Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Emirates has become the first commercial airline in the world to provide in-flight mobile telephony service to passengers, the company said.
The first authorized mobile phone call from a commercial flight was made Thursday at 30,000 feet on board an Emirates Airbus A340-300 aircraft flying from Dubai to Casablanca in ...
Posted in First, Gadgets, Mobiles, Services, Sky, Trends | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
The Firefox browser has been downloaded more than 500 million times, according to SpreadFirefox website. Mozilla is celebrating this by raising 500 million grains of rice on FreeRice. Which is enough to feed 25,000 people for a day.
In honor of the 500 million download mark we're celebrating by raising 500,000,000 ...
Posted in Computers, Internet, Linux, Open Source, Software | No Comments »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
The most popular search engine Google added one more feature to its search, where you can search within a search. If you type in popular company/website key words, like 'amazon', 'wikipedia', 'intel', 'microsoft' on Google, it brings up the relevant result at the top and immediately underneath is a second ...
Posted in Computers, Google, Innovative, Internet, Search, Software, Trends | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
AMD - a leading purveyor of advance silicon modules - has introduced a new Energy Efficient AMD Athlon X2 4850e dual-core processor. At 45 watts, this latest central processing unit enables OEMs to offer differentiated solutions and facilitates higher conductivity for miniaturization and better usability of CPU form factors.
45-watt processor ...
Posted in Computers, Energy, Research, Technology, Trends | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Generally whenever I buy any gadget, I tend to check up reviews from friends and on internet. Today I came across a web site called TestFreaks, which will be helpful whenever you plan to buy digital camera, camcorder, gaming consoles, mobile phone or any other electronics gadget.
TestFreaks aggregate all possible ...
Posted in Digital Camera, Gadgets, Internet, Reviews, Tips & Tricks | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Researchers at the University of Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as vitamin B-2) is responsible for much of the energy produced by these organisms.
The bacteria, Shewanella, are commonly found in water and soil and are of interest because they can convert simple ...
Posted in Biology, Energy, Future, Innovative, Research, Science, Trends | 3 Comments »
