Dialog Telekom, a telecommunication company, together with Farmer Intelligence Services [Govi Gnana Seva (GGS)] has launched a service to deliver spot and forward agricultural commodity price information via mobile phones. Dialog tradenet is a project initiated by the Dialog’s ICT4D team to go beyond the conventional entertainment focused Value Added Services and make a meaningful [...]
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Dialog tradenet – Agricultural Commodity Prices via Mobile Phones
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Information Technology, Technology on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BMW ActiveE Concept – fully electric 1 Series Coupe
Posted in Automotive, Technology on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BMW will finally deliver the electric car everyone knew was coming at the NAIAS in January. The BMW ActiveE Concept is essentially an electric BMW 1 Series Coupe built using the knowledge gained from year-long MINI E fleet trials, and the resultant vehicle is bristling with ideas and well worth a look. The 125 kW [...]
LG claims world’s thinnest LCD TV crown with 2.6mm thin 42-inch panel
Posted in Electronics, Technology on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
LG has just fired off another salvo in the ongoing battle between Japanese and Korean LCD manufacturers to claim the title of world’s thinnest LCD TV panel. The Korean company has managed to break the 3mm barrier to produce an LCD TV panel measuring just 2.6mm (0.1-inch) thin. The 42-inch panel weighs less than 4kg [...]
Raytheon turns iPhones into battlefield tools
Posted in General, Technology on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
SAN FRANCISCO, December 17, 2009 (AFP) – US defense contractor Raytheon on Wednesday unveiled the first of what it said will be a series of software applications to make iPhones or iPod touch devices into battlefield tools. One Force Tracker (OFT) software takes advantage of features built into Apple’s wildly popular touch-screen mobile devices to [...]
Sri Lanka farmers connect to markets on mobile phones
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Information Technology, Technology on December 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A trial Sri Lankan commodity trade matching portal using mobile phones to improve marketing of farmer produce will need private sector investment to be sustainable, an official said. Chitranganie Mubarak, a Senior Programme Head of the Information Communications Technology Agency (ICTA), said the project is part of efforts to use mobile phone and information technology [...]
Geo-engineering options: scientific verdict
Posted in Environment, Technology on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
COPENHAGEN, December 10, 2009 (AFP) – Following is a snapshot of the verdict handed out on geo-engineering schemes in an 81-page report released in September by the Royal Society, Britain’s de-facto academy of sciences. Carbon removal projects These are schemes that remove carbon dioxide (CO2), the principal greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere. Projects that are [...]
Invisible Bluetooth Earpiece brings out your inner Secret Service agent
Posted in Technology, tagged Technology on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Brickhouse Security’s Micro Bluetooth Earpiece is so small it actually fits inside the ear canal to allow covert two-way communication via any Bluetooth mobile phone or two-way radio. Its size means that a battery is out of the question, so the tiny device is powered by magnetism, which is also used to remove the earpiece [...]
Sri Lanka to get high speed WiMAX connectivity: regulator
Posted in Business, Technology, tagged Business, Technology on December 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Dec 03, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lankan telecommunications firms will begin unrolling WiMAX networks offering high-speed internet connections at lower cost in January, the island’s telecom regulator, Priyantha Kariyapperuma, said. The networks using the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) technology will especially benefit rural areas enabling services like telemedicine and e-learning, officials said. Sri [...]
Ducati prepares to smash the adventure bike market to pieces with its 2010 Multistrada 1200
Posted in Automotive, Technology, tagged Automotive, Technology on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Ducati team set itself a very ambitious goal when it set about re-imagining its least popular model, the Multistrada adventure bike. The aim was to make the 2010 Multistrada a much more flexible bike than anything before it, offering proper sportsbike performance, true long-range touring abilities, easy commuting and a genuine ability to get [...]
Early IE9 preview confirms Microsoft’s tendency towards incompatibility?
Posted in Technology, tagged Technology on November 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
With Firefox recently racking up one fourth of the total browser market share and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer constantly struggling to keep pace, with the older versions being more popular than the newer ones, the Redmond software giant hopes to reverse the trend with the upcoming Internet Explorer 9. However,preliminary test results posted on Microsoft’s IE [...]
