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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been finalizing a policy regarding the transition to open source software, including Linux, in 2015. The command to switch to open source is intended for all government agencies in the country and will begin to intensively introduced in the second quarter of 2012.

The Pentagon is making a helmet that can be used like the eyes of the “Terminator” to U.S. soldiers. Darpa (the research branch of the Pentagon) reveals that the helmet named Soldier Centric Imaging is able to see distant objects. This helmet uses a computational camera technology or SCENICC. This helmet is able to capture [...]

AVerMedia introduces their new breakthrough product. The world’s first USB 3D TV tuner comes to meet the needs of the consumers for ease to get 3D-visual entertainment, on thier computers. Users can easily plug in 3D AverTV USB devices through a USB port on their desktop or laptop computer. With this device, now users can [...]

Google TV brings television, apps, and the entire World Wide Web directly to your living room, so you can watch even more YouTube videos, only now on the biggest screen in your home. YouTube and Google announce a contest to give away 100 free 46″ Sony Internet TVs powered by Google TV.

If Facebook later holds “Face” trademark, you should be more careful using that word in the Internet world in the future if you do not want to get caught with legal issues. Facebook to register the word “Face” as a trademark because they did not want another company to use the word which later could [...]

Many children in developing countries will soon have tablet computers in their hands. This can be realized if the latest project OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) accomplished. OLPC has been given a fund of U.S. $ 6.6 million to develop the educational version of the tablet computer. Cash was coming from the processor maker Marvell [...]

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) renowned as one of technology companies with the highest incomes in the world. Even so, faced to rapid development of mobile devices industry like smartphones these days, HP does not feel enough if only dominate computing devices such as PCs, servers, services and printers. HP has bought Palm, a pioneer in handheld [...]

At DevCon 2010 in San Francisco recently, RIM (Research In Motion) introduced a new gadget that was already anticipated by the public, a tablet device called BlackBerry Playbook. The BlackBerry Playbook is an ultra-mobile that is equipped with 7 inch display, with a thickness of 9.7 mm. The tablet device also offers 1080p HD video [...]

If you are a website owner/administrator, search engine like Google is one of the most effective media to promote your website, that can bring a lot of visitors to your site(s). Along with the increasing number of online sites that keep popping up every day, resulting in increasingly fierce competition to get visitors from search [...]

As one of the developed countries, Japan is one of the leaders of the use of high technology, such as the use of high technology in teaching in schools. As reported by the Straits Times, Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a [...]