While this isn’t a traditional mobile tech story, we thought it was a really interesting IT-related story to share, so here it is! IBM has created the new Aquasar supercomputer which uses water to siphon off waste heat, and then uses the excess energy to warm up a building.
Developed jointly by IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
New IBM Supercomputer Also Heats Buildings!
BUG up Your App?
Here’s a cool company that we wanted to share with you: Bug Labs. We find BUG particularly interesting because the company truly seems to capture the spirit of open source- collaboration and community.
BUG is a modular, open source system for building devices that helps developers explore the realm of personalized devices and applications, and find [...]
Hot Topic at ConnectivityWeek in Santa Clara Last Week – Which Standard Will Reign Supreme in the Smart Appliance?
Industry leaders got together lat week at ConnectivityWeek, a collection of events that focus on the application of Information Technology and energy challenges as they relate to the need for better sustainability. The group includes representatives from utilities, manufacturers, and communications technologies working together on issues related to smart grids, smart devices, and smart [...]
New App Brings Mobile Banking to Android™
Firethorn , a Qualcomm-owned mobile banking enabler, has just announced the launch of a new application optimized for Android smartphones. The app enables consumers to securely access and manage their finances – including checking balances and transaction history, transferring funds, receiving offers, viewing and paying bills, and tracking rewards points.
Firethorn says the app will also [...]
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CIO’s List of Technologies that Matter in a Slow Economy
CIO published an executive brief post today citing what they feel are the technologies that matter in a slow economy. From screen sharing technologies to netbooks, it’s a great list and an interesting read- definitely worth a look.
1. Virtualization – Virtualization makes it possible for workers to overlap work schedules across different time zones and [...]
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Mobile Video Subscribers to Exceed Half a Billion Users by 2014
In late May, Nielsen’s quarterly Three Screen Report stated that U.S. mobile video viewers grew to 13.4 million in Q1 of 2009. Now, new research from Pyramid Research predicts that worldwide mobile video subscribers will grow five-fold between 2008 and 2014, to surpass 534 million.
The report “Mobile Video Services: A Five-Year Global Market Forecast” analyzes [...]
Hotspot on the beach…just in time for summer
Novatel Wireless, a San-Diego based developer of wireless broadband access solutions, recently introduced a new mobile hotspot device, called MiFi, that enables users to connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices (anything from notebooks, netbooks and cameras to gaming devices and portable media/MP3 players) using a single mobile broadband device. Similar in size to that [...]
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Touching on the Future of Haptic Mobile Technology
Developers of mobile touch technology are busy working on ways to use haptic technology, which provides vibrations and other physical sensations that can be used to communicate emotions, in mobile applications. While haptic technology is already in use in a number of non-mobile applications, such as medical training where it is used to make procedures [...]
Attention All Golfers: Antenova Ltd Tapped for Ultimate Portable GPS Golf Range Finder
Antenova Ltd, an integrated antenna and RF solutions company located in Cambridge, UK, recently announced that its’ M10264 GPS RF Antenna Module has been selected by G-CORE Ltd. for G-Core Pro – the ultimate portable GPS golf range finder.
Antenova’s M10264 is the industry’s first planar mount GPS RF Antenna Module incorporating the market leading SiRFstarIII™ [...]
Telco Heavyweights Comment on National Broadband Plan
The FCC is in the process of collecting thousands of comments from industry, state and local governments, and nonprofits about the national broadband plan that the agency will be creating over the next eight months. Telecom giants such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are emphasizing the massive investments from private sector in offering Internet to [...]