Archive for June, 2009

B&N announced Bookstore app with iPhone and iPod Touch

Technology.am (June 30, 2009) — Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest bookstore announced its B&N Bookstore app, which is available for both the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The B&N Bookstore app are free and users can browse books and reviews, and find store event information.
B&N partnered with LinkMe Mobile and Spotlight Mobile to [...]

Navteq Offers Free Traffic Updates On Your Mobile Phone

Technology.am (June 30, 2009) — Navteq released a new version of its free Navteq Traffic mobile Web site. This mobile site offers free latest traffic flow and incident information and travel times for over 50 major cites and their surrounding areas.
This mobile site is accessible from any Web-connected device and drivers can access [...]

Toyota Thinks Up Mind-Reading Wheelchair

Technology.am (June 29, 2009) — Toyota has developed a wheelchair that users can maneuver with thought alone. The system analyzes brain wave data using signal-processing technology or electroencephalography (EEG), and delivers neuro-feedback to the driver.
This device usually a cap wired with sensors, detects a person’s brain waves. That information is analyzed by a computer and [...]

EU, Phone Makers to Introduce Universal Charger

Technology.am (June 29, 2009) — European Union will introduce a universal charger for smart phones as of next year that will cut costs for manufacturers and reduce the number of chargers thrown away when consumers buy new phones.
European Commission Vice President Guenter Verheugen explains a mobile phone agreement during a press conference at the [...]

Comcast to Unveil High-Speed Wireless Cards

Technology.am (June 29, 2009) — Comcast Corp. offers wireless-broadband cards for laptop users in Portland, Ore.
The nation’s cable giant will launch Comcast High-Speed 2go, a venture between Comcast, Sprint and Clearwire Corp., for people to use the Internet outside of homes and offices.
The company says the new Clearwire wireless network is faster than WiFi systems.
High-Speed [...]

‘World’s Fastest Motor’ 10 times Faster than Boeing 747 Aircraft Engine

Technology.am (June 29, 2009) — Sir James Dyson has unveiled a hand-held vacuum cleaner which is run on “the fastest motor in the world”, ten times quicker than the engine of a Boeing 747 aircraft.
The DC 31 vacuum, which weighs 2.2lb, is the first ever domestic appliance to incorporate a so-called digital switched [...]

Thieves ‘using Google Earth to steal koi carp’

Technology.am (June 29, 2009) — Thieves are using Google Earth to steal expensive koi carp from homeowners’ ponds, police believe. Koi Carp are popular ornamental aquarium and pond fish.
Humberside Police Community Support Officer Sam Gregory said all the evidence suggests the culprits are using the Internet mapping systems to identify gardens with ponds so they [...]

Spotify to Offer One-Click 7Digital Song Downloads

Technology.am ( June 29, 2009) — Music streaming service Spotify users will soon be able to hit one button to buy a song without leaving the music site. The song will then automatically download straight into their Spotify collection, as well as into their 7digital account.
Spotify has teamed up with 7digital, the MP3 [...]

Electronic Monitors Provide Care without Doctor

Technology.am (June 29, 2009) — The 37,000-square-foot Kaiser’s Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center, has associated with the technology research and testing lab for the nation’s largest nonprofit health maintenance organization, which covers about one-third of insured Californians.
The center has a full-size mockup of a hospital floor, complete with nursing stations and patient rooms, [...]

Keyboards Keep Evolving as Buttons Get Bigger

Technology.am ( June 29, 2009) — Computers get smaller and faster every year, but keyboard design remains largely stuck in the 19th century.
Chinese computer- maker Lenovo has developed the new Thinkpad T400S Laptop keyboard which has the extra-large “Delete” and “Escape” keys.
To understand Lenovo’s concern, turn the clock back to the 1800s.
Back [...]