In 2010, there were some 763 million broadband subscribers world-wide, reports Instat. “From 2007 through 2009, there was a continued growth rate of 25% in broadband subscribers worldwide,” says Vahid Dejwakh, Industry Analyst. Additional research findings include: By year-end 2010, the US will have over 179 million broadband subscribers in the country. North America continues [...]
Spycams were used to photography the world’s largest land predators – Polar bears for a new BBC special – Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice. John Downer Productions has created a wide variety of wireless spycams to photograph wildlife. His latest explored the icy Arctic islands of Svalbard in Norway. They were no match for [...]
The EU-financed SARTRE project has carried out the first successful demonstration of its vehicle platooning technology at the Volvo Proving Ground in Sweden. Vehicle platooning is a convoy of vehicles, where a driver in a lead vehicle drives a line of other vehicles. Each car measures the distance, speed and direction and adjusts to the [...]
Paramount is releasing ten enhanced movie apps exclusively for Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone users who buy one of the “enhanced” movies, such as “School of Rock”, can tap their mobile screens to learn more about the objects, actors, locations, music and other elements of scenes, reports TechFlash. Seattle startup Hypershow, which specializes in interactive [...]
The Federal Trade Commission announced late last year that it is investigating ways to protect consumers’ privacy, and suggested a “Do Not Track” option for every browser. This would give users the ability to opt out of online advertising – similar to the “Do Not Call” registry for phone solicitation. In response, both Mozilla and [...]
Motorola’s Xoom tablet (Wikipedia), running Honeycomb, is expected to retail for $699 at Best Buy (without a contract), according to DroidLife. Their comparison chart (below) contrasts the XOOM ($699) with Apple’s 32GB 3G iPad ($729). You could argue it’s not a fair comparison. The iPad2 is expected to be out soon. The MacRumors blog reports [...]
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