Category: Technology

Technology Updates : Google chief admits to ‘defensive component’ of Google Chrom »

Technology Updates : Google chief admits to ‘defensive component’ of Google Chrom
Google’s chief executive admitted Thursday there was a “defensive component” to the Web search giant’s launch of its own Internet browser, thereby pitting it against Microsoft’s dominant software.

Technology Updates : 10 things we’d like to see in Chrome »

Technology Updates : 10 things we’d like to see in Chrome

Technology Updates : Can Steve Jobs save the iPod? »

Technology Updates : Can Steve Jobs save the iPod?

Technology Updates : First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsof Ad Makes No Sense »

Technology Updates : First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsof Ad Makes No Sense
Besides the slick and probably expensive editing designed to make Jerry Seinfeld look like the more awkward of the pair, there’s not a whole lot of special effects in this clip. In fact, there’s not really a whole lot of anything, including [...]

Technology Updates : New Home Door Locks Can Be Controlled Online »

Technology Updates : New Home Door Locks Can Be Controlled Online
What if locking the front door of your home while you’re away were as easy as hopping on the Internet? At the CEDIA Expo in Denver this week, Ingersoll-Rand Co.’s Schlage unit is showing off door locks that can be wirelessly set or opened via [...]

Technology Updates : How To Erase Your Tracks Online »

Technology Updates : How To Erase Your Tracks Online
Chrome’s launch on Tuesday confirmed a new feature as a must-have in Web-browsing software: a cloak of invisibility that hides the user’s path around the Web. Incognito browsing, like a similar setting in a new version of Internet Explorer released last week, is designed to erase any [...]

Technology Updates : Serious Potential in Google’s Browser »

Technology Updates : Serious Potential in Google’s Browser
Google’s minimalist Chrome browser is built for a future that blurs the lines of Web and desktop. Google argues that current Web browsers were designed before so many of the developments that characterize today’s Web.

Technology Updates : Intel Ready to Announce Six-Core Chip »

Technology Updates : Intel Ready to Announce Six-Core Chip
Intel on September 15 is expected to roll out the Intel Xeon 7400 series Dunnington processor targeted at the server market, the final member of the “Penryn” family of processors, according to sources at server vendors. Penryn will be followed by the Nehalem microarchitecture, due to appear [...]

Technology Updates : Big data: The next Google »

Technology Updates : Big data: The next Google
What will happen in the next 10 years? 10 years ago this month, Google’s first employee turned up at the garage where the search engine was originally housed. What technology at a similar early stage today will have changed our world as much by 2018? We asked some [...]

Technology Updates : GDGT - The new site from Ryan Block & Peter Rojas »

Technology Updates : GDGT - The new site from Ryan Block & Peter Rojas
gdgt is the new consumer electronics site by Peter Rojas and Ryan Block — the guys behind Engadget and Gizmodo. We’re still prepping things (no, this isn’t the final site!), but we’ve got a weekly podcast you can listen to in the [...]

Technology Updates : Sergey Brin: Lack of Mac version ‘embarrassing’ »

Technology Updates : Sergey Brin: Lack of Mac version ‘embarrassing’

Technology Updates : ISPs Hand Over Details of ‘Several Thousand’ Pirates »

Technology Updates : ISPs Hand Over Details of ‘Several Thousand’ Pirates
Two major UK ISPs have been ordered by the High Court to hand over the identities of several thousand alleged file-sharers. BT has confirmed it is involved while Virgin Media was less direct in admitting that lawyers Davenport Lyons, working with Topwear Inc., are about [...]

Technology Updates : Apple Multi-Touch Data Fusion: Camera, Voice, Force Sensors »

Technology Updates : Apple Multi-Touch Data Fusion: Camera, Voice, Force Sensors
Apple has been working in new multi-touch technology that combines touch interfaces with input from the camera and the microphone. For example: this will allow you to select text in the iPhone, say “copy,” go to another application and say “paste” to make this task [...]

Technology Updates : ISPs Will All Spy on Their Customers, Professor Warns »

Technology Updates : ISPs Will All Spy on Their Customers, Professor Warns

Technology Updates : Beautiful “Solar Tree” for Powering Your Gadgets »

Technology Updates : Beautiful “Solar Tree” for Powering Your Gadgets