Call me a geek, but I was happy to learn that the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs discussion that happened at the D5 Conference yesterday is available for download at iTunes. There are video and audio versions for download, and the video one is downloading as I type this.
The influence that these two have had […]

The trend of the Nintendo Wii outselling the Sony PS3 is not limited to the US market as was reported on this site earlier. The numbers in Japan are a little bit worse for the former king of the console market, Sony. Sony managed to sell 45,321 units of the PS3 while Nintendo sold 251,794 […]

Face recognition software, like may things in the technology realm, continues to get better. It is to the point that now, according to the results of a recent contest, that machines can outperform most humans at recognizing faces. The Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006 showed that the […]

MySpace continues to find itself getting banned in more and more situations. This time it is Apple retail stores that have enacted a ban. More specifically, Apple is blocking access to the popular social-networking site on the publicly accessible computers at their retail stores.
The move is being made because of situations where people were spending […]

Philadelphia has finished testing a service aimed at a city-wide wireless access system. This will make the city the proud owner of America’s largest citywide Wi-Fi project. The project also intends to provide Wi-Fi to low-income households.
The testing involved a 15-square-mile area of the city in which people could access the network for $21.95 a […]

Sony is showing off what it claims is the world’s first flexible OLED display. Sony has found a way to manufacture the displays with a flexible plastic instead of glass. The results as shown in the embedded video are quite remarkable.
The 2.5 inch display is reported to weigh a measly 1.5 grams(0.053 ounces). It will […]

ICANN has once again turned down the request for the top-level domain .xxx intended for the adult industry. There were a number of reasons cited for the decision. One reason was the concern that this would lead to ICANN having to declare what falls into the category of adult content in a world where the […]

Samsung has introduced the worlds slimmest LCD panel. The panel is .82mm (.032 inch) and is .07mm slimmer than the previous record. To put it in a more understandable way, it is no thicker than a credit card.
Samsung have also announced that they have developed a new method for putting panels together, resulting in a […]

Technology and medical research offers tremendous possibilities for people who could use some help. Now scientists are offering an interesting blend of old and new technology. The common shirt meets high tech to offer quadriplegics a new means of controlling environment.

The shirt is comprised of sensors which monitor the movements of the patient, and can […]

Straight out of the “Gee, really?” department is the news from Consumer Reports that extended warranties are rarely worth the cost to consumers. I’m sure that most of us have been there. You buy a new gadget and are asked about purchasing an extended warranty. They quite often promise the moon in terms of coverage […]