http://www.techpower.org TechPower.org - Technology and Gadgets News Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:04:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, the Chocolate BL-40 is the first touchscreen cell phone that comes with a 21:9 display, along with a 5-megapixel camera, 3G data access, and, according to Boy Genius Report, Wi-Fi, speedy 7.2Mbps UMTS/HSDPA data access, and GPS. LG had said that the new Chocolate will arrive sometime between July-October this ... http://www.techpower.org/lg%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98wider-than-wide%e2%80%99-chocolate-phone-is-coming.html Imagine this: You can swipe a smart payment card through parking meter, and reload it online or even automatically. Or...how’s this one?: You can park your car anytime WITHOUT parking fees!! Do those ideas ever crossed your mind? Well, if so, i guess hackers at this year's Black Hat security conference ... http://www.techpower.org/free-parking-facilities-are-the-next-hackers-target.html Once being forced to closed down by lines of court rulings, as reported in CNET News.com, Kazaa, a former giant in the P2P world with the same popularity rate as Napster and LimeWire, is back on the surface as a standard-issue music-subscription site, fully up and running, and prepared even ... http://www.techpower.org/kazaa-goes-legit.html As a social network, Facebook has successfully enlisted about 200 million people all over the world as its users. Such popularity, combined with the user’s common lack-of-knowledge on the complex security issues surrounding their favorite social network, will no wonder act as a magnet for kinds of malware and financial ... http://www.techpower.org/malware-in-facebook.html Who would have guessed, that a simple, mediocre-looking, old-fashioned electrical outlet would allow us to perform such tricks as on the movies where experienced hackers magically managed to move pages of  top-secret information right onto their laps in seconds? Yet, those magicians already planning to reveal their secrets of stealing some ... http://www.techpower.org/electrical-outlets-for-data-stealing.html A new revolution in mobile phone will be start beginning next year in Europe. Nokia, Sony Ericsson and many giant cell phone manufacturers have agreed to use one standard cell phone charger format. This is good news for European; they are able to charge their cell phones with one standard ... http://www.techpower.org/one-universal-charger-for-all-cell-phones.html According Wall Street Journal, Giant PC and Laptop Manufacturer, Dell, is under process to develop a pocket size gadget which powered by Android Operating System and will be available on the store at the second half 2009. The prototypes of Dell’s gadget is seems looks like Apple’s iPod Touch but slightly ... http://www.techpower.org/androids-mids-by-dell-is-on-the-way.html AfgaPhoto DV-600uw is a new camera for outdoor and underwater that may not be quite as stylish as Pentax’s latest camera but able to handle submersion in water up to 33 feet deep (better than Pentax's which only16 feet), also withstand the pressures of up to two bar and water-resistant ... http://www.techpower.org/agfaphoto-dc-600uw-waterproof-camera.html After 2 months Phenom II X4 955 has the title of flagship AM3 CPU, another one is being prepared by AMD as more powerful model. AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition which higher than the X4 955 is clocked at 3.4 GHz - 200 MHz and comes with 6MB ... http://www.techpower.org/amd-3-4-ghz-phenom-ii-x4-ready-to-rock.html A new innovation comes from Sony Corporation. This giant company wants to combine portable game console as we know PlayStation Portable with a mobile phone in one gadget to challenge Apple iPhone. To make it real, Sony developing the gadget with added some functions from Sony Ericsson mobile phone. According to ... http://www.techpower.org/playstation-phone-silent-project.html