http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us Scientists at Duke University had earlier made progress on the real-world equivalent of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak. They claim to have refined the technology still further which is good news for all of us who dream of moving surreptitiously. The... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2264421 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:57:32 -0800 Over 30 technical organizations such as Microsoft, Symantec and the National Security Agency have collaborated to generate a list of the 25 most dangerous computer programming errors. The study was funded by the Cyber Security Division of Homeland Security. The... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2227654 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:38:26 -0800 And you thought it was only vile acts such as flying around the world and running industries that had a carbon cost. Turns out even the perfunctory task of running a search on Google comes at a cost to the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2225111 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:08:53 -0800 The Consumer Electronics Show is usually a good indicator of future trends in technology based entertainment. Advanced Micro Devices has been at the forefront of companies pushing for high definition content accessible by smart phones. Given the increasing use of... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2207006 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:26:36 -0800 The Apple consumer base may be relatively small in size but its constituents compensate with their sheer fervour. Take a gander at the proportion of Internet forum and technology news content to the Apple cult. Now this passion has been... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2181709 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:44:48 -0800 NASA Rovers on Mars are celebrating five years of service to science this month. Spirit landed on Mars on 3 January 2004. A similar vehicle called opportunity alighted on 24 January in the same year. Not bad for two vehicles... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2164893 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:24:54 -0800 Tiny diamonds have been discovered sprinkled across North America. They are being taken as evidence of a stream of comets that struck the Earth 13,000 years ago. They seem to have caused enough disruption to plunge the planet into a... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2160672 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:55:17 -0800 Obama is expected to tear down traditional barriers between the US civilian and military space programs to compete better in the current space race with China. NASA on its own is not expected to have a launch vehicle ready at... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2144119 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:22:50 -0800 Microsoft reports that a court in China has convicted 11 people for manufacturing and distributing counterfeited software. The Middle Kingdom has been under pressure to enforce stricter laws on intellectual property by technology corporations eager to enter but wary of... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2141446 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:21:51 -0800 Speculaion is rife that Apple will be releasing the iPod Touch with a 7 to 9 inch screen by autumn 2009. Reliable blog TechCrunch cites 3 independent sources confirming this. In fact one source claims to have handled the device... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2131202 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:37:11 -0800 As Microsoft continues to flounder in the wake of Google in the burgeoning field of cloud computing, it is attempting to get innovative in pushing the software as a service model. One possible gambit may be derived from a successfully... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2124064 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:54:28 -0800 Britain's Minister of Culture, Andy Burham, has expressed hope that Internet content can be regulated with age ratings similar to those used to categorize films. He is hoping to reach out to the Obama government so that the two countries... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2116773 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:21:30 -0800 NASA has recently retired the space shuttle and has been mired by a series of launch failures. At times when finances are tight, it makes sense to start outsourcing some activities. The immediate winner of this decision seems to be... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2094650 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:01:27 -0800 Astronomers believe that a meteor shower that occurred 470 million years ago left its impact on our Earth in many ways. Remnants from a cosmic collision occurring on this date had previously been uncovered in Australia, China and the United... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2091328 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:28:42 -0800 We already knew Google Earth was a great way to kill time and engage in fantasies of flying around the globe. Turns out it is a whole lot more than that. Julian Bayliss was in search of a conservation project... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2073092 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:08:31 -0800 In the 1980s, a group of American semiconductor firms united forces under the banner of Sematech and successfully raised over a billion dollars in federal funding. The resulting investments were channeled into industry research and development efforts that have largely... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2053471 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:09:46 -0800 Einstein wowed the world with his earth-shattering theories of relativity that have stood up to experimental scrutiny. Einsteinian intuition also decreed that the universe was a static entity even though the equations suggested otherwise. To resolve this discrepancy, Einstein 'fudged'... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2045257 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:47:00 -0800 With things always heating up in the online wars, Yahoo has announced some improvements to its existing applications in an effort to match Google and Microsoft. The revamped mail interface has smart features such as providing instant access to contacts... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2038137 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:54:36 -0800 The Greater Mekong region encompasses parts of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China. In the past decade alone, over a thousand new species have been discovered in the area. 519 of these are plants and then 279 fish and... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/2028658 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:52:07 -0800 Astronomers searching for alien life forms have stumbled upon traces of carbon dioxide in an atmosphere as much as 63 light years away. But if we were keeping our fingers crossed that the gas was the result of combustion by... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1992515 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:26:57 -0800