Posted on March 4th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
NASA, in cooperation with local technology firms and sponsors, launches a nationwide series of high school robotics competitions that begin March 5 and 6 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place N.W., in Washington. The two-day event runs daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST. It is free and open to the public. NASA Television will carry opening ceremonies starting at 9 a.m. March 5.
The student competition is called “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,” or FIRST. The program was founded in 1989 by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire an appreciation of science and technology in young people, their schools and communities.
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Posted on February 26th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Dell announced an & Performance Plus& version of its Inspiron Mini 10 netbook, including a 1366 x 768 display, a Broadcom & Crystal HD& media accelerator, and a six-cell battery.
The Ubuntu-ready Mini 10 also gets up to 9.5 hours of battery life, the company says.Dell’s first Mini 10 ran on Intel’s “Silverthorne” Atoms, the Z520 (1.33GHz) or Z530 (1.6GHz). In December, however, the system was upgraded to the newly announced “Pineview” Atom, the N450. Although clocked about the same as the Z530 at 1.66GHz, the N450 saves on space and power consumption by incorporating a memory controller and graphics core, the GMA 3150.
Dell claimed at the time that the revised Mini 10 would get up to 9.5 hours of battery life with an optional six-cell battery. Also touted was a redesigned keyboard with sculpted keys and “a textured, smudge-resistant palm rest.” according to Dell.
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Posted on February 26th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Bill Warren founded an early online job board in the 1990s, helped kick-start an industry and was president of Monster.com, one of the leading Internet career sites. But these days he’s not very happy with the results.
So he’s taking another crack at it, going after Monster, CareerBuilder and similar commercial job sites. Warren is starting a nonprofit job listing system that could lower the costs that employers pay to list positions and make the process easier and more fruitful for applicants.
He has the enthusiastic backing of hundreds of large companies, including IBM, American Express, AT&T and Johnson & Johnson, the kinds of employers that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year searching for new talent.
“This is probably the most significant play that I’ve seen … since the invention of the online job board,” said Joshua Akers, vice president of RecruitingBlogs.com, a social networking site for human resources professionals.
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Posted on February 26th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
RIM is apparently experimenting with a new design, and a future BlackBerry may be the first with a sliding keyboard and a touchscreen.
An unconfirmed report also gives some of the specifications for this upcoming smartphone.This isn’t the first time there have been unconfirmed reports that RIM is working on a slider, but today’s is the most detailed so far. And it includes a surprise: instead of a landscape-oriented sliding keyboard, this BlackBerry will supposedly have a portrait-oriented one, similar to the keyboard on the Palm Pre.
The touchscreen will supposedly have a resolution of 360 by 480 pixels, but the size of this display is not yet known.
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Posted on February 18th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
HTC has confirmed earlier rumors by promising to release an upgrade to Android OS 2.1 for the HTC Hero. This smartphone is currently running version 1.5 of Google’s operating system, and the upgrade will bring a wide array of enhancements.What’s New in Version 2.1?
Near the top of the list of improvements is support for Google’s navigation service, which offers spoken turn-by-turn directions without a monthly service charge.
Android OS 2.1 also brings much greater support for speech-to-text, allowing users to enter text into any application with just their voice.
In addition, it offers an updated an updated version of the web browser, better camera software, and enhanced weather and news widgets.
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Posted on February 9th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
A mobile phone repair company claims to have gotten a hold of the display that will be used in the next-generation Apple iPhone.Leaked pictures show that this will be bigger than the current one, though it’s not clear if the resolution has changed.
iResQ has posted a pair of images of this screen, which this company says was sent to it by a trusted source.
The pictures show a comparison between the current iPhone 3GS display and the new one — the next-generation display is about a quarter of an inch longer. This could mean that Apple is switching from the 3.5-inch touchscreens it has been using for years to 3.7-inch screens.
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Posted on February 9th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Microsoft has released an update to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Office as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or operate with elevated privileges.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the bulletins and follow best-practice security policies to determine which updates should be applied.
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Posted on February 9th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Google plunged into the world of social networking on Tuesday, melding pieces of Facebook and Twitter into a new feature, Google Buzz.Buzz, which will work through the popular Gmail service, will allow users to post status updates, photos and links to members of their network — as well as pull in their activity on other sites like Twitter, Flickr and Picasa.
Google spokesman Bradley Horowitz said the service, which was rolling out to some Gmail users Tuesday afternoon and should be available to all in the next couple of days, aims to weed out what he called the clutter of other networking sites.
With networking sites, “there’s obviously value there,” he said. “It’s a phenomenon that’s real, but it’s increasingly becoming harder and harder to make sense and find the signal in the noise.”
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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
The Motorola Split may be one of the more innovative models of this year. This Android-based smartphone will boast a split keyboard that slides out from either side of the touchscreen. In addition, what’s displayed on the keys can vary as the device changes orientation.Living Up to Its Name
The MotoSplit will supposedly look a great deal like the Motorola Droid, but instead of the keyboard sliding down, it will be in two pieces that slide out from either side of the screen.
According to the latest information, when this model is in portrait mode, one side of the keyboard will slide out and act as a numberpad. For this to be possible, the keys will need to reconfigure themselves. This will reportedly be possible because the keyboard will actually be a touch-sensitive LCD with an overlay containing cut-outs for each key.
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