30/03/2007

RIM: BlackBerry is a Platform

In his keynote address at CTIA 2007, RIM founder and co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis gave some examples of how wireless push e-mail became an actual platform, one that developers can use to create new and interesting software ...

Analysis: At CTIA, Phones Are Fashion, Not Tech

Cell phones exist at the junction between technology and fashion: for millions of people, they're as key to their wardrobes as a sharp suit, little dress or new handbag. At the CTIA trade show this year, geeks took a back ...

New algorithms improve automated image labeling

A Google image search for "tiger" yields many tiger photos – but also returns images of a tiger pear cactus stuck in a tire, a racecar, Tiger Woods, the boxer Dick Tiger, Antarctica, and many others. Why? Today’s large ...

Danish researches solve virus puzzle

How is virus as for example HIV and bird flu able to make the cells within a human body work for the purpose of the virus? Researchers at the University of Copenhagen shed new light on this question.

Rosetta and New Horizons watch Jupiter in joint campaign

ESA’s Rosetta and NASA’s New Horizons are working together in their joint campaign to observe Jupiter. A preliminary analysis of the data from Rosetta’s Alice ultraviolet spectrometer indicates that the data quality ...

For clean air

In addition to nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides, many volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air contribute to smog and high ozone levels, as well as potentially damaging human health. Clean-air laws are thus rightly continuing ...

Oil production in the world close to peak

In a worst-case scenario, global oil production may reach its peak next year, before starting to decline. In a best-case scenario, this peak would not be reached until 2018. These are the estimates made by Fredrik Robelius, ...

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