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Diesels cleaner than battery cars!
Blackberry launches Playbook rival to iPad
Research In Motion is launching the BlackBerry PlayBook, a tablet computer designed to compete with Apple's iPad.
The Waterloo, Ont.-based company announced the device at a developers' conference in San Francisco on Monday.
The PlayBook is aimed at business customers, co-chief executive Michael Lazaridis said during a speech at the conference. The device is 9.7 millimetres thick and features a seven-inch touch screen. It can run both HTML 5 and Flash 10.1 and has a one gigahertz dual-core processor with one gigabyte of RAM.
Lazaridis said the PlayBook is compatible with a business's existing enterprise servers, so there is no need for additional software, security or data plans. The device can connect with a user's BlackBerry via Bluetooth and share the same data plan.
"[It's] an amplified view of what's already on your BlackBerry," he said.
The device also has front- and rear-facing cameras, supports 1080p high-definition video and has HDMI output, which Lazaridis said is ideal for displaying presentations, videos and websites.
From CBC News Technology & Science
Diesels greener than battery cars, says Swiss gov report
Swiss boffins have mounted an investigation into the largely unknown environmental burdens of electric cars using lithium-ion batteries, and say that the manufacturing and disposal of batteries presents no insurmountable barriers to electric motoring. However, their analysis reveals that modern diesel cars are actually better for the environment than battery ones.
The revelations come in a new report issued by Swiss government research lab EMPA, titledContribution of Li-Ion Batteries to the Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles. The Swiss boffins, having done some major research into the environmental burdens of making and disposing of li-ion batteries - to add to the established bodies of work on existing cars - say that battery manufacture and disposal aren't that big a deal. However, in today's world, with electricity often made by burning coal or gas, a battery car is still a noticeable eco burden:
By Lewis Page
Star Wars Cake Spot
And why not...
Samsung announces Galaxy Tab Android tablet coming to four top US carriers
There is a Samsung event being held in New York tonight and according to Android Central they announced that the Galaxy Tab would be coming to all four major US wireless carriers, with a WiFi-only version to follow. The official announcement was made along with news that their Samsung Media Hub service is launching on Galaxy S devices soon.
They stated that the Galaxy Tab would be available on Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile in time for people to buy them for the holidays. In typical fashion when a carrier is involved, there was no pricing, fees, or definitive dates given for the release. While I am sure the device will perform quite well and have slick hardware, I haven’t seen anything in Android 2.2 that leads me to believe the experience will be much different than what I already see on my 4.3 inch Android 2.2 device. I am not sure the current version of Android scales up to a large display so easily without specific utilities and applications designed for larger displays.
By Matthew Miller
Rumors: iPad Mini and iPhone 5 coming soon?
We're still probably a month or two away from Apple's annual fall iPod unveiling, but the rumor mill has already begun to churn, with iLounge posting a story with the rather sensationalistic title, "Leaked Details On 2010-2011 iPods, iPhone 5, Bumper 2 + iPad mini."
Naturally, there's an anonymous source involved and iLounge suggests we take it all with a grain of salt, because, well, the source's "accuracy level is very high but not perfect." Here are particulars on the alleged leaked details:
By David Carnoy
Happy 25th Birthday Super Mario
Everyone’s favourite Nintendo character is 25 years old, Super Mario has been around since 1985 and is probably one of the most recognized game characters in the world.
Nintendo is celebrating Mario’s birthday with a contest to win a range of Mario themed prizes, they arte giving away a range of Nintendo DSI XL consoles as well as a copy of the new Super Mario Bros .
By Roland Hutchinson
New 'iPhoD' can 'adjust the speed of light by turning a knob'
Optical stuff is great, as everyone knows: optical links mean huge bandwidth right now, and computers running on photons rather than electrons might be truly amazing things - tremendously powerful, very economical of energy, and potentially able to exploit quantum effects to achieve all manner of mindbending feats.
But unfortunately, there is as yet no way to handle photons other than in a fibre. To perform operations with them they generally have to be converted into old
One of the things one needs to be able to do in handling photons on chips is to slow the little fellows down or stop them altogether. Schmidt and his fellow researchers say they have done this, and what's more done it using ordinary kit rather than an exotic lab rig.
school electrical impulses - and that makes Professor Holger Schmidt and his crew mad.
"We can change the speed of light - just by turning the power control knob," boasts the prof, with pardonable smugness.
By Lewis Page
Apple’s New 27 Inch LED Cinema Display Goes On Sale
On Tuesday we told you that Apple’s new 27 inch LED cinema display would go on sale some time this week, right on schedule Apple has started selling their latest LED cinema display.
The 27 inch LED Cinema Display is now available for $999 from the Apple Store, and Apple has it listed with a shipping date of 1-2 weeks.
By Roland Hutchinson
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