Technology of the day

[Anoushka]

Nano-Grating DVDs could store 100 times more

Iomega Corporation today announced that the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued two highly notable patents to Iomega for its work with nano-technology and optical data storage, and external storage media.

New technologies could potentially allow 40-100 times more data to be stored on a DVD with data transfer rates 5-30 times faster than today's DVDs, and at similarly low costs.


Read more at http://www.physorg.com/news4249.html

[Anoushka]

Ever heard you can type faster when u cant see the words on the keyboard? Welcome to Das Keyboard.

This keyboard is unique in that it has no inscriptions on the keys, which the maker touts will make you type 100% faster in a few weeks since it will keep you from looking at the keyboard. This keyboard also features individually weighted keyswitches, "The keys are divided into groups and their feedback springs are weighted differently; from 35 grams to 80 grams, which correspond to the strength of the finger that touches the keys." But is this "UberGeek" keyboard really worth the high price tag?

More at http://www.daskeyboard.com/

[Anoushka]

Microsoft Will Drop 'My' Prefix for Longhorn

The "My" prefix was apparently an attempt to create a personal
connection between people and their computers at a time when the idea of using a computer might have been forbidding.

If you are a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) user, there's a big change coming in Longhorn -- the code name for the next MS operating system: the "My" prefix is disappearing.

Microsoft users have become used to the "My Music," "My Pictures," and other "My" folders, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reported. Those
Windows folders will still be yours -- but they won't keep hitting you
over the head with that terminology.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/hardware/43450.html

[Anoushka]

Google announces Summer of Code

Announcing The Summer of Code - 31/May/2005

We're very excited to launch our newest initiative, the Summer of Code. This program aims to help students enter into the world of Open Source software development. This Summer, allow Google to help you hone your skills on real problems with real programmers. Return to school with some real experience under your belt and some cash in your wallet. By working with some of the most important organizations and foundations in Open Source we think we've put together a program that benefits Open Source, students and computer science. Read more about it and consider taking part!

http://code.google.com/index.html

[Anoushka]

Want to meet Bill Gates...Learn to tell a story (true?)

http://news.com.com/Your+chance+to+m...3-5717606.html

[Anoushka]

Google at its best. Personalize Google(same functionality that yahoo and many others are giving but all of them are portals while Google is not)

http://www.google.com/ig

More news about this at

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/G...d=11000CA4NXR6

[Anoushka]

Curious to know how web pages (like yahoo hotmail etc) looked back in 90's?

Check this out

http://web.archive.org/collections/pioneers.html

[NM]

Anu:

Thank you for posting these useful information daily!

[Anoushka]

Thanks NM, I was going to ask NOV/Badri to delete the thread as I thought nobody was interested in this!

[Anoushka]

Check out this new tablet from nokia, running on linux.

http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,75023,00.html