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Archive for November, 2005

Glide Effortlessly into Web 2.0

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Transmedia’s Glide Effortless is a new bread of Web based applications that offers a world of centralized data management and sharing potential, everything from pictures to Music to Videos and Documents. For $9.95/month you have access to 3Gb of storage which you can use to make your word documents accessible anywhere you go, [...]

Digg Users Take Revenge At Bad Online Store

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Proving that an Internet community is just as real, active, and committed as any other “tangible” community, users of Digg as reported by Aviran’s Place (and subsequently Digg) have paid due retribution to an unfair and threatening on-line photo shop.
In the astonishing response to an on-line buyer’s horror story, havoc has been wreaked with priceritephoto. [...]

SpaceX’s Falcon 1 waiting patiently

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

SpaceX, the company funded and founded by Elon Musk with $100 million from his personal fortune is ready to make space more accessible. Well, after waiting on the launch pad for several days they’ve had to delay the launch while they await for a fresh supply of liquid oxygen to arrive from Hawaii to [...]

Robotic Mine Sweeper

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

A team of 4 innovative students from Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Mechanical Engineering have come up with what may be a ground breaking solution to a problem plaguing nations recovering from war. Nations such as Angola and Cambodia struggle to recover while they continue to be devastated by landmines laid and forgotten during past wars. [...]

Martian Ice FOUND!

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

New Scientist Space Reports that Radar imaging by The MARS EXPRESS probe has discovered what appears to be Water Ice below the surface of the Red Planet.
The Ice was found in two regions of red planet’s northern hemisphere: the mid-latitude lowlands, otherwise known as Chryse Planitia and the northern polar cap. At the Northern [...]

PSP Podcast Support

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Much as Steve Jobs had predicted during his keynote this summer, the popularity of podcasting and the demand for podcast downloads has exploded. Enter the Sony PSP with its latest Firmware Upgrade: version 2.60.
AS Cnet reports, this latest Firmware upgrade for the popular handheld boasts RSS support for audio streams and WMA (windows media [...]

Nokia to Launch MMOG action game

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

After declaring the N-gage a complete failure it had appeared that mobile phone giant Nokia had been set to retire from the game development Arena and lick its wounds. Not so. Gameshout reports that Nokia has announced a Space Alliance MMOG action Game.
The company announced earlier today that “hundreds of thousands of players can expect [...]

Google Personalized Search Launches Beta

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Google Personalized Searched has graduated from Google Labs and entered into what will undoubtedly be a lengthy Beta. The service, now available to users of Google’s 38 domains reorders your search results based upon your previous searches, clicks, and what seems to interest you the most. The goal with personalized search is essentially to help [...]

Miniature Solar System Discovered

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

RedOrbit News reports that astronomers have discovered a minature solar system orbiting a distance brown dwarf using NASA’s state of the art Spitzner Space Telescope. The Brown Dwarf, a mere 8 times as massive as Jupiter is one of the smallest brown dwarfs ever detected. In addition, this brown dwarf is the smallest known to [...]

Japanese robot to train doctors

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Yahoo! News has a story about how ambitious Japanese researchers are developing a robot to train doctors. A research team from Nagoya University has unvieled their working prototype at the launch of the previously reported Internaional Robot Exhibition.
“The so-called Micro Surgery Robot resembles a surgeon and enters the fake blood vessels of a translucent [...]