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NASA, Intel, SGI Plan to 'Soup Up' Supercomputer
2008-5-9 |
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. ¡ª NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency's supercomputer performance and capacity.
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3Dconnexion Unveils SpaceNavigator for Notebooks 3D Mouse for On-the-Go 3D Professionals and Enthusiasts
2008-4-9 |
FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 3Dconnexion, a Logitech company, today announced the newest addition to its award-winning 3D mouse product line - the SpaceNavigator™ for Notebooks. Designed for on-the-go 3D professionals and enthusiasts, the SpaceNavigator for Notebooks enables a precise, rich 3D experience in a compact, mobile design that's only half the weight of its desktop counterpart - the SpaceNavigator.
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Nokia Launches Navigator Phone With GPS
2008-2-13 |
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) last year promised to focus more on location-based services and to launch more devices with GPS capability this year. The world's No. 1 phone maker delivered on its promise on Monday with the launch of the new Nokia 6210 Navigator and the next version of its mapping software.
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TD-SCDMA Will Dominate in China, but Elsewhere Faces Tough Going
2008-1-18 |
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TD-SCDMA is expected to be the dominant 3G technology in China, due to the heavyweight government support it receives. However there are no indications that 3G licenses will be issued by the end of 2007, and according to ABI Research analyst Hwai Lin Khor, ''TD-SCDMA is likely to face an uphill battle outside of Mainland China, even in Hong Kong.''
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The Next Step for GPS, WiFi and Web Integration
2007-11-27 |
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The folks at Dash Networks, who are readying a next-generation GPS-plus device, have gotten their first pre-production shipment of their forthcoming products and were set to start putting the first batch of them through their paces, according to Dash's Rob Currie on the company's blog.
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Stealthy, Versatile, and Jam Resistant Antennas made of Gas
2007-11-14 |
A new antenna made of plasma (a gas heated to the point that the electrons are ripped free of atoms and molecules) works just like conventional metal antennas, except that it vanishes when you turn it off. This prototype plasma antenna is stealthy, versatile, and jam-resistant. Credit: T. R. Anderson and I. Alexeff
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D-Wave's quantum computer ready for latest demo
2007-11-12 |
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During a session at the SC07 supercomputing conference in Reno, Nev., Hartmut Neven, a Google specialist in image recognition, will show an image recognition algorithm running on a device, made by start-up D-Wave Systems, which is claimed to be the first practical quantum computer.
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'Phononic Computer' Could Process Information with Heat
2007-11-7 |
A thermal transistor controls heat flow. Heat passes between terminals S and D for the ''on'' state, and little or no heat passes between S and D for the ''off'' state. G is the control terminal. Image credit: Wang and Li.
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Nanowire Manipulation Could Lead to Hand-Held Supercomputers
2007-10-25 |
Researchers have been working on nanowires and microchips so tiny that they could be used to build supercomputers that could fit in the palm of your hand. Hopefully, the nanowires will eventually lead to small, powerful gadget such as hand-held PCs, mobile phones as powerful as laptops, and medical advances.
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WiMax Gets Nod As Wireless Standard
2007-10-23 |
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The decision Friday by the U.N. telecommunications agency means that airwaves designated for other technologies in the standard known as IMT-2000 can now be used for networks based on WiMax. That's likely to spur development of the wireless technology, attract new investors and eventually drive down hardware costs, analysts said.
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3DVIA - shape and share ideas in 3-D in Virtual Earth
2007-10-22 |
REDMOND, Wash., and PARIS - Oct. 18, 2007 - Dassault Systemes (DS), a world leader in 3-D and product life-cycle management (PLM) solutions, and Microsoft Corp. today launched Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ -3DVIA (Technology Preview). This free online application, developed by Dassault Syst¨¨mes, allows consumers to imagine and create realistic 3-D models - such as of buildings and structures - then share them through Microsoft Virtual Earth and online communities.
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World's first TV-quality online network launches
2007-10-17 |
The world's first TV-quality online television network went on display at this week's MIPCOM audiovisual trade show offering legal, free entertainment and raising questions about what this will mean for the massive TV business.
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New NEC Technology Isolates Viruses At the Core
2007-10-15 |
NEC has developed a new technology for spotting, isolating and stopping viruses at the core level of its multi-core CPU. Thus, the system keeps running, while the infected core is disabled while a fix is developed and then downloaded from the Internet.
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EUV Lithography Moves toward Practical Use
2007-10-12 |
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EUV lithography technology is attracting keen interest. With mass production commencing around 2011, it promises to make possible 64- to 256-Gbit NAND Flash memory, microprocessors with 1.6 to 6.4 billion transistors, and more.
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Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ
2007-10-2 |
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October 1, 2007 -- Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ. Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia will pay $78 in cash for each share of NAVTEQ including outstanding options for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $8.1 billion (€5.7 billion), or approximately $7.7 billion (€5.4 billion) net of NAVTEQ existing cash balance. The acquisition has been approved by the board of directors of each company and is subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals and NAVTEQ shareholders' approval.
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US cities' Wi-Fi dreams fading fast
2007-9-24 |
Ambitious plans for big Wi-Fi networks to provide free or low-cost wireless Internet access are being abandoned or scaled back by US cities as the economics of the deals turn out to be more challenging than expected.
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Flomerics Releases FLO/PCB Version 4.1
2007-9-23 |
(6 September 2007) -- Flomerics has released Version 4.1 of its FLO/PCB thermal design software with new features including the ability to model potting compounds, probe temperature values interactively, provide user-defined temperature ranges and search component libraries. FLO/PCB makes it possible to perform board-level thermal simulation very early in the design process. This analysis can help highlight potential thermal issues and provide engineers with more flexibility in resolving them before hundreds of hours of engineering time is invested in unusable designs.
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Virtu VN200 Delivers Advanced Real-time Visualization for Collaborative and Standalone Environments
SGI Altix XE Cluster with eXludus Grid Optimizer Delivers 90 Percent Acceleration of BLASTn and 70 Percent Acceleration of HMMR