Google on antitrust - blame Microsoft(LATEST NEWS)

Google said the European Commission has opened an investigation into the company's power over the advertising industry. Google also said that Microsoft is the driving force behind the company's regulatory headache.

Samsung Jet 2 – 3.1-inch touchscreen mobile phone(latest news)

The detailed features of the new Samsung Jet 2 mobile phone are:

• 3.1-inch WVGA AMOLED display
• 800MHz application processor
• Google Push Email
• Media content sharing technology among DLNA certified devices
• English dictionary
• Media Browser
• Samsung Dolphin Internet browser
• motion control
• social networking sites shortcuts
• 3D media gate UI and motion-response UI
• TouchWiz 2.0 User interface
• ‘one finger zoom,’
• 5 mega-pixel camera
• GPS with AGPS
• DNSe & SRS Sound Effect technology
• DivX and XviD video support
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Satelloons and lunar lasers: communicating in space

Last week, NASA broke ground on three new radio dishes near Canberra, Australia. In the coming years, the new antennas will help boost the capabilities of NASA's Deep Space Network, which is used to communicate with spacecraft that travel far beyond Earth's orbit. But the agency has other, more ambitious plans in store. New Scientist takes a look at the history and future of NASA's space communication projects.

Robots to rescue soldiers

THE US military is asking inventors to come up with designs for a robot that can trundle onto a battlefield and rescue injured troops, with little or no help from outside.

Retrieving casualties while under fire is a major cause of combat losses, says a posting on the Pentagon's small business technology transfer website (bit.ly/aRXXQU). So the army wants a robot with strong, dexterous arms and grippers that can cope with "the large number of body positions and types of locations in which casualties can be found".

It should be capable of planning an approach and escape route without prior knowledge of the local terrain and geography. The army also wants the robot to be able to cooperate with swarms of similar machines for mass rescues.

Inventors have until 24 March to file their ideas.

Smart dust(SEMINAR TOPIC)

Smart dust is a tiny dust size device with extra-ordinary capabilities. Smart dust combines sensing, computing, wireless communication capabilities and autonomous power supply within volume of only few millimeters and that too at low cost. These devices are proposed to be so small and light in weight that they can remain suspended in the environment like an ordinary dust particle. These properties of Smart Dust will render it useful in monitoring real world phenomenon without disturbing the original process to an observable extends. Presently the achievable size of Smart Dust is about 5mm cube, but we hope that it will eventually be as small as a speck of dust. Individual sensors of smart dust are often referred to as motes because of their small size. These devices are also known as MEMS, which stands for micro electro-mechanical sensors