May 2012
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High-tech bathroom featured in Parade of Homes →
The Parade of Homes is underway. Among the many features found in the new homes are technologically-savvy bathrooms. At Home number 13, by Epique Homes, heating coils in the master bath floor tiles ensure feet there will never be chilly again. And the full length mirror is much more than that. It’s a two-way mirror, and embedded in it is a flat screen TV.
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Five star in-room entertainment for miners
Employee retention is one of the major priorities of organizations and companies. In the resource industry, keeping your human resources is just as integral as finding and recruiting them. In Australia, competition to keep experienced mining workers is fierce. To improve operations efficiency, and encourage miners to stay-put, many mining companies have turned to satellite communications to...
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Facebook entering the smartphone industry
Just after the disastrous IPO listing by Facebook comes the rumors that the social networking giant is planning to launch its own version of a smartphone. Several unnamed sources were cited by The New York Times in suggesting that the network has hired smartphone engineers to develop mobile devices aimed at revolutionizing the industry. Facebook, the websites, has already changed the way...
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What is a Geostationary Earth Orbit?
A geostationary orbit, or Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO), is a circular orbit—in physics, the gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space, for example, the orbit of a planet around the center of a star system, such as the Solar System. It is 35,786 km (22,000 mi) above the Earth’s equator, or the intersection of a sphere’s surface with the plane perpendicular to the...
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Slums Inspire Innovative Design
While most people look at nature, colors, artworks, and even space for architectural designs, a student working on his Master’s thesis Aalborg University, Denmark takes design inspiration from a slum in Columbia. Called the “Favela Cloud”, the designer takes in components from the community-cluster concepts to create a flexible “cloud” that he envisions as a new way...
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Smartphones with quad-core chips and 4G LTE coming...
Quad-core processors have not yet been combined with 4G LTE in smartphones, but that could change soon.
Nvidia has announced a quad-core Tegra 3 chip and a third-party LTE modem will be used in the Fujitsu Arrows X LTE phone, which will come to Japan in “summer.” A company spokesperson could not provide a specific date, and further details of the smartphone were not immediately...
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Why Facebook Can’t Resist Mobile Ads
Social media patrons always treat ads as the ultimate evil, forcing major social networking sites to be prudent in running ads. Facebook has managed to run ads without annoying users, but the temptation of increasing mobile ad revenues is now haunting popular sites like Facebook. In the February IPO filing of Facebook, the company hinted on possible monetization of its mobile offshoot like in...
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New Google data show Microsoft's piracy problems →
Google’s Internet search engine receives more complaints about websites believed to be infringing on Microsoft’s copyrights than it does about material produced by entertainment companies pushing for tougher online piracy laws.
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Selling Links In a Free Internet Market
Google penalizes sites that directly sell or buy links, but accomplices like link brokers and sites that run “Buy Links” ads are left unpunished while they enjoy their big commissions.
Such websites would not buy or sell links on their account for fear of Google ban, yet they yield to the monetary incentives of running link trade ads. These websites are confident that their Internet...
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Security Risks for IP-Based SATCOM Networks
The SATCOM industry is rapidly shifting to IP-based platforms . The use of IP technologies is good for satellite carriers and their clientele as it lowers costs while improving performance and interoperability. However, this trend also introduces increased cyber security risks.
According to Felix Linder of Recurity Labs , satellite networks can be vulnerable to Internet hacking. Some...
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$12.5b Google, Motorola deal heralds new...
GOOGLE has completed its US$12.5 billion ($12.7 billion) purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the internet’s most powerful company as it tries to shape the future of mobile computing.
The deal closed nine months after Google’s surprise announcement that it wanted to expand into the hardware business with the most expensive and riskiest...
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US veterans the next generation of organic farmers
Compost tea (a mixture of recycled organic matter soaked in water), hydroponic living basil, and organic certification are terms that, at first glance, may not have much of a connection to military veterans. Colin Archipley, a decorated Marine sergeant, and his wife Karen however saw the combination as a win-win when they founded the Veterans Sustainable Agriculture Training (VSAT) program outside...
