By RACHEL METZ
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – A new application will let owners of an iPhone or iPod Touch access the same content available on the latest $359 Kindle electronic book reader from Amazon.com.
In a bid to increase its slice of the e-book market, the Seattle-based online retailer rolled out a free program Wednesday [...]
Conficker virus creators are laughing at the expense of Microsoft and millions of global computer users.
The virus has infected more than 1.5 million networks, and more than 10 million actual PCs since it was launched by hackers.
Microsoft have tried to patch the critical error in their Windows operating system by which the virus gains access [...]
LONG BEACH, California (AP) – Bill Gates released a jar of mosquitoes onstage at a technology conference to make a point about malaria prevention.
“There’s no reason only poor people should have the experience,” the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft said at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference Wednesday in Long Beach.
Audience members including technology leaders laughed [...]
Google Earth’s new oceans feature, which allows users to skim the surface or explore the ocean floor, began when a marine scientist said of the original program, “Why don’t you call it Google Dirt?” The creators said they hope to create a push for more marine exploration.
Google finally put the world’s oceans on the map.
During [...]
Premature babies are already at risk of serious health problems, now it appears they are at risk of developing autism also.
This news comes following a study by United States researchers who tracked babies born in the US, 3 months prematurely.
Using a standard autism screening tool, researchers writing in the Journal of Pediatrics, noted that babies [...]
Wearing gloves in winter means users of Apple’s iPhone and other touch-screen gadgets often miss calls or texts unless they bare their hands. A company called 4sight Products Inc. (www.tavoproducts.com) offers a solution with $40 Tavo gloves that have conductive material on the tip of the index finger and thumb. (Apple has a patent application [...]
By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER
Associated Press Writer
COLUMBIA, Missouri (AP) – After back-to-back hospital visits for congestive heart failure, Eva Olweean figured her health was back tonormal. But the nurses at her retirement home knew better: Motion sensors in the 86-year-old’s bed detected too many restless nights.
Tiny sensors hover unobtrusively over the toilet, shower and doorways to [...]
Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press Writer
COLUMBIA — After back-to-back hospital visits for congestive heart failure, Eva Olweean figured her health was back to normal. But the nurses at her retirement home knew better: Motion sensors in the 86-year-old’s bed detected too many restless nights.
Tiny sensors hover unobtrusively over the toilet, shower and doorways to detect [...]
In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. Air Force F-22A Raptor returns to a mission after receiving fuel from a KC-135T Stratotanker aircraft Friday Jan. 23, 2009 at Kadena Air Base, Japan. The F-22A is deployed from the 27th Fighter Squadron Langley Air Force Base, Va. and the KC-135 is assigned [...]
Los Angeles, January 17 (DPA): A computer virus attack that has infected more than 6.5 million Windows PCs this week is one of the worst in years, internet security firm F-Secure said Friday.
In total the worm, which is known as Downadup or Conficker, has infected nearly nine million PCs since its first version was unleashed [...]
