Scientists at the University of Manchester have come one step closer to creating the next generation of computer chips using wonder material graphene. The world’s thinnest, strongest and most conductive material, discovered in 2004 at the University of Manchester by Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov, has the potential to revolutionize material science. (see: …
Just saw this on Google News… read the story here: http://www.mobiledia.com/news/111617.html Sony Pictures is in negotiations for the film rights to the Steve Jobs biography, as the studio looks to make a biopic on Apple’s co-founder. The studio is reportedly set to pay between $1 and $3 million for the rights to Walter Isaacson’s book, …
In response to consumer outrage over visiting two separate sites for DVD rentals and streaming content, Netflix has apparently halted plans to split the companies. If you visit the http://www.quickster.com/ site, you will notice it redirects to http://www.netflix.com instead. I was pretty sure they would go through with it, and i was buying into the …
A Retro Mac Theme released today for WordPress was released in memory of Steve jobs, http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/hero/ here is the writeup from the WordPress Team: It’s impossible to overstate the influence of Steve Jobs on technologists, particularly his passion for beautiful, usable products. We work harder and have higher standards because of the bar set by …
With the new fine-grained password policies feature in Windows Server 2008, we can finally create multiple password policies and account lockout policies for users in the same domain. The fact that the fine-grained password policies feature in Windows Server 2008 maps password policies to users and/or groups means that we have virtually unlimited flexibility when …
on the front page of Drudgereport and Tuaw, there is mention of this.. cnet has the story: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20116336-37/apple-co-founder-chairman-steve-jobs-dies/?tag=TOCcarouselMain.0 and apple has confirmed this as well https://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ Apple co-founder and Chairman Steve Jobs died today, Apple said. He was 56. Jobs had been suffering from various health issues following the seven-year anniversary of his surgery for …
Taken from: http://informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/231602241 1. Cloud-based Office integration 2. Rights management 3. Enhanced Outlook/Exchange Server support 4. Targeted app distribution 5. Lync Mobile I’ve pretty excited to move away from Android for my primary phone. Anyone have recommendations for which phone i should look at?
According to one digital marketing firm, eDataSource, sales of the cloud-based Amazon Kindle Fire Android-based tablet have reached 95,000 in its first day on the market (all of those sales being pre-orders). I am sure this has a lot to do with the pricetag being $199. Time will tell if Apple has anything to worry about here, …
Read the story on Wired.com, im kinda glad i have the motorola Droid, but this is not a concern for android users alone. Apple has its own privacy concerns as well. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/htc-sense-data-security/ im begining to wonder if i should move to windows mobile again…
The patent titled “Communicating Information in a Social Network System about Activities from Another Domain” was filed by Facebook Feb 8 2011. here is the Abstract: AbstractIn one embodiment, a method is described for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain. The method includes maintaining a …