Google and Yahoo are two popular search engine. Microsoft also provide a search engine with MSN. There are many search engines that previously launched such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista but those search engine has lost thier performance in current growth.
Apple Inc’s next-generation iPhone with faster Internet access will go on sale across major markets in Europe on July 11 at a range of lower prices, operators said on Tuesday.
Apple’s improved iPhone, which runs on a so-called third-generation (3G) networks offering faster data speeds, will sell for as little as $199 in the United States — half the current entry-level price.
Well, not just a pen—a computer that looks like a pen. The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen does have ink and it makes lines on paper, but it also records a digital file of whatever you write—both text and sketches—by using an infrared camera to read a code of tiny, nearly invisible gray dots on the paper. (It can also read bar codes.) To make it work, you need to either buy a recycled paper notepad from Livescribe, or roll your own by downloading a graphics file that prints on most laser printers.
It also records the sound around you and links it to what you were writing at the time. Tap the pen to that text again, it reads the little dots, and you get an audio playback from that time. As a journalist with lousy handwriting and no shorthand skills, I could use that. Just write an outline of what someone is saying in an interview, and tap on the notes to hear again what the person said. Livescribe Pulse goes on sale in mid-March, starting at $150.
Remember the first time you saw a plasma TV, the first television without a big caboose behind the screen? You were probably wondering, "Where's the rest of the set?" You might have the same reaction when you see the new Sony XEL-1.
This 11-inch widescreen television is wafer-thin, just 1/8th of an inch deep, a fraction of the depth of even the slimmest LCD or plasma sets. The XEL-1 uses a new panel technology called OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode), which offers stunning picture quality. The catch is the steep price: $2,500 for this small screen, which is half the size of some computer displays.
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Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) - was launched today alongside the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morph features in both the exhibition catalog and on MoMA's official website.
An international team developing a new type of supersonic jet that would allow air travel at more than eight times the speed of sound said today that a test flight appeared to have succeeded.
A prototype of the scramjet, which uses the rush of oxygen in the air at high speeds to ignite hydrogen fuel, was blasted into the upper atmosphere on a rocket and allowed to plunge back to earth in the south Australian desert.
Researchers said they would have to wait a couple of weeks to marshal all the data before giving an authoritative assessment but the project leader, Dr Allan Paull of the University of Queensland, said: "It was at least a 95% success."
Scientists believe scramjets (short for supersonic combustion ramjet) could one day be used to build aircraft capable of flying from, say, London to Sydney in a few hours, a flight that now takes at least 18 hours.
During today's test, two Terrier Orion Mk-70 rockets blasted the scramjet to an altitude of about 314km (195 miles) before hurtling back to earth.
Just seconds before the rockets slammed into the red dust of the central Australian desert after a scheduled 10-minute flight, the scramjet was supposed to kick into action at a speed of some 8,000 kph (5,000 mph), said project spokeswoman Jan King.
Dr Paull said that it appeared to have worked, and told reporters: "As far as we are aware ... we certainly got in the right trajectory."
Onboard sensors sent flight data back to the researchers on the ground. "We got everything we wanted, we've just got to analyse the data now but it all seemed to basically work," Dr Paull told reporters.
Scramjets can theoretically halve payload weights by carrying only fuel - such as liquid hydrogen - rather than both the fuel and oxygen carried by traditional rockets. That would significantly cut the cost of launching satellites into space.
The international consortium led by Dr Paull's team launched a test in October but it failed when a rocket carrying the experimental jet veered off course and slammed into the desert.
In a scramjet, oxygen from the atmosphere is rammed into the combustion chamber where it spontaneously ignites, but the engine must be traveling at about five times the speed of sound for the process to work. Sound travels at 1,200 kph (744 mph) at sea level.
Source: guardian.co.uk
