Tag archive: Zurich

As the cost of flying continues to increase—led lately by rapidly rising fuel prices—United Airlines hopes to woo fare-paying passengers to its airline using a new technique: iPod-friendly seats. The seats feature an iPod docks that can support both standard iPod and Apple's iPhone and a 15.4-inch display for playing back video and other personal entertainment. United plans to introduce the iPod-enabled seats first on… Read More

If Apple’s latest 80GB iPods impress you, just imagine fitting 125,000GB in the same device. The journal Science published nanotech research from IBM on Friday that could eventually make this kind of storage possible. While still rudimentary, IBM’s technology may eventually lead to data storage on the atomic level, and processors so small they would rival specks of dust. IBM’s first insight regards a property called… Read More

iPass, the world's largest reseller of wireless connectivity, recently announced it has added more than 6,000 European wireless hotspots managed by the Cloud and 1,000 hotspots operated by Swisscom to its aggregate network, bringing the total number of professionally managed hotspots accessible to iPass users to over 50,000. iPass mainly resells wireless and other forms of connectivity to corporate clients, rather than to end-users,… Read More

Microsoft today said it had acquired a Switzerland company which develops voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) technology and will incorporate its technology into the Microsoft Office system. media-streams.com AG, based in Zurich, develops communications applications based on VoIP. Microsoft's plan is to deliver to customers an improved integrated VoIP experience based on the Microsoft Office Real-Time Collaboration platform, Microsoft… Read More

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has set a new world record for fuel efficiency. The world record-holding PAC Car operates on a hydrogen-powered fuel cell. Using the lower heating values of hydrogen and gasoline as a conversion basis, this world record now stands at 5385 kilometers per liter of gasoline. PAC Car has an optimized fuel cell system that produces electrical energy from hydrogen and drives two high-efficiency electric… Read More

Municipal broadband wireless networking, broadband television from telephone companies, battery-operated cars and microchip wafer polishing for more powerful semiconductors have been identified bythe editors of IEEE Spectrum as “winners” in a new special issue highlighting the best and worst of global technology. For the report, the magazine's editors considered more than 50 possibilities and selected winners and losers for… Read More