Archive for December, 2009

Sipping cups of tea and coffee ‘can avert diabetes’

Technology.am (15 Dec. 2009) — Tea and coffee drinkers have a lesser danger of developing type 2 diabetes, a large body of proof shows. And the safeguard might not be down to caffeine as decaf coffee has the greatest effect, say researchers in Archives of Internal Medicine. They looked at 18 separate studies concerning almost [...]

Infosys launches a center in Brazil

Technology.am (Dec 15, 2009) — India’s second-largest software services exporter, Infosys Technologies, has announced the opening of a completely owned subsidiary in Brazil.
The first development center of the subsidiary situated in Belo Horizonte, the third largest metropolitan region in Brazil after Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, will present Infosys’ absolute group of services to [...]

Vitamin E can assist battle cancer

Technology.am (Dec. 15, 2009) — Scientists from University of Strathclyde have devised a novel means to harness natural vitamin E extract that would kill tumors within 10 days.
By means of a new delivery system, the research team could mobilize an extract from Vitamin E, known ton have anti-cancer properties, to assault cancerous cells.
In the study [...]

Microsoft rectifies office 2003 document lockout bug

Technology.am (Dec. 15, 2009) — Microsoft has fixed a difficulty in Office 2003 that prohibited the software from opening documents saved by means of its access control technology.
The company warned late Friday that Office 2003 would not be able to open documents that had been confined with its Rights Management Services (RMS) further than the [...]

Microsoft, Google uncover Climate Change Web Apps

Technology.am (Dec. 15, 2009) — Microsoft and Google have built Web applications intended to underline environmental problems coinciding with the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen that run through Friday.
Microsoft is functioning with the European Environmental Agency (EEA) to utilize its Bing Maps, Silverlight multimedia technology and Azure cloud platform to demonstrate how climate change is [...]

Intel to preview latest chips on December 17

Technology.am (Dec. 15, 2009) — On December 17, Intel will preview new processors for laptops, amongst other chip technologies. The preview is noteworthy because it will be Intel’s primary opportunity to show off its ready-to-ship, commercially viable next-generation 32-nanometer technology. Almost all Intel processors are presently built on a 45-nanometer process. Normally, the smaller the [...]

Millions of homes to acquire energy competence displays

Technology.am (Dec. 15, 2009) — The days of learning regarding your electricity consumption once a month are the on the decline. Motivated by consumer interest in energy and usefulness smart-grid programs, home energy information displays are balanced to come into people’s kitchens and living rooms in large numbers over the next few years, according to [...]

Review on Kodak E250 multifunction device

Technology.am (Dec. 15, 2009) — The ESP 5250 is Kodak’s most recent upgrade to previous year’s ESP 5 all-in-one (AIO), which should be understandable from the roughly matching design. Aside from looks, the printer does make improvements to print quality and most particularly, output speed, but the printer still isn’t perfect–it’s missing an auto-document feeder [...]

Facebook boss changes Privacy settings

Technology.am (Dec. 15, 2009) — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has altered the privacy settings on his personal page to open it up to friends of friends. This means that hundreds of his photographs and status updates are at the present visible to extensive viewers.
Prior to the switch, only minimal information about Mr Zuckerberg was obtainable [...]

Lithium can be extracted from geothermal waste

Technology.am (Dec. 14, 2009) — A practice developed by a Californian company, Simbol Mining, will allow the valuable mineral lithium, broadly used in high-density batteries, to be reclaimed from the hot waste water generated by a geothermal power plant in California.
The utilization of lithium has been ever-increasing internationally, and is predicted to triple by 2020 [...]