Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Nasa has released details of its strategy for sending a human crew to Mars within the next few decades, the BBC reports.
NASA is planning to send a 400,000kg crewed spacecraft on a 30-month round trip to Mars as early as February 2031. The details of the planned mission ...
Posted in Astronomy, Research, Science, Space | No Comments »
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
The powerful processors in Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console now have another use: cracking passwords.
New Zealand-based security researcher Nick Breese claims to have used the year-old gaming console to crack passwords at speeds 100 times greater than Intel hardware is capable of. Breese, a security consultant with Security-Assessment.com, presented his ...
Posted in Video Games and Consoles, Ideas, Internet, Gadgets, Computers | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
According to Electronista is some selected developers have already begun receiving the promised iPhone/touch SDK . The SDK was slated for a February release.
Described as a rough version of the SDK, the result is native programs that have farther reaching effects as compared to a web base program. Exact details ...
Posted in iPhone, Apple, Gadgets | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Firefox has confirmed it is working on first a Linux version, followed by Windows Mobile 6 version. Christian Serjersen of Mozilla wrote in his his blog that a Symbian version will come down the line as well.
He listed out the goals of the program as:
provide Mozilla’s standards-based open-source browser engine, ...
Posted in Mobile Linux, Internet, Linux, Mobiles | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
A study by the Nemertes Research Group is predicting that the Internet could run out of capacity by 2010 if backbone providers don’t invest in new infrastructure. It says the backbone needs an estimated $42 to $55 billion invested in capacity in the next 3-5 years to keep up with ...
Posted in Networking, Internet, Computers | No Comments »
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
The Eye-Fi is an Wireless SD memory card that adds Wi-Fi to any camera that supports SD memory card. It can automatically upload pictures from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site.
The Eye-Fi is like any other ...
Posted in Innovative, Ideas, Photography, Digital Camera, Gadgets | 2 Comments »