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When Facebook Is Too Much
Are you getting tired of Facebook? Or are you tired of all the constant non-sense updates, the streaming, the privacy issues, and the influx of spammers? It seems are world now revolves around a single word, “Like”, and every event in your live deserves a mention in the social networking site. Understandably, Facebook has done wonders especially in reconnecting with old friends, and...
Australian Satellites: Australia’s Military Satcom... →
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Singapore – The U.S.’s increasing presence in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region has implications for military satellite communications, says the Australian Defense Department ’s satellite capability project officer, Sqdn. Leader Daniel Howarth.
“It will mean more challenges,” as the U.S….
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Microsoft bolsters parental controls with Windows...
Aiming to give parents the option of keeping an eagle eye over their kid’s computer use, Microsoft revamps its parental controls in a “monitor first” approach that includes weekly reports.
Microsoft aims to give parents more control over their children’s computer use on Windows 8 with a new feature announced this week.
“With Windows 8, you can monitor what your...
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Safeguarding Satellite Data from Internet Hackers →
Network operators must learn from past hacking incidence in order to avoid bigger damages from security breaches. Surprisingly, many satellite companies and ground service operators fell victim to cyber intrusion due to widely accepted myths.
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Smartphones can improve QOL for people with poor...
iPhones and other smartphones can be a huge help to the visually impaired, but few vision doctors are recommending them to patients, according to a study co-authored by a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine ophthalmologist.
Researchers surveyed 46 low-vision adults from the Chicago Lighthouse and the Spectrios Institute for Low Vision in Wheaton, Ill. Participants’...
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Solar-Powered Implants Could Help The Blind
Photovoltaic solar power has a lot of remarkable applications; it has made solar power more efficient and cost-effective. Now, thanks to a team from Stanford University, it might help the blind regain their sight.
Retinal implants can bring help those with vision problems, but they have always come with the need for an external power source- and that means wires. The Palanker Lab, led by Daniel...
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New Apple MacBook lineup coming next month
Apple is preparing a new lineup of thinner MacBook laptops running on more powerful chips made by Intel, Bloomberg news reported, quoting inside sources.
The MacBook Pro machines, to be unveiled at Apple’s annual developers conference starting June 11, also will feature high- definition screens like those on the iPhone and iPad, as well as flash memory to cut startup times and extend...
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Apple founder: 'I don't have broadband'
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has stunned a business forum in Perth with a personal admission that no one saw coming.
Answering a question on Australia’s $36 billion national broadband network (NBN), the American computer wizard and engineer let it be known he didn’t have broadband internet at his home in Los Gatos, California.
“I don’t have broadband at my...
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Pixorial leads with Google Drive
Pixorial updated its video-sharing iOS app last month
When Pixorial updated its video-sharing iOS app last month, the company added a feature its competitors couldn’t yet match: Integration with the new Google Drive cloud storage service.
“One of our main goals is to eventually allow people to have their videos anywhere, anytime, on any device,” said John Martyniak,...
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Social media’s impact on kids merits big debate
What’s the Big Debate?
Facebook’s big stock offering on Wall Street must be followed by an intensive debate on Main Street about social media’s powerful impact on children, an expert on the topic says.
Jim Steyer, founder of Common Sense Media, a San Francisco think tank focusing on media and families, said the technology that Facebook represents is having ‘an enormous impact’ on...
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Wanted: More apps for Windows Phone
Even as positive reaction rolled in for the Lumia 900, the flagship fruit of Microsoft and Nokia’s smartphone partnership, reviewers repeatedly mentioned one point: the lack of apps for Windows Phone compared with its rivals.
The Windows Phone Marketplace has 80,000 apps — a big number but one that pales compared with the half million each Apple has for its iPhone and Google has for...
