palmOne, Inc. today announced that the award-winning Treo 650 smartphone now is available to Verizon Wireless customers. The Treo 650 combines a compact, full-featured mobile phone with email, a Palm OS organizer, messaging ...
May 17, 2005
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Xilinx, Inc. today announced immediate availability of the performance-optimized 4.00 version of its MicroBlaze soft processor. The 32-bit RISC core now operates at frequencies up to 200 MHz in Virtex-4 FPGAs delivering an ...
May 17, 2005
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The cameras and MP3 players are fun, but the next wave of add-ons for cell phones and laptops may help users keep track of their health. A University of Florida engineer has built a working prototype for a small, portable ...
May 17, 2005
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has set a new notebook performance record, announcing worldwide availability of the fastest 2.5-inch hard drive for mobile applications. The 7200 RPM Travelstar 7K100 is first to market ...
May 17, 2005
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Reporting in the May 12th issue of Nature, astronomers announced that they have penetrated the heart of the universe's most powerful explosion - a gamma-ray burst (GRB). Using the PAIRITEL (Peters Automated Infrared Imaging ...
May 17, 2005
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant for University of Wyoming researchers to determine if swarms of mini-robots can successfully detect the sources of chemical or biological hazards. The research ...
May 17, 2005
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Dr. Paul Robertson and his team are working on a new slant to an old sensing technology. Flux-gate magnetic sensors have been around for many decades and are still used today for tasks such as geological surveys, aerospace ...
May 17, 2005
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While some psychologists still argue that people perform better when they do something because they want to - rather than for some kind of reward, such as money - Steven Reiss suggests we shouldn't even make that distinction.
May 17, 2005
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