Army app store progress, tries to break, the red tape the defenses

By Terrence O'Brien posted 28th 2011 APR 12:18 PM the army market in bureaucratic muck can involve, but is the repository for mobile military applications not just stagnate somewhere in a pile of paperwork. Developers and commanders are still with the project move forward and hope for the best. There are according generated as part of the applications for the army have competition in the last year, and designer whipped up prototypes for the homepage (see above) and personalized user pages (after the break) where soldiers can already 17 applications for Android and 16 for iPhones, ideas for apps, Request features of devs, and write reports. The head of the army's mobile applications branch, Lieutenant Colonel of Gregory motes, hopes that the market will make his debut at the LandWarNet in August, although not approved it smartphones be access for several months after that. At least the military claim a victory, when it launches its app store have already more title as TegraZone.

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Tweet_Fit tweets while you to the oldies (video sweat)

The shake weight it is not, but go as 21st century training solutions, Tweet_Fit certainly has the potential, the people talk - or at least, Twitter. Developed by UK design student that deals accessories attached gym at the end of a standard barbell and sends updates to your Twitter account when you start and stop of your training. Offline and it walks you through the perfect curl. Tweet_Fit's designer indicates that it provides a new way their customers for trainers on the track, and can be used to spur Wheelback healthy competition between friends. Given, it is bragging about how much you can every single bank, but, then, an invitation to the gun show tweeting is so impersonal. Tweet_Fit is still a prototype can, but you are a video of the Twitter-enabled dumbbell in action after the break.

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Researchers nightmares (video) build a robot inspired by caterpillars,

There is a long history of the robot modeled after the animals, and some researchers at Tufts University have now taken things in particularly creepy Creepy-Crawly direction. You have built a robot who is a way Caterpillar balls can imitate even up to bounce of predators. As you can see in the video above, during the robot (called GoQBot) quite a bit larger than the actual bug is, is a pretty good Caterpillar does imitation indeed. What could such a bot for use? Now, say the researchers, who are the so called could conduct "ballistic rolling" used to improve on some of the many existing robots are modeled after the worms or snakes-spin, for example, in a disaster area, could be, and then wiggle to support rescue operations to search and. Over at the break the bot in slow motion see on the head.

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iZettle's chip reading place competitors takes your money, there are no impacts required (video)

Everyone seems to on board with square iPhone credit card reader-Apple begins selling the device in your stores in the past week have and even visa has a financial interest in the company. However, due to the popularity of fraud-fighting chip-enabled smart cards on the other side of the pond offer not fits square throughout the Bill. iZettle has a similar solution for Europe, that contains the ever-so necessary smart card reader, starts the company in Sweden June of this year. Not only does it enable you accept payments by credit card by friends or customers, the app adds a social twist. Traders can a photo and input for the buyer, e-Mail, which can then share their latest prey on Facebook. Of course, if it starts to catch on, it might make explain that she received a new laptop, that much harder, if it appears on your significant other news-feed "awesome agreements".

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Prague to host of the most powerful laser in the world

By Zach honey posted 28th Apr 2011 at 9:29 PM
We are Prague roast duck, potato dumplings and delicious always the Eastern capital of culture, cheap Pilsner. But the former Soviet bloc come 2015, city is also home to extreme light infrastructure project's most powerful laser in the world, as part of the European Union. According to the plans was published by the European Commission is the laser peak power in the area of Exawatt (equivalent to a billion megawatts) produce. So, for a very small fraction of a second, the bar one million times more power than the entire U.S. electricity generated. Whether you believe it or not, is, that take much time to the experiments that nuclear waste could reveal new cancer treatments and ways to handle. Breakthroughs in either category is incredibly for the project 700 million euro (about $1 billion), including future plans for the construction of two similar lasers, and a third is twice as powerful the Prague installation-about the same current draw as a HTC Thunderbolt.

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Motorola Xoom LTE update delayed until summer, same time as Bionic launch

By Tim Stevens posted 28th 2011 Apr 7:31 PM Motorola's just finished giving the messages and the numbers on the quarterly financial report, and it was a bit wickedness which we only had to parts: the Xoom LTE update has been moved. We are not there until summer according to Motorola CEO Sanjay JHA, see, which is also when we see the bionic, a delay, which we already about were pout. Justice and Home Affairs about what "Question that", that was, that the delay caused is only what is quality of care for both devices, is a little vague was and it could be easy, that is waiting for its LTE rollout, a little further along to get the company. Net result: a less g for Xoom owner until summer and no Bionic at all until then. Bummer.

The outnumbered: Motorola says, that it delivered over 250,000 Xooms in the first quarter of the year, and managed the net revenues of $3 billion. That is by 22 percent from this time last year the losses up to $. 27 per Aktie--much nicer than that brought $72 in Q1 2010. Mobile revenue increased by 30 percent and 9.1 million total mobile devices have been sold, of which smartphones are almost half (4.1 million).

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Nikon image authentication software checks Photoshop phonies

By Christopher trout posted Apr 29 2011 1: 16 AM it's hard to believe that the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Apple man Steve jobs would all get silly about a Granny Smith, and for good reason: that Apple is like this small iPhone phony. According to a Russian security firm, Nikon's image authentication software would say but otherwise. This rendering is used one of the few to an error in the camera manufacturers prove image software to the test. Programs such as Nikon's an encrypted signature for image files to currently apply they are recorded and override these signatures, if a file is changed, so to check the integrity of a photo. After ElcomSoft exposed to the company an error in the system of Nikon uses, as a similar program of Canon DSLR cameras, which allowed them, extract the signature from a same photo and contact on Phonies as the top employs. According to the outfit has neither company responds to its findings. Read for more funny works, including a shot of Mike Tyson rocking a tattoo angry birds the following source link.

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