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What are the biggest risks to Facebook?... →
Just recently, the FTC has probed into the widely report $1 billion acquisition of Instagram by Facebook. Last month, the world’s largest social networking site announced plans to buy the photo-sharing application, with the deal expected to be closed by the end of the second financial quarter of 2012.
Click the link and check out the risks which lie ahead of Zuckerberg’s social media...
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Magnetic bacteria may help build computer hard...
Itsy-bitsy, super-speedy computers of the future may be grown with bacteria, according to researchers who’ve already harnessed a magnet-making microbe to start building hard-drive components.
The little living factories may come in handy as the computer industry races to build smaller and smaller components at the nanoscale for supercomputers the size of a pinhead.
We’ve already seen a hard...
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Internally Rechargeable Batteries for iPhones and...
Apple won patents for its battery technology which seeks to provide long-lasting energy supply to its mobile gadgets. “Fuel Cell System to Power a Portable Computing Device” and “Fuel Cell System Coupled to a Portable Computing Device” were approved by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on December 22. The fuel system will reduce battery size, fuel system weight and cost, according...
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U.S. Military Seeking Implantable Microchips in...
The U.S. government is developing implantable sensor microchips for use in American troops, supposedly to monitor their health on the battlefield, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced earlier this year seeking proposals. But critics of the scheme are speaking out, warning that the new technology could just be a prelude to expanding the use of related devices among the...
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Google Penguin Update: How It's Affecting the SEO...
There’s been a great deal of talk about the Google Penguin update since it launched last month, and a lot of webmasters are still trying to sift through the rubble and determine if their sites were even impacted by Penguin or some other Google algorithm change. In addition to Penguin, there were two Panda refreshes last month, and over 50 other changes, which Google finally listed on Friday.
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Google Penguin Update: No More Duplicate Content
Google is changing the search engine game with its latest update. Few actually know how the Penguin Update works but Google’s Matt Cutts explain that the latest version of indexing sites aims ate delivering quality search results. Quality search results can only be accomplished without aggressive webspam tactics. Using white hat SEO methods is also more recommended.
Another thing on the...
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Samsung to launch next Galaxy phone at London...
Samsung will put the rumours and alleged leaks about its next flagship smartphone to rest when it unveils the handset in London later on Thursday.
More than 20 million copies of the existing Galaxy S2 have been sold since its launch in April 2011.
Analysts say its success helped Samsung overtake Nokia to become the world’s best-selling mobile phone maker.
Changes in screen size, form...
Indian space agency foresees GSLV test flights...
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Indian space agency foresees GSLV test flights within year
India has scheduled up to four space launches in the next year, including two crucial tests of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, a medium-class rocket envisioned as the cornerstone of Indian ambitions for fully independent access to space.
The chairman of India’s space agency, K. Radhakrishnan, announced the...
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Gmail Adds New Features
Now it’ll be easy to translate that all those “cheap V1agra” emails you receive.
Google announced on Tuesday that Automatic Message Translation — a Gmail feature that translates messages from one language to another — has graduated from Gmail labs.
Jeff Chin, a product manager for Google Translate, wrote in a blog post on the official Gmail blog that because...
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Mac 'Flashback' virus attacking 600,000 units
Mac ‘Flashback’ virus stealing $10,000 a day
A virus infecting Macintosh computers is picking Google’s pocket by hijacking advertising “clicks”, tallying as much as $10,000 daily, according to internet security firm Symantec.
A component of the widespread Flashback virus targets Google search queries made using Chrome, Safari, or Firefox browsers and directs...
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Reviews for the Huawei R205 MiFi
Owning a pocket-sized portable internet connection ready to use wherever you are has never been so appealing.
As everything online moves towards the fast go-anywhere connection of smartphones, tablets and netbooks, and the drab experience of sitting at a desktop becomes something we reminisce about, more and more devices are surfacing aimed squarely at mobile internet users.
Vodafone’s new...
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