Is it time for firewalls and malware protection for your car? Almost, but not quite yet, say experts. Earlier this year we reported on research from the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, that showed how researchers were able to…
If youve seen Danny Boyles movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASAs mission to visit the Earths Sun wont include sending people up there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into the Suns atmosphere, approximately four million miles from its surface. The project, called Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch sometime before 2018.Four million miles doesnt sound very close, but its still very exciting, since this is a region no other spacecraft (created by us) has ever encountered. NASA plans for the project to unlock the suns biggest mysteries.Although the spacecraft will be relatively far from our stars surface, its carbon-composite heat shield will have to withstand intense radiation, as well as temperatures exceeding 2550 degrees Fahrenheit.The experiments selected for Solar Probe Plus are specifically designed to solve two key questions of solar physics why is the suns outer atmosphere so much hotter than the suns visible surface and what propels the solar wind that affects Earth and our solar system? said Dick Fisher, director of NASAs Heliophysics Division in Washington.Weve been struggling with these questions for decades and this mission should finally provide those answers, said Fisher.[Image credit: NASA]More About: mission, NASA, space, spacecraft, sun, SunshineFor more Tech coverage:Follow Mashable Tech on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Tech channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad
Samsung introduced its Galaxy Tab tablet computer at the IFA show in Germany. With two cameras for video conferencing and phone capabilities, the Android-powered Galaxy Tab aims to outdo Apple
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Google Wave is far from dead, and developers, early adopters and enterprises will be glad to hear it. Today Google announced it will expand on the code it has already open sourced, building Wave into a functional application that will allow users to run wave servers, host their own waves and build bigger and better applications with the real-time collaboration technology.
“Since the beginning, it has been our vision that the Google Wave protocols could support a new generation of communication and collaboration tools,” engineer Alex North wrote on the Google Wave developer blog.
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Google had big plans for Wave - it was supposed to replace email and the killer app among Google Apps, but the company basically gave up on the project earlier this month (see Google Wave Is Dead). It still seems possible for the technology to do big things. But it sounds like Google plans to move on after the application is released. The future of the open source project will be defined by developers’ contributions, North wrote.
Wave In A Box will not have the “full functionality” of the Gmail-integrated Web app, but it will feature threaded conversations and support importing data from wave.google.com.
The release of Wave as an application could be a big deal for developers, especially at businesses that want to take advantage of Wave for real-time collaboration and discussion (see our post, 5 Services That Leverage Google Wave).
Wave was always intended for people to run on their own machines, but this release will make the process much easier. Developers and enterprise users that have been eyeing Wave will be more likely to take the technology into their own hands and build things like feature-rich Web forums, productivity tools and apps to facilitate collaborative projects.
Google did not specify a timeline for the release of the new code, but it has said that wave.google.com will be available at least through the end of the year.
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Since Twitter acquired Tweetie and rolled out an official iPhone client, the company has focused more and more on improving the mobile experience across all smartphone platforms.Twitter CEO Ev Williams wrote just now on the company blog that mobile usage of the site is up 62% since in just over four months, and 16% of all new Twitter users are starting out on mobile devices as opposed to web signups (this number is up from just 5% earlier this year).In the days before Twitter started issuing official apps on a platform-by-platform basis, the company wasnt seeing the kind of mobile adoption it had hoped for. Williams wrote, Even though there was a plethora of third-party Twitter apps, people were having trouble finding and selecting one because none were called Twitter. This kept them from using Twitter at all.The company adopted a new strategy for mobile; rather than leaving all the mobile app development to third parties, Twitter decided to consolidate efforts. In the short term, this caused some consternation for third-party devs; however, looking at Twitters stats, its clear the company did the right thing for its shareholders and bottom line.Twitter acquired Tweetie in May this year; this was our first indication that Twitter would be creating and distributing its own mobile apps for a change. Tweetie was revamped and renamed Twitter for iPhone in May. A BlackBerry app was released in April, and the companys official Android Twitter app was released later the same month.Twitter is also seeing strong growth in its mobile site and SMS service, and Williams notes that third-party apps such as TweetDeck continue to be valuable and important parts of the Twitter mobile landscape.And as for the long tail, Williams writes, There are a tremendous number of other apps that people are using, not necessarily as their main Twitter client, but as an alternative way to create or view Tweets. The number of registered OAuth applications is now at almost 300,000 this number has nearly tripled since Chirp [Twitter’s developer conference, which was held in April in San Francisco].While the above chart shows percentages of unique users per app, wed also love to see a breakdown by volume of tweets.Has your own mobile usage of Twitter changed or grown at all with Twitters releasing several official apps? Do you still use third-party applications for tweeting on the go? Let us know what you think about these stats in the comments.More About: apps, Mobile 2.0, twitterFor more Mobile coverage:Follow Mashable Mobile on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Mobile channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad