UPDATE: A more in-depth Herald piece looking at the implications of Telecom’s shift in mobile strategy and my cHerald comment piece here. The Sunday Star Times business editor Tim Hunter explains the mobile roaming revenue Telecom can expect to tap into when it has a foot in the GSM/UMTS camp.
Juha’s scoop gives some interesting details [...]
Here’s the deal: New Zealand rolls out digital TV, claiming that being years behind the rest of the world in doing so means we’ll do it better, learn from the mistakes of others.
So our Freeview consortium goes and accredits only two suppliers of satellite receivers, to the outrage of set-top box importers who want their [...]
Creative has introduced the Xmod Wireless PC Music Distribution System. It connects to the PC using USB and can play music through wireless speakers set up in different rooms. The system plays in Xtreme Fidelity whose sound quality is expected to be better than CD quality. It also includes a receiver which can connect to [...]
TOMORROW’S WORLD
My Herald on Sunday column (not online yet but published below)
It’s taken six years to find out, but the zookeepers at Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska finally know how the female hammerhead shark that was in their care managed to get pregnant on her own.
Scientists revealed last week that DNA [...]
The med-minder is a device which can help absent minded patients to take their pills in time. It has four compartments for storing four different drugs. It sends audible alerts when it is time to take them. It automatically records the time of opening of the lids in its inbuilt memory and updates the data [...]
Some of you like to have softdrinks while working with computer, isn’t it? Does your cold drinks become warm because of the long intervals between sips? The USB powered mini fridge is for you people.. It only takes 5 minutes to the internal temperature to dip to 8.5 degrees. The device costs $33.
[via usb.brando]
Spintronics is a new paradigm of electronics based on the spin degree of freedom of the electron. Either adding the spin degree of freedom to conventional charge-based electronic devices or using the spin alone has the potential advantages of nonvolatility, increased data processing speed, decreased electric power consumption, and increased integration densities compared with conventional [...]
Motorola has announced the introduction of the new RAZR the RAZR2. Motorola has packed a host of new features into the new RAZR2, yet its thickness has been reduced by 2mm compared to the original RAZR. Its features include a 2″ QVGA(320×240) external display with touch control music switches and a 2.2″ QVGA internal display. [...]
HP showcased a new e-book reader in the 2007 HP Mobility Summit in Shanghai. It is an A4 page sized e-book reader with a novel interface, where you can flip through the pages with the touch of a button. The e-book reader works on top of Linux with some software developed by HP. It can [...]
Do you want privacy when watching videos in your iPod? The privacy screen is for you. Once your iPod is fitted with this, only the person looking from the front of the screen can see videos.. anyone who looks from the sides see only a dark screen. It is the instinct of most people to [...]