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Hybrid Ribbons a Gift for Powerful Batteries
March 26, 2013 9:44 am | by Rice University | News | CommentsThe Rice University lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan determined that the well-studied material is a superior cathode for batteries that could supply both high energy density and significant power density. The research appears online this month in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters.
Dell Drama Takes New Twist with 2 New Buyout Bids
March 26, 2013 9:29 am | by MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsThe two new suitors pursuing Dell have a message for Wall Street: Don't allow Michael Dell to hoard potential gains from the PC maker's expansion into more profitable technology products and services. Competing bidders Carl Icahn and the Blackstone Group LP are wooing Dell shareholder...
Apple Buys WiFi-Location Startup
March 26, 2013 9:22 am | by PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsApple has bought WiFiSLAM, a startup that has been developing a way to use WiFi hotspots to help smartphones navigate large indoor spaces, like stores, airports and conference centers. The purchase is part of Apple's efforts to bolster its own mapping and location capabilities, after breaking up with Google Inc. last year.
British Teenage Whiz Strikes Deal with Yahoo
March 26, 2013 9:13 am | by Associated Press | News | CommentsSeventeen-year-old Nick d'Aloisio, who dreamed up the idea for the content-shortening program when he was studying for his exams, said he was surprised by the deal. As with its other recent acquisitions, Yahoo didn't disclose how much it is paying for Summly, although British newspapers suggested the deal's value at several million dollars.
Techie Fired After Tweeting About Men's Comments
March 25, 2013 11:30 am | by Martha Mendoza and Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press | News | CommentsA female developer was fired after tweeting about a group of men she said were making sexual comments at a computer programming conference, fueling an already vigorous debate about gender equality and culture in Silicon Valley. Adria Richards wrote on her blog at http://butyoureagirl.com that she was seated...
Experts: NKorea Training Teams of 'Cyber Warriors'
March 25, 2013 11:24 am | by YOUKYUNG LEE, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsInvestigators have yet to pinpoint the culprit behind a synchronized cyberattack in South Korea last week. But in Seoul, the focus is fixed on North Korea, which South Korean security experts say has been training a team of computer-savvy "cyber warriors" as cyberspace becomes a fertile battleground in the nations' rivalry.
Dell Board Will Deal with Icahn, Blackstone
March 25, 2013 11:15 am | by TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer | News | CommentsA special committee of independent Dell Inc. directors said Monday that it will negotiate with buyout specialist Blackstone Group and activist investor Carl Icahn over bids that rival an offer of more than $24 billion from CEO and Chairman Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners.
Compact Radar Takes an Inside View
March 25, 2013 11:06 am | by German Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP | News | CommentsThe W-band radar is equipped with a 3-channel antenna with dielectric lenses. © Fraunhofer IAFThe human eye cannot see through wood, paper, or plastic. But a compact radar with a modular design now makes it possible to see the invisible:The millimeter wave sensor penetrates non-transparent material.
HotSpot Episode 5: Robo Cloud
March 25, 2013 10:55 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsThis week on WDD’s HotSpot, brought to you by Memory Protection Devices, Green Peak’s Open Smart Home Framework connects the ZigBee network to the Internet; Rapyuta allows robot’s data-processing functions to be performed in the cloud; Fujitsu and IT/Logistics’ Kidtrack help keep track of kids who take the bus...
Google Exec Urges Myanmar to Embrace Free Speech
March 22, 2013 9:40 am | by ERIKA KINETZ, Associated Press | News | CommentsGoogle on Thursday launched a local homepage, www.google.com.mm, which will allow the tailoring of Myanmar content. On Wednesday it unblocked the Google Apps store to allow access from within Myanmar. The U.S. lifted most sanctions on doing...
BlackBerry CEO Says iPhone is Outdated
March 22, 2013 9:35 am | by ROB GILLIES, Associated Press | News | CommentsThorsten Heins made the comment Thursday on the eve of the much-delayed launch of the new touchscreen BlackBerry in the United States. AT&T begins selling the Z10 touchscreen BlackBerry on Friday, more than six weeks after RIM launched the devices elsewhere.
SKorea Misidentifies China as Cyberattack Origin
March 22, 2013 9:33 am | by SAM KIM, Associated Press | News | CommentsIn an embarrassing twist to a coordinated cyberattack on six major South Korean companies this week, investigators said Friday they wrongly identified a Chinese Internet Protocol address as the source. A joint team of government and private experts still...
