Archive for January, 2008
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Researchers at Stanford discovered a clever way to utilize silicon nanowires to reinvent regular rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that usually power laptops, video cameras, mobile phones, iPods and various other similar devices. Research was led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and it highlights a new version that actually produces 10 times [...]
Penryn-Based Notebooks to be Released
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008The new Penryn notebooks have been leaked and Notebook Italia is responsible for posting some insider specs. Intel’s 45 nm Penryn based server and desktop based processors were released a few months ago and on January 6 we can expect the new Intel Penryn-based notebook processor to surface. The good news for us tech geeks [...]
LimeWire and BitTorrent Dominating the P2P Market
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Recent statistics released have caused some uproar when talking about music and movie downloading software. A new report issued by Digital Music News and BigChampagne showed us that iTunes is not the most popular such program around. LimeWire stands out as one of the most looked after software with a lot more user support than [...]
Google vs Hyperphrase – Still no Winner
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008The War between Google and Hyperphrase Technologies is still going on although Google did gain one victory. The bad news for them is that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit only upheld Google’s request of summary judgment in a partial note while remanding a part of the case for reconsideration. For [...]
Microsoft and DirecTV Might Actually Bring Something Out
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008The possible collaboration between DirecTV and Microsoft has been announced in 2006 but no results have appeared yet. A lot of people wanted to utilize the Media Center DVR platform combined with the satellite TV service but nothing really happened. Now we finally might have something as some sources pointed out that the project is [...]
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