Loading ...It was bound to happen; someone in the U.S. was going to sue over the replacement program for the iPhones battery. Really, it was only a matter of time. The suit was filed in Cook County, Illinois, by Jose Trujillo who claims that the battery can only last for three hundred charges, before it needs [...]
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Looking a little bit too much like an F-117 Night Hawk fighter on steroids Boeing’s blended wing unmanned test aircraft flew for the first time last week.
Designed and engineered by Boeing, NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, the aircraft are said to be able to carry greater [...]
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Microsoft has revealed that 60 million units of its Vista operating system have shipped since its release. It expects the total number of Windows installations to pass the one billion mark within the next year.
At a meeting with financial analysts this week, Microsoft announced that 20 million copies of Vista have shipped in the last [...]
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WEISSACH, Germany: Nobody is ever going to mistake a Porsche for a Prius. But the sports car maker is hoping to blur the line between its gas-guzzling, carbon-spewing speedsters and the environmentally conscious hybrids produced by Toyota.
Porsche plans to produce the Cayenne, its sport utility vehicle, with a hybrid gasoline-and-electric engine by the end of [...]
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ASTRONAUTS were allowed to fly although their colleagues and flight surgeons warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk, according to media reports.
An internal NASA panel also reported “heavy use of alcohol” within the standard 12-hour “bottle to throttle” abstinence rule applied to NASA flight-crew members, Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine said.
A [...]
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Google, the internet search and online advertising giant, is to provide fee web search, interactive communications and social networking tools to subscribers who sign up for Sprint Nextel’s next generation WiMax wireless network currently under construction.
The two companies said they will jointly offer the search and other tools through a new mobile portal they plan [...]
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A laser modulator that encodes optical data at 40 Gb/s — a significant increase in speed — was unveiled Tuesday by Intel researchers.
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) could provide a cost-effective solution for optical communication and optical interconnects in the computing industry — in the future, said Ansheng Liu, principal engineer at Intel’s Photonics Technology [...]
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Interested in Wireless USB? Check out Certified Wireless USB kits from D-Link and Iogear.
Cables connecting USB devices to PCs may soon disappear thanks to Wireless USB, a short-range wireless communications technology developed by nonprofit USB Implementers Forum Inc. (USB-IF), which also developed the USB 2.0 standard.
Combining wireless and USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectivity, this technology [...]
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Motorola has teamed up with Microvision to put laser-projector technology into mobile phone handsets.
The idea of putting a tiny projector into a mobile phone is nothing new - science fiction has been doing it for decades - but the practicalities of fitting an entire projector into the case of a phone and making it work [...]
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