| IBM Labs unveil ‘practical’ innovations that may hit market in 2012 | | Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:59:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | Real-time language translation, medical monitoring via the mobile Web and nanotechnology to purify water are some of the innovations IBM Labs thinks will be on the market within five years. But sorry, said IBM Corp.'s George Pohle, still no jet packs. "These are not just 'Gee,whiz,' innovations, but practical innovations that we are working on today," said Pohle, of IBM's Global Business Services, during a presentation he called the "Next Five in Five" Wednesday at the company's Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, California. IBM gathered business partners, industry analysts and reporters to unveil some innovations IBM is working on that it believes are commercially viable and could be on the market by 2012. Pohle demonstrated a real time translation program that is on trial with U.S.... | |
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| | | Charges added to jail inmate who flooded cellblocks | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:17:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | GRANTS ? A 21-year-old Eagle Nest man arrested in mid-December for allegedly stealing a Jaguar belonging to a Washington, D.C., man faces additional charges for damage to the Cibola County Detention Center on Jan. 8. As of Friday morning, Christopher Trujillo remained in the county jail he is accused of partially flooding on a $20,000 secured bond on some charges plus a no-bond bench warrant from Colfax (Raton) County. Jail Chief Mark Ewell said Trujillo was standing on the toilet and claimed to have lost his balance, then grabbed the fire suppression sprinkler which is high on the wall near the ceiling. His fall broke it, turning on the water automatically. This left the entire Cibola County Justice Center the jail as well as the sheriff's office and magistrate court without a fire suppression system overnight until it could be repaired Tuesday morning.... | |
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| | | Freshman ISU Football Player Kicked Off Team | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:06:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | DES MOINES, Iowa -- An Iowa State University freshman defensive back was kicked off the football team after he was charged in connection with theft. Freshman Kellen White, from Sarasota, Fla., was charged with one count of third-degree burglary and one count of third-degree theft. On Sept. 9, a student's IBM laptop was stolen and investigators said White was found to have it, according to a news release from ISU police. .... | |
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| | | Try a Re-Sort to Restore Lists Without Gaps | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:00:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | Q: The other day, I noticed that in my "Add or Remove Programs" listing on the Control Panel, there are about 35 items listed in alphabetical order down to one called MMSSTV, and then there is a huge blank area. I have to scroll for pages past MMSSTV to get to where programs resume, starting with Norton and going to the end. Is there a way to get this all back together? _Larry Hinsdale @aol.com A: There's a general fix when lists of things get messed up on computers, such as rows in spreadsheets or lists of icons arranged in a folder or elsewhere. Resort and then sort again, Mr. H. If things go out of whack sorted one way, sort them another way and then sort them again, this time back to the way they were supposed to be. To recap for other readers, an alphabetical list of all the programs on a computer can be found by clicking on Start, then Control Panel and then opening the icon called Add or Remove Programs.... | |
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| | | Microsoft Releases Windows Vista To Manufacturing | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:00:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | As a longtime home office employee living just outside a midsize city, I've been spoiled with access to broadband, using it as my sole means of connectivity to my employer since 1995, when I was very early user of ISDN. Since 1999 or so, I've been using a cable modem and am about 99% satisfied with how it's performed over that period. That's a pretty good track record. I got a good reminder, however, that not everyone is so broadband-blessed through contributor Richard Hoffman's rural broadband progress report. Hoffman's analysis?a direct response to reader comments about the rural broadband struggle?finds there's progress being made to put rural users on the broadband map, but high-speed service availability is inconsistent at best. For those with access, limitations in how it's deployed, pricing considerations, and other factors pose challenges that those in big cities have rarely had to think about.... | |
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| | | Get the facts you need to make the choice between Windows and Linux. Just click on the whitepaper of your choice to | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:17:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | "In 2003, IBM started selling ThinkPad laptop computers with integrated accelerometers and associated software for a commercial operating systems to protect the hard disks when the ThinkPad is dropped. Enterprising hackers from IBM and elsewhere have worked to develop modules for the Linux kernel to take advantage of these sensors. On-screen display orientation, desktop switching, even game control and real-time 3-D models of the tilt of the laptop are now available. "In mid-2006, knock-based commands for Linux laptops became available with user-space Perl scripts (as opposed to C-based code buried in kernel space), allowing users to run arbitrary commands based on specific knock sequences..." Complete Story Related Stories: Software in Review: How to Install SLED 10 on the ThinkPad T60p(Oct 19, 2006) SearchOpenSource: Testing a New Linux Kernel While Keeping the Old One(Jul 27, 2006) Debian-Administration: An Introduction to Debian Networking Setup(Sep 28, 2005) Planet Geek!: IBM Thinkpad T40 Debian Install--A Breeze!(Feb 04, 2005) .... | |
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| | | IEEE Steps in on Notebook Battery Standards | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:28:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | The world's leading professional association for technological advancement, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is revising its notebook battery standard. The move follows Sony's recently disclosed disaster with batteries, in which faults in manufacturing have generated the need to withdraw millions of notebook batteries as included in computers from most major manufacturers. The IEEE now plans to revise its battery standard, IEEE 1625, "IEEE Standard for Rechargeable Batteries for Portable Computing," which was approved in 2004. The update targets an improvement in the overall performance of notebook battery systems and "seeks to address recent calls to make these systems more reliable and robust," the organization said.... | |
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| | | IEEE To Revise Laptop Battery Standard | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:04:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | The group wants to improve battery performance and safety. By W. David Gardner InformationWeek Nov 7, 2006 05:03 PM Moving to improve the performance of laptop battery systems while addressing the recent series of recalls, the IEEE said Tuesday that it will revise its laptop battery standard. The effort is scheduled to get underway next week at a meeting at Intel's Santa Clara, Calif., campus. The revision is expected to be completed in 18 months, according to the IEEE. "We will leverage the streamlined corporate standards process and incorporate lessons learned in developing the IEEE 1725 standard for cellular telephone batteries," said Edward Rashba, manager of New Technical Programs at the IEEE-SA, in a statement.... | |
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| | | IBM to Chips: Cool It! | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 7:16:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | This past week, at the BroadGroup Power and Cooling Summit in London, IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) unveiled an innovative new approach for improving the cooling of computer chips. Big Blue has dubbed its technology "high thermal conductivity interface technology." This new method of keeping chips cooler may pave the way toward ever-faster processing power. .... | |
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