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Leslie Katz Year:March 31, 2005 12:58 PM PST Source Site:newsblog
A new lithium-ion battery by Toshiba will recharge to 80 percent in just a minute, the company has announced.
A full recharge of the Super Charge battery, which uses nanoparticles to store vast amounts of lithium ions, can be achieved in 10 minutes, Toshiba says. Thats about 60 times faster than conventional batteries.
Expect to see the new battery powering Toshiba notebooks and mobile phones as early as 2006. It might, however, show up earlier in other products, including some within the automotive industry.
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Ina Fried Year:March 31, 2005 11:53 AM PST Source Site:newsblog
Its back.
The iPod Shuffle look-a-like that caused a stir at CeBit has returned with a new name and some minor alterations.
Formerly known as the "Super Shuffle," LuxPro is now calling its flash-based music player the Super Tangent. The devices button design has been changed slightly and it now comes in three colors, but it still bears a remarkable resemblance to the iPod Shuffle.
Only time (and perhaps court filings) will tell whether Apple thinks that LuxPro has made enough changes.
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Michael Kanellos Year:March 31, 2005 11:42 AM PST Source Site:newsblog
Researchers at two different campuses of the University of California are working on projects that would allow doctors to give injections without a shot.
A group of researchers at UC Santa Barbara led by chemical engineering professor Samir Mitragotri recently published a paper on their progress with chemical penetration enhancers (CPEs), designer molecules that absorb through the skin. So far, the group has devised 300 CPEs. CPEs help medicines get inside the body by navigating through the stratum corneum, that outer layer of dead cells and proteins that you show off every day.
Meanwhile, researchers from UC Berkeley earlier this month showed off the MicroJet, which blasts liquids out at 315 miles per hour via an electronic actuator. Other injectors, which do away with needles, are a...
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Jim Hu Year:March 31, 2005 11:18 AM PST Source Site:newsblog
Scott Moore, the first publisher of Microsofts online magazine Slate, and former general manager of MSNBC.com, is leaving the software giant and heading south to Yahoo, according to the blog Paid Content. Moore most recently worked on initiatives for the MSN Web portal, such as MSN Video, according to the blog.
Yahoo and Microsoft representatives contacted did not immediately comment on whether the report is true.
If Moore is joining Yahoo, he will become the Web giants latest hire from the editorial world. Last November, Yahoo hired Neil Budde, a newspaper veteran who was the founding editor and publisher of the Wall Street Journal Online edition. Budde is reporting to Craig Forman, Yahoos vice president of information and finance, and a former editor at the Wall Street Journal as wel...
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Mike Ricciuti Year:March 31, 2005 11:17 AM PST Source Site:newsblog
Salesforce.coms Marc Benioff wants to put rival Siebel Systems out of business. No surprise there. But have you heard about Siebels plans in the software-as-a-service area?
Bruce Cleveland, a Siebel executive who once worked with Benioff at Oracle, tells ZDNets Dan Farber that the company intends to make every product in its lineup deliverable as a service.
Thats one way to catch up with rivals. "We would be dead if we had not responded, but we decided to put millions into [on demand applications] and dedicated a division to build and deliver our products in this way. The drama around it is: did Siebel respond early enough? And the coming quarter will tell," Cleveland says.
As for Siebels chances, Farber writes: "Siebels...vertical applications deliver a good value proposition to cust...
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David Becker Year:March 31, 2005 10:36 AM PST Source Site:newsblog
Were left to wonder anew what the heck is wrong with todays kids, thanks to a report in the Wichita (Kan.) Eagle that documents the efforts of a 9-year-old boy there to swap a loaded handgun for an Xbox game console.
The newspaper, working from police reports, says the unnamed tot hatched a plan with a classmate to trade his Xbox for a pistol the boy was confident he could snatch from his grandfathers closet. The Xbox owner chickened out on the deal and told his mother, but his buddy was ready to go through with his end of the transaction, as evidenced by the loaded .38-caliber revolver police found in his backpack shortly before he left for school Tuesday.
The whole incident brings up fresh questions of whether kids really know the value of a dollar anymore. Judging from a quick onlin...
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Mike Ricciuti Year:March 31, 2005 9:05 AM PST Source Site:newsblog
Microsoft is closing in on the delivery of the first full test versions of Longhorn, nearly 18 months after it distributed a developer preview of the new operating system.
Next month, a preview version of the client release of Longhorn will be distributed at the companys Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle. A more full-fledged beta is expected by mid-year
And, later this year, a beta version of Longhorn server will make its way to testers, Microsofts Jeff Price said on Wednesday.
Despite a gap of nearly five years between major Windows releases, Microsoft is expected to face a tough sell for Longhorn. Many Windows users see the current release, Windows XP, as "good enough" for most tasks they need to perform.
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Marguerite Reardon Year:March 31, 2005 8:11 AM PST Source Site:newsblog
Qwest Communications just cant seem to take a hint.
Even after MCI rejected its offer to buy the company this week for the third time, Qwest wont give up the fight. Now that its crystal clear that MCIs board of directors isnt interested in Qwest, the smallest of the Baby Bells looks like its taking its case directly to shareholders. On Wednesday the company hired a proxy advisor called the Altman Group to help it organize shareholders to vote on the takeover bid.
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are reporting that Qwest is also considering raising its offer for the company once again.
The long and dragged out fight for MCI has been great for MCI investors. Qwests tenacious pursuit has forced Verizon to raise its bid by another billion dollars, not too shabby. The companys st...
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Leslie Katz Year:March 30, 2005 5:53 PM PST Source Site:newsblog
You might want to hide that iPod. The ubiquitious music player with the telltale white headphones has caused a 20 percent spike in robberies on New York subways, the New York Daily News says.
The paper reported on Tuesday that the popular music device has become a favorite target for thieves scouting the trains for valuables.
New York subway felonies, overall, are up 14 percent through mid-March compared with the same period last year, according to police statistics, and underground robberies have shot up nearly 20 percent.
"The common denominator are iPods," NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said. "Theyre expensive, extremely popular and easy to conceal after theyre stolen."
But iPod-toting passengers are being targeted above ground, too. "iPods have made bus stops a choice locat...
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Alorie Gilbert Year:March 30, 2005 5:32 PM PST Source Site:newsblog
The European Union says it needs more time to begin issuing new high-tech passports that incoporate biometric data via embedded microchips.
The United States has urged 25 visa-exempt countries in Europe to begin issuing the new passports by October in a push for tighter border security. But the EU says it needs an addtional 10 months to comply, according to an Associated Press report.
Many countries are still ironing out problems related to data security and interoperability, an EU official said. Meanwhile, the U.S. is on track to begin issuing e-passports this year.
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Declan McCullagh Year:March 30, 2005 5:29 PM PST Source Site:newsblog
The FBI is demanding server logs from a popular anarchist Web site, according to a post by the system administrator.
Quoth the administrator, "Dave": "Im under court order not to speak about specifics and have my attorney trying to find out what the maximum penalty for disclosure really is. I hate to have to keep my mouth shut in areas where the Gestapo is involved, but I also have to weigh things against the overall security of flag and its subdomains and also the wellbeing of my family." The site, flag.blackened.net, hosts texts like the Anarchist Library and other political and activist tracts.
This isnt the first time the FBI demanded Web logs from activist groups: its happened before with Indymedia sites. As a result, some Indymedia sites have adopted a simple policy of not keepin...
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