Free local TV soon on cell phones
With the technology advancing by every split second, very soon, the prospect of watching live, local TV shows on mobile phones and other portable devices shall also be fulfilled.
At the International Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas, the manufacturers this week are showing off gadgets that can receive a new type of digital TV transmissions.
Dubbed as “Mobile DT” gadgets, these will be available this spring for consumers in the Washington, D.C. area for trial. The device includes a cell phone made by Samsung Electronics Co. and a Dell Inc. laptop.
In addition, there is Tivit, a device about the size of a deck of cards that receives a TV signal and further rebroadcasts it over Wi-Fi enabling it to be received by an iPhone or BlackBerry.
HP launches touch-enabled PCs
PC maker Hewlett Packard, HP, has launched its new range of All-in-One (AIO) PCs, based on touch technology. These newly introduced computers have been priced at USD 1200 onwards.
In a statement released on Saturday, HP announced, “HP’s new range of All-in-One PCs combine the monitor and CPU and the result is a powerful, sleek and elegant desktop. HP has also introduced multi-touch computing for consumers with the introduction of HP TouchSmart300 All-in-One Desktop PC.”
The HP TouchSmart300 PC and HP TouchSmart600 PC feature enhanced multi-touch technology, including gestures such as pinch, rotate, arc, flick, press and drag, enabling users to move, modify and share all digital content with natural and intuitive movements, the statement added.
Google’s Chrome OS to be ready for 2010 holidays
High-speed internet on low-costing computer? Wait till next holidays!
Well yes, consumers across the world will have to wait till the nest holiday time to find out if the Google Inc.’s new operating system can deliver on its promise to make low-cost computers run faster.
On Thursday, Google declared the company’s target as late 2010 during its preview of the must anticipated operating system. With this, Google aims to challenge the software giant, Microsoft Corp’s Windows.
Microsoft’s Windows has been the most popular choice or rather a foundation for majority of the PCs across the globe since the 1990s!
The Internet search leader, Google, announced its plans earlier in July for an operating system named on its Chrome web browser. The company at that time revealed that the chrome OS would be up for public towards the second half of 2010.
However now, Google Inc, is taking its time for the outsider programmes to also contribute to Chrome OS, which is being developed under an open-source model.
World’s first quantum PC unveiled
Scientists have unveiled the world’s first universal programmable quantum computer! These computers will be capable of processing two quantum bits or ‘qubits’ which can store more data than the simple ‘on’ or ‘off’ bits of conventional computing!
However, as per the reports in ‘New Scientist’, the test programming done has revealed certain important loopholes which the scientists claim must be overcome before it is ready for real work.
This experimental device, deduced by a team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Colorado, uses beryllium ions to store qubits such that they spin while the laser-pulse quantum gates performed the simple logic operations on them.
Cyber crime : Technological Threat
Computer together with the technology’s most sophisticated advancement, internet, has aided everybody’s work. Be that an office, a bank, a ticket counter, school homework, a showroom think of any place and computers have reached there. Sadly they have reached the world of crime too. Cyber crime, the unlawful acts wherein the computer and internet are either the tools or targets or both, today is one of the worst intensifying problems globally.
Cyber crime involves less of a risk because the criminal can’t be seen, they are as virtual as the cyberspace itself. Sometime down the lane, you might just run into the person who has all your passwords, say sorry and excuse yourself! Cyber crime is easy too. The expert spammers and hackers, with the use of the most sophisticated technology have developed every technique to break into any website/mail account.
Criminal activities in the cyberspace are on a sharp rise. This includes a whole array of activities that it gets next to impossible to list all. Illegal distributions of softwares which are mostly copyrighted material to cyber terrorism, the world of cyber crime has expanded to a very large extend.
Hacking and Spamming has widely increased. There is a major threat to personal data and passwords. Blogs, online forums, chat rooms, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter and many other aren’t safe either. These rely on effortless downloading/distribution, publishing, and other information-sharing techniques which leaves every user vulnerable to cyber infections. Hackers have made their presence felt at the Social Networking Sites (SNS) like Facebook, Orkut, MySpace etc too. Recently, Orkut ‘communities’ of former India Prez APJ Abdul Kalam and Indian cricket star Rahul Dravid were hacked and abused by the hackers to send vulgar messages to the members and hack their accounts.
The transmission of pornography has also amplified. Frauds worth billions over the World Wide Web have happened. E-commerce sites are the most vulnerable targets. Cyber crime has left many in double minds when it comes to choosing the option of e-banking. Drug trafficking too has expanded by the use of encrypted e-mail and other Internet Technology.
And the latest, terror groups too are now emailing their agenda to the governmental authorities! Their accesses to governments’ official websites have left many wondering about the security on the web. Hoax emails are sent to terrorize authorities and citizens alike.
After all its 21st century and the evil bytes are fast replacing whizzing bullets. And for those who are surprised, this is merely the tip of the iceberg!
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