Posts Tagged ‘technology news’

A day after civil engineering department students of Faculty of Technology and Engineering, MS University, secured third position in Bascule Bridge designing competition, students from metallurgy and material department stood first in Mech Compute competition. Looks like this time its raining awards for thes young enthusiasts who’ve participated in TechFest 2010, Asia’s biggest technical festival [...]

VoIP provider Skype has struck deals with two TV makers to offer over-the-Internet videoconferencing features to users. LG and Panasonic will release Web-connected TVs later this year which, combined with a separately sold webcam, will enable video chat from one’s living room. Skype also announced the availability of 720p HD video chat on its existing [...]

Google has officially unveiled the Nexus One smartphone, a handset running an advanced version of the Android operating system. The Nexus features an AMOLED display, a 1 GHz processor, and extensive speech input capabilities. The phone is available immediately either as an unlocked phone or with a two-year contract with T-Mobile. A Verizon version is [...]

Google has open-sourced an experimental programming language that attempts to crossbreed a dynamic web-happy language like Python with a compiled language like C++. There has been a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript, [but] some fundamental concepts such [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In the first week of May 2009, Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, has introduced the latest version of the e-reader, names as Amazon Kindle.
Kindle DX is the third edition of e-reader which is released just after 3 month of kindle 2.
This time Amazon has introduced some more features with new look in Kindle [...]

Have you ever thought about the elevator that can carry you to the edge of space.
According to the scientist at York University in Toronto, a huge inflatable tower can take you to the edge of space without any rocket, cable-based elevator.
If it could be built from a stable mountain it could reach an altitude of [...]