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1. Hackers steal confidential global warming data

   (Security/Security Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... levels 'stable since 1850' 
Retreat of glaciers locks up carbon 
UK court rules that global warming is a religious belief, not science 
Arctic sea ice melting at rapid pace 
Global warming debate hots ...

2. Steam bans Modern Warfare "grey market" keys

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... added that Activision's ban of legally purchased keys has turned into a "hot topic" for debate. "EULAs state that you simply own a license, and that the manufacturer can do whatever it likes to your ...

3. OpenOffice debuts analog joystick mouse

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 07 November 2009

   ... with customizable wave files. PDF export of profile button assignments. Adjustable resolution from 400 to 1,600 CPI. 20 default profiles for popular games and applications, including Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, ...

4. Internet users do have friends

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... average amongst cell phone users, nine percent larger for those who share photos online and nine percent bigger for those who use instant messaging. Internet users are apparently 38 percent less likely ...

5. Coconut nuclear power on the horizon

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Tuesday, 03 November 2009

   ... to contain and control hot plasma. The fuel which is a brew of deuterium and tritium, is heated to temperatures in excess of 150 million° C, forming helium and neutrons in addition to the hot plasma.  ...

6. My 10 favorite Windows apps

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   ... a hotel line if I'm on the road. 3. Fireworks and Dreamweaver - old versions. As long as the software continues to run, I find older versions run far faster than the newer stuff. Fireworks is great for ...

7. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 26 October 2009

   ... "The idea obviously is to load the OS and applications onto the SSD while keeping all data, such as music and photos, on the HDD," Leong told TG Daily. "The Kingston message with SSDs has always been that ...

8. Vonage launches mobile app for the Blackberry and iPhone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 05 October 2009

   ... great value over any broadband network," explained Vonage CEO Marc Lefar. "With Vonage Mobile you can call around the world from home, a Wi-Fi hotspot, or while traveling around the country. There are ...

9. Best Camera is actually just okay

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 01 October 2009

   Review: The Best Camera app available at Apple's iTunes AppStore uses the iPhone's camera and can be used to add rudimentary special effects to a photograph. It works well enough for its limited ambitions, ...

10. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... applies GPU computing technology to police and military videos.  If you’ve ever watched CSI (any of them) there typically is a shot where they take a video from an ATM or stoplight camera and enhance ...

11. Nvidia teams up with Microsoft for HPC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... tracing application that can be used for advanced photo-realistic modeling of automobiles. The company is also working with Microsoft to install a large Tesla GPU computing cluster and is investigating ...

12. Apocalypse anytime you want

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    ... helicopter until you’ve flown a DraganFlyer X6. It's so easy to control it's unbelievable. The X6 isn't really a boys' toy – it's a serious device aimed at taking the best aerial photography possible. ...

13. Is Intel's Atom really the future?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... quite flat.But the revenues generated by the Atom can't be that great, and when Intel showed us a slide of how the Atom had sold like hot cakes, the only numbers there, were shipment numbers and not $$$$.And ...

14. Intel shows off 22 nanometer, optimistic about future

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... with a connection to Asus app store. Acer is doing a similar thing. Intel has 460 embedded wins with Atom and the CPUs will proliferate at hotel bedsides and slot machines, across many segments. In-vehicle ...

15. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... being uncompetitive to [Dell competitors]. "We have slower, hotter products that cost more across the board in the enterprise with no hope of closing the performance gap for 1-2 years." In a submission ...

16. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... until Windows 7 ships anyway.   HP in its traditional shotgun approach to products has a wide variety of offerings; it appears that even though it has a lot of Apple people it still doesn’t understand ...

17. Optical computer does its first math

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    ... chip takes four photons that carry the input for the calculation, and then implements a quantum program called Shor’s algorithm to find and output the answer – 3 and 5, as any fule no.  Finding ...

