Latest From Michael Smith
The New Fuel That Will Shape the Future
If, hypothetically, all U.S. cars ran on 100 percent corn-based ethanol, and if one Ivy League professor’s analysis is correct, then 97 percent of the entire country’s land area — including real ...
Review: T-Mobile MDA Smartphone
April 18, 2006 8:03AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us Fans of text messaging and mobile e-mail will appreciate the MDA’s Qwerty-style keypad, which slides into the bottom of the handset when not ...
IBM Explores Atomic-Level Computing
March 31, 2006 1:25PM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us “The tools are now in place to do additional atomic-scale research that could lead to breakthroughs in data storage on desktop devices,” said ...
A Step Toward Remote-Control Humans
March 10, 2006 7:02AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us The possibilities are endless, from fully immersive virtual-reality environments that faithfully reproduce real motion to, perhaps, a way to control unruly crowds without ...
Oscar ‘Screeners’ Already Being Pirated
December 23, 2005 11:50AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us “The problem of piracy of digital screeners has been going on for a while and is a growing trend,” said Yankee Group analyst ...
What’s Slowing Down Your PC?
October 27, 2005 7:30AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us “Computer slowdown is caused by many factors, including malicious software running in the background and ‘heavy’ security solutions that drain system performance,” said ...
Gamer Pays $100,000 for Virtual Property
A gamer has paid $100,000 for a virtual space resort in the massive multiplayer online role-playing game Project Entropia.Mindark, the Swedish developer of the game, sold off the “real estate” in a ...
Open Source Is Alive and Well with Commercial Developers
The appeal of open source to software developers is that it allows them to improve, modify, or adopt according to their own needs, saving time that might be wasted on the paths ...
P2P Traffic Still Dominates the Net
A new study that looks at the impact of peer-to-peer traffic on service-provider networks shows file swapping forges on unabated. CacheLogic of Cambridge, England says the practice shows no sign of slowing ...
Apple Plans New Flash-Based iPod Mini
With plans to introduce a new version of the iPod Mini, Apple Computer will buy 40 percent of Samsung’s flash-memory output.The partnership was made in anticipation of holiday sales of a 4-GB ...