Antonio Defensor

People who take dietary supplements are not as healthy as people who don't according to a soon to be published study in the journal Psychological Science of the Association for Psychological Science.

Shingles, the painful recurrence among the elderly of the virus that caused chickenpox in their younger years might have finally found its match in a compound discovered by researchers in the University of Georgia nd Yale University. About 30 percent of elderly in the United States suffer from shingles and medical science currently has no specified treatment for it.

Nokia may still be the biggest mobile phone maker in the world in terms of sheer numbers of handsets sold, but in terms of profitability, it has been eclipsed by Apple and its single-model phone business. According to Strategy Analytics' Senior Analyst Alex Spektor, Q1 2011 wholesale handset revenues for Apple is estimated at $11.9 billion versus the $9.4 billion performance seen from Nokia for the same period.

The Android robot may have overtaken Apple in the smartphone market, but this was when smartphones were the only players in the connected mobile devices sector. But now that the iPad and iPad 2 have joined the iPhone and iPod Touch in the world of mobile media, Apple registered a 59 per cent slamdunk over Android devices.

The admonishment about not judging a book by its cover may not be quite right according to a study in the current issue of the journal, Social Psychological and Personality Science. Most people's first impressions tend to come out quite accurate according to the study.

Researchers at the University of Utah have determined that having a high working memory capacity is not an indication of one ability to focus deeply on a current task but a strong capability to shift attention to another task when it is needed.

Seven months after it announced that it would imbue its support pages with more 'social' relevance, Apple, Inc. went live with Apple Support Communites over the pre-easter weekend.

"We think that this platform could be useful for multiple medical applications including the localized treatment of cancer, ocular disease, and cardiovascular disease,"

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation of Japan has announced the world's first toning/dimming type organic electroluminescent (EL) lighting panel at the Fuori Salone exhibition held in Milan, Italy through its overseas marketing agent, Verbatim, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Kagaku Media.

Intel has announced that it will be integrating both USb 3.0 and Thunderbolt data transfer technologies in its Ivy Bridge chipsets for release in 2012. At present, only Apple has released Thunderbolt in its Macbook Pro laptops. Dell offers USB 3.0 in the Precision laptop line but through non-intel silicon.

Coffee made espresso makers contain more toxic, carcinogenic furans than regular drip machine brews or even instant coffee, according to research conducted at the University of Barcelona. However, all are still within safe levels.

Dutch researchers have discovered what may well be the fastest and most dense digital storage method by disturbing the direction of an atom's magnetic field. Although still in its early experimental stages, the technology already promises the potential for data storage devices reading and writing at the terahertz range or about 1,000 times faster than current technology.

Research into lithium-air batteries that have the same energy density as gasoline, and with potential use in tractor trailers, is actively being investigated by Risø DTU, the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy of the Technical University of Denmark. The research aims to remove the Achilles' heel of the electric car which is the limited energy density of today's batteries, which will only sustain short drives.

Sure its not a Red or an Arri Alexa, but neither do these two brands have the caché of the F65 CineAlta professional video camera from Sony. Unveiled at the National Association of Broadcasters Show (NAB), the new camera uses a CMOS sensor with green pixels arranged on a grid and the red and blue sensors along the diagonals. The optimized use of real estate in the 35mm sized sensor means that pixel sizes had not been compromised to produce the 20.4 megapixel, video images.

Being the fastest anuthing in the tech world is always a short-lived distinction but for now, the fastest Blue Ray burner in the block is Asustek's new BW-12D1S-U external Blue Ray drive.

Sony has blinked and dropped its lawsuit against GeoHot, aka George Hotz, a 21 year old hacker whose exploits expanded the use of Sony's Playstation 3 but also allowed pirated games to be played on it.

A year old tool that tracks factors that affect website performance has revealed a decline in Flash media usage during the November 2010 to March 2011 period. Web page speed analyst Steve Sounders said that his recently developed tool, HTTP Archive has shown a two percent decline in Flash usage among the 17,000 web sites it was designed to track. Prior to November 2010, HTTP Archive was only set to monitor 1,000 web sites and a six-month record of this smaller sample space revealed a 16% drop in...

The iPad has found utility that has gone from games to FAA-approved navigation maps. Now, it is invading the realm of laboratory instrumentation, long a bailiwick of Windows PCs. Oscium's New iMSO-104 Oscilloscope Powered By Cypress's PSoC 3 Device Turns iPod touch, iPhone and iPad into Easy-to-Use Mixed Signal Scopes.

Initially thought to be a danger only in hospitals, bacteria with the antibiotic-proof gene than can be horizontally transferred to other bacteria has been found in New Delhi's tap water network by researchers from the University of Cardiff led by Dr. Timothy Walsh as reported in the Lancet Infectious Diseases website.

With delays in the implementation of Flash-based video in tablets coming from not just one manufacturer, it is beginning to look like the "Flash War" between Apple and Adobe is deeper than just market politics. There might actually be a difficult technical hurdle involved.

Some LCD manufacturers are using recent events in Japan as a pretext for negotiating higher prices and it is creating a negative impression in the market. Chris Connery, VP for PC and Large Format Commercial Displays at industry trade site Displaysearch.com, said that while LCD makers do face pressures to raise prices, it is not related to the natural disaster in Japan.

Advanced Micro Devices has accelerated shipping dates of their A-series Accelelerated Processing Unit chips designed to go head-to-head with Intel's Sandybridge processors and AMD has released videos of the new APUs outperforming the best from Intel.

Last April 3rd marked the passing of a milestone in computing that a majority of laptop users would not be aware of. It was the 30th anniversary of portable computing and what a ride it has been. Thirty years ago, Adam Osborne's name was a by-word in emerging personal computer communities. His name rang more bells than an upstart named Steve Jobs who chose to name his small computer company after a fruit and lent the same name, perhaps appropriately to his first product.

Researchers at the University of Illinois have confirmed that graphene – sheets of carbon that are one atom thick which can be made into computer chips, have inherent self-cooling capabilities. Scientists have known for a while that graphene can be used just like silicon to manufacture semiconductors however, the thermodynamic advantage of using it has not been completely understood until now.

They're bringing back the Commodore 64 keyboard computer. It looks like the same keyboard computer released 29 years ago as the big brother of the Commodore Vic-20. However, the retro look is only skin deep because the new C64 sports an updated hardware set. When it is finally released, expect to see an Intel Atom 525 CPU with Nvidia Ion2 graphics, 4 GB of DDR3 memory, a 1 TB HDD, HDMI output, a DVD/CD optical drive (Blu-ray optional), dual-link DVI, six USB ports, integrated 802.11n Wi-Fi, B...

Last month, Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame started shooting the film adaption of The Hobbit, another JRR Tolkien work. This early the film has been getting much attention and is anticipated to be another box office hit, but from a technology standpoint, what goes on behind the cameras are proving equally interesting.Jackson has eschewed film for digital sensors in shooting ('filming' sounds a bit over-taxed here) his latest epic. But before anyone has i...

Following an emergency motion to stop execution of a $625million judgement against it, Apple has won a reversal of a jury decision.

They call their music fast, cheap, and out of control. Fine. But what really impresses about the punk-pop-techno-new wave group called Ultramods is the fact that they were able to hammer out a full music album in two weeks using the Garageband application in the Apple iPad 2.

While the more recent financial scandals may have been somewhat US-centric such as the Madoff debacle and the charges against Galleon Group chief Raj Rajaratnam, financial markets worldwide are keen to learn what Wall Street is doing to prevent, discourage, and catch insider trading. No, Wall Street has not gone into police-mode. But it has to go through this exercise to claw back lost customer confidence.