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At Saarland university, students and researchers now say they can, with up to 70% accuracy, detect what a printer is printing only based on the sounds that they make while they print. That’s scary. Although it took a while because they had to match word in the dictionary to words that could be printed, they say [...]

Starting Saturday on Facebook, users will soon begin to be able to choose a username for their Facebook profile in the format of facebook.com/yournamehere. Wow! They’re also offering the service to Facebook’s pages and it is already a hot-button topic with over 31,000 people liking the blog post by Blaise Dipersia, a designer at FB. [...]

There is some chatter going around on various iPhone/iPod Touch boards that Apple, in their new soon-coming 3.0 OS update (expected to be announced really soon), will make application re-downloads no more. But, this change is only on applications for over-the-air download, which means that you can just go back to your computer and re-sync [...]

Wow, what a day for Apple, their products and the iPhone! Today, at the Worldwide Developers Conference hosted by Apple in San Fransisco, we saw a new iPhone’s release, new 3.0 iPod Touch and iPhone OS update as well as other product announcements from Apple on topics like their new and improved MacBooks. But, in [...]

This week, we’re kicking off a new segment at the GrantBlog titled “What Ever Happened To?”. We outline a product or service, then discuss what ever happened to it! This time around,we’re talking about the Garmin Nuvifone.
Unveiled by GPS industry leader Garmin way back in February of 2008, the phone was originally expected to be [...]

The GrantBlog recently has a prestegious blogroll addition by City of Pasadena Public Information Officer (a.k.a. PasadenaPIO) Ann Erdman on her blog, Pasadena PIO. I’m also Twitter friends with Ann as well on my Twitter account, gmd8 (come and follow me!) and hers, pasadenapio. Ann covers the latest inside events on her blog as well [...]

More and more in the past two months or so, I’ve seen people with and commercials for a semi-new tech-gadget, the netbook. While that’s not a specific brand or anything, netbooks, are in essence, tiny computers, smaller than a laptop, but not as small as a UMPC, a trend back around Q3 of last year. [...]

Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system, currently in a public release candidate test right now, now has an offical release date set for it- October 22nd, 2009. When Microsoft originally said it would be ready for the Christmas season, I guess they were right! Windows Seven’s pricing is not yet available yet, and the free [...]

Google’s latest Labs graduate is none other than the new Google Squared, a col new way to search which creates different tables for your results based on a main category you search for.  Say you searched for “Characters In The Office” (by the way my favorite TV show)-your result would probably be a table with [...]

Microsoft’s Windows Live Search, released just over a year ago in April, is now quietly being filed away while another Microsoft search engine is slowly launching- Bing. Based on the theory by Microsoft that “search has evolved”, Bing isn’t anything special but also comes with a new 411 service by newly Microsoft accquired telephony company [...]