18 Oct
Uruguay Takes Huge Leap, Provides Every Primary School Student a Laptop
Posted by Denizhan as Tech in Education | 19 Comments
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Uruguay is taking a huge leap forward in the world and doing what many western countries aren’t, they have provided every student with a laptop.
Uruguay has been a supporter of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiative since its start. The OLPC initiative builds small and cheap laptops that run Linux and sells them for $100 or less to governments or other entities.
Each laptop runs Linux and has Wi-Fi. The built in software provides location based social networking between OLPC’s and simple word processing as well as internet if you can find a connection.
Back in 2007, the first batch of Uruguay Students received a OLPC, and it looked like a success, now the Uruguay Government took the next step and provided a FREE laptop for every Student in its Primary School circuit. What’s even more amazing is that this entire project cost the Uruguay Government a mere 5% of its annual school budget. This is an extraordinary feat and we congratulate the Uruguay Government for taking this step.
Each laptop runs linux and has WiFi. The built in software provides location based social networking between OLPC’s and simple word processing as well as internet if you can find a connection.
11 Oct
Hitachi’s Face Recognition TVs turn off when you look away
Posted by Denizhan as Television | 2 Comments
Hitachi demoed a very basic face recognition system at CEATEC this week. The system is a normal TV, with a built-in webcam that runs face recognition technology similar to the ones Sony uses in its cybershot camera’s. The technology is able to detect where you are looking, and turns off the TV screen, when you look away from the TV. Click here to read the rest of this entry
Ever wondered how those stupid comments manage to continuously pop up on some websites, yet never appear on others? How about how much traffic these troll comments are getting? These creatures are some of the most hated in the blogosphere, yet also one of the most loved. They are an excellent way to make some short-term financial gains by driving large amounts of traffic in a short period of time. Sometimes, readers just feel compelled to answer and disprove ridiculous statements. Here at Cygea Tech, we’ve come up with a list of ways that you can attract these trolls to your website, and get more thousands of more pageviews.
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AT&T users with iPhones. How is your newfangled MMS doing? Have you noticed any Lag/Glitches? We have gotten several reports that there are some problems, especially with speed. Post in the poll if you have any of the things we describe.
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The partnerka, the common name for partnerships of russian affiliate networks that drive most of pharmaceutical spam today, are extremely rich. A Sophos study, based on canadian pharmaceutical spam, reports that these networks can generate $4,000 per day in sales, thats $43,200,000 per year! Click here to read the rest of this entry
American iPhone users have been waiting for this day for 2 years, and now it’s finally here, iPhone and MMS together at last.
MMS is a wireless technology that allows sending media over SMS. This media includes Photo’s and Audio. This was released around the world with the iPhone 3.0 firmware update, but AT&T didn’t support it on launch.
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25 Sep
Everybody wants in on Project Natal: Industry-Wide support
Posted by Bill as Xbox 360 | 0 Comments
Microsoft just came out with a huge announcement for the Xbox 360, and that’s support from many big names in the publishing business for console gaming, for a certain add-on that we’ve all been waiting for.
Project Natal, one of the latest and most exciting innovations Microsoft has announced for the Xbox 360 in a long while, was widely regarded as being an attempt to compete with the Wii on the Casual Gamer front.
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02 Sep
Apple’s iPhone App Store Makes Everyone Rich, Investors Think
Posted by Denizhan as Apple, Mobile Applications | 1 Comment
The iPhone app store is undoubtedly the greatest market for mobile applications. It has revolutionized how cellphone companies and software developers provide applications to their mobile devices, by making it worlds easier for users to buy and download mobile applications.
There have been countless stories of individual app developers earning over $200,000 in months, and software giants such as EA and Gameloft have been rushing to get more apps out for the iPhone. But this raises the question, is the app store all that good?
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20 Oct
Apple Refreshes iMac’s: New Design/i5 and i7!
Posted by Denizhan as Apple | 38 Comments
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Looks kind of different right? Well after an impressive quarter of mac sales, Apple’s refreshes its all-in-one desktop monster has many new features. Firstly, the body has been made with Apple’s “Unibody” aluminum processing technology, thus making it thinner and stronger. Secondly, the glass screen cover covers the entire screen, it doesn’t just stop before metal, it goes all the way to the edge. The screen has been change from a 16:10 ratio to 16:9, thus making it better for movie watchers. This also means there are new screen sizes: Click here to read the rest of this entry