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Sweet Pros and Cons of OLED article


The Inquirer has an awesome little article on the good and bad of Organic LED screens. I won’t get too much into it because I think you should read the entire article, but I will throw you an interesting little blurp about screen rot…
“Since the material in use is organic, it has a tendency [...]

CIA’s War Game exercise ends today


The CIA’s war game exercise, code named “Silent Horizon,” is wrapping up today. The exercise ran for 3 days and was set up to practice defending against an electronic assault on the same scale as the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks.
“One of the things the intelligence community was accused of was a lack [...]

FTC gets down to business fighting “Zombie-Spam”


The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is demanding that ISPs get tough when it comes to PCs that have been hijacked and used to send spam mail. They are even requesting that these Zombie PCs be cut off from the internet.
“We are developing a plan for identifying the IP numbers of likely spam zombies [...]

Samsung develops Solid State Disk (SSD)


Samsung Electronics, a leader in semiconductor technology, wants to replace the current laptop hard drives with flash based versions based on NAND technology. The new SSD memory holds up to 16GB, has virtually no noise, low heat, and low power consumption. This new memory could extend the current laptop battery life by as [...]

Store your brain in digital format


A futureologist Dr. Ian Pearson has stated that in an article on geekinformed.com that we will be able to store our brains on a digital chip by 2050 (for the rich, regular folks will have to wait until 2075 or 2080).
An interesting quote from the article:
“The new Playstation is 1 percent as powerful as a [...]

Tech retailer says people want gadgets for trips


In what is not very surprising results for a survey from a large gadget retailer, Circuit City, people want tech tools to make the most of summer road trips.
Can you imagine Circuit City releasing a press release that stated that people only wanted to read books? hah!
This is a quote from the press release (which [...]

Fuel Cells Advance (kind of)


A small British based company (CMR Fuel Cells) has claimed a breakthrough in fuel cell technology. They claim that their version of the fuel cell has three times the energy than current batteries. They are methanol based, and instantly rechargeable.
They are also bulky, and look like they would weigh more than the laptop [...]

Google introduces internet portal


Google, our favorite mega-corporation, has just launched their version of your one-stop internet portal. This is definitely a direct competitor of my.yahoo.com, which is already pretty powerful.
The google portal can be found at labs.google.com, and the direct link is Here.
They include options for your gmail, news from about five agencies, weather, stock quotes, among [...]

Linux Pepper pad now on sale


The pepper pad, from Pepper Computer Inc. is now on sale at Amazon.com. I’m not sure if this is considered a PDA, a tablet PC, or a laptop. It does loook pretty neat though. It comes with built in Wi-Fi, Monta Vista Linux 2.4 CEE3.1 operating system, and includes everything you would [...]

More Pics of the PS3


I know you guys can’t get enough of this so here are two more pictures of the newly unveiled PS3.