HD DVD and Blu-Ray have been battling to become the pre-eminent format for next-generation DVDs for the last couple of years.
Toshiba had its HD DVD format approved by the DVD Forum back in 2004 and the first products hit the market in the US in April 2006. The same year Sony came out with [...]
Tuesday 19 Feb 2008 |
chris |
HDTV, News, Video
It make me want to go out and get one of these. Who would not want to see what is going on in the space station?
Sometimes baby monitors pick up more than they should. People have gotten radio stations or images of a neighbor’s baby. Now Nancy Pender reports a Palatine mom got quite [...]
Wednesday 13 Jun 2007 |
chris |
News, Space
So after all that time and effort, hundreds of dollars spent on cram sessions, it all boils down to how long my finger is to figure out what my scores on the SAT test.
So fast forward to the future, the next generation of kids to go to college, all they need is to send in [...]
Wednesday 23 May 2007 |
chris |
Future, General, News
Humm … I just need some good ideas …
Startup incubators turned into cash incinerators during the dotcom bubble and burst. Now they’re back, and Business 2.0 looks at whether they’re any better at breeding the next Google.
Naval Ravikant is a classic Silicon Valley entrepreneur: He never stops moving. In the past decade, he’s helped launch [...]
Monday 07 May 2007 |
chris |
Computers, News
A true US space pioneer Walter “Wally” Schirra, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts who flew in the early days of NASA and the space race has passed away.
He was the only man to fly on Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. He is a true “Space Cowboy”. In 1962 he became the [...]
Saturday 05 May 2007 |
chris |
News, Space
This is great and some of the best news about getting into space for the average person. I mean who has the millions of dollars to visit ISS on the a Russian Soyuz spacecraft .
I mean hats off to the Russians, who not only are getting people into space but funding their program with [...]
Wednesday 18 Apr 2007 |
chris |
News, Science.Technology, Space
Here you have a neat idea to make phone service work on the Internet. You put out some television commercials, dumb ones I think, and them get you a whole slew of customers.
Then it comes to light that you really stole/used/infringed on some patents and your life is going downhill fast. This little [...]
Wednesday 18 Apr 2007 |
chris |
Computers, News