Posted in Technology, The Net on Apr 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Microsoft is scrambling to fix a bug in its free Hotmail email service that mysteriously deletes the body text from sent and received messages.
Various reports from Australian users suggest the problem has occurred for several days but Microsoft has yet to install a remedy.
Karin Muskopf, senior product manager at Microsoft, said the company was aware [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student has earned a $30,000 prize for work on destroying drug-resistant bacteria and keeping medical and food-processing equipment sterile.
Timothy Lu, 27, was named winner of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize on Wednesday for developing processes to attack bacteria strains that increasingly resist antibiotics.
One of Lu’s projects involves engineering viruses called [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Nov 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Intel plans to roll out its newest generation of processors on Monday, flexing its manufacturing muscle with a sophisticated new process that crams up to 40 percent more transistors onto the company’s chips.
The world’s largest semiconductor company expects to start shipping 16 new microprocessors - which also boast inventive new materials to [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Nov 6th, 2007 No Comments »
An Australian researcher is on the road to riches after discovering a way to make broadband connections up to 100 times faster.
University of Melbourne research fellow Dr John Papandriopoulos is in the throes of moving to Silicon Valley after developing an algorithm to reduce the electromagnetic interference that slows down ADSL connections.
Most ADSL [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Apple Inc.’s delayed update to the Mac OS X operating system is hitting store shelves as consumers are increasingly snapping up Macintosh computers to complement their iPods and iPhones.
Dubbed Leopard, the upgrade went on sale at 6 p.m. local time Friday at stores around the world. It offers improvements to an operating system that [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Oct 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Skype is preparing to launch its own branded mobile phone in conjunction with the 3 mobile network as early as this month.
The phone is codenamed “white phone” and BusinessWeek reported it would launch in Australia, Britain, Italy and Hong Kong “by late October”.
A spokeswoman for 3 in Australia confirmed it was working with a [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Oct 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday launched two new programs that allow people to place calls right from the Outlook e-mail program, but analysts say businesses won’t throw away their reliable office phone systems until the software maker’s tools are just as good.
The new programs build on server and desktop software Microsoft introduced in 2005 that [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Sony develops an environmentally-friendly prototype battery that runs on sugars and that can generate enough electricity to power a music player and a pair of speakers.
Sony has developed an environmentally-friendly prototype battery that runs on sugars and that can generate enough electricity to power a music player and a pair of speakers, the Japanese company [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Sharp shows off a 29mm (1.1 inches) thick prototype TV it says is the thinnest, lightest and lowest energy-consuming liquid crystal display in the world.
The 25kg display, which has a tuner and other TV features encased in its panel, weighs about half of current LCD panel TVs and consumes about half their power, according to [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Japanese mobile phones already let users shoot films and share them with friends. It may not be long before the images go another step - becoming completely three dimensional.
Japan’s Hitachi has developed a lightweight 3D display that can potentially be adapted for mobile devices such as telephones.
The 1kg gadget, using what is known as stereoscopic [...]