18. In-flight wi-fi takes off

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 31 August 2009

    ... were stationary devices like televisions, digital audio players and digital photo frames. Hewlett Packard's going great guns: it had the most wi-fi enabled new product introductions in 2008, three times ...

19. NASA research sheds light on early evolution

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 21 August 2009

    ... able to use energy from sunlight via photosynthesis. As these double membrane prokaryotes evolved, one type, called cyanobacteria, became the primary oxygen-producers on the planet, generating enough ...

20. Touch screens set to get clearer

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 19 August 2009

    ... layers, to bend and diffuse light to reduce glare. Since traditional chemical techniques could not be used on these super-thin coatings, Carlo and his team used depth profile X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy ...

21. Apple's Leopard OS changes its spots

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 06 August 2009

    ... improvements and fixes include a problem that prevents importing of large photo and movie files from digital cameras, a fix for a problem that causes extended startup times, and better compatibility with ...

22. Will Windows Mobile become extinct?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    ... does have a good shot at remaining relevant and competing with Linux. The “iPhone phenomenon” is gaining significant strength in most companies, and fewer organizations now forbid user- selected devices ...

23. Twitter re-twitters the twitterati

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 28 July 2009

    ... has redesigned its home page and appears to have improved its search capabilities.When you fire up www.twitter.com, it gives you some topics that appear to be hot - such as William "None of this s*** works" ...

24. Lost moon landing tapes dusted off and restored

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    ... shots of school sports day. Forty-five tapes were apparently erased and reused during a shortage in the 1970s and 80s. But at least what's left will now be a bit easier to see. A three-year search for ...

25. Semicon West opens its doors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    This year's Semicon West kicks off today and promises exhibits and  technical sessions covering microelectronics, photovoltaics, MEMS and new and emerging technology markets. San Francisco (CA) ...

26. Herschel snaps sneak preview

    (Space/Space Features)

    Sunday, 21 June 2009

    ... finished commissioning the device. The Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer has obtained images of M51 - known as the whirlpool galaxy - for a first test observation. ESA scientists now have ...

27. That new Xbox for 2010 … real or fake news?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ...  This whole event seems to resemble a story from last year, when we reported that the “next” Photoshop would be called Photoshop CS4 and that it will have GPU-accelerated software components, based on ...

28. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... Miami, Dallas, San Francisco and Phoenix.  Transitions lenses – the #1 recommended photochromic lenses worldwide – are the ideal everyday choice for healthy sight. They are clear indoors and at ...

29. Google Apps plugin disables critical Outlook search

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    ... Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook. San Francisco (CA) - Microsoft has confirmed that the recently introduced Google Apps Sync plugin is responsbible for disabling Outlook search functions. "When a Google ...

30. Nvidia’s boss aims for computing hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    ... the real baby and it’s the ugliest baby you’ve ever seen.  GPU computing has reached the “tipping point”. We felt the GPU was our best shot at getting parallel computing to the world. Some people ...

31. Palm: Dead company walking?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Thursday, 28 May 2009

    ... at launch heavily and they don't have sufficient seeding units. The mental image of a hot Apple knife through Palm butter comes to mind.   If Steve Jobs shows up next month to launch the products, ...

32. NASA redefines Spitzer Space Telescope mission

    (Space/Space Features)

    Wednesday, 06 May 2009

    ... imaging photometer and infrared spectrograph. As such, the telescope will operate with two channels of one infrared array camera functioning at full capacity. This will enable Spitzer to detect glows ...

33. Intel Atoms not in demand: End of the Netbook?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 28 April 2009

    ... on inventory or the lack of it, this could be the first sign that Netbooks are running out of steam as a hot cake item for buyers.The market sources quoted in the Digitimes article claim that Netbooks ...

34. HP dv2: Better than a netbook?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Sunday, 26 April 2009

    ... GB USB flash + 16 GB SD card flash memory.) You can’t run the latest software on it, but it is sufficiently fast with Photoshop 5 as well as Microsoft Office 2003. With the exception of the girly glossy ...

