Posts Tagged ‘Start Ups’

Twitter Revamps Homepage

Technology.am (July 29, 2009) — Twitter, a popular micro-blogging service portal, which allows users to send messages with a limit of 140 characters, has revamped and launched its new homepage. What is most interesting about the makeover is the company’s focus on search. As a real time search tool it is invaluable to a host [...]

Novo-G supercomputer fastest of its type in world, becomes operational

Technology.am (July 24, 2009) — A Novo-G supercomputer, the most powerful computer of its kind in the world became operational at the University of Florida. The Novo means “make anew,” and G means “genesis.”
A “reconfigurable” computer, it can rearrange its internal circuitry to suit the task at hand. It can rearrange their internal circuitry like [...]

North Carolina State University building Nanofiber anodes to make Better Battery

Technology.am (July 23, 2009) — Current batteries used in hybrid and electric vehicles are large, expensive and not entirely practical for those looking for high-power vehicles, or for people driving them on longer trips.
Dr. Xiangwu Zhang, professor at North Carolina State University and his team are using a technique called electrospinning to combine lithium [...]

Google offers ‘Guided Tour’ of the Moon

Technology.am (July 21, 2009) — Google Earth can now take you to the moon. Google Inc. is offering a more wide-ranging view of the Moon, 40 years after humans first landed there.
To commemorate Monday’s anniversary of the Apollo 11 crew’s first steps on the lunar surface, Google Earth is adding a guided moon [...]

Barnes & Noble Launches World’s Largest eBookstore‎

Technology.am (July 21, 2009) — New York-based retailer Barnes & Noble will allow customers to buy books to read on a variety of handheld platforms and computers.
Barnes & Noble will sell books that shoppers can read on the iPhone, iTouch, BlackBerry and most personal computers, whereas competitors have sold devices designed solely for reading [...]

‘Copernicium’ proposed as name for newly discovered element 112

Technology.am (July 18, 2009) — Professor Sigurd Hofmann and his team at the Center for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) in Darmstadt, discovered and suggested the name “copernicium” with the element symbol “Cp” for the new element 112.
They suggested the name “copernicium” in honor of scientist and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). It was Copernicus who discovered [...]

Microsoft Office 2010 Free Version Moves Online

Technology.am (July 16, 2009) — Microsoft is finally putting versions of its Office applications suite online, as part of its move to Office 2010.
The suite of Office Web Applications – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote – will be available to consumers, free of charge, as part of Microsoft’s Windows Live service, which has [...]

Blockbuster, Samsung set on-demand video pact

Technology.am (July 15, 2009) — Blockbuster Inc announced an agreement that lets consumers to instantly view movies and video from its OnDemand service on Samsung’s televisions and electronics devices, to regain ground on rival Netflix Inc.
Under the pact Samsung’s next generation of high-definition TVs will include a built-in feature that will enable people to rent [...]

See Your Photos in 3D on new website 3Dsee

Technology.am (July 9, 2009) — Dr David McKinnon designed software by which you could turn your holiday snaps into three-dimensional images. Anyone can log onto Dr McKinnon’s website and use the software prototype, called 3Dsee, for free.
Now there is no need to spend a long time making 3D models to create footage in the [...]

World’s oldest Bible Published in Full Online

The world’s oldest surviving Bible, which has been scattered around the globe for more than a century, has been published in full online. More than 800 surviving pages and fragments from the The Codex Sinaiticus, which was written in Greek Your browser may not support display of this image.
on parchment leaves in the fourth century [...]