Tom Tom Navigation For iphone Coming Soon

Alongside today’s announcement of the new iPhone 3G S (the new, faster, more feature-rich iPhone) comes the June 17 release of the iPhone 3.0 software, which allows application developers to create apps that take full advantage of the device’s features.

At the same time, TomTom announced the creation of a navigation app for the iPhone. Company officials said iPhone users will be able to download TomTom’s new full-featured navigation app from the iTunes App Store some time after the new iPhone operating system launches. Also, TomTom will sell a mounting kit that includes a dock connector for power (using a 12-volt outlet) and audio connectivity for the iPhone (using a standard MP3 jack).

Today, Chrysler and Fiat plan to close the deal forming a new Chrysler company. However, the deal could be derailed or delayed by the Supreme Court.
Sometime today, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could decide whether to hear an appeal involving Chrysler creditors, brought by three Indiana pension funds that claim they’re getting an unfair shake. If she opts to hear the case, a Chrysler rebirth will have to wait until the case is heard before the full Supreme Court. If the Indiana pension funds were to win, Chrysler could potentially end up in liquidation. The bankruptcy court has set a 4 p.m. EDT closing time for the Chrysler-Fiat deal. We’ll keep you posted on this developing story as more information is made available.

Your Facebook Profile Can Tell You Who Are You Really

The Facebook profile of any person can easily tell what kind of a person he or she is in real life, according to a new study.
The study found that university students considered likeable by people, who met them in real life, appeared to make a similar impression on people who view their Facebook profiles.
"People who were expressive in tone of voice and facial expression were also socially expressive on Facebook. They posted a lot of pictures, they posted photo albums, they seemed to have a lot of conversations with people," New Scientist magazine quoted lead researcher Max Weisbuch, a psychologist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, as saying.
Facebook's 200-million-plus members maintain their personal pages where they reveal their interests and photos, as well as comments from friends.
For the study, the researchers recruited 37 university students, 18 of them women, to come to his lab for a one-on-one chat with another study participant, and were told to get to know each another by asking questions for several minutes.
However, one of each pair was actually a researcher masquerading as a student.
Later, the role-playing researchers rated each participant's likeability, based on their tone of voice, how much they smiled, how much they revealed about themselves, and other verbal and nonverbal factors.
Soon after, the researchers downloaded the Facebook profile of the volunteer and a panel of 10 students from another university was asked to rate the likeability of its owner.
It was found that the Facebook pages that earned the highest likeability rating were the most expressive, loaded with pictures and wall posts.
Also, the people tended to be rated as the most affable volunteers in person.
In fact, the undercover researcher assessed them as being very animated and with expressive body language.
People who talked a lot about themselves in the conversation also tended to share a lot of information on Facebook.
However, they also tended to score lower on likeability in person, compared to people who shared less.

Acer to offer Google's Android in netbook PCs

The move by Acer, the world's third-largest PC maker, could raise Android's chances of becoming a widely used alternative to Windows on mobile computers.
Because Android, originally designed for mobile phones, is freely distributed by Google, netbooks running the software would cost less, Acer executive Jim Wong said Tuesday at Computex, a huge computer show in Taiwan. He would not give a specific figure. Wong also praised Android's fast boot-up time.
Netbooks, which are inexpensive little laptops primarily designed for using the Internet, originally were sold with another free operating system, Linux. Microsoft's current operating system, Vista, was seen as too expensive and slow for those computers. But Microsoft regained control of the budding market by licensing the older Windows XP to manufacturers for a low price.
Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, is being geared for netbooks as well as larger computers. Several PC companies used the Computex show to highlight coming models based on Windows 7, including Taiwan's AsusTek Computer Inc.
Also, ARM Holdings PLC, a chip-technology licensing company, said it would launch a new chipset to drive netbooks, taking on a domain dominated by Intel's Atom microprocessors.

Flexible memristor: Memory with a twist (w/Video)

Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. As reported in the July 2009 issue of IEEE Electron Device Letters,* the engineers have found a way to build a flexible memory component out of inexpensive, readily available materials.

Pack Your Data

Now, a memory device that may store data for 1 billion yrs
Scientists have come up with a new computer memory device that can store thousands of times more data than conventional silicon chips and that too for more than one billion years.
Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones .
The denser you pack, the quicker it spoils. The 10 to 100 gigabits of data per square inch on today's memory cards has an estimated life expectancy of only 10 to 30 years.
The electronics industry needs much greater data densities for tomorrow's iPods, smart phones, and other devices.

Now, Alex Zettl and colleagues have described the development of an experimental memory device consisting of an iron nanoparticle (1/50,000 the width of a human hair) enclosed in a hollow carbon nanotube.
In the presence of electricity, the nanoparticle can be shuttled back and forth with great precision.
This creates a programmable memory system that, like a silicon chip, can record digital information and play it back using conventional computer hardware.
In lab and theoretical studies, the researchers showed that the device had a storage capacity as high as 1 terabyte per square inch (a trillion bits of information) and temperature-stability in excess of one billion years.

New iPhone application lets you email while you walk

Even people considered to be multi-tasking may find it difficult to type an email using a mobile phone while walking, but a new iPhone application is now here to make it child's play.
Email 'n' Walk from Phase 2 Media can make it possible for a person to keep an eye on the phone's screen as well as the path ahead.
The program takes a live feed from the phone's camera-mounted on the rear of the device-to show the user what's in front of them while they type.
The text of email appears as white lettering superimposed on top of the video feed.
And the text is more than clear enough to read without blocking the view of the path or road ahead.
Although the reviewers have claimed that the software works as advertised, they hope the creators don't get carried away.