http://www.techno-talks.com A journal of technological updates, reviews and its contributions to human kind. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:09:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shares of Microsoft Corp. dropped more than 6% in after-hours trading after the software giant posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that fell short of Wall Street's estimates as it forecast lower-than-expected revenue for the following quarter.Net income rose 42% from year ago results to $4.3 billion, or 46 cents per ... http://www.techno-talks.com/general/microsoft-hit-after-earnings-and-forecast-miss.html SUNNYVALE, California - Yahoo has reached a settlement with activist investor Carl Icahn to avoid a battle for control of the company. The agreement announced Monday comes before the Aug. 1 shareholders vote. Under the agreement, eight members of the current board will seek re-election. Icahn will be appointed to the board, ... http://www.techno-talks.com/general/yahoo-settles-with-icahn-to-avert-shareholder-fight.html These days even Indiana Jones might think twice about packing his trusty trowel and theodolite for some fieldwork in southern Afghanistan. But guerrillas and foreign armies are no obstacle for archaeologists who are using Google Earth to identify hundreds of new sites. They have also drawn up plans of more ... http://www.techno-talks.com/general/google-earth-reveals-afghanistans-hidden-treasures.html Apple said Monday it sold one million new iPhones in the initial weekend, on par with estimates set by analysts. The original iPhone, introduced in late June 2007 in the United States only, sold about 270,000 units in its first two days. Sales topped one million by early September. The new ... http://www.techno-talks.com/electronics/million-new-iphones-sold-during-its-first-week.html Eight hours into "Grand Theft Auto IV" (Rockstar Games, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99), I've stolen 17 cars, run over 20 people and killed another 15 (some of whom had it coming). I've shaken down a couple of store owners and beaten up an old lady. I've driven ... http://www.techno-talks.com/news/grand-theft-auto-iv-delivers-more-than-mayhem.html The push to find ways to build not just buildings, but communities — even small cities — with low environmental impacts is under way, although mainly outside the United States, it seems. Ever since I stumbled onto the fascinating Web site www.inhabitat.com, I’ve been assembling a list of large-scale projects ... http://www.techno-talks.com/general/solar-city-to-rise-in-persian-gulf.html As it was told before the fall of 2007 that a mobile telephone would lead people to a better future free of roaming charges and buttons. Times, which likes to anoint things, has named iPhone as the 'Invention of the Year". Being pretty and versatile in cases like 'airplane' mode ... http://www.techno-talks.com/articles/times-names-iphone-as-invention-of-the-year.html Intel Corp. aims to launch a new architecture of computer microprocessors for low cost laptop PCs, code-named "Diamondville", in early second quarter next year. Diamondville will be focused on the low cost mobile PCs such as the Eee PC by AsusTech Computer, the XO laptop from One Laptop Per Child Project ... http://www.techno-talks.com/news/intel-announces-a-low-cost-mobile-chip-code-name-diamondville.html Trouble sometimes seems to appear out of thin air, and a new experiment suggests that’s exactly what may happen to the world’s biggest science project when it’s scheduled to begin operation in Switzerland next May. In the high-energy maelstrom of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), particles will spontaneously appear out ... http://www.techno-talks.com/inventions/surprise-heat-of-a-light-bulb-could-shut-down-large-hadron-collider.html ELECTRONIC SPY FLY - SMALL MACHINE FLY that can literally fly and look like a bug, yet lets the controller know what is happening. As U.S. Military pouring considerable amount of money into MAV (micro air vehicle) projects, it's likely that these robotic bugs will be used as spy flies. DARPA ... http://www.techno-talks.com/general/electronic-spy-fly.html