Constantly checking the side-view and rear-view mirrors to ensure your car doesn’t get a scratch could soon become a thing of the past, thanks to scientists who have developed a gadget thatves drivers a 360 degree view around their car.
The gadget, developed by Fujitsu Laboratories, uses four external cameras to produce a 3-D image on […]
Mobile officials are considering providing free, wireless Internet services in the downtown district, joining the ranks of other cities with free wi-fi for roving laptop users on Main Street.Mobile spokeswoman Barbara Drummond said Tuesday the city is considering free Wi-Fi as part of its long-term planning to attract young professionals and creative people to the […]
International Business Machines Corp said on Tuesday that it plans to acquire privately-owned Transitive Corp, whose technology helps businesses use software on IBM computers that was designed to run on rival systems.Financial terms were not disclosed.
Armonk, New York-based IBM already bundles programs from Los Gatos, California-based Transitive with software that it packages with some of […]
Electronic Arts Inc unveiled its first personal training product on Thursday, tapping into the growing appeal of video games as fitness systems as seen with Nintendo Co Ltd’s hit title “Wii Fit” earlier this year.The $60 title, EA Sports Active, is exclusive to Nintendo’s Wii console, and will hit store shelves in March 2009. Targeted […]
Toshiba and Nvidia have teamed up to create Toshiba’s most powerful gaming laptop.
The laptops feature the new highly integrated GeForce 9400M graphics processing unit (GPU) along with a pair of Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTS enthusiast-class GPUs. The Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q708 and X305-Q706, the first pair of laptops to incorporate three powerful Nvidia GPUs, gives users […]
Occasionally, a video game will reshape the way gamers see virtual worlds. Much like “Wolfenstein 3D,” “Super Mario 64” and “Half-Life” before it, the stunning first-person action-adventure game “Mirror’s Edge” (Electronic Arts, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, $59.99) smashes the conventions of its predecessors.
As a superagile courier named Faith — who’s usually being […]
A website of Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime minister hopeful L.K. Advani was launched here Saturday afternoon by former governor of Jammu and Kashmir S.K. Sinha on the occasion of Advani’s 81st birthday.Called lkadvani.in, the website has 700 pages and 350 images and is interactive. ‘This is the biggest portal of any political leader in India,’ […]
Apple customers awaiting their new MacBook Airs may have to wait a little longer than they had thought, but potential Mac Mini customers should sit tight. That seems to the state of the Mac this Wednesday, according to AppleInsider. The site notes that customers who ordered the new MacBook Airs with the 120GB hard […]
Expect a slew of electronic appeals for your vote in the coming Delhi assembly elections as political parties are planning to harness new technologies to reach out to voters.Leaders of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are holding meetings with IT experts to make best use of the technologies in order to impress […]
Refuting earlier claims, researchers from German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care have found that birth control pills does not deserve its reputation for causing weight gain.Hormonal methods of contraception and intrauterine devices (IUDs) are the most effective long-term ways to avoid unwanted pregnancy.
And weight gain and weight loss were reported to be […]