media technologies

30.11.2007

21.11.2007 Named Kindle, Amazon’s electronic book device, can hold as many as 200 titles from the list of best-sellers. Not bigger than a paperback novel and lighter, the device is wireless, allowing the books to be downloaded without plugging the reader into a computer.

17.11.2007 Australia’s mobile networks such as Telstra, Optus, Hutchison and Vodafone, are stifling innovation by restricting access to multimedia content. If you want to watch programme of your choice you need four phones, or at least four SIM cards, which you have to keep swapping.

16.11.2007 The undersea broadband link would run from KwaZulu-Natal province’s far north coast to Mumbai in India, via Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya, and Tanzania. Once ready, the Seacom project will provide an enormous 1.28 Terrabytes per second of broadband capacity.

14.11.2007 The world’s biggest microchip maker, Intel Corp, has come up with fast processors made with new techniques that can etch circuitry nearly 200 times smaller than a red blood cell. The new chips, to be sold under Intel's Xeon and Core 2 brands, would be able to run most software up to 15% faster.

14.11.2007 Mobile television will soon be a reality in India. It will open up opportunities for government to enhance services to citizens ranging from education to healthcare to safety and security, apart from providing business users with latest information on stock market and entertainment to the masses.

06.11.2007 A 500-miilion dollar deal has been signed today between Microsoft and Reliance Communications to launch India’s first Internet Protocol Television. It will be launched early next year in 30 Indian cities.

01.11.2007 Small can become even smaller until it can’t be made any smaller. Nanotechnology is precisely that science and engineering that plays around with things at the scale of atoms and molecules. Learn more about engineering at the tiniest scale.

01.11.2007 Far smaller in diameter than a human hair, world’s smallest radio is 100 billion times smaller than the first commercial radios.