technology
In case you missed yesterday’s big launch, Microsoft released Microsoft Surface, a dynamic, multi-touch, “natural” interface initially aimed for use at hotels, kiosks, and casinos. I didn’t think anyone was close to releasing something like this onto the market, and it was quite a surprise to see Microsoft leading the way with this new […]
BBC News announces the CBS purchase of online social music site of last.fm for $280 million. Included in the agreement, last.fm will retain its current identity and management. It will be interesting to see how corporate ownership will affect the music service.
Maybe I’ll turn off Google Notifier and push Mail’s schedule back to checking for new mail “every hour.”
BBC News highlights a study that finds that incessant email/txt/message checking causes people to suffer as if they’ve pulled an all-nighter. An IQ test showed the distractees losing an average of 10-points - “more than […]
Giga OM and Iotum take a look at “presence,” one of the supposed killer apps in the next generation of mobile technologies.
Presence will drive a fundamental change in the way that communications networks are used today. Today, callers have no way of knowing whether the party being called is available, or busy, or would consider […]
Designed by Microsoft and the University of Washington, this 3D Photo Tourism concept is incredible.
Photo tourism is a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D. Our approach takes as input large collections of images from either personal photo collections or Internet photo sharing sites (a), and automatically computes each photo’s viewpoint and a […]
Charlie Rose interviews Bill Gates at Stanford University back in November of 2006. Gates discusses comparisons of his work at Microsoft to that at the foundation, the switch to philanthropic efforts, and globalization’s impact on health care, innovation, education, and America’s relative global position. Although it comes only near the end of the […]
New York Magazine looks at the “Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll:”
There is plenty of variation among this younger cohort, including a set of Luddite dissenters: “If I want to contact someone, I’ll write them a letter!” grouses Katherine Gillespie, a student at Hunter College. (Although when I look her up online, I find […]
I posted this over at the blog I’m keeping for my new media course, but it fits over here as well.
I’ve been meaning to read City of Sound’s post, A New Musical Experience, for awhile now, and finally found some time this weekend. It’s rather long, but an excellent collection of thoughts on music and […]
With a nearly unmanageable queue of things to read, inboxes to manage, and feeds to stay up to date with, as well as everything I have to read for class, I’m usually feeling pretty overloaded by the sheer volume of available material. Though scrapping all of my feeds and starting anew helped for awhile, I’m […]
Time has the scoop on the development process and story behind the flashy new iPhone. While the phone itself is absolutely stunning, the implications of the technologies integrated into the product are even more amazing. I’m sure someone will create an app to control iTunes running playing through a home stereo with the iPhone over […]
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