 Mobile technology taught to turn on thieves September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Stolen mobile telephones are being taught to turn against thieves by sending home word of where they are and letting owners snoop on calls. | |
 World's biggest computing grid launched October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind’s biggest data challenge from the earth’s most powerful accelerator. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected ... | |
Switching e-mail addresses doesn't have to hurt October 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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In many ways, changing your e-mail address is harder than changing your mailing address. There's no post office to make sure that your mail gets forwarded and senders are notified of the switch. Plus, you have to deal with ... | |
Scientists explore putting electric cars on a two-way power street October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Think of it as the end of cars' slacker days: No more sitting idle for hours in parking lots or garages racking up payments, but instead earning their keep by providing power to the electricity grid. | |
E-mail accounts easy to break into October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The hacker who infiltrated Sarah Palin's e-mail account last month may have intended to embarrass the Republican vice presidential candidate, but the prank also exposed one of the Internet industry's most uncomfortable secrets: ... | |
Peer-to-peer networking takes internet out of the equation October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When people working on a project get together with their laptops and PDAs, they share information via the internet and a client server. But new software developed by European researchers allows independent, ... | |
 This is your grid on brains October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that ... | |
CSIRO's UltraBattery goes global in the auto sector October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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The CSIRO-invented UltraBattery is set to have a global impact on greenhouse gas emissions after Japan's Furukawa Battery Company, which has already begun production of the UltraBattery, and US manufacturer, East Penn, today ... | |
China spying on Skype users: Canadian researchers October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
China is monitoring the chat messages of Skype users and censoring them if they contain sensitive keywords such as "Tibet" or "Communist Party," according to a group of Canadian researchers. | |
 Solar powered cars race in South Africa October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Africa's first-ever solar-powered car race is underway in South Africa to raise awareness about alternative energy and promote science and technology, organisers said Wednesday. | |
 Internet pop-up "scareware purveyors" sued September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Microsoft and Washington state's top prosecutor have filed a lawsuit to stop "scareware purveyors" that trick people with pop-up messages claiming computers need critical repairs. | |
Computer hardware 'guardians' protect users from undiscovered bugs September 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer processor chips grow faster and more complex, they are likely to make it to market with more design bugs. But that may be OK, according to University of Michigan researchers who have devised a ... | |
 Obama has huge lead over McCain -- in cyberspace October 05, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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If the US presidential election was being held in cyberspace, Barack Obama would win in a landslide. The Democratic candidate has raised tens of millions of dollars more than Republican John McCain online ... | |
 Pterodactyl-inspired robot to master air, ground and sea October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, aeronautical engineer Rick Lind of the University of Florida, and their students Andy Gedeon and Brian Roberts have reached back in time 115 million ... | |
AT&T chairman says credit woes crimping operations September 30, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- The tightening of the global credit markets is crimping the world's largest telecommunications company. | |
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