November 30th, 2007 by Shashank
Recently Google has introduced a brilliant feature “MY LOCATION” to its Google Maps that could simulate the approx GPS functionality to the mobile and smartphones without the GPS hardware like Apple’s iPhone, E61i and many other. The My Location feature is available for most web-enabled mobile phones, including Java, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Nokia/Symbian devices.
“It’s not GPS, but it comes pretty close (approximately 1000m close, on average),” the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant explained on its website. “We’re still in beta, but we’re excited to launch this feature and are constantly working to improve our coverage and accuracy.”
How does it work?
The My Location feature in Google Maps collect information from the broadcast towers near the mobile phone and approx the location of the mobile device in your map.
There you have it GPS functionality on non GPS enabled mobiles. The new feature looks promising and it’s still in beta phase for more explanation watch the Youtube video below :
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November 24th, 2007 by Shashank
US based M2E power is working on a self charging generator/battery technology that utilizes the kinetic energies of the movement and transform it into usable electric power that could power a cell phone easily. They have already developed a rechargeable battery that works on kinetic energy alone and can be charged by the movement of the user like walking,driving.
The material needed to develop these batteries is already available with a little more price than the lithium ion batteries but is justified as the new batteries could increase the battery life upto 3-7 times compared to the normal mobile batteries. These batteries also use 30-40% less heavy materials in comparison with the conventional batteries.
M2E(Motion To Energy) is currently being developed to provide U.S. soldiers on the battlefield with continuously self-recharging power for mission-critical electronics. Future applications will include everything from cell phones to large-scale wind and ocean wave power generators.
And don’t be surprised if you see someone moving their hands to recharge their phone batteries.
M2E Website
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November 20th, 2007 by Shashank
In a recent development by the Japanese researchers they have made it possible to transfer hundreds of terabits of data per second through standard fibre optic cables. This breakthrough in data speed is the result of tweaking of the existing data transfer protocols and using the Quadrature Amplitude Modulation(QAM) technique to pipe data. Just imagine the data transfer speeds, you will be able to download full torrent games and movies in a matter of few seconds.
What the Japanese researchers did was they solved the stability problem associated with the special laser that makes it feasible to pipe data through a glass fibre using the QAM method which has resulted in blistering speeds.
This will change our internet lives but for the timebeing don’t expect these Terabits speeds from you ISP you know it takes time 
Credits tech.co.uk
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October 29th, 2007 by Shashank
A Melbourne PhD Student named John Papandriopoulos has developed a breakthrough technology that will enable us to surf the internet at blazing fast speeds upto 250 Mbps through our existing telephone/broadband copper wires and that too without investing in optic fibres and other expensive hardware. The new technology is totally software based that your ISP needs to install at their exchange/control room and nothing needs to be done at your side.
How this technology works:
The technology which is completely software based uses the mathematical modelling to remove the interference which slows down the downloading speeds and thus breaking the barrier of data that can be transfered without much disturbance and coping with our need for speed.
John Papandriopoulos took a year to complete this wonderful research and this development has also won him a Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD.
This is indeed a good news for the Indian broadband industry as this could really transform the Indian broadband scenario but then it takes time from development and becoming available to general public. John has filed patent applications in US and Australia for this technology and it is said to take 3-4 years before it becomes widely available.
Now think of present Indian broadband speeds..Pathetic
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October 24th, 2007 by Shashank
In an another interesting development in the nanotechnology researchers have developed a computer program that can successfully predict the behavior of tiny nanowires during their operation in electronics hardware.
The computer program will help in the diagonisis of the nanowires which are around 1,000 times thinner than the human hair which would help the scientists to employ the nanowires in electronics without loosing efficiency which is the essential power requirement for the scaled down super computers.
Thus the nanowires would one day be used to fabricate the tiny microchips and processors which would pave the way for the handheld supercomputers.
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October 22nd, 2007 by Shashank
IBM And Mediatek has announced partnership to develop breakthrough technology that would be 100 times faster than the available Wi-Fi technology. The technology which is planned for becoming available in three years would mark a new era in the home entertainment industry. As users will be able to transfer loads of GB’s of data in a few seconds because the new technology will be capable of transferring data at the speed of 2.5 GB/sec as compared to the present speed of 11 to 54 Mbps per second.
The new technology will be the result of collaboration between IBM And Mediatek technologies of mmWave radio chips,package and digital baseband, video processing respectively.
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October 16th, 2007 by Shashank
Hitachi has claimed a breakthrough in Hard disk drive technology that would result in HDD’s for storage space upto whooping 4 Terabytes for desktops and 1 Terabytes for laptops. The breakthrough is based on new invention in nanotechnology that would shrink the size of the read/write heads to only 30-50nm in size.
The new heads are based on magnetoresistive techonology known as CPP-GMR (current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive). The whole idea lies behind in increasing the hard disk recording densities by using smaller and smaller heads which will in turn provide huge increase in densities upto 500 gigabytes per square inch which is approximately four times the present generation of hard drives.
There is a great competition going on in this storage technology segment we have already seen a couple of storage technologies already which you can find below.
Fujitsu’s new Nanohole technology 1TB/inch
Mempile Teradisk using 3D optical recording technology
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October 12th, 2007 by Shashank
Imagine two people watching two different programs on the same television at the same time , yes this could be possible with the new LCD technology in development which lets the users to to watch different things depending upon from where they are watching the LCD screen. The new technology completely controls the lightning of the pixels in the left or right portions of the screen thus you can watch a movie at left while your friend plays NFS on the right.
The new technology is being developed by Jabil mainly for use in cars as the driver will see the GPS map while your kids enjoy their favorite movie or games in the backseat.
Cool technology isn’t it.
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October 9th, 2007 by Shashank
Nissan has developed this strange looking concept car named as Pivo 2 which sports a cool 360 degree turning cabin along with 90 degree turnable wheels so that you can easily guide your car out of parking. Pivo 2 is an advanced electric 3 seater concept that employs “by-bire” technologies for braking and steering.The top cabin has swivel cabin system and comes with a robot assistant to help you in navigation.The cool youtube video after the jump will explain more :
It even has innovative round eyed robot that will guess when the driver is feeling sleepy and will shake its head or talk to the driver for eg “You look tired. There’s a coffee shop 500 metres ahead on the left,”. The new Pivo 2 will be ready for exhibition at Tokyo motor show from Oct 27.
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October 4th, 2007 by Shashank
Have you ever got a feeling that your current desktop is space is not enough for you and your productivity will increase if you could have more desktop space then worry not, 360desktop has come up with an innovative software program that extends your desktop space to multiple times of your current desktop space and all you have to do is scrolling the available desktop workspace with easy controls given in the software.
What is 360desktop?
360desktop extends your Windows® desktop as a user generated, photo-panoramic space and delivers a personalized web, free of the browser, into a virtually unlimited desktop.
Think it this way you have got a 360 degree wallpaper at your desktop and you will be able to access and use each part of that 360 degree wallpaper as a desktop just by scrolling thus giving you a lots of workspace.You will get a better picture by watching 360 desktop video in action below.
Currently the program is open for signup and is under beta stage. I have already signed up let’s see when i get the details i will keep you updated.Thanks Matthew for letting us know such a interesting and useful program.
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