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Fast Forward: Verizon's Droid takes on Apple's iPhonePlease don't call the Droid an "iPhone killer." Verizon Wireless's new Motorola smartphone, running
google's Android open-source software, won't drive Apple's device from the market. (Besides, labeling anything an iPod or
iphone killer usually seems to ensure its quick demise.) But the Droid is a...
Washington Post Sunday, November 08, 2009The computer gets more like the TV every dayThe online video
service Hulu added a long-overdue feature last week: A "coming soon" page designed to give the site's millions of users a heads-up about when they'll be able to watch the next new episode of "Fringe" or "Parks and Recreation" in their Web browsers.
Washington Post Sunday, November 08, 2009Help File: Moving iTunes music to a new computer; AVG's free upgradeHow do I move my iTunes music to a new
computer? People can make this out to be an ordeal -- I've seen readers ask whether they had to run specialized tools, as if iTunes files were alien from other data. But if you haven't changed where iTunes stores your music, all you need to do is copy a fol...
Washington Post Sunday, November 08, 2009Simulators fight with traditional games for PC screensHamburg - Fans of
computer simulation games will be happy to see the genre making a renaissance this season, even as a flood of standard games pours into stores to keep more traditional
gamers
happy ahead of Christmas. Three new simulators are headin...
Earth Times Sunday, November 08, 2009Computer and internet briefs, Sunday 8th November 2009Washington - Having trouble figuring out how to create a PDF document? If you already have a program such as Acrobat, Foxit, or PDFCreator installed and you do not see the PDF button in the application from which you'd like to create the PDF file, yo...
Earth Times Sunday, November 08, 2009New long-life battery laptops from DellFrankfurt - Dell has released two new laptops from the nascent ULV class. The 13z and 15z are members of the Inspiron series and cost 550 and 580 dollars respectively. ULV stands for Ultra Low Voltage and refers to processors designed to work at lowe...
Earth Times Sunday, November 08, 2009Novelties: Far From a Lab? Turn a Cellphone Into a Microscope"We convert cellphones into devices that diagnose diseases," says Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at U.C.L.A.
New York Times Sunday, November 08, 2009Unboxed: Watch the Walk and Prevent a FallResearchers are applying tools like wireless motion sensors in their quest to prevent the elderly from falling in their homes.
New York Times Sunday, November 08, 2009Turning a Cell Phone Into a Microscopestupendou writes with this excerpt from the New York Times: "Microscopes are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive. Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes." But not based on optical magnification: the article explains that Aydogan Ozcan, a UCLA assistant professor of electrical engineering, has combined the wireless transmission abilities and imaging sensors now typical in wireless phones to make the phones capable of detecting cell abnormalities and more by capturing wave interference patterns from body fluids — like blood — and sending them on for analysis.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot Sunday, November 08, 2009Microsoft Trumps Google, Yahoo in Total Time Spent OnlineComScore Nov. 6 said some 27 billion hours were spent on the Internet by 1.2 billion worldwide Internet users in September 2009.
microsoft Web sites led the way, but 70 percent of the time spent on its sites was through Windows Live Messenger.
google came in at No. 2, with 9.3 percent of the minutes (2.5 billion hours). Yahoo was third with 6.3 percent of the minutes, or 1.7 billion hours, but dropped by 14 percent from its September 2008 share of almost 2 billion hours. Facebook nabbed the fourth spot, with 5 percent of the minutes, or 1.4 billion hours. - People are spending more time on the Internet, searching more, shopping more, and perhaps even working more online. ComScore Nov. 6 said some 27 billion hours were spent on the Internet by 1.2 billion worldwide Internet users in September 2009, or 24 percent more than the 21.7 bil...
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