Posts under ‘Did you say Technology???’

With a little help from the Beatles, Super Mario and price cuts from Sony and Microsoft, the slumping video game industry is hoping for a sales resurrection this fall.
The season gets a late-summer start today, 1st September, with the release of “Guitar Hero 5,” a game featuring music from the Rolling Stones, Nirvana and other [...]

Apple Inc.’s latest operating system software, Snow Leopard, will go on sale this Friday. The Mac OS X version 10.6 software will debut at Apple’s retail stores and authorized resellers nationwide. Apple’s online store is now taking pre-orders.
Snow Leopard’s release comes days before its promised September launch. It precedes by two months the launch of [...]

Nokia Corp., the world’s largest maker of cell phones has said that it will start making a small, light laptop, similar to ones PC manufacturers are already selling through wireless carriers around the world.
The Finnish company says the Nokia Booklet 3G will run Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software, have a 10-inch screen and weigh 2.8 pounds. That [...]

The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s most popular filesharing websites, is off the Internet after a Swedish court threatened its bandwith supplier with a hefty fine, news reports said Tuesday. Stockholm’s district court on Monday ordered Black Internet to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay or face a fine of 500,000 kronor (70,000 [...]

Samsung’s highly slim ( but not small ) range of LED TVs, witnessed its launch in India recently. The 8000 series boasts of a 55″ model that becomes the flagship LED TV offering from the company in India. Samsung has also added a 32″ model to its 6000 series and another 55″ model to its [...]

Yulong, a mainland Chinese supplier of high-end smartphones, announced the launch of its 3G mobile phone, the Coolpad N900. Just as Apple is about to reach an agreement on entering the China market through cooperation with China Unicom, the new Coolpad N900 looms over the sales prospects of the iPhone 3G by winning itself the [...]

Another landmark in the book technology area. Leading scanner manufacturer Zeutschel introduces an innovative system which optimally corrects the spine fold during the scanning of books.
“Perfect Book” employs a line scan camera as well as a matrix camera. The image obtained from both image sources is converted into a 3D equivalent. With this, the “Perfect [...]

Twitter has suffered from another attack following one that left the site down for several hours last week.  
Tuesday’s outage was brief. The online messaging site said in its status blog Tuesday afternoon that it is analyzing its traffic data to determine the nature of the latest attack. No other details were given.
Last Thursday, Twitter was [...]

SUN Microsystem, the computer hardware and software vendor made an announcement with Emerson, an Electrical product Manufacturing company that they will collaborate each other in terms of business technology for further improvement of energy efficient data centers. Although, none of the companies announced further financial details. SUN’s share went up 8 cents to $9.24 in [...]

Love reading books from different genres? How do you organize them? If you hadn’t pondered over this yet, heres some food for your thought. Wouln’t it be nice if all the books you read were organized as per category they belonged to – fiction, autobiography, romantic, comedy etc., or perhaps by author? If you are [...]