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Microsoft Shows ARM-Based Windows, Surface 2, New Laptops at CES

January 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Microsoft’s Jan. 5 press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show centered on the company’s announcement that the next version of Windows will support SoC (system-on-a-chip) architecture, in particular ARM-based systems from partners such as Qualcomm, Nvidia and Texas Instruments. Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live Division, declined to offer many details about that fabled next Windows build, but nonetheless company executives used the event to show off some up-and-coming technologies. Among those technologies: Surface 2, the next version of Microsoft’s table-size touch-screen device developed in conjunction with Samsung and due later this year. Microsoft also displayed ultralight and touch-screen-centric laptops running Windows 7. Finally, Sinofsky and company briefly demonstrated Windows running natively on laptops powered by ARM chips. Windows currently dominates the x86 platform used by traditional PCs, but the rise of mobile devices& mostly powered by ARM chip designs& has created a market the company wants to penetrate in a major way. – …

Demi Lovato Racy Cleavage Pictures Surface On Twitter

December 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Demi Lovato’s transition from clean-cut starlet to just another casuality of the Disney child star curse appears to be complete. The Sonny With a Chance star, 18, suffered another blow to her once squeaky-clean image on Wednesday when racy snaps of the actress posing seductively emerged on Twitter. In one photo, Demi — surrounded by [...]

Eva Longoria Divorce Filing Expected As Tony Parker Cheating Rumors Surface

November 17th, 2010 | No Comments

A “Desperate” Situation Indeed: Eva Longoria-Parker’s marriage to basketball star Tony Parker is in trouble — and infidelity is at the center of the marital drama, celeb squeals tell PEOPLE Magazine. The former soap star is expected to file a petition for divorce with a clerk at the Bexar County Courthouse in Texas as early [...]

Low-E Glass Energy Efficient Windows Posted By : Elite Roofing & Home Improvements, LLC

November 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Low-E stands for low emissivity, that is the power of the surface to radiate energy. Low-E glass is done by applying a non-visible, microscopic metal coating or metallic oxide on the surface of the pane of glass.

Google, Bing Maps Surface Location for Facebook Places

August 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s Bing Maps provides the mapping technology for Facebook Places through Facebook.com. However, Google Maps is the default mapping technology for the Facebook for iPhone app, the interface through which most users will access Places. – Lost in the gloss of Facebook’s Places announcement and its impact on
Foursquare and Gowalla is that Microsoft Bing is providing the mapping
technology for the social network giant’s location service on Facebook.com.
Yet Bing still stands to lose valuable traffic from Facebook Places to
search k…

Surface Mount Tech narrows 1Q net loss to $1.2m

July 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Surface Mount Technology says net loss attributable to shareholders for the three months ended 30 June 2010 (1QFY2011) narrowed to HK$6.6 million ($1.2 million) from HK$16.4 million in the corresponding quarter of the last financial year (1QFY2010).

Twitter Promoted Tweets Surface for Disney/Pixar’s ‘Toy Story 3′

June 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Twitter’s promoted trending topics has been kicked off by Disney/Pixar’s ad for the company’s forthcoming "Toy Story 3" film. "Toy Story 3" appears as the last Trending Topic in the lower right-hand rail of Twitter.com, marked by a yellow box that simply says "Promoted." Social media experts are eagerly watching Promoted Tweets, gauging its effectiveness with the obsession normally reserved for the way they scrutinize social ads on Facebook. The belief is that, like most Web companies, Twitter’s long-term viability hinges on its ability to make money from digital advertising. – Twitter’s promoted trending topics, an experiment in the Promoted Tweets ad system designed to reap the microblog service
revenues, has been kicked off by Disney/Pixar’s ad for the company’s
forthcoming quot;Toy Story 3 quot; film.
quot;Toy Story 3 quot; appears as the last Trending Topic in th…

Chandrayaan-1 found Human Habitat on Moon

April 8th, 2010 | No Comments

On Wednesday some tunnels have been uncovered under the surface of the moon by India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission that could even support human habitation in the future.
Dr Ranganath R Navalgund, the Director of Indian Space Research Organizationâ€™s Space Applications Centre based in Ahmadabad, said that an Indian instrument called terrain mapping camera has identified [...]