35. Up next for the iPhone: Video calls

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 07 April 2009

    ... CMOS orders by Apple, the latter allegedly "for another Apple product expected to be launched later in the year." MacRumors posted screenshot of a tweaked Camera app that has a new function to switch between ...

36. Office for iPhone finally on the way?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 06 April 2009

    ... Translate), which published screenshots from a development build, DTG is a native iPhone app with full editing and rich formatting support for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Microsoft has ...

37. Nintendo DSi on sale in United States

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Saturday, 04 April 2009

    ... Using the built-in Nintendo DSi camera, this outrageous title puts players right at the center of fast-paced mini-games, challenging them to race the clock and get a peek at Wario's photo album.• ...

38. iPhone OS 3.0: Top 10 user-centric features

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 20 March 2009

    ... multiple images, go to the album view, tap selection mode, and then select multiple photos by tapping each. The application now re-formats itself for landscape mode when you turn the handset upside ...

39. The second Android cellphone arrives by Easter

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 19 March 2009

    T-Mobile's G1 Android will soon be joined be three more Android-powered cellphones. Taiwan-based High Tech Computer (HTC) will first release Magic, debuting in April, with two more devices arriving ...

40. How to use technology wrong

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    ... of someone including and not limited to their name, address, photos, and telephone numbers into the public spectrum simply because they "don't like what a person said." Conclusion On a daily basis, ...

41. The McCain Twitterview: Nice try, but no cigar

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    ... to ask more questions. Follow-ups are key! This experience has taken journalism backwards in time, which is a total dichotomy when you look at the future of the Internet, journalism and the way news ...

42. iPhone OS 3.0: Showing us just how big the iPhone is

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 17 March 2009

    ... for growth and expansion. This thing is just huge! Unlike the two years previous when it was non-existent, Apple's iPhone platform is now the hottest mobile platform in the world with over 30 million ...

43. iPhone OS 3.0: A thousand new APIs for developers

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 March 2009

    ... satellite, hybrid and map views, pinch zoom, geolocation, etc.As expected, Core Location now supports turn-by-turn directions by leveraging location information obtained via GPS, Wi-Fi hotspots and cellular ...

44. Facebook privacy now a user-controlled option

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 17 March 2009

    ... videos, photos, and links, to anyone (Facebook friend or otherwise). This change is part of the overhaul announced at the beginning of the month by Facebook, one intended to promote a broader use by both ...

45. Apple to demo the next iPhone OS on March 17

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 March 2009

    ... get a user's location. If a user runs a program on the first-generation iPhone that lacks GPS circuitry, CoreLocation obtains rough location via cellular tower triangulation and WiFi hotspots. If there ...

46. Apple's placebo iTunes upgrade

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 12 March 2009

    ... or iPhone, and optimizing photos for syncing." In addition, iTunes now syncs with the third-generation iPod shuffle, letting your friends request songs for the iTunes DJ feature (formerly Party Shuffle) ...

47. No recession here: NPD says U.S. gaming industry in good health

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 11 March 2009

    The U.S. gaming industry appears not only alive and well, but also recession resistant. Even as we await a new batch of games to kick console sales into a higher gear -- like the eagerly-awaited Resident ...

48. Apple tax on the latest Mac gear: 40 percent

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 March 2009

    ... an occasional total halt.In addition to OS X, every Mac also comes preloaded with iLife, a stellar suite of digital lifestyle applications designed to allow easy management of photos, videos, music ...

49. Intel wins TSMC support to gear up for historic battle with ARM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    ... battle stations. Now we are waiting for the first shot, and it will be interesting to see which of the two will be more nimble and score the decisive strategic moves. ...

50. "Spec" BlackBerry ad shoots Apple through its heart

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 27 February 2009

    File this one under the "cool" category. A new BlackBerry Storm ad has been making the rounds recently. It literally takes a direct shot at RIM's fierce rival, Apple. While many online outlets incorrectly ...