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Submission + - IBM hits graphene transistor breakthrough (tinyurl.com)

Submitted by ProgramErgoSum on Friday February 05, 2010 @10:34AM

ProgramErgoSum writes: IBM Research on Friday will announce that it has demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest frequency (100 GigaHertz) so far.

Graphene is a special form of graphite, consisting of a layer of carbon atoms packed in honeycomb lattice. In a nutshell, graphene is like a 'atomic scale chick wire''. Graphene's properties could lead to faster transistors.

IBM's paper, which will be published in Science, details how the latest graphene breakthrough could enable new communications devices and electronics. The paper was penned by Phaedon Avouris, IBM Fellow and manager of the company's nanometer scale science and technology research team.

Is Working For the Gambling Industry a Black Mark? 467

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 12, 2009 @06:19PM from the software-is-software dept.

An anonymous reader writes 'I'm a recent university graduate and I have been offered a software developer position in a company that supplies software to the gambling and betting industry. At first I was very excited about the opportunity, however, a few of my friends have told me that working for the gambling industry will put a permanent black mark on my career as a software developer. I don't know that many people in the industry with experience in hiring. Google has not helped, and everybody else I ask doesn't know. So I'm asking Slashdot. In your experience is this true? When you hire developers, is the fact that they worked for a gambling company a big turn off? Also, I'm currently in the UK, but would like the freedom of working in US or somewhere else later on in life. So experience from anywhere in the world is welcome.'

Submission + - Google Sued by Indian Portal for Trademark Infring (pcworld.com)

Submitted by

ProgramErgoSum

on Monday September 21, 2009 @11:11AM

ProgramErgoSum writes: "Google has been sued for trademark infringement by an Indian portal company, Consim Info, which claims that the search company uses its trademarks to drive business to its competitors.

Consim Info runs a number of portals including a popular matrimonial portal called BharatMatrimony.com. The company also targets different communities and castes in India with matrimonial portals designed for each of these groups.

When a user does a search on Google for BharatMatrimony.com or related matrimonial sites of the company, the user is served up advertisements of its competitors, Consim CEO Murugavel Janakiraman said in a telephone interview on Monday.

Consim objects to Google offering Consim trademarks as keywords for bidding in its advertising program, Janakiraman said. "This certainly translates into loss of business for us," he added."

Submission + - Hydrogen Road Tour 2009 - US to Canada (1700 mi) (hydrogenroadtour.com)

Submitted by ProgramErgoSum on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @04:38AM

ProgramErgoSum writes: Hydrogen Road Tour 2009 brings fuel cell vehicles to the West Coast. Traveling 1,700 miles from Chula Vista, California to Vancouver, British Columbia, the Hydrogen Road Tour 2009 highlights the communities where fuel cells and hydrogen stations are entering early commercial markets. Join the caravan as it stops along the way and get a hands-on experience with fuel cell passenger vehicles, fuel cell buses, hydrogen stations, and fuel cells for stationary, off-road and portable power.

Comment Gets the "question" behind the "query string"... (Score 1) 218

by ProgramErgoSum on Saturday May 16, 2009 @01:22PM (#27980039) Attached to: Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera

I entered search string as "boiling point water" and got the result as 100 degrees C ; not half a million pages that had the combination of the search string; ranked or otherwise. Of course, there are chinks here and there. The search string "Python" produces a result of the movie as opposed to the creature. Then again, with search string as "Eclipse" shows results about the celestial phenomenon and more along those lines. In both these cases, Google of course, shows something else. The fact that, the results are quite pertinent than top of rankings sounds interesting.

IBM Develops Technology To Talk To Web 83

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 16, 2009 @03:22PM from the dr-spaetzo-gets-a-job dept.

ProgramErgoSum writes to tell us that IBM's Indian-based research arm is trying to bring a new dimension to web interaction through voice interaction on your mobile phone. Developing a new protocol, Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP), the hope is to allow users to talk to the web and get a response. Without more explanation I'm hoping this goes about as far as the gopher web. "The spoken web is a network of voice sites or interconnected voice and the response the company got in some pilot projects in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat and the kind of innovations that people came up with were just mind-boggling, Gupta said. "

Submission + - IBM develops technology to talk to Web (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by ProgramErgoSum on Monday March 16, 2009 @12:46PM

ProgramErgoSum writes: Giving a new dimension to the internet, the Indian research arm of the US-based IT giant IBM has developed a technology that will allow users to talk to the web and create voice sites using mobile phones.

"People will talk to the web and the web will respond. The research technology is analogous to the internet. Unlike personal computers it will work on mobile phones where people can simply create their voice sites," IBM India Research Laboratory Associate Director Manish Gupta said.

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