Category: Tech

Nokia front man Stephen Elop let it be known that his company moniker will be making its way to Bing maps in the near future. The pocket lint interviewed him at CES; he explained that any property utilizes Microsoft Bing Maps services including mobile platforms will be co-branded with Nokia logo. We are clearly placing a bet on Windows Phone Platform; they are placing a bet on our location based platform, he said. The CEO cited Blackberry as a non-Windows Phone device that will see the Nokia tattoo in its Map app. RIM recently announced its intention to integrate Bing Maps at OS level.

The free perk available to prime customers who also happen to Kindle users launched in November with just 5,000 books available. Since then the library has expanded to over 75,000 titles with over 295,000 people borrows an independently published KDP e-tome in December alone. To celebrate Amazon adds another $200,000 to the pool available Direct Publishing authors, pushing the grand total to $700,000. For more details read the press release.

According to the research of ComScore, Microsofts Bing Search Engine and other websites fielded a total of 2.75 billion search requests in December of 2011 compared to 2.65 billion search requests handled by Yahoo translating to a market share of 15.1 percent and 14.5 percent respectively. As you expected the Microsoft is far behind Google, which processed a whopping 12 billion search requests during the month, represents a still dominant market share of 65.9 percent.

On April 2005 we have written about microchip powering Bionic eye that, if come to fruition, will help blind to see things. Now researchers working at the Department of Energy’s Berkeley Lab have created a relatively inexpensive “electronic skin” comprising of carbon nanotubes enriched with semiconductors that are also flexible and stretchable.

The man responsible for HPs corporate and technological strategy is leaving the company. And he wont be replaced.On Thursday, HP announced that Shane Robison will hang up his spurs on Nov. 1, after 11 years at the technology giant. Sources inside the company tell Wired.com that after Robison vacates the position, a vast majority of his staff will now report directly to CEO Meg Whitman and the rest will report to various division CEOs. According to the company, this will drive strategy, research, and development closer to the companys various businesses.

Here’s an interesting tidbit we missed while scouring through BMW’s massive press release on the 2012 M5. According to the text, BMW has employed a system it’s calling “Active Sound Design” on the new M5, which takes in engine speed and load data from the ECU and plumbs it through the stereo to play a real-time recording of the M5’s engine.

A similar idea was already implemented a few years ago at an airport in Munich, but unfortunately scrapped, since then the demand was apparently not high enough. Now one has SleepBox with two beds, to 4 sqm and a height 3Meter found at home at an airport in Moscow. As you can see in the pictures right after, the interior is similar to a sleeping car on the train and you can easily surf, if required, TV, via WiFi or just have a quick nap before the next flight to be caught must book without a complete hotel room to have.

Have seen, there is still not enough critics of 3D movies, the film Avatar. Without the new cinematic technique of the film is even okay, but who does not agree with the million project by James Cameron and wants to belong not to one of the many spectators who may like to look at a 161 minutes shorter version in gentle 2D style.

Purdue University students are designing and building a rocket engine that might be used in a vehicle to land on the moon. Graduate students Thomas Feldman and Andrew Rettenmaier are part of a team developing a thrust chamber for NASA’s Project Morpheus, which includes research to develop new technologies for future trips to the moon, Mars or asteroids.The rocket must meet stringent design and performance specifications related to factors including efficiency, size and weight limits, thrust and the ability to dynamically throttle the rocket from 1,300-4,200 pounds of thrust, Feldman said.

Nissan Motor Co. revealed what might just be the world’s cheapest quick-charge station. Priced below $10,000 and set to go on sale in November, Nissan’s newly-developed quick-charge unit takes up significantly less space than most competing Level 3 chargers and is supposedly easier to install, too. Officially, Nissan says the just-revealed quick charger will be a “great value to customers because it will cost significantly less than one million yen”.

The Surf will be revealed at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. Fisker Automotive will pull the wraps off the stunning new Fisker Surf at 10.30 am CET on Tuesday September 13 during the first media day of the Frankfurt Auto Show (Hall 5 Stand B01). Focusing on the companys philosophy of delivering Pure Driving Passion the new Fisker Surf is an electric vehicle with extended range (EVer) much like its stable mate the stylish Fisker Karma four door luxury sedan.