Google Flight Search Available For Android, iOS
Google the world’s biggest Internet player has just announced Google Flight Search for Android and iOS devices. The company says these mobile variants offer all the functionality and benefits of the desktop platform, Argophilia reported.According to a post on the official Google blog, since laun...
Read MoreIT-Security For Less Than One Cent
An increasing number of everyday devices such as car keys, smart phones and even medical implants need protection from hackers.The encryption method PRESENT is the smallest cipher for such cost and energy constrained applications. It is the result of a collaboration between the Ruhr-Universität ...
Read MoreStreaming Video 2.0: An Innovative Approach
(CORDIS) -- Streaming video is everywhere these days: in your home, in your office and, increasingly, on your smart phone. But it is far from perfect. Whether being used for entertainment, telepresence or video calling, streaming video remains bandwidth-hungry and error-prone. EU-funded researchers ...
Read MoreIt’s A Waterworld: Hubble Reveals New Class Of Extrasolar Planet
Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. It’s smaller than Uranus but larger than Earth.An international team of astronomers led by Zachory Berta of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astro...
Read MoreIran: Internet Users Cut Off From Email
Iranian internet users are once again unable to access their email today.The Khabar-on-line website reports that users are again cut off from their email, and no one is willing to take responsibility for it.Meanwhile, internet access is also being disrupted due to the blocking of VPN ports a...
Read MoreThe Factors At Play In Video Game Industry
The video game console industry is very much a two-sided market. Just as buyers prefer Internet auction sites with a large number of sellers, and vice versa, both gamers and game publishers prefer consoles that have a large market share.However, size isn't everything. As Vardit Landsman of Erasm...
Read MoreGlobal Permafrost Zones In High-Resolution Images On Google Earth
Thawing permafrost will have far-reaching ramifications for populated areas, infrastructure and ecosystems. A geographer from the University of Zurich reveals where it is important to confront the issue based on new permafrost maps – the most precise global maps around. They depict the global distri...
Read MoreAn Open Market Of Assisted Living Apps For Older People
(CORDIS) -- The success of Apple's App Store and the Android Market has inspired EU-funded developers of ‘Ambient assisted-living’ (AAL) solutions to develop their own open application marketplace and work together on interoperable platforms. In doing so, they are hoping to mainstream technology tha...
Read MoreX-Rays Illuminate Interior Of Moon
Contrary to Earth, our Moon has no active volcanoes, and the traces of its past volcanic activity date from billions of years ago. This is surprising, because recent Moonquake data suggest that there is plenty of liquid magma deep within the Moon because part of the rocks residing there are thought ...
Read MoreA Step Toward Better Electronics
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new method for chemically altering graphene, a development that could be a step toward the creation of faster, thinner, flexible electronics.Highly desired for its many promising attributes, graphene is a one-atom thick, honeycomb-shaped la...
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