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.
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.
Alternative Flag Images for Angsuman's Translator Plugin ProJanuary 23rd, 2007 One of the frequent requests with Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro software is for alternative flag images for display. We have addressed this demand in two ways.
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.
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.
IBM Breakthrough in Photonic Chip; Slows Light 300 TimesNovember 4th, 2005 IBM claims a major breakthrough in the quest developing photon based computers instead of todays electron based silicon chips. In its Silicon Wave Guide chip it claims to have managed to slow down light to 1/300 of its normal speed of 186, 000 miles per second.
World's First P2P DVR and Distributed DVRJanuary 29th, 2007 NDS, the company behind DirecTV PVR, came up with two very innovative products. The Distributed DVR from NDS allows users to use hard drives from anywhere on a home network instead of being restricted to a hard drive on a single PVR.
Python: A recipe for cryptic code?April 13th, 2005 I have heard that Python is a great programming language which is so much superior to everything around etc. The following code in python is touted as the world's smallest p2p client & server.
Review: TrackStick II - GPS Tracker Integrated With Google MapsJuly 9th, 2007 Trackstick II Personal Tracker is a small GPS tracker which records its own location, time, date, speed, heading and altitude at preset intervals. It comes with 1MB Flash memory and downloads the data through USB port.
Facebook is world's fourth most trafficked websiteAugust 5th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Social networking website Facebook continues its rapid rise and has already become the fourth most trafficked website in the world, technology blog TechCrunch has reported. In June this year, Facebook attracted a total of 340 million unique visitors globally, trailing only Google, Microsoft and Yahoo sites, the report said, citing latest results from market research firm comScore.
BSNL DataOne - World's Crappiest Broadband ServiceApril 8th, 2006 BSNL DataOne is undoubtedly the world's worst broadband service, and I have seen many. The service is erratic.
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.
Carnegie Mellon 'Last Lecture' prof's 3D computer programming tool to be updatedJuly 31st, 2009 'Last Lecture' prof's program to be updatedPITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University will release an updated version of the animation-based software developed by late "last lecture" professor Randy Pausch to teach computer programming. Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor and pioneer of virtual reality research, was involved with the Alice software project.
Intel Warns AMD on Legal Terms about GlobalFoundries $4.2 Billion ProjectMarch 17th, 2009 Intel and AMD may well be breaking off permanently and never see each other again. Well, its hard to find an instant where two of the closest competitors help each other in technology sharing agreement.
New software helps blind venture out on their ownSeptember 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists from Tel Aviv University have developed software tool that would help blind and visually impaired provide navigational "sight". The software developed by Dr.