“We have been made promises time and time again” said Deng Arop, the chief administrator of Sudan’s contested Abyei region, referring to the many unimplemented international agreements on the status of this area straddling what may soon be the border between North and South Sudan. “What options do the people of Abyei have left?” he asked me as he juggled incoming security updates on two cell phones. In the past two weeks, clashes north of Abyei have left 33 people dead. Several buses full of southern Sudanese returning to vote in the south’s self-determination referendum have been attacked on the road from Khartoum to Abyei, leading to road closures, which have generated food and fuel…
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United Nations, January 25: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the deadly suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport Monday, which killed at least 35 people. The secretary-general is “appalled”…
Continue reading …3M touts capacitive touchscreens with tiny bezels, 10x faster responsiveness
January 24, 2011 No Comment
Add another one to the ( short ) list of obscure things that slipped our net at CES. 3M, a company concerned with the materials and components that go into your delicious new gadgets, spent its time in Vegas this month discussing a new way for building capacitive touchscreen panels. By employing silver as its conducting material, 3M says it has made it possible to shrink the circuits at the edge of a touch panel by a whole order of magnitude, resulting in finger-friendly screens unhampered by bulky bezels. Additionally, due to silver’s high conductivity, response times have been shown to dip down as low as 6ms, which is ten times speedier than the currently used Indium Tin Oxide stuff. It’s arguable that neither advancement is revolutionary today , as bezels serve a purpose in providing a gripping surface for slate devices and touch responsiveness is currently constrained by software lag more than hardware capabilities, but 3M sure looks to have a nice building block for the future. The future being 2012, according to the company’s estimates. 3M touts capacitive touchscreens with tiny bezels, 10x faster responsiveness originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: Michael Graham Richard One More Automaker Throwing Its Hat in the EV Ring Mazda is independently developing electric car technology (not licensing from someone else), with plans to commence leasing an EV based on the Mazda2/Demio in Japan in spring 2012. When it comes, it will be Mazda’s first battery electric car (they have a hydrogen-powered RX8 that they’ve been showing around for a few years, though)…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Next year, Hu Jintao is expected to step down as China’s president, leaving Xi Jinping in charge. He’s a mystery to most in his country, the New York Times notes, but he has ascended from regional leader to vice president on the strength of political savvy and family connections. The…
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The humper and the humpee … Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall put on quite a display at the end of the AFC Championship game on Sunday night. Apparently Mendenhall hasn’t heard that his star QB is engaged to Ashley Harlan. At any rate, the RB jumped on top of Ben Roethlisberger and delivered a Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Bitten and Bound Discovery Date : 24/01/2011 21:38 Number of articles : 4
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You’ll still need to have that Windows PC acting as an intermediary , but folks looking to use Google’s Cloud Print service now at least have considerably more devices at their disposal to print documents from. Following up its roll-out to Chrome OS netbooks last month , Google has now announced that it’s begun rolling the service out to its mobile Google Docs and Gmail sites, which you’ll be able to use to print documents from most mobile devices that supports HTML5 — those running Android 2.1+ or iOS 3+, for instance. What’s more, while you will still need that Windows PC connected to your printer for the time being, Google now notes that both Mac and Linux support are “coming soon.” Google brings Cloud Print service to mobile Google Docs, Gmail originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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He left his post as President Obama’s chief of staff with the stated intention of becoming Chicago’s next mayor, but on Monday, Rahm Emanuel was forced to put his plans on hold by an Illinois state appellate court panel, which decided that he failed to meet a basic standard for eligibility. But Emanuel, of course, plans to fight on.
Continue reading …A wanted man hiding in an attic sparked a shootout with authorities, allegedly killing two officers and wounding a deputy US marshal. Officers were attempting to arrest Hydra Lacy Jr, 39, on an aggravated battery charge in St. Petersburg, Fla., this morning; officials believe Lacy was the first to shoot….
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