The popular micro blogging service Twitter has announced a redesign of its website. Although the posts will remain limited to 140 characters, Twitter promises that the overhauled site will be easier, faster and more interesting to use. The first re-designed feature is the two column layout. Your old twitter stream would normally take up most [...]
People normally do not expect a spectacular performance or high-tech features from a web camera. But Microsoft has decided to change this having introduced a new web-cam capable of transmitting video in full HD. The newest LifeCam Studio delivers a picture with a 1080p resolution, which is twice as large as the 720p HD webcams [...]
Tablet PCs, aggressively replacing not so long ago more popular netbooks, are not the last link in the evolution of portable computers. Manufacturers, competing with each other, have started working on a “dual screen” laptop that would combine the advantages of both classes of equipment. Judging by the images recently leaked into the net, the [...]
Popular Internet search engine Google has noticeably increased the speed of its search results. Once you start typing in the search box, Google tries to predict which phrase you are looking for and shows the results for that phrase almost instantly as you type. The new concept called “Google Instant”, significantly reduces the results waiting [...]
In the next couple of days Finnish Nokia Corporation will present its new smartphone N8. The Finns decided to team up with the famous Pamela Anderson to help them sell the smartphones. Nokia N8 will feature a horizontal slider with QWERTY-keyboard and a 4″ touch-screen. The phone will be based on the advanced AMOLED-platform equipped [...]
Internet giant Google announced that it will soon launch its own Google TV service, thus combining television and web technology. Speaking at a recent IFA computer fair in Berlin, the company representative promised that Google TV will be available in the U.S. this fall, and next year, throughout the world. The basic idea of the [...]
NASA, the U.S. space agency, prepares to penetrate the secrets of the sun by sending to the star’s atmosphere a car-sized satellite. For the first time in history a spacecraft will plunge into the solar atmosphere and conduct the research of the sun’s super hot corona, lethal radiation, and the solar winds. After entering the [...]
Well-known display producer Viewsonic announced a launch of a hybrid ViewPad 100 tablet with a 10-inch touch screen. An interesting feature of the new device is a choice of a dual operating systems on every boot. According to the company, the gadget will be released with two pre-installed operating systems – the latest Windows 7 [...]
South Korea’s LG Display, world’s leader in touch screen technology, is in the process of developing next generation bendable color e-papers that may be used in the new upcoming products such as tablets, e-readers or electronic newspapers. LG Display intends to start mass production of 9.7″ color and 19″ bendable e-paper in the nearest future. [...]
Internet giant Google plans to expand its Gmail service capabilities by adding web-based VoIP client that will allow you make your phone calls right from your Gmail account. Thanks to this innovation the owners of Gmail accounts will not only talk to other owners of Internet-connected computers, but they will also make full voice calls [...]
