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Google Tackles Virtual Reality With 'Lively'
Virtual reality is a little 2006, but Google is looking to give it a new spin with Lively, a new 3D 'world' that can be integrated with a number of online applications. The Lively download is available now on Lively.com. Users can create “rooms" that can be embedded on blogs or Web sites and explored via ...
Pioneer Plans Blu-Ray Players
Japanese consumer electronics maker Pioneer Corp said on Tuesday it plans to launch Blu-ray DVD recorders by the end of the year, taking aim at a rapidly growing market after the end of a bitter format battle. Pioneer is developing Blu-ray recorders with help from Sharp Corp, Pioneer's top shareholder with a 14 percent stake. Sharp ...
The Second Coming of iPhone 3G
For iPhone, the 'New' Is Relative One year and 11 days ago, our nation was swept by iPhone Mania. TV news coverage was relentless. Hard-core fans camped out to be the first in line. Bloggers referred to Apple's new product as the “Jesus phone." (Photo: People lined up outside the Apple store in Manhattan on Tuesday ...
Google and Youtube Play Name-That-Room Game
Conference rooms, printers, even bathrooms are given catchy monikers. A popular pastime in Silicon Valley to show off its collective creativity: companies encouraging employees to name conference rooms, computer gear, even bathrooms. Nowhere is that more prevalent than at Internet giant Google Inc. Its office here pays homage to television shows and movies set in San ...
'My Yahoo' Hits the Home Stretch
The world's most popular personalized start page has entered the final step of its upgrade. After over a year in beta, Yahoo has finally fully taken the wraps off of its My Yahoo! personal portal redesign. The option to switch back to the “original My Yahoo!" will disappear, as will the “beta" designation. All My Yahoo! ...
In Three Years, the Internet Hits a Brick Wall
In an estimated three years or so, the Internet will run out of the IPv4 addresses that it is currently based upon, forcing a transition over to a next-generation IPv6 address scheme or a halt to all new domains. That prediction was made last month by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which told attendees ...
Petabyte in a Nanosecond
A Petabyte is approximately 1,000 Terabytes or one million Gigabytes. It's hard to visualize what a Petabyte could hold. 1 Petabyte could hold approximately 20 million 4-door filing cabinets full of text. It could hold 500 billion pages of standard printed text. It would take about 500 million floppy disks to store the same amount of ...
Service Providers Determine What's Free Speech
Does free speech still apply on the Internet of private servers? Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative. Say it on the Internet, and you'll find that free speech and other constitutional rights are anything but guaranteed. Companies in charge ...
The Petabyte Age End of Theory
The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Because More Isn't Just More -- More Is Different There's no reason to cling to our old ways. It's time to ask: What can science learn from Google? Sensors everywhere. Infinite storage. Clouds of processors. Our ability to capture, warehouse, and understand massive amounts of data is changing ...
