Portugal to Deploy World's First Commercial Wave Power PlantMay 20th, 2005 A Scottish company will deploy sausage-shaped tubes off Portugal to create the world's first commercial wave power plant, providing electricity to 1,500 homes from 2006, a partner in the Scottish firm said on Friday. OPD will deliver three wave power generation units with capacity of 2.25 megawatts to Portuguese renewable energy group Enersis for 8 million euros ($10.12 million), but the project could be expanded significantly, Norsk Hydro said.
Macromedia Flash Player 7 Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityNovember 14th, 2005 A vulnerability has been reported in Macromedia Flash Player 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to missing validation of the frame type identifier that is read from a SWF file.
World's Smallest DVD Writer LaunchedAugust 25th, 2006 Plextor launched what it claims as the world's smallest DVD writer, a slim external unit aimed at notebook users. It weighs 250g, 1.6cm high and barely bigger than a CD.
Sony Ships World's Fastest 18X DVD±R WriterAugust 30th, 2006 Sony released DVR writer named AWG170A (they need to fire their naming department), touted as world's fastest, with a blazing 18x speed for burning single layer disks. It would write your 16x discs too at the higher speed.
Seagate Releases World's Fastest and Shock Tolerant Hard Drive November 26th, 2008 Leading hardware manufacturer Seagate announced Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB hard drive to deliver a "perfect combination of capacity, speed and durability". They will market the manufacture for Acer Aspire consumer notebook PCs, and the blazing on-the-road performance and shock tolerance of the Acer TravelMate professional notebooks.
Seagate Constellation - World's Highest Capacity and Power- Efficient SED Hard DrivesFebruary 3rd, 2009 Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today introduced its Constellation™ family of new enterprise storage solutions for Tier-2 nearline storage applications. The two new drive models, the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drives, include a combination of features that enable high capacities, increased power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security.
Amazon Will Target Apple's iPod With its Portable Digital Music PlayerFebruary 21st, 2006 Amazon is preparing to launch its own portable digital music player in direct competition to Apple's iPod. The plan is interesting for its business model.
Japanese Supercomputer Achieves 10% of Human Brain CapacityJune 23rd, 2006 It has been estimated (Kurzweil) that our brains can calculate at 10 petaflops per second, based on the number of neurons and the average number of connections per neuron. Riken has developed a supercomputer that it says achieves maximum theoretical performance of 1 petaflops (1,000 teraflops).
Why smart People Choke Under PressureFebruary 14th, 2005 I have observed this phenomena. In addition to fear of failure as mentioned in the article smart people often also tend to be over sensitive which occupies enough brain processing cycles and memory, leaving them vulnerable to failure.
Google Acquired YouTube For $1.65 BillionOctober 9th, 2006 Google Inc. announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock exchange. Both companies have approved the deal, which should officially close in the fourth quarter.
Tiny New MP3 and Video Player From Creative Improves Upon iPod NanoJune 21st, 2006 Creative announced Zen V which offers great features in a tiny, flash-based form factor (about the size and shape of a smooth-cornered Zippo lighter). The player gives you everything you get with the iPod Nano except iTunes compatibility, and adds a few solid extras.
Radio Giant Clear Channel launches online radio station after ad revenues fell in the real marketJune 8th, 2009 Radio giant Clear Channel amps up digital strategy
PHILADELPHIA — Clear Channel Communications Inc., the nation's largest owner of radio stations, is ramping up its strategy to stream radio to mobile phones, computers and other devices. On Monday, Clear Channel was officially launching an online media player that consolidates access to its roughly 850 radio stations at IHeartRadio.com.
Adobe Bundles Google Toolbar with Shockwave for Internet Explorer on WindowsJune 24th, 2006 Google is massively pushing its web browser toolbar everywhere around the world. Google has agreed to pay a "significant amount" to have Google toolbar bundled with select Adobe downloads.
Fujitsu Announces Bendable Color E-PaperJuly 19th, 2005 And if that’s not enough, it is brighter than LCDs. This could radically change publishing and art worlds.
Samsung SGH-i310 Smart Phone Comes With Digital Camera, MP3 player And 8GB Hard Disk (Kitchen Sink Not Included)March 6th, 2006 I am really missing the kitchen sink from this one. This beast of a phone can store about 2,000 songs.