Technology has penetrated well into every realm of our lives. Imagine a technology-friendly mattress that you could tweak through an app on your iPad. You may adjust it to your taste or make use of many other features. This is precisely what Reverie’s Dream Sleep System offers.
Google is a key player when it comes to online advertising. Given its huge sway through the online search engine as well as through Google Adsense, Google has been pre-dominantly instrumental in settings the standards for the online advertising industry. Now, Google has announced some new standards for online advertising under the name ‘Brand Activate Initiative.’
Researchers have designed an imaging chip that could turn mobile phones into devices that can see through the wall, wood, plastic, paper and other object. The team of researchers has found a way to make the terahertz band of the electromagnetic spectrum — the spectrum band between microwaves and infrared light — usable for medical or consumer devices. As infrared light can be viewed by some night vision goggles, devices that can image the terahertz band could see through drywall, wood, even human skin. This band has been used before, but the new solution is cheaper and simpler to create.
NBC is taking a major turn on its policy when it comes to live streaming Olympics. This is because in 2008, NBC wouldn’t stream important Olympic events on internet to keep its TV ratings high. This year, NBC has decided to stream virtually all Olympic sports live through its internet stream. That is surely great news for internet users.
The legal battle between Google and Oracle continues and the latter continues to maintain that Java, although a free language, is still very valuable and that Google failed to pay the price of using it. Now, an Oracle executive has re-iterated during court proceedings that the value of Java APIs is what made Sun a very valuable acquisition for Oracle.
Facebook has plans of going public some time soon. Whereas so far, there is virtually no way to gauge how much the company is worth, it now seems that Facebook itself values the company at $75 billion. How do we know that? Well…from the Instagram deal. The deal closed at $1 billion with Facebook paying 30% of it in cash and 70% in stock.
Many of us have been quite surprised at the sudden acquisition of Instagram by Facebook. The surprise came from the fact that Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s CEO, had cited in the past that he planned to keep Instagram independent. However, a Wall Street Journal report now suggests that all it took for things to finalize between the companies was a weekend together by the CEOs of both companies at Zuckerberg’s house.
When watching a premature baby lying motionless in a clear plastic cradle in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, it is hard to imagine that something so small would have a real shot at survival. Preemies born before 37 weeks of gestation face often don’t survive for a long period. A group of five female bio-engineering undergraduate students has developed an MCU based monitor for premature newborns that can help prevent death due to sleep apnea.
As we reported last week about leakage of Google Drive, today we have got more details. Google Drive will be live from next Tuesday and it will give all user 5GB free space. We also got details how Google Plans to take on Dropbox.
ARM has been rumored to be working on a Cortex-A15 chip. And now, these rumors have turned out to be pretty accurate as the company has announced the new Cortex-A15 Quad-Core Hard Macro chip. This is the first processor from ARM that packs the power of four A15 cores. Naturally, this is going to entice the manufacturers.
You might remember about the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003. That accident took the lives of seven astronauts. Accidents like this have pressed the need for safer spacecrafts. Designers have been working on this issue ever since. And, former NASA astronaut and space transport company SpaceX owner Garrett Reisman is planning to build the world’s safest spacecraft.
We had been told that Twitter wanted to acquire Instagram but apparently, that didn’t work out since Facebook swooped in to bag the company. On the heels of Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram, Twitter has now acquired Hotspots.io. It is a social media analytics startup which claims to furnish ‘social media intelligence.’
Oracle and Google have been locked in a bitter legal battle over alleged infringement of Java copyrights. Oracle is of the opinion that Google committed the infringement whereas Google holds that what it used was already free. Today, Oracle’s Larry Ellison took the stand to represent Oracle and we are not sure if he did a very good job at it.
When Google finally unveiled its Project Glass and showed the world what it was up to, it was truly mesmerizing, at least in the beginning. So far, most of us had thought that this was the only project of its kind. However, the CEO of Oakley Inc. has now revealed that his company has been working on similar tech-equipped glasses for more than a decade!
Oracle has been quite critical of Google’s Android platform, alleging that Google didn’t respect the ownership of a number of Java-related patents owned by Oracle. Google, in turn, denies having done so. The failure of both to reach a settlement has now kick-started a court proceeding where Google’s CEO, Larry Page, was announced the first witness.
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