Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
Friday, January 11th, 2008
A spin-out from OLPC, the company, Pixel Qi is looking to create a $75 laptop and trying to advance low-cost computers and power-efficient laptops, mobile phones and other consumer electronics that are sunlight readable, Jepsen wrote on the company's Web site. Jepsen left OLPC two weeks ago to commercialize technologies ...
Posted in Innovative, Research, Linux, Trends, Computers | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
The United Nations (UN) 62nd General Assembly proclaimed 2009 the International Year of Astronomy. The Resolution was submitted by Italy, Galileo Galilei’s home country.
The International Year of Astronomy 2009 is an initiative of the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO.
The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) will be a global celebration of ...
Posted in Astronomy, Sky, Research, Science, Space | No Comments »
Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Scientists at IBM recently completed research which may soon result in supercomputers the size of current notebooks.
This would be achieved by replacing existing copper wires used to couple processing cores together with a silicon Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator, which would allow light to pass the data. The connector created by the ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Penn State University engineers say that a transmission rate of 100 G bps is obtainable over in-expensive Category 7 copper cables, but only on a length of 100 meters or less.
This research has been done by a team including two graduate students in electrical engineering, Ali Enteshari and ...
Posted in Research, Networking, Internet, Trends, Computers, Technology | No Comments »
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) and the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) published the Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) air interface specification, which is often referred to as a 4G technology, in September.
The publication of this specification marks the world's first IP-based mobile broadband standard to enable peak download data ...
Posted in Telecoms, Research, Trends, Mobiles, Technology | No Comments »
