Despite being the most common semiconductor used in electronic products including photovoltaic cells that solar panels use to transform sunlight into power, silicon is not the most cost-effective component on the market, researchers have found.
By Tony Bradley
Intruder alert. Intruder alert. The new Gmail feature launched by Google won’t have any cool audio alert blaring out “intruder alert”, but it will alert users when suspicious activity indicates a potential compromise of the e-mail account.
GOOGLE’s latest feature, Google Buzz, is a social networking coup d’etat, and looks set to snatch the cheese right out of Facebook’s mouth. Launched on February 9, 2010, Buzz is designed to integrate with Gmail and provide a platform for Gmail users to share media content, links and make status updates.
Apple has reinvented the wheel with the iPad, arguably a middle of the road hybrid of the iPhone and Macbook. The iPad is neither a notebook nor a smartphone, but a sort of mule that combines the functionality of the two, and does more. Aesthetically, it takes advantage of the Kindle market, which has softened users to devices larger than smartphones but still smaller than netbooks, and it remains to be see what exactly the iPad will carve out as its niche.
Google has gone beyond being just another search engine or corporation with its distinctly independent stance on global issues. From its recent public squabble with China over the hacking of email accounts belonging to rights activists in China and India, to its active role in assisting the search for missing persons in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, Google has managed set itself far apart from from its peers, still caught in the corporate web of apathy.
Avatar, the latest Hollywood blockbuster to hit the market, is not just another 3D picture. It is in every respect a cleverly composed and unrelenting feat of political satire, criticizing use of the military industrial complex as an instrument of global power and manipulation and the insatiable corporate greed that drives global affairs.
The new Google Nexus One smartphone has been touted as an “iPhone killer” with impressive specs backed by the Android Mobile Technology Platform 2.1 (Eclair) Operating System.
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is a graphic marvel, but an architectural failure. It runs seamlessly with sleek applications but is dogged by the same driver issues that plagued its predecessors (likely to be unusable after each update as it keeps missing key drivers).
A Namibian energy company specializing in the exploitation of geothermal and solar energy, Africa Geopower, Ltd is set to start the construction of an 8MW geothermal power plant at Rehoboth as part of a geothermal energy rollout programme that is expected to ease the country’s power shortages.
Flavour of the month: Sony Ericson K550 Cybershot Camera Phones: Fashion or Fad? By Tawanda Kanhema, Econews, November 2005 Phonecams, the hottest gadget to hit the mobile phone market since the beginning of their hasty evolution have come stay, and the running convention is that if your phone does not have a colour LCD and [...]
