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Turning iPhones into Babel fish

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:01:04 +0000

Google plans to develop true speech-to-speech translation apps by 2012.

The Ode: Steelback Brewery

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:01:03 +0000

Ugly plastic bottles. A marketing budget that sometimes exceeded revenues. An oddly indifferent slogan. Eight years actually wasn’t a bad run.

Jim Shaw: Don’t call him ‘Junior’

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:01:01 +0000

Jim Shaw is poised to be Canada’s newest media mogul, and to stick it to all those who doubted him.

Hackers take down Assassin’s Creed

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:11 +0000

Gamers playing Assassin’s Creed 2 on their computers were locked out after hackers attacked the servers on which some content is stored.

Developed countries outsource emissions: study

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:10 +0000

Developed countries are “outsourcing” more than a third of their carbon emissions associated with products and services to other countries, researchers say.

Flatscreen TVs should have energy labels: FTC

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:09 +0000

Mandatory EnergyGuide labels are being proposed for all televisions sold in the United States in an effort to give consumers more information about the energy cost of watching TV.

Ocean ‘termites’ could be key to biofuels

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:08 +0000

Once the scourge of the seven seas because of their appetite for wooden sailing ships, gribbles could hold the secret to turning wood into biofuels.

Quantum dots could lead to faster computers

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:02 +0000

An international team of scientists has developed a new type of semiconductor that could lead to faster and more efficient computers with over double the average existing hard-drive storage capacity.

Orangutans have ‘caller ID’

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:59:07 +0000

The calls of male orangutans contain information about the apes’ identity and the context of the call, researchers say.

CRTC probing Mobilicity ownership

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:09:03 +0000

The CRTC is reviewing the structure of Mobilicity, the fledgling cellphone provider formerly known as DAVE Wireless, to see whether it meets Canadian-ownership rules.