Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Windows is spyware

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Microsoft has crossed the line. They have been disliked by many techies, for arrogance, incompetence and more. But, this wasn’t a universal opinion and reasonable people could have disagreed. Now however, the question of Microsoft’s corporate character has left the realm of opinion and landed firmly in fact.

Google: Put a rover on the moon, win $30 million

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth, the Internet search leader said Thursday.
If the competition produces a winner, it would prove a major boon to the emerging private spaceflight industry and mark the first time that a nongovernment entity has flown a lunar space probe.

Environmentalist Warns Of Covert Weather Warfare

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Leading Environmentalist Warns Of Covert Weather Warfare And Mind Control Technologies

A world authority on HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme) is to present his research on climate change, weather warfare technology, and mind control at a Global Issues conference in New Zealand.

Salt water as fuel? Erie man hopes so

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

For obvious reasons, scientists long have thought that salt water couldn’t be burned.

So when an Erie man announced he’d ignited salt water with the radio-frequency generator he’d invented, some thought it a was a hoax.

Battery-like device could power electric cars

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Millions of inventions pass quietly through the U.S. patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine.
An Austin-based startup called EEStor promised “technologies for replacement of electrochemical batteries,” meaning a motorist could plug in a car for five minutes and drive 500 miles roundtrip between Dallas and Houston without gasoline.

Microchip implants cause fast-growing, malignant tumors in lab animals

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

The Associated Press will issue a breaking story this weekend revealing that microchip implants have induced cancer in laboratory animals and dogs, says privacy expert and long-time VeriChip opponent Dr. Katherine Albrecht.

Who founded Facebook? A new claim emerges

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Mark Zuckerberg is considered the founder of Facebook, the popular social networking Web site estimated to be worth upward of $1 billion.

IP telephony start-ups attract cash

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Despite SunRocket’s recent implosion, venture capitalists are hot to invest in voice over IP start-ups.

Google Earth has Hidden Surprise - A Flight Simulator

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

We’ve always known that Google has wanted to challenge Microsoft’s desktop dominance in a number of areas, but to date we didn’t know that extended to gaming. Hidden inside Google Earth is a secret Flight Simulator that takes full advantage of Google’s extensive satellite imagery.

How to steal a domain name with a bogus patent

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

The most recognized brand in Internet gambling is Bodog.com. However the domain was stolen in a court of law not less then 1 mile from my office. I would have expected to hear about something like this in a third world country. How can a US Judge decide against a foreign company for violating a US patent when that company doesn’t even operate inside the US? The judge has no business deciding this case and when seeing all the evidence I am perplexed this happened in my backyard.