Technology Effect

India to get high-speed 'Science and Education Internet' Mumbai: India will be connected to a very high-speed 'Science and Education Internet' through an international networking by next month, a senior official of the network said. "The new very high speed linkage will be completed next month which will allow National Knowledge network-connected institutions' high-speed access to global science projects such as International Thermonuclear Experimental Research (ITER), Large Hadron Collider and several small and big projects," Director and Principal Investigator of Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD), Greg Cole said. The connectivity will permit scientists and educational institutions to have access to shared scientific equipment such as telescopes, electron microscopes and particle accelerators. It will also bring to local computers important and enormous scientific data repositories spanning everything from human gen...

Teen creates free Internet application for iPhone London: A 15-year-old boy managed to dupe Apple by creating an iPhone application that connects to the Internet for free but it is no longer available. To access the web through the iPhone costs around 13 pounds a month. Nick Lee designed a application which at first glance appears to allow users to change the colour of their screen. It was charged at less than a dollar to upload from the Apple iTunes online music store. However, the application contains a hidden code that allows people to use their iPhone as a modem and access the Internet without paying, the Telegraph reported. The application was removed as soon as news of its true nature appeared online. Those who downloaded it, however, can keep enjoying its benefits. "I'm going to use this little gem of an application to my heart's content. I'm typing on it now, and I'm going to see just how much data I can use all afternoon. I was able to get download s...

Yahoo hosted 24-hour 'hacking' event in India's tech hub Bangalore: Global search engine Yahoo hosted a non-stop 24-hour "hacking" event on Saturday noon in this tech hub where about 300 whiz-kids used its web tools and services to develop new applications, a company official said Friday. "About 300 developers across India participated in the 24-hour hacking event, which involved using our web tools, services and application programming interfaces (APIs) to innovate new solutions for our global netizens," Yahoo India Research and Development Head Shouvick Mukherjee said. Being held for the third consecutive year, the "Open Hack Day" aimed at nurturing the open innovation ecosystem in India and drive domain expertise in the internet space. "Open Hack Days enable talented developers to create better, more relevant and more social experiences on our network. The spirit is to leverage our open APIs and developer tools to create newer app...

Nanowick at Heart of New System to Cool 'Power Electronics' — Researchers have shown that an advanced cooling technology being developed for high-power electronics in military and automotive systems is capable of handling roughly 10 times the heat generated by conventional computer chips. The miniature, lightweight device uses tiny copper spheres and carbon nanotubes to passively wick a coolant toward hot electronics, said Suresh V. Garimella, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. This wicking technology represents the heart of a new ultrathin "thermal ground plane," a flat, hollow plate containing water. Similar "heat pipes" have been in use for more than two decades and are found in laptop computers. However, they are limited to cooling about 50 watts per square centimeter, which is good enough for standard computer chips but not for "power electronics" in military we...