Samsung Electronics America Inc. have launched Samsung Apps, the first HDTV-based application store where users can download applications from select 2010 Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray Players and Home Theater systems via the upgraded Internet@TV – Content Service. The introduction of Samsung Apps delivers...

NVIDIA Corp. recently announced NVIDIA Optimus technology, a breakthrough for notebook PCs that chooses the best graphics processor for running a given application and automatically routes the workload to either an NVIDIA discrete GPU or Intel integrated graphics, delivering great performance while also...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that is now the world’s most precise clock, more than twice as precise as the previous pacesetter based on a mercury atom. The...

Just like Spider-man, soon humans will be able to walk on the walls! Thanks to a palm-sized device invented at Cornell that uses water surface tension as an adhesive bond. The rapid adhesion mechanism could lead to such applications as shoes or gloves that stick and unstick to walls, or Post-it-like...

Researchers at Siemens have improved on their own record for wireless data transfer using white light-emitting diode (LED) light. In collaboration with the Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin, they have achieved a data transfer rate of up to 500 megabits per second (Mbit/s), which is definitely impressive...

Earlier this week, 3M unveiled the 3M Display M2256PW, a 22-inch high-definition, multi-touch LCD display. Based on 3M Projected Capacitive Technology, the M2256PW display is designed for professional and advanced consumer applications that need up to 10-finger touch input or multi-user interactivity...

Google on Friday launched a new service called Google Public DNS. As the name suggests, it is a Domain Name System (DNS) resolving service that will use Google’s infrastructure to improve page loading time. The primary goal of Google Public DNS is to provide end users with an alternative to their...

On Tuesday, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced that it has started the production of industry’s first volume production of 3-bit, multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND flash chips using 30-nanometer (nm)-class process technology at the end of November. The new chips will be used in NAND flash modules...