Technology News

Indonesia hopes to become Indian Ocean tsunami-warning provider by 2011
Indonesia has launched its Tsunami Early Warning System (InaTEWS), with which it hopes to become the Indian Ocean tsunami-warning provider by 2011. ANI

Giant particle smasher to restart in July 2009
An internal report sent to physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva in Switzerland, has instructed them to restart the giant machine by end of July 2009. ANI

Coming soon, empathetic virtual humans
A completely different breed of virtual humans is being developed by French researchers which will be capable of reading and adapting to our emotions. ANI

Technology News for July 27, 2007

Mobile emails ring death knell for SMS
Experts at research firm Gartner reckon that one in five email users will start accessing their accounts wirelessly by 2010, and mobile emails will gradually replace the SMS completely. ANI

Carbon doping paves way for environmentally friendly electronics
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, together with colleagues from the US have successfully implemented doping (a process by which amounts of impurities are introduced into silicon) in the field of molecular electronics. ANI

Soon, satellites to broadcast multimedia content to mobiles
The European Space Agency (ESA) is actively supporting the development of technology required for satellite systems to broadcast digital multimedia content to mobile telephones and vehicle-borne receivers. ANI

Elastic circuits can lead to new devices that can bend with the human body
Belgian researchers from the University of Ghent have constructed a flexible elastic circuits that can stretch out to more than twice their length. ANI

Quantum super computers a step closer to reality
An international team of American, British and Japanese scientists have detected a hidden magnetic quantum order that extends over chains of nearly 100 atoms in a material that is otherwise magnetically disordered. ANI