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Students get Amazon the ability to digital books for some time to rent. This allows them to be up to 80 percent on the purchase price save. A student then has one month access to the electronic version of a book. Who wants to rent can do so at an additional cost; an e-book can…

KPN has more details announced of its new subscriptions. KPN and Hi-subscribers can choose from three different subscriptions. If data wants to consume, is going to pay more, and the discount on smartphones is limited. KPN was initially planned to be separate rates calculated for various internet services, such as Skype. After here, also in…

Scaled Composites has a prototype shown of a flying car with hybrid drive. The BiPod, a vehicle with two hulls, was designed by the now retired Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan. The Model 367 BiPod has two oval-shaped hulls, which in three places with the help of a vleugelstuk and two horizontal stabilisatievlakken front and…

SeaMicro has its SM10000-serverlijn refreshed. The new bib reads SM10000-64HD and contains compared to its predecessor fifty percent more processors, for a total of 384 dual-core-Atom-N570-cpu. The new SM10000-64HD of SeaMicro contains 384 64bit-dualcore-Atom N570 cpu with two threads per core. Each processor can have up to 4GB of ddr3 memory, enabling the server up…

Enermax has made its first processor fan assembly, the ETS-T40, released. The company showed the cooling tower already last June during Computex and announced to the cooler at the end of July on the market. The T40 comes in three versions available. During the Computex, the ETS-T40 is displayed as a very efficient cooler. According…

According to research of the CBS had more than one in three internet users in 2010, also mobile access to the internet. Especially phones with 3g connection are substantially in recent years in popularity. That it appears from the figures that the research published. Although phones with umts are increasingly being used by internet users,…

Ziggo begins Monday with the provision of mobile internet. In the long term must be mobile video services, and mobile phone calls to recover, so the company is well known. For the offer to Ziggo use of the network of KPN. Ziggo has teamed up with UPC frequentieruimte to mobile broadband services on a private…

Sharp and Foxconn in Taiwan set up a joint venture that will focus on the joint procurement of lcd-components. The two companies want to save costs to better compete with LG and Samsung. According to Digitimes, the two companies through the joint venture mainly glassubstraten and color filters purchases for the production of lcd’s. In…

The Things Network is a community to an internet-of-thing-data network with the LoRaWAN technology. LoRaWAN, or in short: LoRa is an open protocol that, among other easy to carry it can be played with a simple Arduino-ontwikkelbordje. The cost of the network equipment and the chips to with a LoRa-access point to connect to, are…

NASA has a photo of the ‘rise’ of the earth above the maanhorizon released. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO took the picture, or rather pictures. The LRO flew during the making of the photo 134km above the Compton-maankrater. Create a snapshot of the earth is no easy feat with the LRO. The spacecraft must…

Uavia, a company from France, has a quadcopter developed largely without human intervention to operate. The device is not fully autonomous, but without direct physical human intervention, flying, and landing. The company showed the quadcopter during the TechCrunch Disrupt meeting in London. The quadcopter of Uavia makes use of the Snappy Ubuntu Core. The first…

The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley is doing a replica build of the first computer for general use which stood on the University of Cambridge in 1949. The Edsac was the first computer that does not have a very specific purpose served, as was then customary. The rebuilding of such a piece of engineering…

Star Trek: Renegades via Kickstarter raise enough money for even an episode. The first episode was successfully funded through Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns, and came out on the 24th of August 2015. The goal of this new campaign was to be $ 350,000, converted 322.000 euro. Eventually, it was 378.181 dollar collected, that the stretch…