Reports from various sources suggest that the web giant (Google) is developing a series of “GPhones”, centered on its mobile services, such as search, e-mail and maps which would enable a cell user to utilize the full potential of the networks.
Hard drives use “ferromagnetic” storage media to record data. The surface of special metal plates is magnetised. On the other hand Solid State Disk works purely digitally. The fundamental difference between Solid State Disk and its other flash storage and Hard Disk drive lies in the fact that flash technology has no moving parts. Solid State Disk is already in use in cell phones and MP3 players.
The team from from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who call their invention “WiTricity”, believe it could change the way we use electricity and do away with the tangle of cables, plugs and chargers that clutter modern homes. It could also allow the use of laptops and mobile phones without batteries.
The inspiration came when the lead researcher, Marin Soljacic, was standing in his kitchen at night staring at his mobile phone. “It was probably the sixth time that month that I was awakened by my cell phone beeping to let me know that I had forgotten to charge it. It occurred to me that it would be so great if the thing took care of its own charging” he said. To turn this dream into reality. Soljacic needed a way of transmitting power wirelessly. Scientists have known for nearly two centuries that it is possible to transfer an electrical current from one coil of wire to another without them touching.
The phenomenon, called electromagnetic induction, is used in power transformers and electric motors around the world. However, the coils in motors and transformers have to be close for power to pass from one to another. Attempting to transfer power over distances is impossible.
The breakthrough came when Soljacic realised there was another way of transferring energy through the air. Rather than sending power from transmitter to a receiver as a conventional electromagnetic wave the same form of radiation as light, radio waves and microwaves he could use the transmitter to fill a room with a “non-radiative” electromagnetic field.
Most objects in the room – such as people, desks and carpets- would be unaffected by the electromagnetic field. But any objects designed to resonate with the electromagnetic field would absorb the energy. It sounds complicated, but the result demonstrated by the American team this month was a dramatic success. Using two coils of copper, the team transmitted power 7ft through the air to a light bulb which lit up instantly.
The Scientists say the technique works only over distances of up to 9ft. However, they believe it could be used to charge up a battery within a few yards of the power source connected to a receiving coil. Placing one source in each room could provide enough power for an entire house. The receiver and transmitter would not have to be in view of each other.
The researchers believe there is little to worry about on safety grounds. saying that magnetic fields interact weakly with living organisms and are unlikely to have any serious side effects. [Article Source: Times of India]
Netscape 9 is developed from the Mozilla FireFox 2.0 and as such shares much of the same basic technology. In addition to the technologies that Netscape 9 shares with Mozilla FireFox 2, it includes additional features such as a number of installed plug ins.
Key features of Netscape Navigator 9 are:
Visual Refresh: Netscape Navigator 9’s theme has been updated to save screen-space and leave more room for the websites you visit.
URL Correction: Navigator 9 will automatically correct common typos in URLs. For example, if you accidentally type googlecom, Navigator will fix it be to google.com. The browser will watch for nearly 30 different types of common mistakes and correct them for you (asking you to confirm, if you choose to enable confirmation).
News Menu and Sidebar: The latest news is built right into the browser, under the News menu. Provided by Netscape.com, you can customize the menu to only contain the news sections you want to monitor. You can also open the News sidebar to always keep an eye on what’s happening.
Link Pad: The Link Pad is a new sidebar feature that allows you to save links/URLs that you want to visit later without cluttering your bookmarks. Just drag a link over the Link Pad status bar icon and drop it to save it in the Link Pad. By default, clicking on an item in the Link Pad will open it in the browser and remove it from the list, saving you the step of deleting it.
In-browser voting: Share your opinions with the world! The icons in the Navigator address bar let you share interesting stories you find and vote on stories shared by others.
Sidebar Mini Browser: You’ve always been able to have bookmarks open in the sidebar, Now Netscape has improved this functionality and extended it to all links, not just bookmarks.
Restart Netscape: Now you can restart Navigator (and keep your current tabs intact) by selecting “Restart Navigator” from the File menu.
Resizeable Text area: Drag the bottom-right corners of text fields in forms to add more typing space.
Tab History: Opening a link in a new tab will give the new tab the same history as the source tab for a more seamless tabbed browsing experience.
OPML Support: Netscape Navigator supports importing and exporting your bookmarks in OPML, a popular format for sharing lists of news feeds.
Download Netscape Navigator 9.0 (Windows/Macintosh OSX/Linux)
Here’s a first look at Sony Ericsson’s upcoming W999i (Walkman series). The phone has a QWERTY keypad, a lift off from Sony Ericsson’s M600. Rumors suggest the handset will be of around 12.5 mm thickness and will house a 2 MP auto focus camera and HSDPA. The phone screen will be 2.4-inch and support a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. All this buzz will just have to wait for an official announcement from Sony Ericsson.
Those who waited long, finally Gmail has opened its gates for them. Now no invitation is required to open a new account at Gmail (screen shot given below and sign-up link). Personally I love Gmail due to its simplicity and main focus on e-mails not on displaying advertisements as other web mails do. So create your new Gmail ID today and let others know about it. New Gmail Sign-up here.
The next Windows operating system, named Vienna (formerly known as Blackcomb), has confirmed by Microsoft . It will take about two and a half years time to deliver the successor of Vista, and hopefully Microsoft will release it before the end of 2009.
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System Division said, “We put Longhorn on the back burner for a while, then when we came back to it, we realized that there were incremental things that we wanted to do, and significant improvements that we wanted to make in Vista that we couldn’t deliver in one release.” He also said the release will have some cool new features.
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After introducing Windows Vista recently Microsoft unveiled a new version of its Windows operating system for mobile device, making it look more like Windows Vista and adding more features previously only available on personal computers called Windows mobile 6 (code name Crossbow)and will be available in the second quarter of 2007, the company introduces the ability to view e-mails in their original HTML internet format with live Web links from advanced mobile phones, generally referred to as smartphone.
Codes name given to previous versions of mobile Windows OS:
- Windows Mobile 6.0 – Crossbow
- Windows Mobile 5.0 – Magneto
- Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition – Ozone
- Windows Mobile 2003 – Ozone
- Pocket PC 2002 – Merlin
- Pocket PC 2000 (Palm-size PC v2) – Rapier
- Palm PC v1.0/1.2 – Gryphon/Wyvern
Windows Mobile 6 also includes Windows live, which allows instant messaging with more than one person at a time and can send a file or image, or record and send voice notes. Windows mobile 6 users can also view, navigate and edit documents in the original Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint format, without affecting tables, images.
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