Intel demonstrated a working version of USB 3.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Here’s why it will make eSATA and FireWire obsolete.
Read the article: USB 3.0 will crush eSATA, FireWire
Category: Innovation
BumpTop is a fresh and engaging new way to interact with your computer desktop. You can pile and toss documents like on a real desk. Break free from the rigid and mechanical style of standard point-and-click desktops. Interact by pushing, pulling and piling documents with elegant, self revealing gestures. BumpTop’s stunning interface makes clever use of 3D presentation and smooth physics-based animations for an engaging, vivid user experience.
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RNA Networks, a virtualization start-up in stealth mode says it will offer technology that aggregates memory and shares it across servers, improving performance of online transaction processing and clustered or grid computing.
RNA CEO Clive Cook, previously CEO of wireless broadband company Verilan and telecom software vendor Elematics, calls memory “the third wave of virtualization,” after servers and storage. Its technology is already being used by a multi-billion dollar global hedge fund to speed up the processing of trades.
Read the article: Startup to Virtualize Memory and Share it Across Servers
Adolf Merckle, one of the world’s richest men, committed suicide yesterday by throwing himself under a train, Bloomberg reports. Financial difficulties, and particularly great losses he suffered on Volkswagen stock, are being cited as the key reason he ended his life.
Read the article: How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing
Google.org has apparently, figured out a way to predict the flu, upto two weeks faster than the CDC. The prediction is based on observing trends across geographies for search terms like “flu”.
Read the article: Google Flu Trends
“Matthaus Krzykowski and Daniel Hartmann, founders of the stealth startup Mobile-facts, have found that you can take Google’s smartphone operating system, Android, and use it as a desktop operating system. The dauntless duo found that it took them only “about four hours of work to compile Android for the netbook.”
Read the article: Startup Founders Turn Android into Desktop OS
From solving problems to flashes of inspiration, scientists are beginning to unravel the creative powerhouse that is the mind at night.
Read the article: Waiting for that life-changing idea? Just sleep on it
While many of the world’s best business brains are exercising themselves over the current global banking and equities crisis, there is another issue which has the potential to dominate our lives far more in the longer term — energy.
Read the article: The future of energy – CNN.com
A new feature introduced today in Gmail allows free voice and video chat right from within Gmail. Nice!
Read the article: Official Google Blog: Talk face-to-face right from within Gmail
India is celebrating the arrival of its Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft at the Moon.
Read the article: Indian satellite orbiting Moon