The hot, exciting and anticipated 2010 is finally here. Tech geeks all over the world rejoiced with the vast amounts of progress in science and technology, to make gadgets much faster, powerful, smaller and cheaper in the last year. 2009 was quite a mark in the last decade, with loads of new stuff coming out, faster than consumers can actually use. Before we give the final farewell to the past year, let’s have a look at the highlights of the year, what was good, what was bad and what made a mark.
1. Twitter Makes News – Livens up the Internet
Started as a micro blogging site, Twitter has progressed into a social networking site, which some people swear their lives by. Living without Twitter is absolutely impossible for some people, including extremely busy celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and now, even Bill Gates! When Michael Jackson passed away, most of us did not hear it on the news, rather, we heard it through Twitter. Twitter is quite clearly becoming the hotspot for top news to leak out and spread faster than a wild fire. It has also become a solid medium for social commentary on a massive undeniable scale. So, if you’ve not joined the Twitter bandwagon yet, it’s high time you did so… You don’t want to be a social outcast now, do you? Read more…
This might seem like a far fetched notion, but it is actually not as outlandish as you might think. At the MIT media lab Europe in Dublin just not too long ago, some researchers developed a system in which no wires are needed for a player to control a video game character with their mind. This may seem like a dream come true if you are a video game lover, and if you are young, odds are good that, before your life-time is over, you will see this system hit the store shelves. Read more…
As everyone is talking about the new Call of Duty game coming out later this year, there is also a lot of un-verified nonsense running amuck online. Here, we are going to discuss what we will get to see in the new edition to Cod, and we will only investigate those facts which we know to be true.
First off, there have been some rumors claiming that the multiplayer leveling up system will be more rpg based. For example, you would acquire perks by performing certain actions a certain number of times. So, for example, you might acquire extreme conditioning by sprinting for a certain distance during online gameplay. This rumor is unverified. Whether this is true or not has yet to be determined, but it is not verified. It would be awesome, but nobody knows yet. Well, nobody but Infinity Ward. Read more…
Chrysler has finally unveiled some of it’s new technology for 2009. Many of it’s 2009 models will come complete with most of this technology, and many people are anxiously awaiting these new developments from Chrysler. In a press release released by the car company, they talked about several new technological innovations that will not only make their vehicles more safe, but more convenient as well. These innovations are pretty tech-savvy, and have gotten the attention of an entire generation of drivers who crave more technology… well, than it is technology you will have! Read more…
A Laptop With No Keyboard? Check out the latest invention from Apple. What do you think? I think it would take time to get used to type an email on this pretty cool laptop…
Mobile Firefox is today only available for software platforms that runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablets. The work to bring a new mobile firefox version for Nokia smartphones and Samsung smartphones has began.
When Mozilla started to work on a mobile version of the popular browser Firefox, they named it Fennec. The work to develop a new version of Fennec, that will be able to run on S60 platforms, has began.
Christian Sejersen, Director of Mobile Engineering at Mozilla Corporation, revealed on his blog that Mozilla need to have a presence on the Symbian platform. The new version of Fennec will likely be available in the summer 2009. Sejersen also mentioned on his blog that they can´t deploy Fennec for iPhone, RIM and Android for technical or licensing reasons.
As I mentioned above so is Mobile Firefox so far only available for software platforms that runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablets. To give people who don’t have a Nokia Internet Tablet the ability to localize, experiment and build add-ons, they have realeased a package for PCs that runs on Windows, Linux or OS X.
More than 98% of Windows computers are running at least one unpatched application and nearly half of these computers contain 11 or more programs which are at risk from attack.
These alarming revelations are made by Copenhagen-based security company Secunia. Secunia APS says that 98.1% of the PCs on which Personal Software Inspector was installed have one or more applications that have security updates available for downloading and only the remaining 1.9% of the PCs had no out of date programs.
Data for this was gathered from 20000 users of which one third has systems which ran a vulnerable version of five or fewer programs while nearly half of the machines ran 11 or more insecure applications.
Motorola, maker of such stylish phones as the Moto Razr, Moto Rizr etc. has decided to mass produce its concept phone which is called ‘cute phone’. Though it is totted as being the next in line for the smart phone title it has a very limited range of offerings.
It has only a few buttons and it can stand, hide, click snaps and has a colour screen. The internal functionalities are still up to us to guess but going by the size, rather the volume of the phone, one can easily guess that it can accommodate a few more gizmos. Read more…
Have you seen the typo Apple made in iPhone update recently?
They managed to make a typo on a menu on the iPhone. Apple has written the Categories menu on the new Podcast download area of the new application as “Catagories”.
What makes this typo even more embarrassing is a comment from Scott Forstall, Apple’s vice president of Platform Experience, were he said: “I actually have a photographer’s loupe that I use to make sure every pixel is right. We will argue over literally a single pixel.”
A lot has been happening the past few months in the chip manufacturing business. While on one hand Intel’s sales have been soaring, the tiny rival AMD has been struggling. Not many years ago, Intel was troubled at the rate which AMD was eating into it’s profits.
Today, Things are a bit different. Intel still maintains it’s monopoly in the microprocessor business. With sales just dwindling by the day, AMD had no choice, but to take drastic steps in order to be in a position to take on Intel. Among these, was shutting down it’s own manufacturing plants and raking in as many investments as possible from wherever possible. Read more…
