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October 28, 2004
Yahoo Be Bigger & Better than Google List.
Oct 28 04 . Launch a Mobile Search just like Google's Mobile search but bigger & better -- ah with pictures.
Yahoo Mobile search is designed specifically for you to find what you want, when you want it in local listings & images from your handset. So say you are out with the boys, and they are ragging on you about not having a girlfriend, you could do a search for "pretty hot girl" and silence them. Some devices like the Treo even allow a full web search. If you have a 1990 handset this new offering probably won't work on your phone, I should mention your phone belongs in a museum.
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October 26, 2004
Philips Electronics has announced plans to withdraw from the LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) business following intels' recent announcement of a planned exit lead. This move is based on money issues. Steven Chan, vice president of Prokia Technology believes this move is not likely to have any significant effect on the single-panel LCOS market.
In related news, Sony recently introduced an LCOS rear-projection TV (RPTV) using a three-panel LCOS solution at CEATEC (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) 2004 in Japan.
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Now your 350Z can be truefully loaded. Nissan has plans to introduce a on-board multimedia system that uses IEEE1394 optical cables at 400Mbps to communicate. The prototype is equipped with 7 cameras on the body and a 12-inch LCD monitor in the front and another in the rear seat area.
The technology enables large-volume, high-speed data transmissions, the front seat monitor can display video image from the mounted cameras, while the rear seat monitor is simultaneously showing DVD images for eg
Nissan intends to use an IEEE1394 interface to provide in-vehicle LANs. However, it is not permitted to deliver DVD images via IEEE1394 cables at the current moment, due to issues such as copyrights. The company is therefore waiting to commercialize the technology until these issues are winded up.
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October 22, 2004
Intel Corp. has canceled plans to develop a liquid on crystal silicon chip, (LCoS) for projection TVs. - MORE via Press Release
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October 15, 2004
Google's World domination to do list
Thursday. Oct 14. 2004 - Launch Google PC Hard-Drive Search Tool. Google has introduced a program that will search your hard drives for documents, e-mails, instant messages and past Web searches all via a Web browser. . You download the software here - MORE
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October 12, 2004
If by any chance you have $660 000, just laying around, here is the very cool looking Fetish electric coupe by Venturi. Venturi plans to build only 25 copies of the Fetish, which will sell for $660,000 each -
The Fetish offers a top speed of 105 mph, sad but I guess the whole it's an electric car could make that seem not as important but then again after you pay 660,000, it might become a factor. The Fetish has the ability to go 217 miles on a single charge. Recharge the Fetish's empty battery for one minute, and you will be able to drive it for about one mile. From the looks of this the Fetish so far will accomplish a few things, you will be 1 out of 25 owners in the world, girls will look, you will be doing the environment a favor, plus everyone who sees you will know you are extremely wealthy without you having to say it.
_ MORE via Forbes
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October 11, 2004
California startup Orb will unveil a service Monday that allows subscribers to remotely access their digital media files — even watch live television — from any gadget with a Internet connection. This is all tentative as I can only assume the RIAA lawyers are writing up legal letters this minute. In any event if it gets off the floor the technology will grab your music, video, or photo files stored on your home PCs and stream them to Web-enabled devices such as cell phones, laptops, or personal digital assistants. You can also access cable or satellite TV as long as the video output is somehow hooked up to a home computer network
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October 9, 2004
Japanese Newspaper The Nihon Keizai Shimbun is reporting that Sony and Matsushita (Panasonic and JVC owners) plan to both release Blu-ray recording camcorders in 2005. (Sony confirms the availability of the blu-ray camcorder but states the date is not valid.) Blu-ray is the much talked high density blue laser disc format which can hold up to 50GB of data and are designed to hold definition video images.
The camcorders will record to 8 cm discs same disc size used in DVD camcorders, the 8 cm disc will hold 15GB of information. - MORE
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October 5, 2004
Casio has developed a fingerprint sensor layered on top of a 1.2-inch LCD screen, this will make way for phone makers to incorporate biometric security into handsets giving you some extra security for your device. The prototype still under development is currently being displayed the Ceatec 2004 show in Chiba, Japan. The LCD-type scanner consists of a layer of optical sensors on a 0.7 millimeter-thick sensor substrate, which in turn sits on top of a conventional TFT LCD. According Yasuo Mochizuki, deputy general manager of Casio's device division, the LCD-type scanner is superior to CCD or capacitor-type systems based on a number of facts the foremost being that the LCD has no problems reading dry fingers, dirty fingers or fingers with ink.
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October 4, 2004
 Banks deploying new ways to protect your funds from really bad people. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, will introduce a biometric security system based on vein-pattern recognition technology in branches nationwide in October
The vein-pattern technology works by shining light in the near-infrared region (the infrared region closest to visible light) on your palms.
You would hold your plam about 4cm above a scanner, which takes a snapshot of the palm, illuminating the vein patterns just below the skin. This unique pattern information becomes the basis for security applications.
So unless someone cuts your hand off your money will be a little safer - MORE via Computer Weekly
*** Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions Corp. next spring will start selling ATMs to city and regional banks that are equipped with a finger vein biometric identification system. - MORE
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