U.S. Postal Service Updates its iPhone App
The USPS is finally getting it. They are going to have to sweeten the pot to entice customers and compete more aggressively if they are to survive against the likes of UPS and FedEx. A good start is updating the iPhone App to speed up tracking and status of packages.
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Goodbye Remote Control
At the Consumer Electronics Show, the Israeli company showed off a next-generation TV interface that lets you control your TV experience with a wave of your hand. Like Kinect, the system uses a 3D camera with chips made by PrimeSense that can capture your movement in a 3D space and translate those motions into commands for the TV. If it succeeds, you can say adios to your TV remote control and engage in what PrimeSense calls "total digital immersion" with your body as the control for future smart TVs.
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Microsoft: Skype for Windows Phone Coming "Soon"
It's a well-documented fact that Microsoft bought Skype last fall, but the big question is what is Microsoft planning to do with Skype now that they have it. The numbers continue to grow for Skype use (up to one Billion minutes per day) and Microsoft will undoubtedly put those big numbers to good use. From the coming soon statements, we can only guess that they are meaning sometime soon in 2012.
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Bill Gates Has Given Away $28 Billion Since 2007
Hate him or love him; you will have to admit that Bill Gates along with his wife Melinda have been the best of the best when it comes to charitable contributions. Their foundation has donated $28 Billion dollars around the world and according to the article, has been responsible for saving millions of lives.
The Gates Foundation has focused on eradicating Malaria, helping third-world countries grow rice, and a crusade to end Polio.
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Quad-Core iPad 3 Slated for March?
According to reports from various sources, it's looking more and more likely that Apple will be releasing the iPad3 sometime in March. The iPad3 is rumored to be 4G LTE compatible, have a faster quad core processor, retina display and sharper HD resolution screen.
The report says that Foxconn and company are increasing volume of the iPad 3 this month, and will hit full volumes in February, with a release scheduled for March.
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Corning Gorilla Glass 2 Test Demo at CES
Not everything at CES is electronic in nature and Corning is making that point quite well with a demonstration of its new Gorilla Glass 2 which is used for phone and tablet touchscreens. The new version of Gorilla Glass is 20% thinner, but still retains the same strength as the original product making possible thinner and lighter devices.
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More Web Sites and Games Going Dark to Protest SOPA
What started out as a trickle last week to protest SOPA led by Wikipedia is turning into a torrent (no pun intended). Even more Internet protesters are preparing to jump on board protest train and temporarily shut down their websites on January 18th for the cause. We reported that Google and some other heavy hitters of the Internet were considering joining the protest and with the addition of more sites coming on board, it will be more likely that they will not want to be left out. It looks like the Internet is waking up and striking back.
Graphics chip maker NVIDIA posted word on its blog site that it does not support SOPA saying, "NVIDIA wasn't consulted by ESA in formulating their position on SOPA."
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Pirate Bay Announces It's Dropping Torrent Files
Pirate Bay is dropping the familiar torrent files for the harder to block magnetic links. The move will result in slightly longer load times for the user, but saves in the amount of bandwidth used.
Magnet files offer a number of advantages for file sharing. They are stripped down to contain just the hash tag for the data content, not the location or name of the file in question
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Complete Civil War Submarine Unveiled for First Time
Cutting edge technology from 150 years ago has finally made its debut in full view for the first time since its raising from the sea bed off the coast of Charleston. The H.L. Hunley is the very first successful combat submarine which was recovered 10 years ago and has been undergoing restoration ever since. The showing this week was the first after draining the restoration tank and removal of supporting steel superstructure. The H.L. Hunley will be on display to the public after completion of restoration.
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Federal Body Concludes LightSquared Can't Work with GPS
In what can only be described as a major setback to the proposed LightSquared LTE network, the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigating and Timing Executive Committee (can you tell by the name that is a government agency)? found that there is no way to make the network safe to operate without interfering with GPS services.
\"Based upon this testing and analysis, there appear to be no practical solutions or mitigations that would permit the LightSquared broadband service, as proposed to operate."
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India OKs Censoring 21 Social Networking Sites
India has followed China in warning 21 social networking sites that they face being blocked in India unless policies are instituted to monitor and censor content. The process has begun to formally notify and serve summons on the companies. Google and Facebook have both responded to the original complaint by citing their global non-interference corporate policies.
The case first began with a private complaint filed by journalist Vinay Rai against these firms for allegedly webcasting objectionable content. Representatives of the 21 companies were thus summoned to court and a long proceeding began.
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Flickr to Dump Picnik Photo-Editing Features
Users of Flickr will soon notice the absence of one of their favorite tools in the upcoming months. For unannounced reasons, Picnik photo editing will no longer be available from Google. Neither Google nor Flickr would comment on the removal of the service.
Flickr, one of Yahoo's most-beloved products, has allowed its members one-click access to Picnik's suite of walk-in-the-park style photo-editing features for more than four years running.
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160 Billion Planets in the Milky Way?
It seems like just a few years ago scientists were looking for proof of any planets circling stars and now the prognosis is at least 160 Billion planets are out there in the Milky Way. If you were feeling the slightest bit lonely in the galaxy, get over it.
"We used to think that the Earth might be unique in our galaxy, but now it seems that there are literally billions of planets with masses similar to Earth orbiting stars in the Milky Way."
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DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA
Now this is a surprising bit of good news. Now, if we can just get them to pull everything else out (including their heads) we'd be doing great!
In a move the technology sector will surely see as a victory, a controversial antipiracy bill being debated in Congress will no longer include a provision that would require ISPs to block access to overseas Web sites accused of piracy.
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