Archive for March, 2008
Google is the official blog reported that in the next few weeks the office suite users of Google Docs will be able to edit text documents offline.
At the present time to work with Google Docs required continuously connected to the Internet, which in some cases can cause serious inconvenience. […]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
Activists from the United States are trying to delay the launch of the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, reports New Scientist. They filed a lawsuit at CERN, the European Center for the Study of particle physics, which is building a plant. It is located near Geneva, Switzerland.
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March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The Russian unit of Apple reduced the price of "apple" notebooks, reportedly Vedomosti. According to the company, Macbook recommended price of a new series of 41900 roubles now, while previously it was worth 49100 roubles. Masthead model of the new line of Macbook Pro (2.5 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and […]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The Russian unit of Apple reduced the price of their notebooks, reportedly Vedomosti. According to the company, Macbook recommended price of a new series of 41900 roubles now, while previously it was worth 49100 roubles. Masthead model of the new line of Macbook Pro (2.5 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and […]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
Warner Music Group has recognized the futility of combating peer-to-peer networks, and realized that you can fayloobmen monetizirovat: label proposes to charge Internet users with a monthly fee for unlimited access to the entire base of current music. The promotion of this idea lies Jim Griffin, a veteran of the music industry […]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The group of monks from an ancient Austrian tsistertsian c monastery who entered into a contract with record labels and label Universal Music will release a CD of Gregorian horalom, reported Agency France Presse.
Gregorian chants - the traditional liturgical singing monodiynoe Roman Catholic Church. Singing has been identified by […]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The company Red Hat reported on the performance for the fourth quarter and full 2008 fiscal year as a whole (ended February 29).
During the period from December to February and including Red Hat received income of $ 141,5 million dollars. That is about 27% higher than the rate for […]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The company Yandex "at the end of last week opened a new online service called" Yandeks.Vremya. "
Screenshot new service
The "Yandeks.Vremya lets you know the exact time in major cities around the world. By default, in addition to the city, where the user is located, "Yandeks.Vremya shows […]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
Last Saturday, March 29, passed a global campaign "Hour Earth," organized by the World Wildlife Fund.
The Black Pages search engine Google (picture from the site CNET News)
Participants were to be a one-hour (from 20.00 to 21.00 local time), turn off all the lights, thereby demonstrating the need […]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The total number of entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia recently exceeded ten million.
Wikipedia project was initiated in January 2001. At present, the encyclopedia contains records of about 250 languages, and the database is being updated daily by nearly 2000 articles. The most far-reaching is the English section, […]
March 30th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
Today, venture investors are betting on the environment, because they believe that once the environmental services will cost a lot of money. For example, Hilton Murray-Philipson, Director of the British investment firm Canopy Capital, has entered into a contract with gayanskim reserve "Ivokramoy", reported New Scientist Environment.
As part of […]
March 30th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
It turns out that boss may collaborate with each other to produce their food, as do primates. Previously, scientists were convinced that "co-operation" between the birds probably only in the construction of nests, said New Scientist.
Amanda Seed of the Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in the Max Planck (Leipzig, Germany) […]
March 28th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The team of American scientists claims that the materials likely to convert radiation into electricity directly, will open a new era in space and engineering, said New Scientist, in the nuclear power plants takes a different approach to a eletkroenergii: reactor heats steam, which rotates the turbine, generating electricity.
C 60 […]
March 28th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
As reported by Reuters, referring to an anonymous source informed, the stock of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-sing Li Ka Shing Foundation has invested in the popular social network Facebook 60 million dollars. Earlier last year, Ka-SGD earmarked for the purchase of shares in the network accordingly. Thus, the current Ka-SGD […]
March 28th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
Researchers from the group studying the history of recording First Sounds discovered and were able to play sound recordings of folk songs made by the French inventor in 1860, for 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, Reuters reports. Its is 10 seconds. To hear the recording supposedly female voice […]
March 28th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments