Doctors might soon be able to regrow injured muscles, tendons and bones without invasive surgery, simply by injecting a person's own stem cells into the site of an injury. Veterinarians are already doing it with injured horses, and research into human applications is well under way.
The next great privacy tempest seems like a yawner: What will happen with the data gathered by social networking or personal information services that track where you and your friends are?
Last week, an application turned the iPhone into a megaphone to proclaim: “I Am Rich.” That is the name of a downloadable program that promised to do nothing except signal to the world that its buyer was wealthy enough to have spent $1,000 to download an image of a multifaceted ruby.
Seems like the people who bought it had a different understanding of what the app did....
Want to take your whole iTunes music library on the road -- even the stuff that doesn't fit on your 8-gigabyte iPhone? Apple is supposedly on the case: According to AppleInsider, a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office details a new version of Apple's iPhone software that could give you access to your home computer's iTunes library, over the air, from anywhere.
Yahoo recruited the Internet dance sensation Matt Harding to perform with employees, from chief executive Jerry Yang to the cafeteria staff, in a music video that shows there's at least a little joy in 'Hooville.
Google on Thursday rolled out improvements to its ad network and will add DoubleClick tracking across its sites. Google also made it easy to opt out of its double dose of cookies with one click. The larger question is whether users will choose to go cookie free.
The big excitement in Microsoftland this week has been further news of Midori. Midori is claimed to be Microsoft's "post-Windows" operating system—a new platform for the future. The SD Times claims to have seen internal Microsoft documents describing the company's plans for the new OS, and it says that Midori will be a commercial derivative of the Singularity project. Say hello to a cloud-computing-ready .NET OS.
In what may be a rare peek at negotiations between Apple and carriers, a prominent newspaper claims AT&T agreed to hefty iPhone 3G subsidies on the condition that it remained the lone US carrier for the handset until 2010.
Jon Gruber points a piece the troubling news that you can’t sync read-only iCal subscription calendars to your iPhone, as confirmed in Apple knowledgebase article TS1213. What’s worse is that Apple took this feature out of their US$99 subscription service, but it’s still available when you sync your iPhone (for free) with a cable. The problem is that they’re mutually exclusive so if you use MobileMe you lose the ability to sync subscription calendars.
The software giant Tuesday unveiled a Web site called the Mojave Experiment, where unsuspecting people test an upcoming operating system – only to learn that it’s really Windows Vista. Why the shenanigans? Because most people think Vista is a dud.
The next beta of Internet Explorer 8 is due in August. Improved standards conformance is the headline feature, but there's more to a browser than how well it displays web pages. This week news has been released of some of the new reliability and performance improvements that beta 2 will contain.
Apple has equipped some of its developers with the tools needed to begin authoring iPhone applications that can receive data over the internet, like instant messages, even when they're not running.
The Defective by Design crew are campaigning against DRM. They also complain that Apple's insistence all iPhone software be vetted blocks free software development; they are concerned at its location-sensing technologies, which they believe, "provides ways for others to track you without your knowledge. They also want Apple to widen support for different audio formats in the device.
Spanish scientists have developed a new eco-friendly air-conditioning system. The researchers are relying on solar energy for cooling their devices. They claim that their technology does not harm the ozone layer and reduces the use of greenhouse gases.
The former Google engineers roll out Cuil, which they say will index a larger portion of the Web than Google, and more quickly and at less cost.
The worldwide economy may be faltering, but PC sales are in growth mode, according to numbers released Tuesday by Gartner Inc., and IDC, two information technology research firms. Apple's growth was particularly strong.
Apple scrambled to limit the damage caused by MobileMe, the company’s first step into cloud computing, by posting an apology and acknowledging continuing problems.
As said the lead researcher, ‘we are talking about networks that are potentially up to 100 times faster without costing the consumer any more.’ He adds that these chips could be scaled to operate at data rates approaching 640 Gb/s — the equivalent to transmitting approximately 17 complete DVDs per second!
Ars reviews the first public Opera Mobile 9.5 beta and concludes that it offers the best web browsing experience available for Windows Mobile devices.
The Business Software Alliance has had IDG conduct another piracy survey, this one focused on eight US states. The report attempts to shock everyone from their piratical ways by calculating the losses in unusual units: police officers taken off the street.
Flies with a single genetic mutation sleep 80% less than normal flies, and some get by with no shut-eye at all.
