Published on March 10, 2010 by Technology Slice
Google TV Search – Internet giant Google is testing a new television search service with Dish Network, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The newspaper, citing “people familiar with the matter,” said the service runs on TV set-top boxes using Google’s Android operating system.
It said it allows users to search content from Dish, which has around 14 [...]
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Published on March 10, 2010 by Technology Slice
FaceBook Location Based Service – FaceBook will roll out a new location-based service in April, the New York Times reports.
The new service means that Facebook’s 400 million-plus users will be able to see the locations of their friends in addition to their status updates.
The social networking giant plans to unveil the new feature at its [...]
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Published on March 10, 2010 by Technology Slice
Cisco Announcement – Much ado led up to the major Cisco announcement that arrived Tuesday. Cisco, which designs and sells many of the machines that make the Web possible, dropped hints for weeks that Tuesday’s unveiling would “forever change the Internet.” Seems they oversold it.
What was the Cisco announcement? A new router.
The next-gen box, sold [...]
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Published on March 9, 2010 by Technology Slice
Super Fast Broadband Test – The NSW coastal communities of Minnamurra and Kiama Downs south of Wollongong are among five mainland locations that will get the first taste of high-speed broadband services on offer from the national broadband network.
It will not be the only NSW site. An area of Armidale, which includes the University of [...]
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Published on March 9, 2010 by Technology Slice
Mind Reading Computers – Devices allowing people to write letters or play pinball using just the power of their brains have become a major draw at the world’s biggest high-tech fair.
Huge crowds at the CeBIT fair gathered round a man sitting at a pinball table, wearing a cap covered in electrodes attached to his head, [...]
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