Category Archives: News

There are a lot of things to consider when buying a smartphone–operating system, screen size, keyboard or no keyboard, camera–but one feature that more people are starting to pay attention to is the processor. This is, no doubt, in part … Continue reading →

When it comes to the mobile world, it’s all about apps. More than ever, people are using apps to augment the capabilities of their smartphones. They can remind you of your next meeting, play the latest Lady Gaga song, and … Continue reading →

The rumors from last week about Apple being “on the edge” of launching a cloud-movie service that would enable iTunes users to stream movies from Apple’s servers and then re-download them to other devices are at best premature. More

When we dig uranium out of the ground, 99% of it is U-238, which we don’t care about. 1% of it is U-235, which we use for all kinds of things, including conventional reactor fuel. Bill Gates and some of … Continue reading →

Theoretical area covered by one single 802.22 base station Tired of your Wi-Fi cutting out every time you take your laptop into the bathroom with you? IEEE (also known as the Institute of electronics geeks) has just released a new, … Continue reading →

Before hitching up with Windows Phone and Windows 8, Microsoft’s cross-platform rich Internet application framework gets a modest upgrade Microsoft Silverlight has had a topsy-turvy year. Apparently doomed or at least marginalized by HTML5, Silverlight found a foothold in Windows … Continue reading →

There’s a report making the rounds, spurred by a July 6 story in South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper, claiming Microsoft is seeking to charge Samsung $15 per Android device to cover patented technology owned by Microsoft. More

In April this year, Microsoft released a Bing application for the iPad. On July 5, it updated that app, adding a new touch-search capability known as Lasso, to the release. Lasso allows users to search outside the search box, the … Continue reading →

The chip watchers at iSuppli say that Intel continued to gain processor market share even though it was hit by a bug in a chipset used with its “Sandy Bridge” desktop, laptop, and entry server platforms. According to the latest … Continue reading →