All Entries in the "Technology" Category
Exclusive: Microsoft considers bidding for Yahoo
Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday. Microsoft joins a host of other companies looking at Yahoo, which has a market value of about $20 billion [...]
Apple stumble seen opening door for rivals
TAIPEI/HELSINKI (Reuters) – Rival smartphone makers could exploit a rare letdown by Apple in the launch of its new iPhone 4S model, which failed to wow fans, and grab a bigger share of the most lucrative part of the phone market. However, analysts also noted that Apple’s decision to keep older iPhone models and slash [...]
New iPhone expected from Apple on Tuesday
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple Inc. is unveiling a new, more powerful version of its wildly popular smartphone — more than a year after it launched the iPhone 4. Last week, Apple Inc. e-mailed invitations to a media event at its headquarters in Cupertino on Tuesday morning. The invite says “let’s talk iPhone,” implying the [...]
Sony Ericsson: “Should have taken iPhone seriously”
Handset maker Sony Ericsson has said that they probably should have taken Apple’s iPhone more seriously when it was first released in 2007. The comments from CEO Bert Nordberg come just a day before Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 5 or a cheaper version of their current iPhone 4. Apples iPhone 4 (image: [...]
Dell introduces new Vostro laptop
Dell has launched a new Vostro, the thin and sleek Vostro V131, to its award-winning Vostro laptop line. Dells thin and sleek Vostro V131 (image: Dell) As one of the lightest and thinnest products in the Vostro portfolio, the Vostro V131 is designed specifically for highly mobile business customers. An ultrathin, ultra-stylish chassis houses the [...]
Elementary, Doctor Watson!
After Deep Blue, unbeatable at chess, IBM designed Watson. Developed over more than four years, this supercomputer is capable of quickly understanding and analysing questions put to it in natural language. It demonstrated its impressive abilities last February, when it won the TV quiz show “Jeopardy!”. The next step for Watson: to make medical diagnoses! [...]
The USA world soccer champions!
It’s unbelievable: the United States have become the football champions of the world! You really aren’t dreaming. Except that the players in question are not made of flesh and blood… And they have proved to be much more skillful than Messi, the genius with the soccer ball. The Americans dominated the RoboCup, a football world [...]
Change gear by thought alone!
In the not so distant future, it is quite likely that a great many human-machine interactions will be possible through thought alone! Researchers around the world are pulling out all the stops to design prototype helmets capable of capturing, and above all correctly interpreting, the nerve impulses in our brains. The Japanese manufacturer Toyota, conscious [...]
On the way towards the creation of synthetic life
In “Splice”, a film starring Adrien Brody released in 2010, a couple of mad 21st century scientists succeed in creating an entirely artificial creature in a laboratory. Is it just purely science fiction fantasy? Not quite… Since this feature length movie echoes research that is actually taking place. At the Scripps Research Institute (USA), scientists [...]
The robot ice sculptor
Clearly, advances in robotic engineering will soon adversely impact the careers of artists in all sorts of fields! We remember the robot able to draw portraits, recently developed by Goldsmiths University in London. A gadget endowed with equally impressive abilities has been built by McGill University in Canada. Dreamt up within the framework of a [...]
