Technology

 
The explosion of Wi-Fi to connect laptop computers to the Internet is amazing.  But now a new trend is evolving just as quickly.  Wi-Fi, the short-range high-speed technology , can now connect to cell phones, music players, game consoles, cameras and many more. This shift will be a great benefit to consumers as Wi-Fi makes electronic [...]

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Google is experimenting in trying to pay back the many Indians who helped drive the dot-com boom in the U.S.  It opened its first R&D center outside the U.S., in Bangalore, India in 2004.  Many programmers are now moving back to their native land to help India’s economy continue to grow.  Google is loved in India. Of the [...]

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Peer-to-peer is under the gun again. Faced with a surge in network usage, internet service providers are grumbling about rising traffic levels. The increase is driven so far mostly by internet video from YouTube and similar services, which don’t actually employ P2P technologies. Full article

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NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D photographic look at the space shuttle Endeavour before its launch this week, in a public-private partnership that could lead to more use of digital imagery in future space-agency missions. Full article

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Airports across the country are likely to get hundreds of high-powered X-ray machines that are better at finding bombs in carry-on bags and could someday remove one of the biggest checkpoint hassles — taking a laptop out of its case. Full article

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Dream of landing a coding job at an A-list tech company? It might be a good idea to prep for your interviews by pondering how many golf balls can fit inside a school bus. Or how much you would charge for washing all the windows in
Seattle. Or why, exactly, manhole covers are round and [...]

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eBay is going gaga over Google. Less than a year after the two Web giants signed a billion-dollar advertising pact proclaiming a passionate partnership, a lovers’ quarrel has broken out. How will it end and will the internet ever be the same? Full article

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Microsoft’s announcement that it will spend $1 billion to fix problematic Xbox 360s seemed like a step that would assuage disenchanted customers. Nearly a month later, however, some console owners are still less than pleased. Full article

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Just before leaving town for a month’s vacation, a divided U.S. Congress acceded to President George Bush’s requests for expanded Internet and telephone surveillance powers.
Over strong objections from civil liberties groups and many Democrats, legislators voted over the weekend to temporarily rewrite a 1978 wiretapping law that the Bush administration claimed was hindering antiterrorism investigations. [...]

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