Archive for March, 2010
Michio Kaku: A Second Big Bang in Geneva?
Champagne bottles were popped Tuesday in Geneva where the largest science machine ever built finally began to smash subatomic particles together. After 16 years—and an accident that crippled the machine a year and a half ago—the Large Hadron Collider successfully smashed two beams of protons at the astounding energy of 3.5 trillion electron volts apiece. [...]
‘Clash of the Titans’ is next up to make the 2-D to 3-D jump, and there are doubters
In his Word of Mouth column, Times Hollywood reporter John Horn discusses the continuing trend of 3-D films. As “Clash of the Titans” prepares to debut, the glut of films and scarcity of screens, along with the quality of films converted from 2-D to 3-D, may soon come into question among filmgoers. Here’s an excerpt: [...]
April Fool’s Day Pranks: April Fools Pranks For Work
April Fool’s Day Pranks: April Fools Pranks For Work – A lot of people are looking for examples that on April Fools Pranks For Work, actually, there are a lot of it available but mostly are unsuitable for work or its unsafe, Anyway, we have here the list of some fun and safe April Fool’s [...]
Chechen rebel leader claims responsibility for Moscow subway attacks
BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhuanet) — Doku Umarov, a Chechen rebel leader, claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the twin suicide bombings on the Moscow subway and threatened more attacks in the Russian heartland, according to the Reuters reports Thursday. In a video on Islamist rebel website, Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov who calls himself the “Emir [...]
IPad prompts VC firm to double iFund for apps
Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said Wednesday that it is doubling a fund that focuses on the iPhone and iPod Touch to $200 million to include new applications for the upcoming iPad. Partner John Doerr said Kleiner Perkins has exhausted its original $100 million iFund that it began two years ago. Now [...]
Obama’s Off Shore Drilling Plan Aims to Win Climate Votes
WASHINGTON — President Obama, after delaying and deliberating for a year, unveiled a controversial new offshore drilling plan Wednesday that was driven largely by the politics of his agenda on energy and climate change – not getting a lot more oil and natural gas anytime soon. As a presidential candidate, Obama was attacked by Republicans [...]
Google sees Web attack in Vietnam
Security engineers at Google Inc. and computer security company McAfee Inc. said malicious software was used to spy on government critics in Vietnam in what analysts suspect is the second major example in recent months of an Asian country trying to quash dissent on the Internet. A posting on Google’s online security blog Tuesday said [...]
Preview: Box.net’s jumbo-size iPad app
Storage and collaboration service Box.net has an upcoming iPad app and was nice enough to give CNET an early demo. That is–we saw the same version that will be hitting the App Store but running on Apple’s iPad SDK simulator. The good news for fans of Box’s iPhone and iPod Touch app is that they’re [...]
Gateway FX6831-03 Desktop PC Review
Todays Gateway desktop review on Gateway FX6831-03 Desktop PC with Windows 7 Home Premium,the has power via the Intel Core i7-860 with cutting edge graphics processing via the ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics card with 1 GB of discrete video memory–perfect for visually rich apps and the most vivid DirectX 10 games. They’re complemented by [...]
Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q870 18.4-Inch Gaming Laptop Review
Toshiba Qosmio Notebook PC review on Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q870 TruBrite 18.4-Inch Gaming Laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium,the Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q870 has powerhouse performance and a brilliant High-Definition 18.4-inch widescreen Edge-to-Edge display with TruBrite Technology,and features a power by 1.6GHz Intel Core i7 720QM Quad Core processor, 4GB of DDR3 memory, an NVIDIA GeForce GTS [...]
