Picture wearable technology and you probably imagine Star Trek characters sporting shimmering glasses.
Yet wearable tech is closer than ever to being everyday.
Source:
http://nokiaconnects.com/2012/01/30/why-you-could-soon-be-wearing-your-smartphone/
A few years ago, back when the Constellation Program was still alive, NASA engineers discovered that the Ares I rocket had a crucial flaw, one that could have jeopardized the entire project.
Source:
http://gizmodo.com/5880850/how-nasa-solved-a-100-million-problem-for-five-bucks
The next version of Microsoft's popular office suite, codenamed Office 15, on Monday entered the technical preview phase, allowing a select group of NDA-bound customers to test early builds of the software suite and provide valuable feedback in the process. The launch of the Office 15 Technical Preview Program, a significant development milestone, was announced by PJ Hough, CVP of Development in Microsoft's Office Division, in a post on the Office blogs site.
``At this early point in our development cycle, I'm not able to share too much about Office 15, but I can tell you Office 15 is the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division. With Office 15, for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio. Quite simply, Office 15 will help people work, collaborate, and communicate smarter and faster than ever before,� wrote Hough.
One thousand apartment dwellers will get a chance to try out BTs 100 Mbps FTTP broadband network.
They might even get to test out a 300 Mbps network connection if the trials go well.
T-Mobile's vice president of federal regulatory affairs, Kathleen Ham, has issued a statement calling for the FCC to establish tighter rules for spectrum auctions. As a former FCC auctions division chief, Ham argues that pending congressional legislation and the "newfound distrust" in the FCC may push smaller companies out of the spectrum auctions.......
Protests are spreading across the globe, as outrage grows over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement treaty in the wake of the SOPA bill being shelved last week by the U.S.
Congress. Find all the details about these protest events below.
Source:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/288930/20120127/acta-protest-rally-world.htm
At ShmooCon, a security researcher showed off the F-BOMB, a tiny and disposable 'spy computer' which could provide super cheap GPS surveillance for cash-strapped feds or future stalkers.
It could also be used by hackers to collect data and send it over Wi-Fi. F-BOMB won a DARPA Cyber Fast Track research award. The inexpensive and common hardware also makes it nearly impossible for 'gun-toting bad guys' to finger just precisely who dropped the spy
