Archive for October, 2009

Harvesting power From Nature’s Motions

Technology.am (Oct 30, 2009) — By taking benefit of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed an original advance that they deem is capable of more competently produce electricity from the motions of daily life.
Energy harvesting is the procedure of converting one type of energy, for example motion, into another form [...]

Battery of the Future: Latest Storage Material enhances Energy Density of Lithium-ion Battery

Technology.am (Oct 30, 2009) — High-performance energy storage technologies for the automotive production or mobile phone batteries and notebooks providing long battery times; these visions of the future are being brought one step closer by scientists from Graz University of Technology.
Researchers at the Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials have developed a latest technique [...]

Cyberspace addresses all ready to change

Technology.am (Oct 30, 2009) — The world of internet is all prepared and geared up for undergoing its largest modifications, with the anticipated agreement of plans to introduce web addresses making use of non-Latin characters.
The board of the internet regulator, Icann shall decide upon whether or not to permit domain names to be in Arabic, [...]

Facebook presented $711 million on winning a spam lawsuit

Technology.am (Oct 29, 2009) — Facebook was granted $711 million in compensation in a ruling Thursday in opposition to self-described “spam king” Sanford Wallace.
Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California settled Facebook’s submission for a defaulting decision against Wallace for violations of the Can-Spam Act, which forbids “fake [...]

Kaspersky tool identifies malware in Twitter links

Technology.am (Oct 29, 2009) — Kaspersky revealed a latest tool on Thursday called “Krab Krawler” that examines the millions of tweets posted on Twitter each day and blocks whichever malware linked with them.
The tool looks at each public post as it shows on Twitter, extracts any URLs in them and investigates the Web page they [...]

Travelling to become more convenient with solar charging options

Technology.am (Oct 29, 2009) — Konarka Technologies announced this week its Power Plastic flexible solar panels will be used in carrier baggage and perhaps shade structures in the Middle East and Africa.
The company completed a contract to provide its solar panels to German-based carrier producer Neuber for baggage that is able to double as chargers [...]

Elmo and Nokia unite forces; mend kids’ books with teleconferencing for Story play

Technology.am (Oct 29, 2009) — Whether you adore Elmo for his capability to make your children be seated peacefully or hate him for his influence that’s about two steps away from fingernails on chalkboards, there’s no denying his fame.
His most recent appearance is in this maple-stained electronic reader from Nokia called Storyplay. In these days [...]

Qooq recipe and cooking tablet PC released for only French speakers

Technology.am (Oct 29, 2009) — Cooking tablets and recipe readers have been quite restricted (and not very high-quality) in the past however this one seems to be exceptionally hopeful.

Known as the Qooq, the 10.2-incher prides itself- in addition to a group of recipes, naturally – absolute and wonderful food prep videos, instructions and recommendation on [...]

Stumble in Nature – 15 Places Where I See StumbleUpon in Eyes

StumbleUpon — One of the most addictive and enjoyable social community websites available presently. Here’s a list of 15 of the SU eyes I had made when I got addicted to it. As a complete addict of StumbleUpon, I actually see SU everywhere. Here are some of my personal favorites where I get to see [...]

Google reveals complimentary GPS navigation for cell phones

Technology.am (Oct 28, 2009) — Google revealed a free navigation scheme for mobile phones on Wednesday in a progress seen as a prospective challenge to the makers of GPS navigation devices. US telecommunications carrier Verizon Wireless and US handset manufacturer Motorola announced in the meantime that latest smartphone will be available on sale in the [...]