Imagine your parking meter being able to send you a warning that it is about to expire -- or being able to add time to your parking meter from wherever you are just by calling your cell phone. And wouldnt it be so much more convenient if you could just slide your credit card through the meter instead of searching for the right coins and inserting them!

Well, those features and more are now available for parking meter users, along with new capabilities for those in charge of administering them, with the merged creation of Duncan Solutions, Inc. the first company to provide such a large and diversified umbrella of products and services for the parking and enforcement industries. Read more

Microsoft said IE8 final will not be completed until 2009. The next release, called a "release candidate" or RC, will come out in the first part of 2009. This means we could probably look forward to seeing IE 8 next summer sometime if one were to guess.

"Our next public release of IE (typically called a "release candidate") indicates the end of the beta period," general manager Dean Hachamovitch said. "We want the technical community of people and organizations interested in Web browsers to take this update as a strong signal that IE8 is effectively complete and done."Read more

An IBM engineer has passed us information regarding a new technology that IBM is developing dealing with military grade armor. While the source does not specifically tell us how the new technology works but it would be a replacement for Kevlar and would reflect any incoming bullets.

It makes us wonder what direction IBM is heading with this new technology, with the patent already applied. While we still aren't sure exactly sure how the technology will work, long as it protects and does so better than Kevlar - it might be a revolutionary product that could change the battlefield as we see it today.

That's just what scientists are telling us. They are talking about resurrecting an extinct species for as little as $10 million dollars. Using newer and improved technology scientist claim to be able to bring back any species that went extinct within the last 60,000 years, which includes Neanderthals.

Here's how it would work. Scientists would modify the DNA of an elephant egg so that it would progressively resemble the DNA in a mammoth egg. The final stages of the egg could then be brought to term in an elephant mother, and mammoths might once again roam the Earth. This is all done by finding DNA differences with the genome of its nearest living relative, the elephant.Read more

It's official, AT&T announces 18Mbps U-Verse Tier. The new tier for UVerse is now their fastest offering which they confirm as "Internet Max 18" and will be available to eligible residential customers on November 9th, 2008. The new tier is specifically geared towards those customers close enough to a DSLAM and those that don't go over the maximum 25Mbps for both data (Internet) and TV.

While there have been reports of customers syncing at 100Mbps, there probably aren't very many that can actually obtain the 18Mbps service along with multiple HD feeds. Distance and what TV services a customer has, will greatly limit the new tiers availability.Read more

Say goodbye to unlimited data transfers. AT&T is now testing the idea of implementing monthly data caps for its broadband users and could result in a more widespread rollout in the near future.

The trail run is being put to the test in the city of Reno, Nevada. Beginning November 1st, 2008 users will be capped at a monthly rate between 20GB - 150GB depending on your DSL service speed. Any data transferred above this limit will be bill at $1 per gigabyte, following a one-month grace period.Read more