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1. Who needs a supercomputer when an Xbox will do?

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 15 September 2009

   ... computer or spending thousands on a parallel network of PCs. But Scarle had a better idea, having previously worked as a software engineer for Rare, part of Microsoft Games Studios. He reckoned that ...

2. Cellphone interference can predict floods

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 06 July 2009

   ... network correlated with surface station humidity measurements. They measured rainfall distributions and were able to give an accurate estimate of the size of impending floods before they struck. This ...

3. Macworld 2009: Apple unveils new 17" MacBook Pro with 8 hour battery

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 06 January 2009

   ... during a lifespan of up to 1,000 recharge cycles. Connectivity options include wireless 802.11n networking courtesy of the built-in AirPort Extreme card, a Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR module and Gigabit Ethernet. ...

4. MIT scientists baffled by global warming theory, contradicts scientific data

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 30 October 2008

   ... be to study [these changes] using a very high-resolution atmospheric circulation model and additional measurements from other networks. The key thing is to better determine the relative roles of increased ...

5. Scientists create organic wires for use inside the human body

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Friday, 24 October 2008

   ... as a prelude to re-engineering neural networks or damaged spinal cords? These are the kinds of questions we are looking forward to being able to address and answer in the coming years." The big prize As ...

6. Microsoft research projects go Google

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   Wednesday, 02 April 2008

   ... of Plate-Tectonic Convection on Earth” (Yale), and “Integrated Probabilistic Models of Regulatory and Metabolic Networks for Biofuels Research” (Purdue). Sounds good to us. It may not only be an expensive ...

7. University student faces expulsion over Facebook study group

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 06 March 2008

   A first-year Ryerson University student faces expulsion after running an online Facebook study group that swapped homework tips.  18-year-old Chris Avenir has been hit with 147 counts – one ...

8. Playstation 3 lands Folding@Home in the record books

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Thursday, 01 November 2007

   Guiness World Records has officially claimed Folding@Home as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world. Tokyo (Japan) - Guiness World Records has officially claimed Folding@Home as ...

9. NCSA: A look inside one of the world's most capable supercomputer facilities

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Sunday, 01 July 2007

   ... of NCSA is 146 teraflops distributed across five primary machines. The constant throughput is somewhat less though, due to overhead like networking and disk storage. To put this large number into perspective ...

10. Bluetooth scanners going mainstream

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 31 October 2005

      Bluetooth meets NetStumbler as Network Chemistry released BlueScanner, a free Windows utilities that scans for Bluetooth devices. We talked to Andrew Lockhart, author of BlueScanner, to find out ...

11. AirMagnet offers Bluetooth scanner for download

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 26 October 2005

    ... risk that comes with Bluetooth is unclear at this time. At least for now, the usability of AirMagnet's "BlueSweep" or Network Chemistry's "BlueScanner" is limited. Dean Au, chief executive officer of AirMagnet, ...

12. Windows-based Bluetooth scanner released to the public

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 18 October 2005

      It was only a matter of time before someone released a Netstumbler-like scanner for Bluetooth devices. BlueScanner, a Windows-based Bluetooth scanner, was made available for download by Network ...

13. Compact Tape Drive Shipments Decline as Market Moves to "Super Drives"

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 17 July 2001

      In the recent past, the ubiquitous tape drive was the device of choice for both personal and network backup for anyone who couldn't fit a day's work on a floppy or (more recently) Zip or SuperDisk ...