In a voyage that bridges the past and the present, the Virtual Museum of the Ancient Via Flaminia unveiled a virtual reconstruction of one of the bustling arteries that led into ancient Rome, allowing visitors to wander through rebuilt monuments and interact with the city’s political elite.
Using a concept similar to that of online virtual […]
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A Silicon Valley startup is promising to blanket San Francisco with free wireless Internet service, reviving a crusade that crumbled last year after EarthLink and Google scrapped their plans to build a high-speed network for Web surfing.
Meraki Networks Inc., hopes to use San Francisco as a showcase to prove its communal approach to Wi-Fi can […]
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Internet telephony is gaining ground in India, as prices head southwards and leading internet service providers (ISPs) expand their networks. According to the latest data by telecom regulator TRAI, the internet telephony market grew 15% in the quarter-ended September 2007, clocking up 129.43 million total minutes of usage as compared to 112.26 million minutes in […]
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This is eerie - according to a recent research by World Science, Google page Rank is very similar to the way our own brain functions.
Page Rank for instance is based on popularity - taking into account the number of other pages linking to the page, as well the importance of the pages linking to that […]
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Getting your dream date just got easier.
Step 1: Get a photograph of someone who resembles your dream date (Anjeline Jolie perhaps?)
Step 2: Upload the photo on eyealike
Step 3: Search for similar looking people
or you could use eyealike to discover your celebrity lookalike.
However the technology is more than just being a fun add on for dating […]
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Imagine typing a question to a computer and getting an answer - somewhat like HAL in 2001:A Space Oddessy, but that is what Powerset has set out to do. Its technology, licensed from PARC and developed further, would read a sentence to extract its meaning and build a semantic index of facts based on the […]
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Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia’s reliability varies wildly. Now a computer science professor hopes to give users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable lines in Wikipedia entries.
Developed by Luca de Alfaro and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the software will color text some gradation of orange if […]
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Download spodtronic and you could listen to both radio or podcasts via your mobile connection (GPRS, EDGE or 3G). Compatible with the Symbian Series 60 (2nd and 3rd edition) phones, it occupies almost 1.5 MB on your mobile. However, it gives you access to over 300 worldwide radio stations ranging from Pop to Jazz to […]
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Changing the world, one startup at a time.
This Business 2.0 compilation showcases the innovations that have either changed the world of threaten to do so. Probably their answer to the TED Talks.
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The online video market currently has two revenue models: paid download-to-own, and downloads that are free for view online but include advertising.
Adams Media Research in their recent report predicted that consumers will spend approximately $4.1bn a year on films and television programmes - a significant increase on the $111m spent in 2006. Providers using ad-supported […]
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