Facebook Unveils App Discovery Platform: The App Center

Fri, 11 May 2012 04:42:15 +0000

Facebook has announced the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps. The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful. For the over 900 million people that use Facebook, the App Center will become the new, central [...]

Google Gets Licence For Self-driving Car In US

Wed, 09 May 2012 15:46:15 +0000

Driver-less cars will soon be a reality on the roads of Nevada after the state approved America’s first self-driven vehicle license. The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has issued the first license plates that will allow Google’s autonomous cars onto public highways. The first to hit the highway will be a Toyota Prius modified by [...]

Social Networking Set To Overtake Gaming On iOS And Android

Tue, 01 May 2012 13:20:44 +0000

Games have historically taken larger usage on mobile. The app revolution has changed the way software is distributed and used among consumers.  With a perfect storm of digital distribution, free content and powerful touch screen devices, the success of mobile apps has disrupted industries from telecommunications and games to music and news. To date, no [...]

Intel Launches Next-gen Ivy Bridge Processors With 3D Transistors

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:21:10 +0000

Intel has officially launched the first wave of its Ivy Bridge processors with a new tri-gate transistor technology, touting the new chips as the “world’s first 22 nanometer product.” Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors use a new tri-gate transistor technology to boost processing power while reducing the amount of energy needed. The initial release includes [...]

LEDs: Its Begining Of End For The Traditional Light Bulbs

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:54:53 +0000

  In the beginning, there was darkness. Then came fire. It wasn’t until the 19th century that artificial light was first generated. The big leap came in the 1880s, when Thomas Edison lit homes with the incandescent bulb. Since then, for the next 130 years, incandescents ruled the nights, the roads, and especially the Christmas [...]

Gartner: Personal Cloud Will Replace The Personal Computer By 2014

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:01:28 +0000

The personal computer has long been the essential tool of corporate employees, keeping all the secrets – and spreadsheets – of a business across a network of machines.  But now, as the cloud technology trending recently, according to Gartner, Inc. the reign of the personal computer as the sole corporate access device is coming to [...]

A Very Old Plant From Stone Age Brought Back to Life, From 32,000-Year-Old Seeds

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:42:34 +0000

  A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, a flowering plant native to Siberia, that had been buried by an Ice Age squirrel near the banks of the Kolyma River. Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the seeds were 32,000 years old. The mature and immature seeds, which had been entirely encased in ice, [...]

Google Glasses With Virtual And Augmented Reality

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:39:43 +0000

As per many reports, Google is expected to start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and, this being a Google product, advertisements onto the lenses. These glasses will have the combined features of virtual reality and augmented reality. The Google Glasses can use a 4G cell connection to pull in information from Google’s mountain [...]

A Battery Breakthrough That Could Bring Electric Cars To The Masses

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:09:43 +0000

A startup called Envia Systems, working on battery technology says it’s developed a key breakthrough technology that could one day lead to an electric car that has a 300-mile range and could cost around $25,000 to $30,000. Envia Systems announced test results that verify the company’s next-generation rechargeable battery has achieved the highest recorded energy [...]

World’s Smallest Transistor Created Using Single Atom

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:12:33 +0000

Scientists have created what they claim is the world’s smallest transistor, using a single phosphorus atom. An international team at the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University of Melbourne, has described the smallest transistor ever built in the Nature Nanotechnology journal. Michelle Simmons, who led the team, says the development is [...]