Next Generation

Opera 10 with Presto 2.2 Rendering Engine — It looks like yesterday when Opera was all set to release version 9.5 with a brand new skin, and today Opera Developer blog wrote about the upcoming  Opera 10, which will use an all new and improved rendering engine. Opera 10 will be powered by Opera Presto 2.2, which is the newest rendering engine for the Opera browser. It provides significant improvements in speed, performance and security. Are you thinking, what I am thinking? Yes, the browser war never went down! It’s still on with Mozilla Firefox 3.1 and just-out-of beta, Google Chrome. Coming back to the topic, I just... [Tags: alpha version, auto updates, brand new skin, browser war, check auto]

Hunting new Earths and the edge of the universe — The next generation of telescopes will allow us to peer into other galaxies, to look for Earth-like planets and supermassive black holes... [Tags: earth, edge of the universe, galaxies, next generation, planets]

Eco Delight: 10 solar-powered concept cars that ask for attention — Solar energy is one of the most impressive and easily available sources of green energy that has the potential to power everything from the PMPs we carry to the cars we drive. Some companies like Toyota have already started exploring the potential of solar energy by announcing that it will use solar panels in its next-generation Prius hybrid car. While this car would just use the energy to run the car’s AC, some designers have shown the way cars could completely be powered by the energy falling from the sun. Check out ten such concepts one of which might... [Tags: concept cars, dakar, electricity, friction, green energy]

The Trailer Park is The Computer [Voices] — By Nick Carr, Blogger, Rough Type Microsoft is about to take trailer park computing, or, as The Register has dubbed it, white trash computing, to its logical and necessary conclusion. The company’s next generation of utility data centers will take the form of - you guessed it - trailer parks: sprawling, roofless parking lots in which all the components - server clusters, power units, security systems - will be prefabricated offsite, packed into containers or other types of “modules,” trucked in, and plopped down on the ground as needed. All employees at the new centers will be required to wear... [Tags: busch light, computer voices, containers, microsoft, necessary conclusion]

Shuttle bringing touchscreen all-in-one, Core i7 shoebox to CES — Shuttle, purveyor of the shoebox-sized gaming PCs that can, announced its CES itinerary today. Here are the highlights: • The first Intel Core i7 small form factor: Shuttle’s H7 5800 was first unveiled at Intel’s recent press event, and will be officially released at CES 2009. It’s built on the Shuttle SX58H7 barebone – the new extreme flagship. • The new touch screen all-in-one: Now with integrated touch screen monitor, available in classy black or elegant white, and 10.2 and 15.6 inch version. The new twist on the X Series will be unveiled to media and industry insiders for the... [Tags: cooling technology, flagship, future home, gaming pcs, glimpse]

Motoman SDA10 robot shows off its cooking, camera-building skills — Yaskawa Electric's Motoman SDA10 robot has been out and about for a little while now (along with its not-so-distant relatives), but it's apparently not just getting by on its good looks alone, and it recently took advantage of Osaka's International Next-Generation Robot Fair to show off its newly developed cooking skills. While there unfortunately doesn't seem to be any video available, the word is it was able to take an order from a customer using its voice recognition capabilities and whip up some okonomiyaki (a pancake, of sorts) from scratch, with it even going so far as to serve... [Tags: appearance, condiments, distant relatives, engadget, generation robot]

LINK: Advice to carmaker CEOs driving hybrids to DC (instead of private jets) — Advice to carmaker CEOs driving hybrids to DC (instead of private jets) “If they were very smart, the CEOs would drive unreleased, next-generation cars that get 100 MPG. They’d stop in a half-dozen towns along the way and invite a newspaper editorial board writer to ride shotgun for a dozen miles. They’d update their status on Twitter. They’d write a few posts for the company blog. They’d shoot video on a Flip camera and talk about how they screwed up at their first appearance, how they’re selling their fleet of corporate jets, and their plans for the future. If they... [Tags: ceo, ceos, corporate jets, dozen towns, editorial board]

LINK: Advice to Detroit CEOs who drove hybrids to DC (instead of private jets) — Advice to Detroit CEOs who drove hybrids to DC (instead of private jets) “If they were very smart, the CEOs would drive unreleased, next-generation cars that get 100 MPG. They’d stop in a half-dozen towns along the way and invite a newspaper editorial board writer to ride shotgun for a dozen miles. They’d update their status on Twitter. They’d write a few posts for the company blog. They’d shoot video on a Flip camera and talk about how they screwed up at their first appearance, how they’re selling their fleet of corporate jets, and their plans for the future. If... [Tags: ceo, ceos, corporate jets, dozen towns, editorial board]

Palm needs a hand as Q2 revenues see drastic decline — Things are not looking good for Palm as it continues to slide into dangerous territory amidst harsh economic times. The handset manufacturer announced imminent layoffs earlier this month and now it has released preliminary financial results for Q2 of the fiscal year 2009 which are abysmal at best. Palm’s revenue in Q2 looks as though it will come in just north of $190 million, an astounding 50+ percent drop off from Q1 in which the company took in $370 million in revenues. A statement from Ed Colligan, Palm’s president and CEO: We are seeing unprecedented dynamics in the global... [Tags: dangerous territory, difficult period, downturn, drastic decline, economic times]

