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The mysteries of lightning

Scientists don't know everything they want to know about lightning, to be sure, or about the atmosphere over the tropical Atlantic, but on the face of it, it is fair to say that nothing about an airliner flying through the region would jump out as a ...

From JOHN D. COX, Discovery Channel,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Air France-KLM Group

Palm Pixi smartphones now just $25

Network World - You can now buy the brand-spanking-new for just $25. Amazon.com slashed the original retail of $100 by 75%, less than a week after Palm's second webOS phone went on sale at Sprint, which still holds to the original price. It's a jarring ...

From JOHN COX, ComputerWorld,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Motorola, Inc.,  Amazon.com,  Wall Street Journal,  Facebook Inc.

Carbon Dioxide: sources outpacing sinks

Galloping increases in human fossil fuel emissions now appear to be outrunning the ability of the world's oceans to absorb them. The first year-by-year accounting of the oceans' role as a carbon sink shows that, even as they soak up record amounts, the ...

From JOHN D. COX, Discovery Channel,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University

Smartphones on Wi-Fi vulnerable to security attack

Network World - A new report from a mobile security vendor details how the most popular smartphones, including the iPhone, are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, carried out via public Wi-Fi connections. According to the report by SMobile Systems, ...

From JOHN COX, ComputerWorld,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gartner, Inc.

The message from Moaning Cavern

Melting Arctic sea ice isn't just about polar bears: If temperatures continue to warm over the far north, a new study suggests, California could be in for a long dry spell.  A new profile of the climate at the end of the last ice age drawn from ...

From JOHN D. COX, Discovery Channel,  16 Nov 2009

We're Feeling the Heat

The warming climate is making itself felt in the daily weather across the United States, tilting the odds in favor of a daily record high temperature to two-to-one over a record low.  In a world without a warming climate, the record daily highs and ...

From JOHN D. COX, Discovery Channel,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: The Weather Channel,  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

What's next for Wi-Fi?

The recent formal approval of the IEEE 802.11n wireless standard marks not the end but the start of a wave of Wi-Fi innovation. In the next three to five years, the Wi-Fi experience will be very different from today. The huge 11n performance jump -- to ...

From JOHN COX, NetworkWorld,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Broadcom,  Atheros Communications, Inc.

And now, this word from El Niño...

For several months now, scientists at the national Climate Prediction Center have been watching El Niño conditions developing in the Pacific Ocean and have been issuing regular advisories about its probable impacts this winter -- a circumstance that ...

From JOHN D. COX, Discovery Channel,  9 Nov 2009

Verizon confirms Droid tethering option, hefty price tag

Verizon has confirmed that customers will have the option of connecting a laptop to their new Motorola Droid smartphones, on sale tomorrow, using the phone as a wireless modem. The carrier won't say exactly when customers can do this tethering but they ...

From JOHN COX, NetworkWorld,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Motorola, Inc.,  AT&T Inc.

Apple seeks new sheriff to lock up iPhones

Just as a new hack, blacksn0w, promises to unlock iPhones with the latest Apple software from AT&T's wireless network, Apple is looking for a sheriff to lock the smartphones back up again, permanently. A job posting on Apple corporate Web site seeks a ...

From JOHN COX, NetworkWorld,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AT&T Inc.,  eBay Inc.,  Twitter Inc

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