Archive for December, 2009

TwitVid acquires a real-time search engine

Technology.am (Dec. 14, 2009) — TwitVid, a complimentary video host for Twitter, is introducing two latest, useful features on Monday. The first is a real-time search engine that will let users sort through videos both on TwitVid and YouTube. The other is an analytics engine that lets video owners be acquainted with more about who [...]

‘Monster’ iceberg flaking hundreds of offshoots

Technology.am (Dec. 14, 2009) — An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts nearer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over an enormous region of ocean, experts said Monday.
The 140-square-kilometre (54-square-mile) chunk of ice, known as B17B, was seen some 1,700 kilometers (1,054 miles) south-southwest of Australia’s western coast on December 9, [...]

Hi-tech, ecological dream home takes shape in Japan

Technology.am (Dec. 14, 2009) — Solar panels on the roof and a fuel-cell in the backyard power the family house, a lithium-ion battery stores the excess electricity, hot water pipes double as floor heating, and good insulation saves energy all round. However it’s the little high-tech touches that give this eco-house a cutting edge when [...]

Review on Acer Aspire Z5610

Technology.am (Dec 14, 2009) — Acer’s $899 Aspire Z5610 makes life dreadfully complicated for its sub-$1,000 all-in-one competition. The reason is that its 23-inch LCD is the prevalent in this price range by far, to the point where it even encroaches on price of Apple’s 21.5-inch $1,199 iMac. Acer requires a a small number of [...]

Review on Nokia N900

Technology.am (Dec 14, 2009) — The Nokia N900 is the next development of the company’s Internet Table, and don’t allow its smaller size trick you. It delivers more supremacy, adds phone capabilities, and has one of most tough mobile Web browsers on the market at the moment. It in addition runs on the Linux-based Maemo [...]

`Google introduces Nexus One phones’

Technology.am (Dec. 14, 2009) — Google Inc plans to trade its own cellphone straight to consumers as soon as next year, bypassing wireless operators in an exceptional tactical move, the Wall Street Journal cited sources.
Called the Nexus One and made by Smartphone maker HTC, the phone will run on the search giant’s Android operating system [...]

Does Mozilla have the power to pull another Firefox with email?

Technology.am (Dec. 09, 2009) — In a lot of markets, open source has played catch-up for years to the proprietary incumbents. Currently, however, open source is taking the lead in areas as assorted as operating systems (Linux), browsers (Firefox), and databases (MySQL).
Strangely, given the ubiquity of e-mail, one has never seen an actually good open-source [...]

Patent Office puts green tech on quick pathway

Technology.am (Dec. 08, 2009) — Patent requests associated to green technology will get the corresponding of the carpool lane at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The patent office on Monday introduced a pilot program to speed up the reviews of green technology-related patents. The objective is to trim as much as one year off the [...]

Seagate enters solid-state drive market

Technology.am (Dec. 08, 2009) — Seagate is making a delayed although potentially market-changing entry into the solid-state drives marketplace. Solid-state drives are usually quicker than hard-disk drives, predominantly at retrieving data, and have won restricted approval in the laptop market. Seagate, though, is targeting the more profitable and potentially larger server market and will contend [...]

Google sues over suspected work-at-home scams

Technology.am (Dec. 08, 2009) — Google is taking authorized action to end companies from supposedly using the search giant’s name to trap public into paying for supposed work-at-home kits advertised online and in e-mails.
The company filed a court case on Monday in federal court in Salt Lake City in opposition to Pacific WebWorks and other, [...]