MetaOS: The Fabric Control That Will Run Next-Gen Data Centers — A metaOS is a virtualization layer of software, wedged between applications and distributed computing resources, that utilizes those resources -- and those resources only -- to perform scheduling, loading, initiating supervising applications and error handling. Researcher Thomas Bittman explains why these will be vital to the construction of next-generation data centers. - LAS VEGAS -- The concept of a so-called quot;meta operating system quot; for data centers and smaller IT systems is getting a lot of attention this week at the Gartner Data Center Conference here at the MGM Grand Hotel. Fundamentally, a metaOS is a virtualization layer of software,... [Tags: bittman, computing resources, fabric, gartner, generation data]

Palm's preliminary quarter-end results show drooping revenues, bleak outlook — Remember when we used to write about Palm in order to talk about its devices and / or operating system(s)? Man, those were the days. Now, it just seems like one sadness-filled report after another, and just days after hearing that it would be cutting an undisclosed amount of employees in order to trim operating expenses, in comes even more doom and gloom courtesy of its preliminary Q2 (fiscal year 2009) results. The company is expecting to record revenues ranging between $190 million to $195 million, far short of the $331 million Wall Street had been counting on. The... [Tags: bleak outlook, ceo, doom and gloom, economic environment, ed colligan]

Meet Motoman, the pancake-making robot (video) — Okonomiyaki is the name of a popular  Japanese dish made of a fried batter cake and various ingredients such as vegetables, shrimps, kimchi, cheese etc. Yaskawa Electric, a Tokyo-based electronics company, produced an industrial robot that can cook Okonomiyaki. The company, which is also nominated for Japan’ Robot Award 2008 with its LCD glass substrate processing robot MOTOMAN-CDL 3000D, named the 220kg-robot Motoman SDA10. It stands 135cm tall and features 7 joints in each arm and one in the torso. The robot also features speech recognition technology to be able to understand orders from customers. It was showcased last... [Tags: 3000d, cdl, cheese, electronics company, generation robot]

Introducing the Nokia N97, the next generation high-end mobile phone from Nokia. Described by Nokia folks as a "handheld computer" this device is a pretty comfortable high-end phone. It has a tilting (resistive) touch-screen display, and is the first N-series phone with a QWERTY keyboard. It has 32 gigabytes of memory, expandable to 42 GB via 16 GB memory card. It has a digital compass, a 1500 milliamp battery, and DVD quality video capture. It's extremely comfortable to hold, easy to use, and represents a solid solid evolution of the Nokia smarthphone line.... [Tags: barcelona spain, board memory, connection speeds, digital compass, evolution]

Palm revenues plummet as Treo sales fall — Second-quarter revenue will be far below analyst expectations as Treo sales continue to dwindle without Palm's next-generation OS... [Tags: analyst expectations, generation os, next generation, palm, quarter revenue]

45nm Opteron Performance, Power Efficiency Tested — An anonymous reader writes "Now that Intel has unleashed its next-generation Core i7 processors, all eyes are turned to AMD and its incoming wave of 45nm CPUs. To get a feel for AMD's future competitiveness, The Tech Report has taken a pair of 2.7GHz 45nm Opterons (with 75W power envelopes) and put them through the paces against Intel Xeons and older, 65nm Opterons in an extensive suite of performance and power efficiency tests — from Cinema 4D and SPECjbb to computational fluid dynamics and a custom XML handling benchmark. The verdict: AMD's new 45nm quad-core design is a notable improvement... [Tags: amd, amd chips, anonymous reader, benchmark, cinema 4d]

Emeryville biofuel institute dedicated — Fast growing and tenacious species such as eucalyptus and poplar trees on the West Coast, and prairie grasses and switchgrass in arid portions of the Midwest, are prime candidates for the next generation of energy crops needed for liquid biofuels. But first,...... [Tags: biofuel, emeryville, energy crops, liquid biofuels, midwest]

Plant a Seed in every classroom — Now you can donate a subscription to Seed Magazine to a classroom of your choice: Earlier this year, as part of the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge, ScienceBlogs readers donated over $18,000 toward science literacy. Seed Media Group was proud to donate a further $15,000, bringing the ScienceBlogs community's total contribution to over $33,000. Schools around the nation are already putting these badly-needed funds toward science classrooms and labs. Science literacy is a crucial element in driving progress. We believe that by providing the next generation access to scientific perspectives, by introducing them to the stories of how we, our world, and... [Tags: critical tools, donations, donorschoose, element, magazine subscription]

Poll: Flash or Silverlight? — The theme for the latest episode of the SitePoint Podcast was the pros and cons of web application development and deployment on rich media platforms like Flash and Silverlight. A lot of people believe that desktop applications are migrating to the cloud and the computing experience of the future will be one in which we interact with programs that are actually running and storing our data elsewhere. Adobe and Microsoft, with Flash and Silverlight respectively, are among the leading candidates to provide the development platform on which many of these next generation rich Internet applications will be built. However, even... [Tags: adobe, adoption, deployment, deployments, desktop applications]

Palm revenue craters as Treos fall out of favor — Second-quarter revenue will be far lower than analysts had expected as sales of Treos continue to dwindle without Palm's next-generation operating system.... [Tags: craters, next generation, operating system, palm, quarter revenue]

QOTD — QOTD Mobile is the natural next generation of shopping. We thought about waiting until next year, but…our belief is there’s a demand.” – Tanya Penman, founder-CEO of Mobigosee, on the company’s plan to create another asinine shopping holiday, Mobile Tuesday.... [Tags: belief, ceo, next generation, penman, qotd]