The government sector is on a fast march to the cloud, but Robert Rosen wants to pause for a breath. “I’ve been looking at the cloud for a long time, and it’s not as simple as all the vendors want to make it seem,” says Rosen, CIO of the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases at the National […]
Space Shuttle Atlantis has just launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. STS-135 marks the final flight for the shuttle program, 30 years after Columbia touched the sky during STS-1. The mission summary (PDF) outlines STS-135’s crew and event timeline. NASA’s launch blog has been following the countdown all morning, and our own CmdrTaco has been tweeting live from […]
Are you looking forward to using Facebook’s new in-browser Skype-based video chat but still waiting for the service to hit your profile? If so, you can actually get started right now, and as you call your Facebook friends they will also be prompted to activate the new service. The process to get started is actually pretty straightforward, but in my […]
IBM already has pretty good memory for a hundred-year-old, but now it has gotten even better. The company?s research division in Zurich, Switzerland, just announced a breakthrough that will enable manufacturers to use a type of memory that was previously deemed too unreliable for widespread usage. Researchers said their tests of a new approach to phase-change memory showed it performed […]
ScienceDaily (2011-06-30) — A graduate student has found a way to double the battery life of mobile devices — such as smartphones or laptop computers — by making changes to WiFi technology. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110630171715.htm Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Outlook
