Nov 17, 2009
Many are wondering if technology is to much for our laws because in a case that would have been impossible to contend to five years ago, Courtney Love is being sued for libel by a fashions designer for supposedly slamming the woman on Twitter. But as technology grows faster than the laws that govern free [...]
Nov 9, 2009
Researchers in London are working on a breakthrough technology called limb technology, which is a prosthetic hand that can actually feel. There are many different techniques for artificial limbs, but the smart hand so far is the most advanced at our time of age. The smart hand gives more control than any other system in [...]
Nov 3, 2009
“Italians have to go a long way to escape the mobile phone, a very long way.” This is a quote from an Italian astronaut who thought he could escape text messaging from space, well he was wrong. There is a new service in Italy called Riella SpA which allows its subscribers to use their cell [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Think you’re a good employee? Office snooping software can tell A program developed by Cataphora can trace and analyze emotive tone in electronic communications. Basically this software can separate the good employees from the bad just by analyzing their workers footprints, for example their emails they send, calls they make and documents they write on [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Ford recall hits 4.5 million vehicles Automaker issues largest single recall ever due to a faulty cruise control switch that could lead to a fire. Within operation management fundamentals, the Ford Company has issued 4.5 million vehicles to be recalled because of a faulty switch which can cause a fire hazard. Many buyers are upset [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Students launch camera to edge of space, snap pictures of Earth. Two students had an idea to launch a camera into near-outer space by using a weather balloon, a cell phone, hand warmers and a soft drink cooler. Amazingly the balloon, camera and cell phone made it 17 miles up into near space with no [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Is RFID tracking you? Scientists have been breaking through tracking technology for years and they believe they have the next best thing RFID (radio frequency identification). It is a transmitter smaller than a dime and it can be embedded into anything from our skin to a t-shirt to our hair. Today RFID can be used [...]
Oct 20, 2009
BlackBerry users experience e-mail outage In April of this year, many Blackberry customers in the U.S. were without e-mail because of an outage that affected all wireless companies. The outage lasted for about three hours: from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Customers that had e-mail through their carries, instead of having it at their [...]
Oct 20, 2009
The next hacking frontier: Your brain? Using the internet brings a lot of worries, for example: being worried someone might try to steal your credit card number or your social security number, but what if hackers one day try to take over a certain part of your body. This is what scientists are buzzing about [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Fifth Third Bank Collaborates With Tavant Technologies to Launch a Consumer Lending Online Channel On August 27, 2009 Tavant Technologies, specializes in IT services and solutions for consumer domains, has announced that Fifth Third Bank has compromised a deal to launch a new piece of technology to help out consumers in web applications. This [...]
Oct 20, 2009
How Bob Iger Unchained Disney For a few years now, since Michael Eisner was CEO, the Disney Company was filled with ego board members and workers, was a snake of a dog and was not what Walt Disney had imagined his company to be. For this to be known, we can see that the model [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Google’s Battle in Business Software Google announced that it is trying to create a software, like Microsoft’s, to compete with the mega giants. Google tried there new software with an agreement with GE, which included a software like excel: they created there own word processing and spreadsheet applications called Google Apps. As time went on [...]
