The mobile phone, guilty of crowding pocket space worldwide, is taking on the functionality of its pocket dwelling neighbor, the wallet. Japanese phone carriers, long known as early adaptor...
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CNET is running an article today that gives a general overview of the current ITV market and a few examples of products coming down the pipeline in the next year which aim to shift the transmission...
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Sprint has announced details of a music store its mobile service subscribers can access from their handsets to pay for mp3 files which download directly to their phones. Their database is comprised...
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Wired News is running a feature that outlines how spam and vandalism are defiling the ideals of Web 2.0. Specific cases cited, such as Wikipedia for its inconsistent quality and Flickr for its photo...
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PSYLock is a new biometrical security software applicaiton for the PC that learns a individual's typing style and can use this information to restrict access to specified programs. Capable of...
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In response to widespread security concerns regarding new U.S. electronic passports, the U.S. State Department has announced the incorporation of new features to allay fears of wireless identity...
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The Wall Street Journal recently recognized their favorite technological innovations of 2005. The awards were divided up into two overlapping categories, the top innovation in each category...
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Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp, a leading provider of telecommunications services in Japan, has developed a prototype of a device that controls the direction of human bipedal movement. A human...
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Filed in archive P2P
by Jonathan G. Cohen on October 25, 2005
Avvenu is a free software application and file transfer service that aims to redefine P2P. A computer running Avvenu's software becomes instantly accessible as as a root directory on a password...
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Filed in archive P2P
by Jonathan G. Cohen on October 25, 2005
iMesh, a popular P2P application, is relaunching itself as a paid subscription media content delivery service with the approval of the RIAA. Their new interface will look and act a lot like the old...
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Canon has announced the development of a fuel cell system that is powered solely by hydrogen (avoiding the hazards of methane) and that commercial products like printers and digital cameras using this...
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Medical researchers have discovered that certain carbon nanoparticles are an impetus for platelets to aggregate, demonstrating the occurence in human and rat platelet models. This discovery has...
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Note - Someone has recently taken the philoneist.blogger.com address - I am not affiliated with this site in any way. Although Philoneist started at a blogger address, I deleted the site once a move...
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Bold claims about the exponential progress of technology in the 21st century from Ray Kurzweil, the inventor of text-to-speech synthesisers and the first musical instrument synthesiser, are the...
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Here's a list of news articles from around the web that I would have written about if the process of moving to this new address didn't make updating impractical for a few days. Click continue...
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While the Moore's law premonition has largely panned out in the field of processing power, battery capacity hasn't followed the same exponential curve. Aside from environmental impact, the...
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If you're interested in NASA's colloquially dubbed "Apollo On Steroids" space exploration plan, then you might be interested in newly posted high-resolution concept photos of their...
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A scathing report in the New York Times lambastes a US policy which is purported to belie itself as a purely beneficient program that sends used computer equipment to poor regions around the globe. In...
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Air force engineers have created transparent aluminum for use in wargrade military construction where extravehicular vision is required. This new material is highly resistant to scratches and can...
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The argument against portable video players goes something like this, the average person in his or her average day more frequently has the opportunity to passively listen to music while getting from...
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New Zealand is testing a new meterless pay-to-park system next year that enables users to pay parking fees with their cell phones. To pay for a parking spot, users would text message a designated...
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Toshiba's new 11.1" notebook LCD, just announced for in mass production, is 50% the thickness of the previous industry thin screen record holder at 2.75 mm thick. The displays reportedly...
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