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        The historical development of mobile has gone from the laptop to the smartphone and, more recently, to the tablet. Laptops are “destination” computing systems. By that I mean that you take the laptop from one place to another where you can use it. Laptops can do everything, but in mobile the

    This January, Sony debuted its new gaming handheld in Tokyo. The portable’s codename was introduced as NGP, or “Next Generation Portable”. Today, at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, Sony revealed the handheld’s final name, PS Vita, as well as its pricing.     The portable has dual touch pads, dual cameras,

    Why Netflix rocks is the same reason that tomorrow’s iCloud announcements will rock. It’s not about the technology, it’s because of the technology that counts. You can feel it if you make the time to. Making time means what?     One evening last week we sat at the bar downstairs at 1

has the features and design points that could make this tablet the biggest threat to the iPad yet.           HP’s TouchPad Might Be iPad’s Top Challenger: 10 Reasons Why Hewlett-Packard has been saying for quite some time now that it has big plans for the tablet space. And earlier this year,

Sony today pushed out a new software update for its PS3 console in preparation for the return of its PlayStation Network service. The update brings the PS3′s software up to version 3.61 and requires users to change their PSN password as part of the new security put in place since Sony’s servers were attacked last

First there was the all mighty serial port, then parallel port, then the hi-tech usb port. Firewire popped in there too. Well now there is this new type of port that will replace them all.  Wow !!! THUNDERBOLT™ TECHNOLOGY The Fastest Connection To Your PC Experience‡ From the company with the fastest processors comes the

On November 16, 2009, Greg Hoglund, a cofounder of computer security firm HBGary, sent an e-mail to two colleagues. The message came with an attachment, a Microsoft Word file called AL_QAEDA.doc, which had been further compressed and password protected for safety. Its contents were dangerous. The HBGary saga: Anonymous to security firm working with FBI:

Amazon.com Widgets Things just got real folks! At their big event today, HP finally announced its swanky new tablet to the world, and it’s a beauty! Called the HP TouchPad, the tablet is the result of Palm being absorbed into the world of HP with webOS beating at the heart of the device. With more

CANTON, OH—QT2D-7, an 11-year-old electric assembly-operations robot, was laid off Monday when the Lawn-Boy plant that has employed him relocated its manufacturing headquarters to New Delhi, India. Enlarge Image QT2D-7 in front of its former place of employment. “Query: What am I going to do now?” QT2D-7 said, panning its infrared eye across the empty

Google has a their very own computer (Cr-48) in the works whose operating system will be cloud based. “Google thinks the Cr-48, which relies on the Web for all its software applications, can compete with conventional laptop computers.” Very much like next-gen phones, which depend on stores for content and apps, their operating system (Chrome

Forget about stopping by the video store on the way home from work. You can find movies, television shows and viral videos online. Watching these videos from the comfort of your couch used to be difficult, but a new generation of inexpensive media streamers makes it easy. Media streamers are small set-top boxes that connect

Google announced this weekend that it has developed a car that can drive itself. A small fleet of the vehicles has logged more than 1,000 miles of entirely automated driving and 140,000 miles of driving with only occasional human intervention. It’s a development of historic significance: few events have changed the experience of life on

Image via Wikipedia Kinda like what the iPad is doing, no more mouse or keyboard. (kevin @ the labs) Microsoft is looking to extend its surface-computing work into the spatial-computing arena with a new research project known as LightSpace. Andy Wilson, a Microsoft research who was key in bringing the Microsoft Surface tabletop to market,

The Stuxnet malware has infiltrated industrial computer systems worldwide. Now, cyber security sleuths say it’s a search-and-destroy weapon meant to hit a single target. One expert suggests it may be after Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant. The reactor building of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, pictured here on Aug. 20, is located about 750 miles

Playstation 3 Hacking – Linux Is Inevitable In the talk “Why Silicon Security is still that hard” by Felix Domke at the 24th Chaos Communication Congress in 2007 (in which he described how he hacked the Xbox 360, and bushing had a cameo at the end explaining how they hacked the Wii), I had a

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | 9:40 AM Posted by Robin Schriebman, Software Engineer Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Given

I have the older one, love it. Always goes with my laptop. Will have to upgrade when this comes out. Kevin Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse has been finally been unveiled to the world. It is one sexy looking mouse by Microsoft with a design very similar to the last-generation Arc Mouse by Microsoft, except that

Parallax has a really neat 8 core 32 bit CPU called the ‘Propeller’.  It’s been out for a few years but it is gaining popularity.  There is no security with the device as it boots insecurely via a UART or I2C EEPROM.  None the less, we thought it was interesting to see an 8 core

I have the regular Laser Arc Mouse, Love it. Folds up for easy travel. Will have to upgrade when this puppy comes out!! Kevin Microsoft has been teasing a new mystery hardware device over the past week. According to company insiders, the software giant plans to unveil a new Arc Touch Mouse in September. Details

Kinect is more than an Xbox 360 peripheral, it’s the future of Microsoft, or at least a very possible one. It’s the beginning of Microsoft’s plans for natural user interfaces, the step beyond the thing you’re staring at right now. ***Kinect is as much a product of serendipity as anything else. When Microsoft hired Dr.

Motorola and Verizon team up for TV tablet By Kenneth Li and Paul Taylor in New York Published: August 3 2010 20:31 | Last updated: August 3 2010 20:31 Motorola is developing a digital tablet device that will allow users to watch television on it, as the US mobile phone group attempts to chip away

Beagle Protocol Analyzer Data Sheet v3.09 USB info. 1.1 USB Background USB History Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a standard interface for connecting peripheral devices to a host computer. The USB system was originally devised by a group of companies including Compaq, Digital Equipment, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Northern Telecom to replace the existing mixed

by Devin Coldewey on July 31, 2010 The Magic Trackpad (if I must call it that) has generated some controversy on the TC network. MG thinks it signals the end of the mouse era. I think it’s a great tool but is being lauded by a group of people unfamiliar with decent mice (read: Mac

In season 1 of AMC’s hit show Mad Men, Rachel Menken comes to the advertising firm Sterling Cooper because she wants to give her department store, Menken’s, a makeover, so to speak. She wants to transform it from a successful department store into an elite one. “What kind of people do you want [coming into

PS3 takes on the Wii

The recently installed supercomputer at National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen by China has come out to be the second fastest computing system, following the Jaguar. Jaguar is located at National Centre for Computational Sciences in United States. It is utilized by the US department of energy for calculation and simulation for climate modeling, renewable energy,

build-a-scrolling-led-messageboard-in-one-day The microcontroller market has become a very competitive with lots of players, big and small. But there are also a lot of potential clients and this is why microcontroller manufacturers try to make their products increasingly accessible and attractive to use. It started with cheap and even free tools, and then came the cheap