The mutation – in a gene that controls how brain cells fire and now dubbed Sleepless – suggests that, at the most basic level, sleep is caused by a slowdown in certain neurons.
This is the part that gets me:
Herberman is basing his alarm on early unpublished data. He says it takes too long to get answers from science and he believes people should take action now — especially when it comes to children.
So throw everyone into a panic but don't allow us to see what the data says. I understand the urgency with kids but perhaps the system needs an overhaul if it takes so long for findings to be published (legitimate ones) that millions of people would be effected.
Hasbro said Thursday that it has sent a DMCA notice to Facebook, asking the social-networking site to remove the popular Scrabulous application from the company's Web site. Facebook representatives did not immediately answer requests for comment.
Adults should keep the phone away from the head and use the speakerphone or a wireless headset, he says. He even warns against using cell phones in public places like a bus because it exposes others to the phone's electromagnetic fields.
I heard it on the local news a couple of times today and thought I would share. Not using a phone in public places sort of contradicts the "keep the phone aware from your head" advice. One sentence makes it seem as if keeping the phone away from the head lessens the exposure and the second sentence basically negates that by implying using it at all (or someone else using it) can harm you - like second hand smoke.
I wonder how much this would have impacted the iPhone's (or any other's) success it this was released a couple of weeks earlier.
The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.
The application update procedure for iPhone is a complete and unadulterated nightmare. The App Store tells you you need updates with a nice little red bubble in the upper right of the App Store icon, simple enough, right. Unfortunately that’s where the fun ends.
I know what you’re thinking: “Matt, I hacked my original iPhone. Now I want to share in the iPhone 3G fun, but I’m worried that something horrible will happen if I upgrade to the iPhone 3G.”
Buck up, fellow iPhone hacker. I’ll tell you how to upgrade from your hacked Apple phone and keep all the settings you love from your original iPhone. The good news is that it’s not hard and there’s a set of five steps that will combine the comfort of your old settings with the joy of the new 3G iPhone. I’ll lead you through the steps.
Digg commenter Hiji writes, "This is the beginning of the end. In a few years all the major blogs and social-media sites will be owned by large corporations, putting us right back where we started."
The topic of discussion is, of course, TechCrunch's rumor that Digg will soon be acquired by Google for somewhere in the neighborhood of $200 million. Digg's users are debating what Google acquiring Digg might mean for their community in this thread on the site. The question is, would being controlled by a big company like Google ruin--or enhance--the community that Digg has worked so hard to build?
Beginning Thursday, TiVo will offer thousands of its subscribers the ability to stream YouTube videos onto their television sets through their broadband-enabled TiVo boxes.
Wow, I had no idea. I thought graphics came top of the line. Learn something new everyday. Thanks :)
I know not too many people hope for this, but I'm hoping for a decent graphical update in the notebooks to give them a bit more juice than what they currently have.
I don't understand. I thought Apple was the top of the line when it came to graphics?
Amid all the chatter about Apple’s fiscal third quarter results, which were strong, most concerns about the future revolve around two words: Gross margins. The big takeaway for technology buyers: Those lower margins hint at cheaper iPods and notebooks in the not-to-distant future.
A recently published filing discovered by AppleInsider reveals work by Apple's chief software architect to advance the Podcast beyond its static form and into a live interactive presentation medium suitable for use by educational institutes and businesses for their daily presentations.
It turns out that the IP address of my Comcast cable modem-- which had been the same for several months-- is in a range of addresses that is listed on several major email blacklists. That is, some email services regard email from many (or most?) Comcast customers as more likely to be spam. This may be old news to many of you, but as I said, I found it very surprising, and I bet a lot of other Comcast customers aren't aware of it.
Investing time on Twitter, on the other hand, truly is starting to feel like renting. When the landlord is doing a good job, everyone is happy. When the landlord is negligent, the tenants get testy and threaten to move. I now view Twitter like a summer rental that you hope doesn't get hit by a hurricane while my blog is casa de Steve.
» Any A Small Orange customers here? ... Last Reply: 4 weeks ago by shadeofgray.
I'm not a customer but I interact with people who are (for example 9rules members). I haven't talked to Tim in ages but from what I hear their service has suffered due to their growth spurt. This has been going on for quite a while. I sincerely hoped they would pull out of it.
If you'd like I can ask on the 9rules member forum if anyone is having a good experience and what server they are on.