All Entries in the "New Technology" Category
Disease Outbreaks? There’s an App for That
In a telling sign of the swine-flu times, iPhone has released an application that will let a user know if there are disease-outbreaks lurking in their neighborhood.
Named “Outbreaks Near Me” – the app is designed to alert users of disease information. The mobile version even allows participation; for example, if a clinic is noticing a [...]
Back to School
That’s right – back to school is right around the corner and PC World has released a “Back to School Gift Guide” – sure to be a hit with students of all ages!
Check it out at PC World – Back to School Gift Guide
Twitter to Start Charging for Business Accounts
Twitter has confirmed that they will start charging businesses to use their services in an effort to collect revenue for their currently-free social networking site.
Paid accounts will also offer access to statistics and analytics that are not currently available through the regular Twitter service.
For more information on this topic – click to read “Twitter to [...]
Looking For An E-Fax Solution
Last week, we had a customer inquire about an e-fax system, which is an online faxing service that processes faxes online and converts them into email messages. In this case, it would allow all six of their offices to direct faxes to one main online location, but still be separated by office. With the large [...]
Cybraphon Robot Wants to “Friend” Us All!
The Cybraphon is a creation by three friends, that plays musical tones and harmonies based on, sadly enough, how much online approval it is garnering. When online attention is high, the Cybraphon lets out a beautiful melody but when the internet audience dwindles, the Cybraphon gets sad – and sounds like it too.
To read more [...]
Is Google Just Good-Enough?
PC World has an interesting article by David Coursey about how Google continues to thrive despite putting out unfinished products but people aren’t complaining – because it’s free.
Although, with the release of the new Chrome OS which requires the purchase of the actual computer – Google now faces a pressure to perform, according to Coursey.
You [...]
Firefox 3.5 due Tomorrow!
Firefox users have been waiting for this one! Mozilla has announced that June 30th will see the release of the newest version of their popular browser, complete with a whole mess of new features, including HTML5 support, private browsing (which Google’s Chrome has sported for some time now), and a brand new JavaScript engine. Head [...]
Google It? Or Bing It?
Microsoft has finally announced the name of their new search engine – Bing. Read about why Lance Ulanoff (Editor-in-Chief at PC Mag) thinks it’s good…but probably not going to scare Google any time in the foreseeable future, as the search engine to beat.
Source: PC Mag – full article here
An Old Fashioned iPod? Meet the Eye-Pod
We usually try to stick to new types of technologies on our blog; reviews, new releases, updates – that sort of thing.
But today, we bring you a different kind of technology. Brilliantly quoted as “from a time that never existed.” You will never listen to your music the same way again with this one-of-a-kind creation…
Presenting [...]
The Future of Technology – Wearable Computers?
MIT students have designed a wearable computer that works by detecting the movement of your hand. For those times when your cell phone, PDA, Bluetooth and Twitter just isn’t enough…
To read more about this incredible technology: click here. (Source: www.obsessable.com)
For video, click here. (Source: Wired)