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HTC Evo 4G Coming to Best Buy in Bright White

June 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Best Buy will begin selling the popular Android 2.1-based smartphone in white on an exclusive basis next month, the retailer confirmed. Best Buy is taking preorders for the white version of the device now before launching in all Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores and BestBuy.com/Mobile July 11. The white unit costs $199.99 for a new or eligible upgrade with a new two-year agreement on select plan with Premium Data add-on. – With its 4.3-inch screen against a black exterior, many know
the HTC Evo 4G smartphone from Sprint as a large, dark cell phone. That’s going to change soon.
For folks who like a lighter colored phone, Best Buy will
begin selling the popular Android 2.1-based smartphone in white July 11,
accordi…

Bright Future for Communication Service Providers, Report Finds

June 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Research firm Frost & Sullivan releases a report suggesting the data transport services market in the U.S. is headed for sustained, impressive growth in the next few years. – The multibillion dollar U.S. data transport services market
represents promising revenue potential for communication service
providers, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 4.6 percent,
according to a report from market research firm Frost amp; Sullivan.
The launch of EVPL (Ethernet virt…

Systems Engineers Have Bright Future

May 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Systems engineers, from engineering students to experienced professionals, are expected to have strong salaries and real opportunities for career growth. They also have the weight of academia and major technology vendor IBM behind them. – <p>You may not have noticed, but systems engineering is a promising
career choice. In 2009, it was rated No. 1 out of the Top 50 careers (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/full_list/index.html) in
terms of salary and growth prospects over the next 10 years by CNNMoney.com and
…

Optical computing’s bright future: Light without logic

May 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Optical devices are finally going inside computers, but only in parts

“GOD is light”, says the Bible. Light is also a source of inspiration in computing. Ever since the first optical transistors were developed in the late 1980s, researchers have dreamed of building a light-powered computer, radiating with knowledge. Yet this breakthrough has proved elusive. Now, however, new developments mean that optical technologies are starting to appear inside computers. The all-optical computer remains a dream, but selected components that can work with light will make their way into computers ever more deeply.

It is easy to see the attraction of replacing electrons, which travel along copper wires and make today’s computers tick, with photons. These particles of light are the fastest things in the universe, so an optical computer could theoretically process information at speeds that make even a supercomputer look glacial. So far, however, optical technology has been confined mostly to telecoms networks and some of the cabling in data centres. Photons are ideal for piping information over long distances. They whizz through optical fibres, rarely getting lost or interfering with one another (which is why different coloured signals can be sent down a single fibre, to multiply its capacity). …

Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova Collaborate on New Album

February 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova Release One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels

Bright Eyes

Back in 2004 two Nebraskan songwriters, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes and Jake Bellows of Neva Dinova brought their respective bands together to record an EP for indie label Crank!

The collaboration, One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels, had Conor and Jake dividing the songwriting duties. The original tracks were recorded by both bands in basements of houses on quiet, leafy streets in Omaha in the fall of 2003.

Six years later it has been given a re-working and a re-release by Omaha independent Saddle Creek. Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova reconvened in the fall of 2009 to write and record four brand new tracks at Mogis’ ARC Studios, creating an album-length work that includes the first new Bright Eyes material since 2007′s Cassadaga.

Back in 2004 both bands’ front men explained their collaboration:

Jake Bellows:
“I think it was 1996 when we met for the first time. We played a show with Norman Bailer and Commander Venus and I forgot the words to one of our songs. Conor was in the audience and hollered out the next line of the song. I couldn’t believe that someone in town knew our music. Maybe it was a year or two ago that we first talked about doing some kind of split or something. This was our first time collaborating with anyone and we wanted to see if we could make some music with our friends. We think Conor is a great songwriter and we were honored to work with him. Also, we had a shit-ton of fun.”

Conor Oberst:
“There’s a feeling I get when I hear Jake sing that is rather addictive. It runs the length of my spine and makes me feel as if I were living some wonderful life long ago… maybe the roaring twenties… smoking strong cigarettes in red a tinted parlor with a record player you have that winds like a watch by turning a crank, but the music beneath that voice is more familiar. It sounds like Omaha – a decade of house shows and warped seven inches and drunken band practices that we have all shared.

“Making this record was something Jake and I had talked about many times over the last few years but every time our schedules allowed we preferred glorious drinking binges and nonsense conversations over getting anything done… But finally we did it. Recording Jake singing one of my songs is one of the most special things that has ever happened to me musically. It was so much fun recording these songs. We seamlessly moved from Heath and Jake’s basement to mine to Presto! the whole time feeling motivated by the songs and having a great laugh along the way.”

