Finally, as cheap and affordable as it can get!

Aimed at students, India has unveiled the basic prototype of a basic $35 touchscreen tablet PC. It is planned that this new model will hit the market by 2011, provided the Government finds a manufacturer.

A while ago, Google had announced it’s new experiment on making searches more personal. The idea was to get search results from all over the world including your own social circles. This is now made live in Beta on Google.com.

In a report released by the Security firm Imperva on Thursday on the 32-million passwords recently exposed by a hacker from the site RockYou.com, it showed that despite severe security risks, people still use passwords as common as 123456.

From Remote controls, joysticks and the mouse, it’s time to get to the real deal in reality.

Imagine this – you’re watching an old rerun, and then suddenly you remember that it’s time for your favorite show in a channel about 30 or 40 channels away from the current one. You frantically search for the remote control, but you don’t find it anywhere. What would you do?

Just move your hand, and the TV would understand that the channel has to be changed.

Since the first mouse was wired to the PC, electronics that understand hand gestures is going to be one of the next most significant changes in the industry. Microsoft, Hitachi and other major PC makers are already geared up to begin selling devices that can control electronics such as TV and computer screens with simple hand gestures.

What would be the top technologies that would be favoured by various markets in the year 2010?

The last 10 years have seen some of the major falls and sky highs in the world of technology. And, along with the miseries have come a lot of lessons which would probably make companies approach the next decade with a lot of caution and planning. Every market would benefit from these learnings atleast in some of their portfolios.
Gartner Group has identified the top 10 strategic technologies for the year 2010 which companies should …

If you have been a fan of the famous Star Trek series, and are familiar with the Emergency Medical Hologram program who can substitute for the regular medical staff or treat patients during emergency, then here is something similar that you can look forward to.

Well, almost similar.

Two research teams from the Aberystwyth University in Wales have marked a major advance in the field of artificial intelligence, by creating a robotic system that has made a novel scientific discovery with virtually no human intellectual input.

[In Pic: Adam the Robot Scientist (Image courtesy of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council)]

End of April this year, Google is discontinuing its Adsense Video Units.

In a recent blog post Google has announced that they are now looking to shut down the Adsense video unit because it “hasn’t had the impact hoped for.” Starting from March 27, the option to sign up for video ad units is not available for new publishers.

One common problem which many website users face is their allocated bandwidth being used up faster than they had thought. Visitors to your site sometimes find that message from your hosting service provider that your site has “exceeded it’s bandwidth usage”, so it won’t display. How do you prevent this?

Here are four things that you can do to save heavily on your bandwidth.

Two years and a half after IE7 was available for users, Microsoft has shipped the final version of Internet Explorer 8. How good is it?

Search Engine giant Google Inc is now looking at making their online ads show based on the end user’s web browing history.

With the new program, now called “interest based” advertising, Google will be able to consider the web browsing history of an individual, and will be able to throw in more of the type of ads that the individual will be interested in.