September 30, 2004
Vivisimo Inc will offically launch Clusty.com their new search engine 4 years in the making on Today . The name Clusty refers to the clustering technology that Vivisimo has refined to sort search results into different categories related to the initial search request. Eg you search for Jenna Jameson, you get the regular results then to the left you get a list of more specific categories like love, nude images etc. AskJeeves & even yahoo offers a similar cluster feature -however Clusty's approach has been hailed as the most sophisticated and user-friendly ( the hailers have not been named). One very cool thing I did like was the ability to preview webpages in the same search window. For that alone I will give clusty.com a bookmark - MORE via CLUSTY.com
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September 29, 2004
IBM Corp. has unofficially started to parade with the new title the world's fastest supercomputer, taking the crown from 3 year title holder NEC's Earth Simulator in Japan.
Earth Simulator can sustain speeds of 35.86 teraflops.
While the IBM still-unfinished BlueGene/L System, named for its ability to model the folding of human proteins, can sustain speeds of 36 teraflops. A teraflop is 1 trillion calculations per second. The prototype for which IBM claimed the speed record is located in Rochester, Minn., has 16,250 processors and takes up eight racks of space. Supercomputing is significant because of its implications for national security as well as such fields as global climate modeling, astrophysics and genetic research.
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September 28, 2004
Richard Branson all things virgin-al plans to launch the first commercial space service - Virgin Galactic, which will start building its first aircraft, the VSS Enterprise, next year and could blast off from California's Mojave Desert with passengers aboard as soon as 2007. As expected Mr. Banson will the first to sign up for the inaugural flight.
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September 23, 2004
The BMW H2R
The BMW H2R set nine international speed records for internal combustion powered vehicles using hydrogen as a fuel at the Miramas high-speed Proving Grounds in France.
The H2R Record Car, using a version of BMW's proven 12-cylinder 6-liter power plant, currently available in the 760i and 760Li Sedans, develops 232- horsepower using liquid hydrogen fuel. This translates into a 0 - 60 mph acceleration in under 6 seconds and a top speed of 174 mph. - MORE via Press Release
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September 20, 2004
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Worth a look - A9.com is a powerful search engine from Amazon, using web search and image search results enhanced by Google, Search Inside the Book results from Amazon.com, reference results from GuruNet, movies results from IMDb, and more .
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September 12, 2004
Nokia, Motorola Corp, NEC Corp, Siemens AG, and Sony Ericsson have started an Open Mobile Alliance to enable broadcast services to mobile devices. This will make way for such services as receiving tv content on a mobile device. The service recently introduced in Japan is expected to be introduced in Europe towards the end of 2005 - MORE
Also See - Mobile Phone Vendors Working To Drive Mobile Broadcast
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September 7, 2004
News Week is reporting that Tivo & Netflix, developed with the couch potato
in mind , are looking to make the " Get it now " concept a reality, further
enchancing my life. Subscribers who belong to both services will be able
to download their Netflix DVDs over the Internet directly into the TiVo
boxes in their homes, instead of receiving them in the mail according to
the News Week Article. -
NEWSWEEK
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September 6, 2004
STAAR Surgical's has developed a permanent, implantable contact lens that can dramatically improve vision in patients with severe nearsightedness, the lens is expected to receive FDA approval by the end of this year. STAAR Surgical's three-year study with its implantable lens found that nearly 60 percent of the 294 subjects wound up with 20/20 or better vision, and 95 percent achieved 20/40 or better. - WIRED
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September 3, 2004
Creative Technology Ltd. has announced it will double its MP3 player product lines from its current eight by year-end, stepping up competition for rivals such as Apple Computer Inc. With 10 % of the global MP3 Player market , Creative is hoping to catch to Apples 17% market share . Creative's latest "Zen" music player has been hailed by reviewers as one of the strongest rivals to date for Apple's market-leading iPod.
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