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Mobile users from across the US have recently broken three records when it comes to text messaging. According to a report released by VeriSign, the Mountain View-based communications and Internet company, from the beginning of 2008 to June 30, no less than 95.4 billion SMS messages have been sent among US carrie... |
29 August 2008
09:18 GMT |
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In an era when all the information is transmitted digitally and even your bills and statements come in electronic format, a simple, but very organized, database can be a life saver. Forget about all the boxes stuffed with bills that collect dust in your closet, or about the folders from your computer that give you a ... |
16 August 2008
09:38 GMT |
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Have you ever felt like absolutely nothing is able to raise your interest or that the greatest thing in the world might happen right next to you and you would not even notice it? Or that everybody is against you, nobody understands, nobody cares and even the ones that you love are trying to take advantage of you? If ... |
30 June 2008
11:59 GMT |
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SuperMegaUltraGroovy and Toastycode are happy to introduce their new recording application designed exclusively for use in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The app's quick-capture workflow records "tapes" that can be started or stopped at any time with a single mouse click or keystroke."TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new ... |
12 May 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto IV is dubbed as the biggest game of the year and I really doubt that is a secret for anyone on this planet. Also, Rockstar's game is estimated to generate some $450 million only in the first week, even though the developers say that these figures are actually low. So, one thing is clear: GTA IV ... |
6 May 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Slim and lightweight are definitely nice qualities for mobile phones, but the new king of handsets is far from having these attributes, and has all the chances to be designated the biggest functional cell phone in the world. A Mr. Tan, resident of Songyuan, China, worked about half a year to create a huge handset... |
3 April 2008
03:25 GMT |
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Now, it is official: the world's shortest man is a Chinese: the 20-year-old He Pingping. The man is 73 cm (2.4 feet) tall and he is a native of Huade county, Wulanchabu city (in Inner Mongolia province). His father, He Yun, said that, at birth, he had been only the size of an adult's palm. The parents of He... |
28 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This is the world's oldest audio recording, from an era when today's recording technology seemed fairy tales. American specialists have found and listened an 1860 recording of a folk song. This pre-dated by 17 years the phonograph invented by Thomas Edison, which recorded him singing a children's song ... |
28 March 2008
08:28 GMT |
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It is said that the mustache is a symbol of male vanity. A vanity that was lost in the western world. But not in other parts of the world. In India, mustached men impose more respect. And this man must impose a lot of respect: Badamsinh Juwansinh Gurjar, 60, an Indian villager from Ahmedabad (western India). On Febru... |
22 March 2008
05:16 GMT |
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We have known that the largest rabbit breed is the German Gray Giant: over 23 lb (more than 10 kg). But the rabbit called Humphrey has topped the official world's record. Humphrey is a French lop-eared rabbit 42 in (105 cm) long that weighs 12.7 kg (28.22 lb). This means 1.4 kg (3lb) more than the world record h... |
19 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1.Have you ever wondered which is the largest fruit in the wild? It grows in the Seychelles Archipelago (in the Indian Ocean) and is produced by a 34 m (113 ft) tall palm tree called sea coconut tree (Lodoicea maldivica), encountered only on two islets: Praslin and Curieuse. The nut has a diameter of 50 cm (1.6 ft) a... |
17 December 2007
14:07 GMT |
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iPhone's lack of video recording capabilities was and still is cataloged by many users as being "pretty lame", "pathetic", "surprisingly in a bad way" and so on. I wish I could say these are harsh judgments but I can't, since a multimedia handset unable to record video is... well, let's say it's a... |
14 December 2007
06:16 GMT |
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Ericsson just completed T-Mobile Germany network modernization in record time. Whether it was intended, or things just ran better than planned, it's admirable just the same. T-Mobile has a new EDGE-compliant GSM radio network in record time.No wonder that Ericsson managed to finish the job earlier. The company h... |
2 November 2007
11:09 GMT |
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HTC managed to sell 800,000 units of their Touch smartphone up to this point, after the handset was released in Europe and Asia. The high units' number was reached only three months after the handset's market hit.HTC Touch has been considered by many people as the smartphone most worthy of the "iPhone kille... |
3 October 2007
03:34 GMT |
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Compared to him, a bone crushing hyena looks like a child with the mouth filled with tooth decay. The Malaysian nicknamed "King Tooth" pulled a seven-coach train employing a steel rope clenched in his mouth, establishing a new record for the heaviest weight pulled with teeth. Amid the grunting and gasping, Raja Gigi&... |
4 September 2007
16:36 GMT |
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Microsoft just reported a record annual revenue, crediting its success to "solid customer acceptance" of Windows Vista and Office 2007, along with increasing sales of SQL Server, Windows Server and Visual Studio. The Redmond-based company reported an annual revenue increase by 13 percent, slightly beating analysts�... |
20 July 2007
06:41 GMT |
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CapMed, a leading provider of interactive personal health management solutions, recently acquired a patent-pending technology from Juke Systems Inc, technology called ICE First. This new technology enables healthcare consumers to have PHRs (personal health records) on their handhelds and access valuable medical, hea... |
10 July 2007
09:33 GMT |
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A team of scientists in Singapore created a new device that can store holograms with the help of an electronically controlled crystal film. With some improvements, this could become a storage medium for increased amounts of data in small areas.Holographic memory is a technology used to store amounts of information a... |
1 June 2007
13:51 GMT |
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The most interesting automobile to hit the "market" of incredible prototypes that actually work is the BMW H2R Record Car. You wouldn't think a hydrogen car could do so much, but this is not just an electric car.She's a fine example of German craftsmanship combined with the latest technology in the field of... |
24 May 2007
11:21 GMT |
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YouTube is based on user-generated content and you know it better because I bet you have already uploaded a clip on Google's product. Because this fact was also confirmed by the Mountain View firm, the hardware producers from all over the world tried to adapt their business according to the YouTubers' needs... |
1 May 2007
08:14 GMT |
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What happens when you mix a truck with a jet fighter?It's called Shockwave, a triple jet-engine truck on a 260-inch (660-cm) wheelbase, and it holds the Guinness record for jet-truck speed at 376 miles per hour (605 kph). Driving on a runway, Shockwave races airplanes that are flying above it at 300 miles per h... |
28 March 2007
11:03 GMT |
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For a long time, multimedia support in Linux was either totally missing or weakly implemented. Nowadays, audio and video decoding has been fully implemented and using one of the many good audio and video players, you can play just about any media format available out there. I'm not saying multimedia support in L... |
6 March 2007
06:24 GMT |
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