At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, Ken Russell and Sven Gothel of Sun Microsystems explain how the Nvidia APX2500 chip allows developers to write Java apps on a desktop and run them directly to cell phones. Users will be able to play games and navigate cities in 3D using GPS.
At CES in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates shows attendees the company's new "mobile navigator" technology that can be used to point at a person or place, and get more information. The new software will be incorporated into devices such as cameras, PDAs, and phones.
At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Derek Mathieson, project leader for the world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, shows off the Atlas detector, a six story high, 100-megapixel camera with 100 million data channels. Mathieson explains how the detector uses open-source Java applications to collect data and how grid computing allows the data to be processed.
Paul Perrone, CEO of Perrone Robotics, introduces Tommy Jr., a driverless car powered by Solaris and Java, created for the DARPA Urban Challenge. The vehicle made an appearance on stage at the JavaOne conference last week in San Francisco. Tommy Jr. will navigate using laser "eyes" mounted on the body of the car, along with GPS accurate to within 2 to 4 inches.
At Apple's official launch for the iPhone software development kit in Cupertino, Calif., Travis Boatman, executive producer of mobile studios for Electronic Arts, demonstrates the company's new Spore game on the device. Spore integrates the iPhone's touch screen and tilt features into the gaming experience.
At an Apple event at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., CEO Steve Jobs launches the company's new iPhone App Store. Third-party developers can build software for the device and have it distributed via the App Store and iTunes.
Do your employees have low self-esteem and feelings of powerlessness? Do they believe they are victims of a hostile fate? Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of "The Art of Demotivation," says these attitudes can benefit the bottom line. Learn more about his company's demotivational products at Despair.com.
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Las Vegas, Steve Hoover, vice president with Xerox Research Center Webster, shows off a technology being developed in the company's labs that enables people to reuse a piece of paper. The paper contains a photochromic compound that makes ink disappear when hit by direct heat.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, ZDNet director Josh Taylor looks at Microsoft's new surface computing platform, which includes applications for drawing, interacting with media, and manipulating photos that are instantly taken from a digital camera.
There's no shortage of malicious code on the Internet. Agent Peterson of the Geek Squad offers some tips on how to protect yourself from viruses and spyware.
Enterprise IT staff and users commonly disable the power management settings on their computers, wasting large amounts of electricity. Ben Kus, senior director of technology at BigFix, shows how centralizing these settings can save energy and money.
ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber talks about Microsoft's $44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. He analyzes Microsoft's strategy in search, the potential deal's impact on chief rival Google, and what it would mean, overall, in the competitive online-search market.
Digital Rights Management-- or what ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind calls C.R.A.P. (Content Restriction Annulment Protection) -- has enabled companies like Apple to lock music downloaded through their service into their own devices. Berlind describes an effort to create a DRM standard so content can flow seamlessly between multiple devices.
On Sunday at CES, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates discusses the paring down of his role at the company, ponders the next digital decade, and welcomes a rock god on stage.
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