Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

AT&T Wants iPhone Users To Use Less Data

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Some iPhone users may be asked to cut back on their usage, if AT&T has their way. Now the main question is whether they'll use the carrot or their stick to get their way. The company says they're considering using incentives to get heavy users to cut back on their ...

Cisco Bidding To Takeover Data Center

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Cisco has made bold new steps that could make them a huge player in the data center market. Cisco can take a big piece of the data center pie with their new Unified Computing System initiative. The Unified Computing System is Cisco’s bid to take IBM and HP head-on in ...

Discovery Grounded By Hydrogen Leak

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Discovery was kept on the ground after NASA engineers discovered the space shuttle was leaking hydrogen. The leak could have caused complications once the ship was put into orbit. Launch Director Mike Leinbach explained yesterday that "the leak developed on the piping that runs from the fixed service structure, or ...

German Man Fined $2,300 For SMS Message

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

A man who mistakenly passed on an SMS message to another person has been fined $2,300 because of it. The message told whoever opened it that they had just killed a "Turk." Shortly before Germany defeated Turkey in last year's Euro 2008 soccer tournament, the 28-year-old sent a message that ...

Bionic Eyesocket Camera To Be Used In Film

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

A filmmaker is having a tiny camera fitted in his prosthetic eye. He'll then use the device to film a movie. Sounds like quite the interesting "point of view" piece. n order for the project to be successful the smallest, lightest, power efficient technologies had to be found and ...

Digital TV Converter Coupons Scarce

Monday, December 29th, 2008

If you haven't already tried to get your Digital TV Converter coupon, you need to get on the job, according to a top regulator. An official overseeing the program says that a rush of last minute requests for the coupons has left the program strapped. The government program doling out ...

V Cast To Air Final Presidential Debate

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

V Cast will be airing the final presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain. Users can watch live beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET on CBS News through V CAST Video, as well as through NBC 2Go, MSNBC, CNBC, CBS and FNC on V CAST Mobile TV. In addition, ...

Cellfire Wins E-Tech Award For Innovation

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Cellfire Inc wins an award for their Cellfire 3.0 mobile solution. The Cellfire 3.0 software is a couponing solution for mobile phones. "We are honored to have the innovation and hard work of our engineering and product teams recognized by the CTIA," said Brent Dusing, CEO of Cellfire. ...

Dexter The Space Robot Now Assembled

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Dexter the robot that will work on the space station has now been assembled. Dexter is ready to do manual labor on the space station. The robot, which is properly called the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator, will in future do much of the external work on the space station. Dextre will ...

Google Says Company Can Avoid Economic Downturn

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Executives at Google seem to think the company is immune to an economic slowdown. Eric Schmidt said during a press conference that Google is uniquely positioned to avoid the troubles plaguing many other firms. "It's too early to say if there's (already) been any specific impact but if there were ...