Archive for June, 2008
Posted on Jun 27, 2008 07:42:04 AM
To allow its customer to make limitless household calls with landline phones over a broadband connection, T-Mobile USA is about to launch a countrywide service.
The service has been named as T-Mobile AtHome and it will be available after July 2 at the price of $ 10 per month.
A wireless plan that costs around $40 per month and a T-Mobile’s Internet router that prices $50 are required to have the service. The router is connected to the home broadband link and the customer’s corded or cordless phones are connected to that router.
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Posted on Jun 27, 2008 05:26:24 AM
To start the internet naming scheme for further choices, ICANN will kick off voting later this week.
ICANN is a none-profit organization that is attributed to control the Internet’s naming scheme. At its meeting in Paris on Thursday, ICANN will vote on an offer that lets companies to buy new top-level domains that can end at almost anything they choose. Now instead of getting restricted to last letters of their web sites like .com, .co.uk or .org, the companies will get an opportunity to have their company name at the end of their URL. Now soon you would find sites like .intel or .ebay instead of .com similarly, different cities will get the opportunity to name their Web sites like .newyork etc.
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Posted on Jun 27, 2008 05:20:51 AM
Google has been defended as a more desirable partner than Microsoft Corp. by the Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc.
Yahoo again confirmed about its planned advertising joint venture with Google and it targeted those reports that were narrating about a new deal with Microsoft. The report was based on information from anonymous sources and it emerged even Yahoo’s repetitive rejection of the Microsoft buyout bid that followed a war of words for almost five months.
In this Yahoo’s letter the best option has been declared to work with Google but the chances of the new deal with Microsoft have not been completely ruled out.
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Posted on Jun 25, 2008 08:43:53 AM
By selling Mac desktop knockoffs, Florida-based Psystar has defied challenged Apple’s no-cloning rule. Rack-mount servers that have the ability to run Leopard Server operating system have been introduced by Psystar and it is a clear-cut defying to Apple’s Xserve system.
The OpenServ 1100 planned as a 1U server and the OpenServ 2400 as 2U system and both these systems have been launched this week. According to the company, both are well-matched with various operating systems like Windows Server 2003 and 2008, CentOS, Mac OS X Leopard Server and Ubuntu Server.
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Posted on Jun 21, 2008 05:40:27 AM
SAN FRANCISCO- There is a rapid thinning in Yahoo Inc.’s management after putting off a shareholder’s defiance intimidating to terminate in the firing of CEO Jerry Yang.
According to some reports that published by ALLthings, Techcrunch and The New York Times on Thursday, told that three more execs have decided to department. However, the reports were anonymously based with know-how of the goers.
The new migrants are: Qi Lu who was Yahoo search and advertising technology’s executive vice president, a senior vice president Brad Garlinghouse who involved in communications tools and Vish Makhijani who supervised Yahoo’s search.
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Posted on Jun 20, 2008 10:34:38 AM
According to a new computer model, away from the course of Pluto, an unknown icy world might prowl in the reaches of our solar system.
Based on the model this hidden world considered to be quite bigger than Pluto and it could elucidate odd features of the Kuiper Belt that is an area away from Neptune and replete with rocky and icy bodies. The existence of that region would gratify hypotheses and long-held hopes for “Planet X” that has been visualized by the science fiction enthusiast as well as by the scientists.
Study team member Patryk Lykawka of Kobe University in Japan stated “Though the search for a far-away solar system is old and far from over.”
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Posted on Jun 20, 2008 01:46:06 AM
NEW YORK –On Tuesday, Firefox Web browser’s new version became available as a free download.
The release had to delay as visitors overloaded Firefox’s Web server to check for the update. According to AlertSite which is an Internet performance observing company, the site was almost unreachable for almost two hours that started about 12:45 pm Eastern time which was 15 minutes earlier than the told release time. AlertSite further told that the performance was better later in the day.
Launch parties were organized by Firefox supporters around the world as they tried to make a new world record of most software downloads during the period of 24-hour.
This is a new category and Guinness World Records must take a week or longer to certify it.
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Posted on Jun 17, 2008 08:59:31 AM
To point out damage like a bruise, epoxy system is used in the new technology
Inspired by the self-healing capabilities of animals and plants a new technology may make it possible for the plans to point out even the most diminutive holes to mechanics upon landing besides allowing the damaged planes to heal them while on the fly. If this technique becomes successful, in the future wind turbines, aircrafts and even spaceships may posses fixed circulatory systems with a thick synthetic paste that will enter into these holes and cracks and then under ultraviolet light it will incandesce to point out the damages like a bruise.
Plastic-based composites that are also known as fiber-reinforced polymers will be used as a particular help for the system. These polymers are getting quite popular among aircraft, wind-turbine and automotive manufacturers who use this material as protective layers of skin.
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