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Elon Musk , CEO and founder of SpaceX , provided an update on Falcon 9 launch preparations at Cape Canaveral for SpaceFlightNow, and set odds for success on the low-cost booster’s maiden flight early next year.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket has nine main engines and will ...
Science
Making broadband Internet access universally available is this century’s version of building highways or extending railroads coast-to-coast , the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday ( pdf ).
FCC head, Julius Genachowski , said there were three reasons to ...
Mobile
FCC
Looking for a great deal on a laptop, phone or electronics? BlackFriday.info and bfads.net compile 2009 Black Friday ads, while Google News has links to the latest stories.
Amazon’s Black Friday HDTV deals include Panasonic plasmas
Here are the Target, Walmart, and Amazon Black ...
Other
Black Friday
Ustream has reportedly launched a version of its Ustream Viewer for Android , on the Android Market , free of charge (although I don’t see it yet).
Viewer gives users the ability to access any Ustream footage on their mobile. The Android viewer app works on both 3G and Wi-Fi networks ...
Mobile
Android
Apple
Clearwire is raising a further US$920 million in financing via a notes offering , bumping up its total financing in recent weeks to almost US$2.3 billion.
It follows a November 10 announcement by the company that it had raised $1.56 billion funding from existing investors including Sprint ...
Mobile
WiMax
Sprint
Comcast
Intel
The Department of Energy announced today it is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate Smart Grid technologies for a smarter, more efficient, more resilient electrical grid.
The 32 demonstration projects ( pdf ) include large-scale energy storage, smart meters, ...
Other
Libelium , a wireless sensor company, has launched the Waspmote , an open source ZigBee sensor platform. The line features seven different models of communication radios with a minimum consumption (0.7uA in the Hibernate mode).
Libelium says the Waspmote can achieve long range links : 7km at ...
Mobile
Bluetooth
A new, Google-branded handset promises to be one of the most advanced smartphones, and will include unlimited free calls, says Times Online .
The Googlephone promises to be one of the most advanced smartphones, with a large touchscreen display and a processor almost twice as fast as ...
Mobile
Android
iPhone
Finland’s three main mobile operators – Elisa , TeliaSonera and DNA – were all successful in acquiring mobile broadband spectrum in a national auction that closed yesterday . The 4G spectrum licences are granted for up to 20 years.
The auction – in the 2500-2690MHz band – closed after ...
Mobile
WiMax
Seattle-based Swype has a novel method for revolutionize typing on mobile devices , reports TechFlash. It’s called “ Swyping .” You run a finger across an on-screen mobile keyboard to compose words rather than click on individual keys.
The self-funded company just announced ...
Mobile
Android
iPhone
Samsung
Verizon
According to AdMob’s October, 2009 mobile metrics report , the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones accounted for 75 percent of mobile Web traffic in the U.S., up from a combined 65 percent in September, 2009.
But Android is quickly rising as a strong second , increasing share from 17 ...
Mobile
Android
iPhone
Motorola
3G Americas , a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies including LTE, has published an educational white paper titled, 3GPP LTE for TDD Spectrum in the Americas (pdf). The report recommends Time Division Duplex (TDD) technology with LTE as a mobile ...
Mobile
WiMax
Electric wheelchairs can now be controlled by an iPhone app from Dynamic Controls .
A user’s iPhone or iPod touch connects to the wheelchair system via Bluetooth to display chair information in real time as well as speed in kph or mph and compass heading.
Connectivity features ...
iPhone
iPhone
Bluetooth
wifi
Modern Warfare 2 has made $550 million in sales in the five days after its release, breaking all previous first-to-five day entertainment industry box office records , according to developer Activision .
Activision compared their revenue figures with other entertainment ...
Gaming
Activision
Grand Theft Auto IV
Xbox Live
“ Dead zones “, massive Oceanic low-oxygen zones, near shore, are areas that have become so oxygen-starved that most animals flee or die. To monitor the impact of this phenomena, traditional instruments deployed by ships and crews, can only operate for limited time periods at a ...
Other
RoboBuilder has a Christmas Special Dance Performance . You can download fancy robotic motion files from Internet and play with their three Standard Robot Platforms ; HUNO, DINO, and DOGY.
The Creator 5710K robotic kit ($680) has features not found on other kits such as; Precise ...
Mobile
Bluetooth
Techmeme has optimized their news with Techmeme Mobile for popular smartphones and Google has announced new mobile news features as well.
Techmeme Mobile loads much faster on phones thanks to a sparser page format.
Techmeme Mobile is available for all browsers at http://techmeme.com/m , ...
Online
Techmeme
Android
iPhone
Palm Pre
New York City has acquired radar detection units for some 200 intersections in four different boroughs. It’s part of a NYC Transportation Department traffic coordination program using centralized computer control to improve traffic flow.
The Remote Traffic Microwave Sensor supplied by ...
Other
Google today is open-sourcing the Chromium OS project . Google Chrome OS will be ready for consumers this time next year. It’s designed to be an alternative to Microsoft’s Windows, Apple’s OS and Linux. As with the Google Chrome browser , development will be done in the open ...
