Tech Shout!

If breakthrough happenings in the field of technology of the past have passed your imagination, then this week around we have more exciting news bytes for you to freeze on.

Be ready to welcome the all-new AT&T Mobile TV service that rolls out tomorrow, Sunday, May 4, 2008. With the AT&T Mobile TV service, users will be able to watch quality programming from renowned news and entertainment names, including CBS Mobile, ESPN Mobile TV, FOX Mobile, NBC 2Go, NBC News 2Go, MTV Networks’ Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon. A lot more awaits you tomorrow. LG Vu and Samsung Access phones support the new service.

And your entertainment dosage doesn’t end there. The good news is that Apple will now deliver new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios that can be bought on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release. Movies from leading studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios to Warner Bros. will be showcased. So get ready to watch blockbusters on your iPod, iPhone, Mac, PC or perhaps on TV with Apple TV. While you need to shell out $14.99 for the newly released flicks, most catalog titles will cost $9.99.

Industry giants come together for Adobe’s latest Open Screen Project. The new initiative gains support for industry biggies such as ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics, Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, BBC, MTV Networks, NBC Universal and Verizon Wireless. With this new initiative, internet experiences will be delivered across TVs, PCs, mobile devices and consumer electronics. Exploring Adobe Flash Player, this endeavor will work to achieve a consistent runtime environment. With a slew of interesting plans that will hopefully materialize in the near future, Adobe is set to redefine the internet with a slew of interesting plans that will hopefully materialize in the near future.

The world’s moving at a super fast pace, and so will data with the Virtual Console USB Duplicator that has the ability of making 60 copies of 1GB drives in a few minutes. And if you’re yet greedy for some more, then you have the choice of connecting the device to an IP Multicast that connects to other compatible devices. This unique device copies the files instead of creating binary copies of the source drive. Security is also taken care of as the Virtual Console USB Duplicator avoids transferring dangerous and confidential data with a feature of encryption using the 128-bit AES system and it offers individual keys to each device.

Guess whose getting rich? – The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Wondering how, read on. Time Warner Inc’s AOL unit, RealNetworks and Yahoo will have to pay fair royalties to songwriters and publishers from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), which may come up to a whopping $100 million. The public decision has been ordered by a New York Federal court. According to the Court, the online music providers will have to shell out 2.5% of the earnings from music since July 1, 2002 until December 31, 2009.

Mobile phones, the modern-day man’s best friend in need could soon be a friend indeed too! Boffins at the University of California at Berkeley have devised an interesting way for transmitting medical images through a mobile phone. Developed by Boris Rubinsky, bioengineering professor at the University of California, the technology seeks to turn a normal electromagnetic imaging machine into a portable scanner that can be connected to a mobile phone and a computer, which in turn allows trained personnel to review the results and act accordingly. So patients can now bid goodbye to heavy equipments and transmit medical image easily through the internet.

Here’s a reusable paper, so big deal! But how would you feel if we tell you that this very reusable paper doesn’t consume any ink or toner to print words? No it’s no magic, but is simply a research conducted by Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), which has been funded by Xerox. The paper includes specially-coded molecules that react when exposed to ultraviolet light emitted from a bar in a printer. Due to which, the print is generated on the paper. The molecules fade back to their normal state within 24 hours, destroying the prints. And thus the paper can be used once again for re-printing to as many as 100 times. It’s the absence of the toner and ink while copying that makes the activity cost effective.

And from the latest medical files comes yet another pioneering technology that will make the otherwise Bypass surgery a whole lot simpler and safer. The Da Vinci robot will apparently be able to perform a Bypass Surgery quicker and involve fewer complications, ensuring a faster recovery and a shorter hospital stay for the patient. Though it costs a mind-boggling $8,000, the shorter hospital stay more than compensates things. A hospital stay of around 4-5 days sounds almost impossible. But with the Da Vinci robot, it’s true.

Remember that hospital nurse during your tonsil surgery. She surely looked more fearful than that anaesthesia shot. But now you needn’t worry, as experts from the McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) have developed an intelligent automated machine called McSleepy that administers anaesthesia without any manual intervention. Though it’s a machine, it can literally be regarded as a sort of humanoid anaesthesiologist that thinks like an anaesthesiologist, analyses biological information and constantly adapts its own behaviour, and astonishingly identifies monitoring malfunction too.

And finally we would like to pay all respects to the man who discovered the LSD drug – Albert Hofmann, as he bids his final adieu to the world. Regarded as the father of the mind-altering drug LSD, 102-years old Hoffman passed away on Tuesday due to a heart attack at his home in Burg im Leimental, Switzerland.

And that’s all that we could pack in, in the latest weekly updates. Be there next week, to catch up on what’s hot and what’s not in the diverse world of tech and science.