Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Discover Pandora’s Latest Haven
Installation and registration for Pandora is highly simple. All you need is to enter the names of your favorite artists and you will get a play station automatically generated with the music you like. You can further refine your collection with “thumbs up” or “thumbs down”.
The iPhone has also been applauded by TechCrunch. Reports suggest that iPhone listeners attracted 3.3 million tracks every 2 seconds the other weekend. The music stream functions on EDGE, 3G, and Wi-Fi networks.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Check out the World’s Tiniest Radio
The world’s smallest radio is here! According to a new study, the carbon nanotube- a hollow tube-shaped molecule 10,000 times smaller than human hair- can perform all the basic functions of a radio when it's wired up to a few other simple parts, a new study shows.
When a radio wave of a specific frequency impinges on the nanotube, it begins to vibrate vigorously. An electric field applied to the nanotube forces electrons to be emitted from its tip.
This nanotube radio is over 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 times smaller than the Philco vacuum tube radio from the 1930s.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Radio Star Alan Jones to undergo surgery for Prostate Cancer
Sydney’s top rated radio personality, Alan Jones, announced that he is suffering from prostate cancer and will undergo surgery.
In a press conference in the boardroom of Macquarie Radio Network, Jones said that he would be back on air 4 weeks post surgery.
Jones, now 67, is the owner of 2GB and also hosts its breakfast shows. The surgery will keep him back from fans for quite a long time.
Further, Jones said that he had been diagnosed with cancer in the middle stage of seriousness. The surgery would be carried out at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital in two weeks, and Jones said he intended to be on air until the eve of the operation.