Oct
4
Sputnik 50th anniversary
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Happy anniversary to “Sputnik” (Спутник) – first human made object to fly in space.
On 4 Oct 1957 USSR (СССР) successfully launched Sputnik I. This act changed human history and was starting point to “Space race”.
He was 58cm of diameter and weighted 83,6 kg. Each turn around earth took him around 96 min.
Sep
27
QNX publishes Neutrino kernel code
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QNX announced that the company makes available the source code of his Neutrino RTOS (real time operating system) microkernel via newly created QNX Foundry27 portal.
At Foundry27, customers and developers can access a wealth of resources relating to the QNX Neutrino RTOS and the QNX Momentics IDE, as well as to new community projects.
Finally one mature realtime kernel code is available …. (bad news is that it is released under dual licensing).
Sep
25
New way of printing on CD/DVDs
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If a CD is round why we need to print on it as it was page of paper?
This was (probably) the question DYMO engineers were asked and they developed new way of printing on CD – just spin the media and print on it
The result is:
With this product they introduce new measuring format dpi/min and their firs product is intended to have 600 dpi/min which means 1 cd per 60 sec.
Expected price tag is: ~$280
One cartridge will last 100 CDs.
Sep
22
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.7
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Mozilla foundation updated Firefox to 2..0.0.7.
There are no new features – this is completely security fix release.
This one fixes only one MFSA 2007-28 “Code execution via QuickTime Media-link files” with critical impact.
It is recommended to do the update.
Sep
19
USB 3.0
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On IDF Intel promoted new USB specification USB 3.0 with the aim of 10x speed increase.
“USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 will create a backward-compatible standard with the same ease-of-use and plug and play capabilities of previous USB technologies. Targeting over 10x performance increase, the technology will draw from the same architecture of wired USB. In addition, the USB 3.0 specification will be optimized for low power and improved protocol efficiency. USB 3.0 ports and cabling will be designed to enable backward compatibility as well as future-proofing for optical capabilities.”
Sep
18
Google adds presentation
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Google adds web presentation software to its offering Google Docs.
Now Google Docs is fully functional web based office suite.
Is is with basic features (for now), but how many of you are using full functionality of your office suite?
Sep
18
Open Office.org now version 2.3.0
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Major bug-fix and added features in the new version of OpenOffice.org – 2.3.0.
It is recommended to update.
See release notes.
Download it from here .
Sep
18
UPDATE: AMD will make 3-core CPUs
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As we already informed AMD will make Phenom 3X – 3 core CPU.
Sep
17
New Atlantida….
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Tuvalu is small island Country mostly known by his domain name .tv.
Soon it may be known as “New Atantida” if global warming continues to raise the oceans level.
Scientist predict that in 30-40 years Tuvalu will be under sea level and will bring precedent of disappeared country without any military conflict.
Which is new case for UN and international law – citizens of the country will be not under any “refugee” law after they became “homeless”.
Sep
17
When $100 come closer to $190 (OLPC)
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Everybody (mostly) knows about OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) program also known as $100 laptop.
Unfortunately the price is constantly going up and last announced is $188 – almost double than $100 goal.
So the question is why to choose OLPC when fully functional laptops get cheaper and cheaper?