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Tired of hearing the usual ringtones all over town? Just at the coffee shop this morning you heard that annoying Nokia tune coming from at least three different people, and what about that generic ring-ring that reminds you of the office phone when you're walking down the street on a sunny day? We...

• Date Added: 11/25/2005
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The facsimile, or fax as we call it today was one of the earliest concepts in modern technology. First patented in 1843 by Scottish physicist Alexander Bain, the fax is an encoding and/or imaging method that reads text and/or images in small areas at a time, assigns numerical values based on...

• Date Added: 10/19/2005
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There is nothing worse than being duped. Not only do you feel like an idiot, you are left to pay for an item or service you don't want. The latest scam is the ringtone subscription service. Companies advertising free ringtone downloads, targeted at teenagers, have caught many users in expensive...

• Date Added: 12/27/2005
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Nowadays, you might have noticed of a threatening word "Spyware". Spyware software is becoming annoyance for the companies. Spyware is likely to be verified as a great damager to the companies. It is not so noticeable like spam and virus assaults to the systems. Spyware could be destructive and...

• Date Added: 12/31/2005
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Yet another year's growth in the mobile ringtone market has confirmed its position as a major force in the music industry.

Once considered a passing craze, ringtones now account for more than 10% of the global music market and are overtaking CD sales sooner than expected. Few thought that...

• Date Added: 10/19/2005
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It seems like technology is headed for a massive telephone change over. The traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is looking to be replaced by VoIP. VoIP is short for Voice over IP. VoIP is the routing of conversations over an IP network or the Internet. VoIP uses a packet-switched...

• Date Added: 8/20/2005
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The popularity of cellular phones all over the world has simply exploded and you can't go anywhere in the world, not even a poor country that does not even have hot water, where people are not walking around with cell phones. The popularity of these phones is obvious because it makes interpersonal...

• Date Added: 1/7/2006
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A quick Google search will produce countless articles trying to understand the popularity of 'ringtones'; hundreds of bloggers waxing lyrical on the benefits of personalising their cell phones. Interviews with "experts" profering sexy theories about ringtones and identity construction lend an...

• Date Added: 12/5/2005
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A linear motor is-simply speaking-an electric motor that uses a linear force mechanism to generate the power needed for a said application. In contrast to a rotational electric motor (found in automobiles, appliances, and commonly-used electrical equipment), a linear motor generates its energy...

• Date Added: 11/2/2006
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Man is a social animal. This feature instigates him to develop sundry ways to communicate with his fellow beings. From pigeons to postmen, from small messages on bits of paper to lengthy love letters and telegrams…we have now have a smart and trouble-free method to interact with our friends living...

• Date Added: 9/25/2005
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Sometimes you find yourself in a situation when you have to scan paper prints, negatives or slides and store them as digital photos on your computer. Although the reason for doing that can vary there are some common considerations to scanning paper prints. In this article we will go over some of...

• Date Added: 8/26/2006
• Views: 371

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Mensa was founded in 1946, in England. The Mensa Society was formed specifically for intelligent individuals. The aim of Mensa was to create a non-political society free from all forms of racial or religious distinctions, that focussed on exceptional intelligence. All are welcomed into Mensa...

• Date Added: 5/22/2006
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Just what is surveillance technology?

The technology of surveillance equipment is continuing to advance at a very rapid pace. As a result surveillance equipment has become almost ubiquitous in retail stores, public schools, gas stations, and airport terminals all across the United States....

• Date Added: 8/9/2005
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There have been some incredible developments in optical technology in recent years. One of the most interesting new products comes from a company called Torrey Pines Logic. It has been developed in partnership with the United States Navy, and it is currently being field tested for use in Iraq and...

• Date Added: 2/3/2006
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Over the past several years the use of web -based collaboration tools, such as web conferencing services and extranets, has grown dramatically in support of the increasing number of work groups with geographically dispersed...

• Date Added: 2/14/2006
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Just to look at one of these devices these days you could believe that the claims about damage were either false or wildly exaggerated at best. This is especially true of the newer, smaller phones that are constantly being released onto the market. You may believe that if you hit someone on the...

• Date Added: 2/20/2006
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The first atomic clock came into existence in 1949. The U.S. National Bureau of standards was the home of this prototype of modern atomic clocks. The first accurate atomic clock was designed in 1955. This clock was based upon the transition of the caesium-133 atom. The discovery of this technology...

• Date Added: 5/18/2006
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Security camera systems work via closed-circuit television (CCTV). This CCTV differs from broadcast television because all of the components of the cameras and televisions are linked with cables or alternate direct means. CCTV can be viewed in real-time, and there is no need to broadcast a signal....

• Date Added: 11/23/2005
• Views: 331

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An image, of course, is any visual representation. Still images, such as photographs and drawings, capture a single, visual moment in time; while moving and video images, such as television and movies, are able to capture entire periods of time.

A digital image is simply an image that can...

• Date Added: 5/17/2006
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Most people heard the term DPI. In most cases the term is used in the wrong context to express the number of pixels in a photo, the number of dots in a print or the maximum dots per inch a printer can output. A relatively new term PPI was introduced in order to resolve this wrong usage of the term...

• Date Added: 8/26/2006
• Views: 322