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Jonathan Schwartz  on what technology has taken the most unexpected turn in your lifetime?:The telephone. I remember when they used to be attached to walls. I remember pay phones, too. Now mobile phones are literally everywhere. There are billions of them around the world, and they've become the dominant device through which people experience the Internet. Via SMS, social networks, maps, bank accounts, music or news -- even camera phones dwarf the number of stand-alone cameras. People fight hard to communicate with one another; now they don't have to fight quite so hard. Mobile devices, and the services delivered through them, will only become more interesting and valuable.

Oracle Database to Get a Dust Up in 11g
Oracle is heading to New York to formally introduce 11g, the company's first major database refresh since the launch of 10g nearly four years ago.

Handset panels moving to higher resolution
QVGA resolution will become the next mainstream specification in the overall handset panel market in the second half of 2007, panel makers estimate.

Baseball goes solar
In advance of the U.S. baseball all-star game in San Francisco this week, a solar electricity system was unveiled Monday (July 9) at the San Francisco Giants' AT&T Park. Some 590 solar panels from Sharp Corp. were used for the solar electricity system, which is the first to be installed in a Major League Baseball stadium.

Apple to turn iPod Nano into iPhone, say reports
Apple is working on a second iPhone, based on the form-factor of the iPod Nano music player, according to online reports that reference a note to clients written by J.P. Morgan analyst Kevin Chang.

Developer models of OpenMoko open-source smartphone released
FIC has announced the official availability of the OpenMoko Neo1973 smartphone developer handsets. The OpenMoko project was first announced by FIC last year with the goal of creating a comprehensive open-source software platform for touchscreen mobile phone devices. The hackable Neo1973 handset—which features a 2.8 inch touchscreen, a 266 Mhz ARM processor, and WiFi—is the first phone designed to run the OpenMoko software platform.

Nantero, HP join to explore flex-electronics apps
July 10, 2007 Nantero, a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices, announced that it is working with HP to explore the use of HP inkjet technology and Nantero's CNT formulation to create flexible electronics products and develop low-cost printable memory applications.

Microsoft Whacks Its Partner Piñata
Microsoft on Tuesday opened its toy box for partners gathered to attend the company's annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, with the aim of helping them better serve their joint customers – and keeping them happy.

Posted at 02:51PM Jul 10, 2007 by barkodar in General  |  Comments[1]