. It has an [...]

Yahoo Home Page Redesign

Technology.am (May 27, 2009) — Yahoo is testing another redesign of its home page for certain users, emphasizing news feeds and applications as well as search results.
The company’s new design exclaims the top 10 search results at a given time in the upper right-hand corner of the site.
The company also dropped the gray [...]

First Commercial 4G Base Station

Technology.am (May 27, 2009) — The Swedish mobile operator Telia has announced that the world’s first radio base station in a commercial 4G network has been deployed in Stockholm.
Telia is one of the worldwide company building next-generation networks for mobile broadband with 4G or Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology.
According to Telia, the [...]

SolarEdge Uses Chip to make 25 Percent More Productive Solar Panel

Technology.am (May 27, 2009) — Israeli start-up SolarEdge has developed electronics to make solar panels’ wiring 25 percent more productive.
SolarEdge has a Web-based program for monitoring performance of panels.
SolarEdge are tackling the lost electricity from panels using micro-inverters at a lower cost. Instead of having one inverter to serve several panels, microinverters are [...]

Web Service Twitter Proposes TV Competition Series

Technology.am (May 26, 2009) — The San Francisco-based Twitter is one of the Internet’s fastest-growing social-networking sites that asks what everybody’s doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series.
The Twitter said it has teamed with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to develop an unscripted series based on the site, which [...]

Singapore Scientists Conduct world’s First Remote X-ray Scattering Experiment

Technology.am (May 26, 2009) — Singapore School of Biological Science (SBS) of Nanyang Technological University will develop the world’s first remotely controlled Solution X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) experiment on 26th May.
The experiment will be initiated from Singapore at 4.10pm – 6pm in SBS and conducted at the German Electron Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany.
This event will [...]

Apple iPhone to Get Direct TV Downloads?

Technology.am (May 26, 2009) — Apple will be launching the new iPhone model, the iPhone OS 3.0 update and also the iTunes 8.2 update by next month according to report.
The new iPhone model will have the ability to directly download TV and films to the iPhone and iPod Touch would eliminate the need [...]