British royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton has been a major international event. Modern technology allows people around the world to follow the young couple’s wedding and make it an “e-Royal Wedding.” While the event is getting closer, the more people search the internet and online news media to get the latest information [...]
A year ago, the United States Space Agency known as NASA published its first photo shots of a new satellite designed to study the sun. Satellite Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) started displaying a series of images that have never been seen before, including a close-up photograph of the sun’s surface and high-resolution images of the [...]
Two major producers of electronics and computers are currently arguing. They are Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Apple sues Samsung on 15 April 2011 in the Court of Oakland, California, USA, with the charge of Galaxy smartphone products from Samsung were cheating Apple’s iPhone. In fact, the form of tablets Galaxy Tab also resembles iPad which [...]
Not to be outdone by any other browser developer, Opera Software also, on Tuesday (12/04/2011) launched its newest browser: Opera 11.10 code-named Barracuda. This newer versions of web browsers emphasis on the improvement of the two features of Opera which was touted as the most widely used: Speed Dial and Opera Turbo so that it [...]
Opera Mini is enlisting itself to be the most popular mobile browser in the world that reach 100 million users until the end of March 2011. With so many users, the browser is now used to open 2 billion web page views per day. “Sweeeet!” Lars said Boilesen, CEO of Opera Software, briefly in a [...]
Texas Instruments (TI) Inc. bought National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion. This acquisition action will be a marriage between two major manufacturers of many analog chips used in electronic devices for signal transformation. With this acquisition, TI will get a company with a long history or more than 50 years in Silicon Valley. As well as [...]
The largest radio telescope project in the world was pursued by several countries, including between scientists. The development which was named Square kilometer Array telescope (SKA) is estimated to spend $2.1 billion. When it was built, the telescope will be a 50 times greater than current telescopes. The telescope will consist of 3,000 antennas in [...]
Researcher at Yokohama City University have successfully created a mouse sperm and using it to produce offspring. This is a development that might someday help infertile men.That sperm was grown outside the body using a tissue containing rat sperm stem cells, called spermagonia, taken from the babies rats. Scientists from Japan then develop it into [...]
One day, music player gadget owners need not worry anymore if their gadget would run out of battery in the middle of the road. As long as he is still breathing, as long as the heart still beats, the MP3 player is guaranteed to remain lit. Therefore, recently a group of scientists has discovered a small chip [...]
No matter how bad is life, there’s always something to do, and succeed. Where there is life, there is hope. Not only the genius of the English cosmologist and physicist who inspire the scientists. The brave of Stephen Hawking (69) facing amyotropic lateral sclerosis participated to raised the hopes for those who can not move freely. Sclerosis began to emerge when Hawking was 20 years old. At that time he was completing a physics course at University College, Oxford. The incurable disease attacks the nerve cells and gradually undermine the mobility. Although the ability to think was not affected and there was no pain, watching [...]