Track Listing:

1. Rollerskating*
2. Happy Accident*
3. Someone’s Love*
4. I Know You*
5. Tripped
6. Black Comedy
7. Poison
8. I’ll Be Your Friend
9. Get Back
10. Spring Cleaning

* brand new song featured only on this release

Harry still looking at the bright side

February 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Harry Redknapp insists the race to finish in the top four is wide open after Tottenham blew their chance of reclaiming the fourth spot in a 0-0 draw with Aston Villa yesterday. Redknapp’s Spurs side had been pushed down to fifth spot following Liverpool’s victory over Everton and their failure

Google Click-to-Call Ads Could Hold Bright Future for Mobile Ads

January 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Google Jan. 28 took its AdWords click-to-call ad program out of beta, offering advertisers a potentially lucrative new way to connect with their target audiences through high-end smartphones with full HTML Web browsers. To help better connect searchers with the right business, click-to-call ads and their corresponding phone numbers are based on users’ locations using Google Maps’ My Location feature. BroadPoint AmTech analyst Benjamin Schachter said a meaningful percentage of mobile queries are for phone numbers or local information, making a phone number associated with an ad a highly relevant component on a search engine results page.
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Labs Outlook 2010: The Future Is Bright for HTML 5 and Tablets, but Perhaps Not for Cloud Computing

December 28th, 2009 | No Comments

The future looks bright for HTML 5, as more browsers and Web apps take advantage of its capabilities, and tablets, which will get a push from major vendors. Storm clouds may be brewing, however, for cloud computing and Google’s Chrome OS.
– quot;Are you Madame Sinclair, the fortune teller? I really need your help.
I have to write a column looking ahead to technology in 2010, and my
predictions are coming up empty. quot;
quot;Yes, I am Madame Sinclair, and I can help you with your predictions.
But first I would like to let you kno…

Tiger, Tiger, burning bright

December 15th, 2009 | No Comments

How to revive the brand of Tiger Woods

“GO ON. Be a Tiger” no longer has the favourable connotations it did only a month ago—so it is hardly surprising that Accenture, the consulting firm that made the phrase its tagline, has decided to end its marketing relationship with Tiger Woods, following his confession to marital infidelities.

The golfer and his family will suffer a heavy financial price in addition to the personal cost of his alleged misbehaviour: Gatorade, Gillette and Nike are at least temporarily suspending deals that, with prize money, had made him the first athlete to become a billionaire, according to Forbes magazine. Yet reports of the death of Mr Woods’s brand are exaggerated. If he follows the right disaster-management strategy, one day he could be coining it again. …

Solar power’s bright future in Japan: Land of the rising subsidy

August 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Japanese makers of solar panels are well placed to endure the present glut

UNTIL five years ago Japan made around half of the world’s solar cells, thanks to its thirst for native energy and its expertise in the related fields of computer chips and flat screens for televisions. Sharp, which alone has made a quarter of all the solar cells ever produced, dominated the industry. But as solar technology matured and demand grew, new companies emerged, notably in China and Taiwan, eroding Japanese firms’ share of the market to around 20%. Sharp slipped to fourth place among manufacturers in 2008, after Q-Cells of Germany, First Solar of America and Suntech of China.

Factories have mushroomed all over the world in recent years, on the assumption that subsidies and loans for solar power would continue to grow, along with the world economy. Chinese manufacturers’ share grew sixfold from 2004 to 2008, capturing more than one-third of the global market. This prompted fears that Japan’s strength in solar would go the way of computer chips and television screens, in which Japanese firms have lost their dominance over rivals from elsewhere in Asia. …

Monsters of Folk: Free MP3

July 20th, 2009 | No Comments

“SUPER GROUP” OFFERS UP FIRST TASTE OF STUDIO COLLABORATION

Folk Monsters

Monsters of Folk – comprised of Bright Eyes‘ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket‘s Jim James and M. Ward – will release their self-titled studio debut album on September 22. But, the band is currently offering a free MP3 download of the song “Say Please.” Pop over to their website and type in “please” in the password box. It’s a sweet little, summery number.

Monsters of Folk began as folklore of sorts, when James, Oberst, Ward and Mogis did their first run of shows together in 2004. Like the musical revue shows that went town to town when rock Â‘n’ roll was newly born, the tour was called Â“An Evening With: Bright Eyes, Jim James and M. Ward,Â” although amongst friends and crew, it became affectionately known as the Â“Monsters of Folk Tour.Â” While entertaining audiences coast to coast with gorgeous acoustic melodies and world-weary tales, the foursome vowed to make their way to a studio at some point after the tour’s completion. While individual albums and other distractions delayed their plans, they kept their promise and when downtime presented itself they convened in the studio multiple times over two years, with Mogis at the helm of their first recorded effort.