Microsoft has acquired VideoSurf, an Al Gore-backed video search technology start-up, for a reported $70 million. The news was first reported by Israeli business newspaper Calcalist (text in Hebrew). The San Mateo, Calif-based start-up says its technology can “see” frames inside videos–rather than using text-based data such as meta tags–to find content quickly from anywhere on the [...]
Lenovo is reportedly working on a 5-inch Android-powered tablet with HDMI output and a front-facing camera. Various reports are indicating that Lenovo is currently working on a 5-inch dual-core IdeaPad/LePad tablet to take on the Samsung Galaxy Note and the Dell Streak 5. Very little is known about the tablet at this point save for [...]
Apple is likely to outshine Hewlett-Packard as the world’s top PC maker before the second half of next year, says research firm Canalys, but it’ll need some help from the iPad 3. Currently the world’s second-leading PC vendor, Apple has seen its share of the market jump to 15 percent from 9 percent over just the past [...]
In the vast eco-system that is Facebook, you’re closer to your fellow social networkers than you might think. In a new study, Facebook researchers tested the “six degrees of separation” theory and found that four degrees, and in some cases three, might be more accurate. Facebook teamed up with the Università degli Studi di Milano [...]
Apple is going to surprise its fans with a new version of its hugely popular iPad. The presentation of the new gadget may take place during the first months of 2012. The news was revealed by AppleInsider website with reference to Brian White. The analyst has recently visited China and Taiwan, where he had meetings with [...]
Physicists reported Thursday that sub-atomic particles called neutrinos can travel faster than light, a finding that — if verified — would blast a hole in Einstein’s theory of relativity. In experiments conducted between the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland and a laboratory in Italy, the tiny particles were clocked at 300,006 kilometres per second, [...]
The solar storms that cause blackouts and damage satelites have always been hard to predict, but two new methods of monitoring them could lead to much more accurate forecasts. Intense solar storms can disrupt satellites, airline and electric-utility operations, and, in the case of astronauts on orbit, directly endanger lives. Thursday, independent teams of researchers [...]
Godzilla vs. King Kong? Is the introduction of Google+ going to bring on a titanic online battle with that other behemoth of social networking, Facebook? Probably not. While Google’s soon-to-be-released social network introduces some powerful new capabilities, the two online giants are likely to appeal to different sets of users. At first glance, Google+ looks [...]
Slowly but surely, DVD is becoming a format of the past. Specialists say that the format will exist for only several years. Digital technologies, Internet and USB flash drives will oust DVDs from the market in the near future. Hollywood companies already prefer not to invest in mass production of DVD releases. DVD sales and [...]
A global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22. Internet address names will end with almost any word [...]
Google on Wednesday disclosed that a cyberattack originating in China resulted in the breach of the Gmail accounts of hundreds of high-profile individuals in several nations. The disclosure came a day after military officials in the U.S. and United Kingdom for the first time began publicly acknowledging that nation-sponsored cyberattacks can be an act of war. [...]
Sri Lankan cellco Dialog Axiata has launched a pilot of 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband network technology in the Colombo Fort, Colombo 2 and Colombo 3 districts of the capital, and has demonstrated data speeds of 40Mbps-50Mbps (download) outdoors under ‘actual’ mobile network conditions, as well as downloads of up to 100Mbps in [...]
Peradeniya University geological science research Professor Athula Senaratne stated that it is possible to forecast an impending earthquake as there is a relationship between the tremors in the bowels of the earth under and the planets above. Along with the researchers of the Peradeniya University geological studies following the collection of information regarding earthquakes during [...]
“Radiation has no color or smell, but after some time its devastating impact on health and the environment becomes obvious,” Eduardo Rodriguez Farre, radiobiologist of the Higher Council for Scientific Research of the country, wrote about the consequences of a nuclear explosion at the plant in Japan. Farre said that scientists have already calculated the [...]
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