Posts by: Sara Williams
China Telecom Corp Ltd, China’s smallest telecom carrier by subscriber numbers, will sell Apple Inc’s iPhone 4S from March 9. That means the company will become the second Chinese operator to offer the Apple handsets on contract. Customers will be able to place online applications for the Code Division Multiple Access version of the iPhone [...]
Scientists sequenced the entire genome of bacteria for the first time in 1995. It took them 13 months to do this. Nowadays you can do it with a gene slinger in a USB stick. Called MinION, scientists at Oxford Nanopore Technologies who built it says that the disposable device will be on sale later this [...]
We have witnessed how Twitter has formed into an influential social media power with its role in London riots, and Middle East’s chaotic situation. Yandex, a renowned Russian search engine, has formed an agreement with Twitter to show its Tweets in the search results instantly as we all know the capacity Tweets hold to break [...]
When I first saw the Nook slate I found it very stylish but I knew that price conscious people don’t prefer it due to Amazon’s offering of Kindle Fire in less price with same features. But Barnes & Noble is going to change that gear with its newly announced Nook Tablet with 8GB onboard memory. [...]
The board of directors of Samsung Electronics has decided on Monday to spin off the company’s LCD (liquid crystal display) panel manufacturing unit. Samsung has been given the go-ahead to form the LCD television business as Samsung Display. The new company, provisionally named Samsung Display Co. will be launched on April 1, and will have [...]
Elie Ahovi, a designer, has presented a concept of Orbit which is a washing machines unlike your regular household washing machines. Rather than using water to clean your clothes Orbit uses the dry ice to wash them for you. Strikes? As you can see a drum inside a ring in the picture, the drum is [...]
Plan UK is a charity organization working to safeguard the future of children belonging to poor nations around the world. The organization has planned to install a street hoarding that will display an interactive advert. Based on gender looking at this hoarding the advert will change automatically. A camera will record the distance between eyes, [...]
Microsoft on Friday announced that it was redesigning the logo of Windows operating system, making a fundamental change to the iconic four-color Windows logo users have been using for 20 years. Meshing with the Metro design of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8, the new logo is a slightly-angled blue block with a thin white cross in [...]
Rovio, the company behind the hit game series Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio, has recently announced that the next major release in the franchise will be Angry Birds Space. This won’t be an update to any of the pre-existing games, but an entirely new game that will be available across all platforms on [...]
I wish I could be between 13 to 18 years old at the present moment so I could enter into the Google Science Fair competition, but alas, I cannot. Yes, you can definitely if you are aged between 13 and 18 and have an outstanding science idea that can win you lots of amazing prizes. [...]
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