Microsoft Bing to Surface More Web Services, Director Says

March 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft Bing will more tightly integrate with Web services providers, and the search engine will improve its coverage in search verticals this spring as it seeks to gain market share from powerhouse Google, a Bing director said. Microsoft Bing Director Stefan Weitz said Bing will broker out to different Web services to bring that information and those services back into the page. Since its broad June 2009 launch, Bing has grown from roughly 8 percent market share to 11.5 percent, according to comScore. Adding more Web services could help Bing pad its growth.
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Microsoft Bing will more tightly integrate with Web services providers,
and the search engine will improve its coverage in search verticals
this spring as it seeks to gain market share from powerhouse Google, a
Bing
director said.
The idea is to more quickly and accurately connect co…

Apple in the Enterprise Bobs to the Surface at Macworld

February 12th, 2010 | No Comments

The growth of employee choice when selecting a work laptop is bringing Apple MacBooks into the enterprise with the result that vendors are creating more deployment, management and even anti-malware tools for Mac hardware including the iPhone. Macworld is still dominated by high value content creation tools and carrying cases for various and sundry Apple products. Even so, enterprise class tools are moving up in a world dominated by consumer add-ons.
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Micro-endoscope to spot early signs of cancer on the anvil

November 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Traditional endoscopes provide healthcare experts with the ability to look inside patientsâ€™ bodies. A University of Florida engineering researcher has now taken the utility of the endoscope to a new level.
They are designing micro-endoscopes capable of full inspections.
Currently, doctors insert camera-equipped endoscopes into patients to hunt visible abnormalities, such as tumours, in the gastrointestinal tract [...]

Microsoft Delivers Surface Workstation SDK

November 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft has seen significant momentum in the adoption of its Surface computer system and software over the past year. In addition, the company released a software development kit for developers to use on their PCs to simulate the Surface environment.
– LOS ANGELES — Microsoft has seen significant momentum in the
adoption of its Surface computer system and software over the past
year.
Brad Carpenter, general manager for software development on the
Microsoft Surface, said Microsoft has seen downloads of the Surface
software development kit (S…

Google Social Search Arrives to Surface Content from Twitter, FriendFeed, Yelp

October 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Google launches Google Social Search from Google Labs Oct. 26. The experiment is designed to make search results more relevant by mining the rich Google profile information users provide. This includes all Gmail contacts and Gmail chat buddies, as well and people users are publicly connected to on social sites such as Twitter and FriendFeed. Not Facebook though. If there’s Web content written by contacts relevant to the search query, Google’s algorithm will sniff the content out and serve it up at the bottom of the search results page in a section called Results from people in your social circle.
– Google Oct. 26 released Google Social Search, the company’s stab at making
search more personally relevant by putting content from searchers’ contacts
directly into search results.
Users must opt in to use the experimental service from Google Labs here. Google
Social Service requires users to ha…

Collision between NASA and Moon

October 10th, 2009 | No Comments

A NASA rocket has crashed onto the surface of the moon â€“ but donâ€™t panic, itâ€™s exactly what the experts had planned. The collision into a crater on the south pole of the moon was part of a search for water or ice under the lunar surface.

NASA Testing Nuclear Power for Moon, Mars Base

August 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Three successful NASA tests push forward the option for using nuclear power for life support, performing experiments, recharging rovers and mining resources on future manned missions.
– NASA and the Department of Energy are encouraged by recent testing that could enable possible use of
nuclear power on the surface of the moon or Mars. According to NASA, a fission surface power system
could use a small nuclear reactor to produce 40 kilowatts of energy,
enough electricity to power…

Rob Perks: Coal Companies Destroying, Not Restoring Mountains

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Lax enforcement by state and federal environmental officials means that the mountaintop removal reclamation rarely results in reshaping the mountain to its approximate original state.

Comets, not asteroids, scarred Moonâ€™s face about 4 billion years ago

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

A new study of ancient rocks in Greenland has suggested that icy comets â€“ not rocky asteroids â€“ launched a dramatic assault on the Earth and moon around 3.85 billion years ago, thus causing the lunar surface to become scarred.
â€œWe can see craters on the moonâ€™s surface with the naked eye, but nobody actually knew [...]

Edward Wytkind: Surface Transportation: The Need is Now

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Transit systems nationwide are hemorrhaging while history shows that transportation bills are engines of job creation and their services are in highest demand.

Molten Mars may have prevented life to evolve on its surface

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

In a new research, scientists have found that the surface of Mars was molten for more than 100 million years after it formed, preventing any early life evolving on the planet.
According to a report in Discovery News, the findings are based on an analysis of rare Martian meteorites at NASA’’s Johnson Space Center in [...]

â€˜Invisibility cloakâ€™ to protect buildings from earthquakes

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

A new research by scientists at the University of Liverpool has shown it is possible to develop an â€˜invisibility cloakâ€™ to protect buildings from earthquakes.
Sebastien Guenneau, from the Universityâ€™s Department of Mathematics, developed the technology with Stefan Enoch and Mohamed Farhat from the Fresnel Institute (CNRS) in Marseilles.
The seismic waves produced by earthquakes include body [...]