Nokia N97: A closer look
by Network World StaffImage credit: Nokia
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Innovation is not just about cool new products. In technology, the best ideas require a) really smart people and b) lots of funding. For the past 33 years, Microsoft has had both in spades. Yet, the precursor to any product release is the research and innovation that occurs before the first shipment to customers, that "pre-pre-alpha" stage where ideas are born.
In a recent two-day visit to Microsoft corporate headquarters, we met with several researchers working on new projects. A few of these projects have already resulted in shipping products; others may never see the light of day -- they are meant as a proof of concept. Some could change how we do computing altogether. Yet, all of them are driven by bright thinkers who are working to solve real-world technical problems.
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A snapshot of the latest and greatest gadgets, gizmos and technology announced this month.
A Taiwanese research institute on Friday revealed a folding display on a smartphone that allowed its screen to double in size to 5 inches. The mock-up smartphone, developed to showcase the screen, is styled like other smartphones and opens like a book turned on its side so when open the display is on the top half and the bottom half is the keyboard. Click next to take a closer look at the mock-up. 7
Ready to make your holiday entertaining a high-tech affair? Here are some of the coolest high-tech inspired ideas for doing just that.
Using a special benchmark, the Top500 project ranks the 500 most powerful computing systems in the world twice a year. The amazing speeds of the world's fastest computers are measured in teraflops (a trillion floating point operations per second), and petaflops (one quadrillion floating point operations per second). Here's a look at the 10 fastest supercomputers, announced this week.
Cool new announcements from EMC, Alacritech, CA, Symantec, DataSynapse and others.
In what is becoming an annual Network World tradition, we are naming the top IT turkeys of the year for Thanksgiving. This year, we had several nominations for VP candidate Sarah Palin, but except for one notable hiccup, it would be hard to call her a turkey of the IT variety. And we should also note that columnist Mark Gibbs has his own idea about the perfect IT turkey: American Express. With all that said, let's take a peek at this year's list. 14
Algorithms are not just the playthings of lab rats. Many of them play a significant role in your daily life from helping to predict the weather to determining whether or not you ran that stop light on the way to work today. We decided to round up a few of the more interesting algorithms and look at how they impact your community. 2
