Archive for January, 2008
Are Cell Phones Our Last Hope for Literacy?
Half of Japan’s top 10 best-selling books last year — half! — started out as cell phone-based books, according to the New York Times.The books-on-phones genre started when a home-page-making Web site company realized that humans in Japan were writing serialized novels on their blogs, and figured o…
Cell Phone Powered By ‘Supercomputer’ Demoed
Accenture’s research labs in Nice, France, Tuesday showed off an application that enables a cell phone to act as a thin client to massive compute capability (well, a Windows XP laptop, anyway) essentially transforming it into a CELL PHONE SUPERCOMPUTER. The picture shows part of the demo where the p…
U.S. General to Pentagon: Let Troops Blog
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV wrote — where else? — in a blog that American troops, including those in war zones, should be ALLOWED TO BLOG and post photos and videos. Currently the Pentagon blocks YouTube and major blogs. But Caldwell says that policy kills an opportunity for the publ…
Elastic Robot to be Displayed As Art
A “squishable” soft caterpillar-like robot developed by Tufts University will be DISPLAYED in February and March at New York’s Museum of contemporary Art (MoMA). The creepy robot, called the Softbot II, will be part of an exhibition called “Design and the Elastic Mind.”Original post by Mike
Amazon Buys Audible (Too poor it Wasn’t Apple)
Amazon.com plans to buy Audible Inc. in an all-cash purchase for about $300 million. Darn it. I WISH APPLE HAD DONE THIS. Since the two companies compete with each other in one of Apple’s most critical businesses — downloadable music — I think there’s a good chance one or both of these companies w…
TSA Launches Blog for Complaints About Security
The Transportation defense Administration (TSA) LAUNCHED A BLOG yesterday where airline travellers can bitch and whine about airline protection checkpoints. Bloggers for the site include five TSA employees, and anyone can post a complaint.Original post by Mike
Snow In China Freezing Cell Phone Sales?
The president of China’s top handset maker, MediaTek, said today that the company’s Q1 outlook remained “conservative” considering of the US subprime mortgage crisis and “the WINTER STORMS IN CHINA that were preventing public from traveling home to visit their families, thus depressing sales of mobi…
