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Submission + - Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: Microsoft officially unveiled its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, announcing that it will be available on a total of five devices in the U.S. Windows Phone 7 handsets from AT&T and T-Mobile will begin shipping in November, while devices from Sprint and Verizon will be available next year. In all, Microsoft announced nine Windows Phone 7 phones, the remainder of which will be available in Canada, Mexico, the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Singapore, and Australia. It will debut in some European markets on Oct. 21. While early signs are encouraging for Windows Phone 7, it is being deemed as do or die the future of Microsoft's business.

Submission + - Boy of 15 fitted with robotic heart (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: What do you do when a 15-year-old boy is close to death and ineligible for a heart transplant? If you’re Dr Antonio Amodeo you turn to an artificial solution and transplant a robotic heart giving the boy another 20-25 years of life.

The Italian boy in question suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy which rapidly degenerates the muscles and eventually leads to death. Having such a disease renders the boy ineligible for a heart transplant meaning almost certain death without an alternative solution.

Dr Amodeo found such an alternative in the form of a 90 gram fully-robotic heart that took 10 hours to fit inside the boy’s left ventricle. It is a permanent solution offering as much as 25 years of life and is powered by a battery worn as a belt and connected to behind his left ear.

Submission + - The Fastest Browser Today? (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: How do you measure browser performance? There is no way to exactly pinpoint how fast a browser will work in any given scenario. But today’s approaches that base speed claims on JavaScript performance hardly reflect how fast a browser really is or how fast it will be in a real world scenario. ConceivablyTech announced a new browser benchmark that includes offline page loading times and claims that it is much closer to pinpoint actual browser performance than tools such as Sunspider. They also try to limit the impact of hardware by using multiple platform There is a beta browser comparison, which indicates that Chrome is ahead of the pack and Firefox 4 is ahead of IE9.

Comment Re:This is painfully obvious. (Score 1) 772

by jacob1984 (#33502104) Attached to: Researchers Say Happiness Costs $75K
> I have autistic disorder. I admit, I'm not terribly familiar with this disorder... but is there a reason you can't even work a basic job like McDonald's, or some form of menial labor? Since you're able to do "jobs" on the side and write coherently on Slashdot, it sounds like you're just... lazy.
Iphone

Submission + - iPhone app to help report oil spill wildlife

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers recently released a new free iPhone app, MoGO (Mobile Gulf Observatory), to help save wildlife exposed to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and also record the effects of the spill. People who find oiled birds, sea turtles or marine mammals can immediately alert animal rescue networks using the app and transmit the GPS location and a photo of oiled wildlife from their iPhones. By enlisting the public, the UMass Amherst researchers hope that MoGO will draw on the large network of “citizen scientists” who are actively looking for ways to help save oiled wildlife and document the effects of the oil spill along the Gulf Coast. Scientists with wildlife identification skills will be reviewing the images via a website to organize and record submitted photos. *Please spread the word about the availability of MoGO to people in the Gulf States. Download MoGO from the MoGO website (www.savegulfwildlife.org) . The UMass team is also eager to partner with other groups working with the Gulf crisis as well as wildlife and fisheries professionals who are willing to donate time to help analyze photos for species ID submitted to the MoGO database. Please contact Prof. Curt Griffin cgriffin@nrc.umass.edu at UMass Amherst to volunteer. (The official UMass press release on the project: http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/newsreleases/articles/104659.php)
E3

Submission + - Sega to release 20+ Dreamcast revivals by mid-2011 (thekartel.com)

Submitted by almehdaaol
almehdaaol writes: Sega is re-releasing key Dreamcast games for next-gen consoles in a passionate effort to revive their last great system. Speaking to press at E3, Sega of America president Mike Hayes has confirmed that "18-24" Dreamcast games is what the company hopes to have done by the middle of next year.
Government

Submission + - DHS likely to cancel virtual border fence (thehill.com)

Submitted by GovTechGuy
GovTechGuy writes: A Department of Homeland Security official admitted the department's billion dollar virtual fence program has been largely a failure and said the program will likely be significantly scaled back. The project, originally slated to cover over 500 miles of the Arizona to Texas U.S. border with Mexico has produced ineffective, costly technology and that only covers 50 miles.

The original plan called for sensors, cameras and radar towers to be installed along the Southwest border to detect illegal immigratnts. DHS' admission came after withering testimony from Randolph Hite of the Government Accountability Office on the state of the virtual fence program, known as SBInet. Hite said SBInet has been troubled since its outset and plagued by frequently changing milestones, management weaknesses and performance shortfalls. As a result he said the Department has little to show after spending most of the program's $1.3 billion budget.
E3

Submission + - Is Gaming Technology Flat? 2010 E3: Disappointing (techi.com)

Submitted by JDRucker
JDRucker writes: Every year, every major technology conference will be met by a chorus of "this sucked" or "it sucked balls". The difference THIS year with THIS conference is that most of the gaming "experts", who are normally the vanguards of these conferences telling trolls to back off, seem to believe that the anti-hype is correct. Apparently, "E3 2010 was a big disappointment".

FTA: The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) used to be the most important day within the game industry for publishers, developers, and consumers, but numerous issues over the years had taken away the spectacle’s appeal. This year’s E3, however, certainly had the emotion behind it to propel it back to its former greatness. Unfortunately, “great” isn’t quite the word I would use to describe it.
Apple

Submission + - John Sculley on Why He Fired Steve Jobs (thedailybeast.com) 2

Submitted by jacob1984
jacob1984 writes: In the annals of blown calls, it ranks somewhere between the publishers who turned down the first Harry Potter book and baseball umpire Jim Joyce’s instantly infamous perfect-game flub last week. It was the spring of 1985, and the board of Apple Computer decided it no longer needed the services of one Steven P. Jobs. John Sculley credits Jobs for everything Apple has accomplished and still laments the way things turned out. “I haven’t spoken to Steve in 20-odd years,” Sculley tells The Daily Beast. “Even though he still doesn’t speak to me, and I expect he never will, I have tremendous admiration for him.”

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