Stanford researchers have announced that they are working on an improvement to the Li-Ion batteries, that would increase the time they operate by 10 times. If your current battery works for 2 hours, then with this improvement it would last for 20.
Instead of the standard carbon , these new batteries use anodes and Li-Ion batteries [...]
According to a contributor from the Seeking Alpha site, what you see above might be the next major product from Apple. It’s called the Apple Newton and it’s a 5.2" UMPC that is supposed to be launched in the second half of 2008.
The latest news is that Palm has decided to offer the 500v model unlocked in Europe, starting from next month. Right now Vodafone has exclusivity to the phone, but this is the last month that they have it.
Look at the pic on the left. See the text from the notepad and its version from the gizmo above it? That’s the Mobile Notetaker, transcribing every pen movement into digital information.
Whatever you write on that paper, it gets saved in the Notetaker, both text and drawings. You can save that information to [...]
It seems like Google is testing out a new way of displaying the ads in his 336×280 format. At least it’s new for me, seen nothing similar so far. You can see the screenshot below (apologies for the low quality of the pic, my screenshot software can’t do better it seems).
Found a very nice WordPress theme today, called WP Remix. It’s a premium theme, which means you have to pay for it, but it’s only $55 and it’s multi purpose, so you can use it for any kind of site or blog. Multiple options for the homepage, product page, different layouts, very customizable, a perfect [...]
An open source competitor to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org is traditionally an offline software. Now, there is a way to run OpenOffice.org in a browser, and that’s thanks to Ulteo, a startup that is working on an online desktop, and wants to integrate OpenOffice.org into its application.
Microsoft released the first service pack for Windows Vista, as a Release Candidate. This means it’s not ready yet for an official launch, but more as one of the final test versions, with most of the bugs fixed.
One of the most requested features for Google Calendar, synchronization, is available as of today for BlackBerry owners. It works by synchronizing the native calendar that comes with the BlackBerry with Google Calendar. A nice feature is that it stays in sync while you don’t have network coverage, as long as you do it before [...]
Six Apart just announced on the official Movable Type blog, that their blogging software is finally open source, with the launch of version 4. It started initially as open source, became commercial with the launch of version 3, and now, finally is open source again.