Deal to Sell Dell May Be About to Face Competition
March 22, 2013 9:32 am | by MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsThe answer could come Friday. That's the end of a 45-day period that Dell Inc.'s board of directors set to allow for offers that might top a Feb. 5 deal to sell the personal computer maker to CEO Michael Dell and a group of investors for $24.4 billion.
The Internet Could Crash. We Need a Plan B
March 22, 2013 9:08 am | by TED Talk | Videos | CommentsInternet pioneer Danny Hillis argues that the Internet wasn't designed for this kind of scale, and sounds a clarion call for us to develop a Plan B: a parallel system to fall back on if -- or when -- the Internet crashes.
IEEE ICC 2013 to Explore Latest Advances for “Bridging the Broadband Divide” in Budapest, Hungary from June 9 – 13
March 21, 2013 1:19 pm | by IEEE International Conference on Communications | News | CommentsThe IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013), the leading international venue dedicated to the advancement of wireless and wireline communications worldwide, will hold its next annual event in the Central European cultural and industrial center of Budapest Hungary...
Engineering Newswire 30: Augmented Reality Recognizes Your Friends
March 21, 2013 10:08 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsToday on Engineering Newswire, brought to you by Interpower, the premier supplier of power system components for worldwide markets, we’re testing experimental grasshopper rockets, making smooth jazz on the seaboard, and making the Sphero do everything.
Dartmouth Researchers Invent Real Time Secondhand Smoke Sensor
March 21, 2013 9:59 am | by Dartmouth College | News | CommentsMaking headway against a major public health threat, Dartmouth College researchers have invented the first ever secondhand tobacco smoke sensor that records data in real time, a new study in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research shows.
HP Develops Glasses-Free 3D for Mobile Devices
March 21, 2013 9:58 am | by Associated Press | News | CommentsResearchers at Hewlett-Packard Co. have developed a way to put glasses-free 3-D video on mobile devices with a viewing angle so wide that viewers can see an object more fully just by tilting the screen.Glasses-free 3-D is not unique. Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s 3DS handheld allows video game play...
Wireless, Implanted Sensor Broadens Range of Brain Research
March 21, 2013 9:42 am | by National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering | News | CommentsA compact, self-contained sensor recorded and transmitted brain activity data wirelessly for more than a year in early stage animal tests, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. In addition to allowing for more natural studies of brain activity in moving subjects...
Remote Monitors from Global Monitoring to Optimize Operations
March 21, 2013 9:37 am | by Nomadic Safety; Global Monitoring | News | CommentsTo reduce maintenance costs and improve customer service related to the performance of its safety trailers used on remote works sites, Nomadic Safety is installing Remote Monitors from Global Monitoring on its trailers to track various operating parameters.
QuickLogic’s ArcticLink III VX6 Supports Embedded and External Displays from a Single Processor Display Output
March 20, 2013 5:22 pm | by QuickLogic Corporation | News | CommentsQuickLogic Corporation [NASDAQ: QUIK], the innovator in low-power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), announced today the immediate availability of its new ArcticLink III VX6 solution platform device.
Fantastic Flash Memory Combines Graphene and Molybdenite
March 20, 2013 10:38 am | by Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | News | CommentsEPFL scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties -- graphene and molybdenite -- into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, flexibility and energy consumption.
MIT to Release Documents about Activist Swartz
March 20, 2013 10:30 am | by MARK PRATT, Associated Press | News | CommentsThe president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Tuesday that the school will voluntarily release public documents related to the prosecution of free-information activist Aaron Swartz, who hanged himself in January as he faced trial on hacking charges.
New U.S. Military Satellite Launched into Orbit
March 20, 2013 10:24 am | by Associated Press | News | CommentsAn unmanned rocket has launched a new U.S. military satellite into orbit. The Atlas V (five) rocket lifted off Tuesday afternoon from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the second satellite of four planned in the Space-Based Infrared System.
Report: Bribery Probe tTargets Microsoft Partners
March 20, 2013 10:22 am | News | CommentsCiting anonymous people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal said the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are examining whether kickbacks were paid to foreign officials to help close sale of software. The probe's targets include resellers of Microsoft software...
