The First Kuala Lumpur Symbian StammtischKuala Lumpur Symbian Stammtisch ("KLSS") is a community effort towards creating a more vibrant and active Symbian community in Malaysia.
Mr. Asri al-Baker ~ Director, i-Symbian.Com is inviting all Symbian enthusiasts to attend this premier Symbian event and it is his hope that this first KLSS will be a landmark and history in promoting and bringing more awareness regarding Symbian’s open nature.
When?
February 10th 2010 (Wednesday 5.00 to 7.00 PM)
Where?
Kelantan Delights
1-5, Level 1, Sooka Sentral
Jalan Stesen Sentral
50470 Kuala Lumpur
There will be some official SYMBIAN goodies up for grab for early birds. Places are limited and for more details about Symbian Stammtisch, visit i-Symbian.Com
The DIXAU DX3 is made to make your life simpler, not needing you to dig through dictionaries every time you encounter tricky words.
It uses a built-in camera that scans the word and the touchscreen then displays the related information of that word with just a single click of a button. You can use the stylus if you do not want to mess the screen up.
Continental Hops On The In-Flight WiFi Bandwagon With GogoWhen it comes to In-Flight WiFi: even if you're late to the party, at least you've made it to the party. This absolutely applies to good old Continental Airlines who, after recently going cashless cabin, are now catching up with the other cool carriers by announcing that they're getting in-flight WiFi using Gogo.
Happily, it's coming sooner rather than later; with Continental installing Gogo on their 21 Boeing 757-300 aircraft, starting before summer 2010.
Continental is Aircell's ninth airline partner using Gogo, joining Air Canada, AirTran, American, Delta/Northwest, United, US Airways and Virgin America. Of course this will only apply to Continental's domestic routes until the whole long-haul in-flight WiFi thing gets figured out, but that's cool with us so long as we're making strides toward
Computing With A Wave Of The HandThe iPhone’s familiar touch screen display uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen.
A competing approach, which uses embedded optical sensors to track the movement of the user’s fingers, is just now coming to market. But researchers at MIT’s Media Lab have already figured out how to use such sensors to turn displays into giant lensless cameras.
At Siggraph Asia, a recent spinoff of Siggraph, the premier graphics research conference - the MIT Team is presenting the first application of its work, a display that lets users manipulate on-screen images using hand gestures. More details Here.
New Game For PlayStation 3: Crunching NumbersWhen it comes to high-performance computing, Sony's PlayStation 3 is not all fun and games. Four years after Sony unveiled its gaming console to the world, some researchers and federal agencies are using PS3s for serious work.
For the last year, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's Cyber Crimes Center in Fairfax, Va., has used a bank of 40 interconnected PS3 consoles to decrypt passwords. It's working to add 40 more units.
Through Stanford University's Folding@home project, almost 40,000 PS3s volunteered by their owners during idle time currently contribute to the study of protein folding.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., uses a cluster of 336 PS3s for research on urban surveillance and large image processing. Last month, the lab ordered 2,200 more units. Read more: Sfgate.Com.
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