Canadian Copyright Bill Unlikely In This Government?
Russell McOrmond yesterday pointed to the fact that the Canadian Copyright Bill has been put on the notice paper, but there appears to be no sign of a copyright bill today. With the latest political shake-up in Canada, it could cause the Jim Prentice copyright reform bill to never see the light of day.
There [...]
Pay By Credit Card With Your Cellphone
Visa, the well-known credit card company has come forth with a plan to globally mesh cellphone users with their customer base. Nokia is heavily involved with this idea and has partnered with Visa on it.
How would they do this? They take a gadget like a cellphone and make it possible for their customers [...]
Nokia’s Wibree and the Wireless Zoo
Wibree, ZigBee, WUSB, Wimax, WIFI, RFID – So many wireless protocols so much confusion. Trying to sort the wireless mess TFOT explore some of the differences between the standards focusing on the recently announced Wibree currently under development by Nokia.
Read more on Wibree and other Wireless animals…
MRAM – The Birth of the Super Memory
With the continual release in recent years of new types of computer memory (RAM, ROM, DRAM, Flash, SRAM, PRAM…), the memory chip industry has become an ever more bewildering world. Freescale’s MRAM, one of the latest to be commercially unveiled, improves on and combines the advantages of two types of conventional memory.
The various [...]
The Opposite of RSS? ZNITCH.com
Most bloggers that lead the race have full time jobs elsewhere and try to fit the blogging lifestyle into their schedule after work. Many utilize RSS feeds to avoid the trouble of having to search keywords or special sites out…once you find a good site, why look at any others? This leaves small [...]
Xupiter author orders critics to cease and desist
“A culture is made – or destroyed – by its articulate voices” – Ayn Rand
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” – Thucydides
Some of you know by now that I run a blog with my best friend where we investigate various [...]
Water Powered Car
Came across this cool article about a guy who invented the technology enabling a car to be powered by simple tap water. Looks to be the real deal, his site even has a video endorsement from Arthur C. Clarke, who no doubt knows fiction when he sees it. Here’s his diagram below.
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Researchers deliver drugs using Wi – Fi implant
Medicines can’t work effectively if patients don’t follow their dosing schedule — a problem researchers hope to overcome by delivering drugs using an implanted microchip linked to a wireless control outside the body.
House panel OKs bill to stop Net gambling
A House committee Wednesday approved a bill aimed at stamping out the $12 billion Internet gambling industry by stopping businesses from accepting credit cards and other forms of payment.
VeriSign Acquires P2P Firm Kontiki
Verisign said Monday that it had entered into a definitive agreement to purchase file-sharing firm Kontiki. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company was bought for $62 million, and the transaction is expected to close by the end of the month.
The technology acquired from the deal would power VeriSign’s new Broadband Content Services platform, which would aim [...]
