It’s not just external hard drives that are making news today for their aesthetics. Sony announced at GamesCom 2009 that they’re bringing three new PSP-3000 colors to Europe this November. The colors are “Lilac” purple, “Turquoise” blue, and “Blossom” pink, obviously targeted to the female market sector. “The gaming world has traditionally been a male [...]
Continue reading →Well, not really. But a new discovery supports NASA’s theory that some of life’s ingredients were formed in space and then deposited here in our planet. NASA said today that a comet scoured by the Stardust spacecraft carried an amino acid. This acid – glycine to be exact – is essential building block for organic [...]
Continue reading →Who says hard drives can’t look good? Verbatim introduced today their new line of InSight portable USB hard disk drives which tops our list of cool drives in the market. Aside from the piano black finish that houses a fairly high memory capacity (320 GB and 500 GB), the 2.5 inch drive also runs at [...]
Continue reading →Quamut, Barnes a how-to site, has been quietly shut down by its parent company Barnes & Noble. The site previously featured simple instructional pieces ranging from professionally made how-to-guides and user-created wikis about all subjects. It was launched March 24, 2008. The 1,685 guides from the site however, will still be available for sale at [...]
Continue reading →Well, in a world where its all about small stuff – small cars, small computers, small phones – it’s no wonder IBM is now basing new microchips on life’s building blocks: DNA molecules. The DNA molecules are used by chip designers as ”scaffolding” to create origami-like complex patterns on top of which they can add [...]
Continue reading →Sony Ericson has appointed Bert Nordberg as its new president today. The long-time Ericsson manger with Silicon Valley experience has served the company for 14 years and has been in charge of Ericsson’s software development efforts in Silicon Valley since 2008. He will succeed Hideki “Dick” Komiyama, a Sony executive who had led the venture [...]
Continue reading →How do you fight against swine flu? That’s easy. Keep your immune system strong, eat healthy, always wash your hands and uhmn, keep your eyes glued on the computer? Yup, doing the latter will help you fight the emerging outbreak…in a video game, that is. Dutch researchers, in an effort to further raise awareness, have [...]
Continue reading →Well, that’s according to a study conducted on the use of the no.1 microblogging service. Pear Analytics, a marketing intelligence firm, conducted a study by randomly sampling tweets Monday to Friday, every 30 minutes 11:00 am to 5:00 pm for two weeks. That’s 200 samples each day for a total sample data set of 2,000 [...]
Continue reading →Safe sex? It won’t be long till you’ll forget about condoms. This might not be the usual news we feature here, but hey, it’s still a new technological development right? And tech news or not, its one piece of news many people can relate to. Studying the use of microbicides on intravaginal gels, rings, and [...]
Continue reading →Yup, Microsoft’s bigman himself, Steve Ballmer, confirmed that the Windows 7 Starter will have certain limitations that should be abided by computer makers. Although some executives of the software giant already said earlier this yea that the company will place restrictions on some of the versions of the OS, Steve Ballmer is the highest computer [...]
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