Archive for May, 2006

Methanol-powered cellphones…

…will be available by 2007 and they will be produced by NTT DoCoMo Inc. — a mobile communications company in Japan. It was said that methanol-powered cellphones last three to four times longer than lithium-ion batteries. Amazing, isn’t it?. Looks like we will now be spared from the annoying chore of frequently recharging our phones [...]

Let’s talk about mobile phones

I remembered years ago when I watched Swordfish, a movie starred by Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry — stars of the $120M grosser (for its first week) X-Men:The Last Stand, that I was amazed to see Hugh Jackman’s character using a Nokia 5110 — a model considered to be inferior and not something to be [...]

3G Mobile Phones

According to 10 Meters, 3G is: 3G stands for “third generation.” It is aimed at delivering high-speed services and is targeted to offer access speeds of about 144 Kbps, later moving up to 2.4 Mbps. 3G will allow for mobile-based bells and whistles — like graphics on your cell. ETA: within two years. while the [...]

Wooden Memory Sticks

The era of floppy disks is finally booted off, perhaps long before this post is created. Thanks to USB Flash Drives, we don’t have to bear with the constant inefficiency and the irksome storage capacity these disks possess. Optical disks such as CDs, DVDs would have been much convenient too if we don’t have to [...]

Watch out for YM Worm

Instant messaging is truly a helpful tool that enables us to talk to our friends who are situated miles away, in real-time. We have MSN Messenger, Google Talk, AOL IM, and probably the most famous among them all, Yahoo! Messenger. Nah, that is not a well-researched claim, though. I just said that because YM is [...]

Windows Vista hardware checklist

Isn’t it very nice to know that your old Pentium 3 computer can still be used to take advantage of the features of the much-awaited Windows Vista? Vista Capable PC Minimum Requirements: 800 MHz processor 512 MB of RAM 20GB HDD SVGA- and DirectX 9- compliant video card That’s it? I thought Vista would be [...]