Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

It's electric, and like all battery-operated automobiles needs regular charging. "The charging is done wirelessly, you park up, turn off the key and voila... charging starts automatically," says Anthony Thomson, CEO of HaloIPT, a UK company that has installed the technology. The process uses electromagnetic induction to transfer power from a pad built into the ground to another installed in the bottom of the car. The system could be installed in a supermarket parking place, garage floor or the ground at a special charging station. When a driver parks the vehicle, the two pads line up and with a flick of a switch, the charging starts.

Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

US pop star Katy Perry leads the way at this year's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) with nine nominations. The singer's nods include video of the year for Firework, best pop video and best special effects. British singer Adele and Kanye West picked up seven nominations apiece. Other multiple nominees included Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Bruno Mars. The VMAs are scheduled to take place on 28 August in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in the US. Perry, who married comedian Russell Brand last year, was also nominated for best female video, best collaboration, best art direction and best cinematography.

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

Texas executes 9/11 'revenge' killer

A man who embarked on a shooting spree in what he claimed was retaliation for 9/11 has been executed at a prison in Texas. The lone survivor of Mark Stroman's attack on convenience store workers in late 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, originally from Bangladesh, unsuccessfully sued to stop the execution, saying his religious beliefs as a Muslim required him to forgive the man. Stroman claimed the shooting spree that killed two men and injured a third targeted people from the Middle East, though all three victims were from south Asia. It was the death of 49-year-old Vasudev Patel, from India, that put Stroman on death row. Stroman's execution was the eighth this year in Texas.

Texas executes 9/11 revenge killer

Mac OS X Lion pounces

As promised, Apple let Mac OS X Lion out of its cage this morning. Version 10.7 of the operating system has more than 250 new features, Apple said, but an installation disc isn't one of them: it's available today for $29.99 as a 3.49GB download only. Apple enjoys pushing the computing industry into the future by dropping technology it deems to be from the past-for example floppy drives missing from the first iMac-and those who want a real-world copy of the OS will have to wait until Apple releases it on a USB thumb drive next month for $69. The Mac OS X download, available through the Mac App Store, dovetails with Apple's new MacBook Air and Mac Mini Lion-based computers. These new models are updated with Intel's modern Sandy Bridge processors and a high-speed Thunderbolt data transfer port-and none has a DVD drive for the next OS upgrade.

Mac OS X Lion pounces

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Google+ for iPhone hit Apple's App Store a mere 24 hours ago but it's being downloaded like wildfire as it currently sitting atop the heap as the most popular free app available from iTunes. This is big news considering Google+ is still invitation-only and only has 18 million users so far, compared to Facebook's 750 million. That said, Google+ users can now upload contacts from Outlook and Mac address books (not Facebook, though), which may result in even bigger Google+ adoption numbers.

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

Apple CEO and cancer survivor Steve Jobs is not keen on discussing speculation about who will replace him when the inevitable happens. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company's board of directors have been discussing plans about who will take over the position that has been held by Jobs since the late 1990s, and perhaps the title that some will always bestow upon Jobs and Jobs alone, once the man is no longer able to hold the position himself. The Journal said it had credible information that the board has already been meeting with headhunters and "at least one head of a high-profile technology company."

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

The Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, said that Microsoft has surpassed the Cupertino company in the field of creativity in a new show of criticism of the new releases since Tim Cook took over the company.

"Woz" commented in an interview with "TechCrunch" that Redmond have overcome difficulties faced in recent years have focused on trying to develop advanced products. For this reason, expressed his "concern" about that Microsoft has become one of Apple's most innovative company that is developing and "clever ideas" in their laboratories.

The developer has said that you think a mistake that Apple has been keen to improve iPhone device giving out other services. Even has admitted that Windows interfaces seem "so beautiful" that gives you the feeling that the Redmond company has been reincarnated as Steve Jobs. It has not hesitated to return to be critical of the voice recognition system Siri ensuring that requires a thorough makeover.



Meanwhile, Wozniak has become the latest star of the game's promotional film Danny Trejo: "Vengeance. Woz With the Coz" unites the two protagonists in a bloody vengeance against a series of evil villains. The game will be presented on November 22.

"Woz With the Coz" is the result of the promotion of the latest film from Danny Trejo Californian actor, according to "Deadline Hollywood". In it, the actor will play a cop unjustly imprisoned and uses his release from prison to seek vengeance on his former colleagues.

The ongoing tug of war between the two companies will continue. Neither by hook or by crook, Samsung wants to negotiate "at all" with Apple as the Cupertino came with the Taiwanese HTC with a patent license agreement. And it intends to negotiate "at all."

This was considered the head of Samsung's mobile division, Shin Jong-kyun, who has said that, at present, South Korea is considering the possibility of reaching some agreement with Apple, as she has done the Taiwanese HTC this week in the heat of battle in the courts over patent infringement over the world.

As recorded by Korean news agency "Yonhap News," Jong-kyun has come out against the negocación showing with its competitor. "It may be true that HTC has agreed to pay $ 276 million to Apple, but we do not intend to negotiate at all," he says.



This war has been open since April 2011 and, if at any time someone could think that the conflict could be settled through discussions between the two, Samsung is responsible for removing this theory. Apple sued HTC in 2010, accusing the Taiwanese mobile phone company of violating patented technology for the iPhone maker. It was the first major Apple legal battle against a manufacturer that used the Google Android operating system

IBM has unveiled a new storage system that can accommodate up to 180 terabytes (TB) of information and manage it through a simple interface. The Storwize V3700 is part of the new portfolio of IT solutions for SMEs, the company introduced earlier this month.

This new storage system is specially dedicated to large amounts of data that need to be analyzed and organized, which is known as Big Data. Storwize V3700 is the latest management system of IBM. It includes two types of disc formats, 3.5 and 6 inches, which can store up to 180 TB of information, four expansion units.

In total, provides up to 120 units per system. To make working with the data flow, IBM has designed a software with a simple and intuitive interface, structured information modules. Through the changes he made to the system configuration, similar to browsing the Web. It also provides the option to integrate with third-party management applications, which are specially designed to manage databases and email.



Furthermore, the company provides a power saving model, based on the provision of multiple fans and various power supplies. In relation to data privacy, the system proudly provide strong protection to stored information. This storage model is the úñtima incorporating IBM business solutions.

The company presented its portfolio last week, including new solutions for Big Data management. The flood of information with companies who deal daily, usually results in an increase in storage and software costs.

"From small businesses to large enterprises, companies try to find out what relevant information can be obtained from the information stored and how to use them to benefit your business. The challenge is not the existence of the data, but in the intelligent use to do for them" said in a statement Uroz Jose Pablo Gomez, director of the storage division of IBM Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel. Among its suite of services, the company also has invested in data analysis technology and electronic commerce.

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