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by Neil Mcallister, InfoWorld
The upstart "computational knowledge engine" claims its results are original works, raising important questions about software and intellectual property. Tweet
by David Meyer, CNET News.com
CSR has unveiled a new GPS architecture that it says will let portable devices be constantly location-aware without draining their batteries. Tweet
by Mike Musgrove, Washington Post
Fans of the music video game Rock Band were abuzz this month when its creators announced that they will throw open the doors to the online store where it sells downloadable tracks for the game. But where most players will be logging on to the service to spend their money, at least one local software programmer sees a business opportunity. Tweet
by Saul Hansell, New York Times
A start-up called Attributor, based in Redwood City, Calif., is proposing an approach that is more carrot than stick. It has developed an automated way for newspapers to share in the advertising revenue from even the tiniest sites that copy their articles. Tweet
by Brad Stone, New York Times
After a decade of rampant digital piracy that has helped to gut album sales, a raft of new streaming music sites is making the experience of legally finding and listening to music just as seductive as downloading it free. Tweet
by Neil Mcallister, InfoWorld
For young developers learning programming for the first time, curiosity and enthusiasm are more important than rigor and discipline. Tweet
by Anil Dash
Pushbutton is a name for what I believe will be an upgrade for the web, where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cost and without relying on any single company like Twitter or Facebook. The pieces of this platform have just come together to enable a whole set of new features and applications that would have been nearly impossible for an average web developer to build in the past. Tweet
by Jennifer Medina, New York Times
The seating arrangements are compared to airport traffic patterns. The student schedules are called playlists. And lesson plans are generated by a complicated computer algorithm for the 80 students in the class.
This could be the school of the future, according to the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, who visited Middle School 131 in Chinatown on Tuesday to promote a pilot program, the School of One. Tweet
by Claire Cain Miller, New York Times Tweet
by Jenna Wortham, New York Times Tweet
by Paul Krill, InfoWorld
Silk 2009 upgrades make it easier to build and automate tests and are better suited for agile development than previous Silk tools. Tweet
by Colin Barras, New Scientist
Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus at New York University created the camera in an attempt to do away with intrusive regular flashes. To make their "dark flash" camera, they modified a flashbulb to emit light over a wider range of frequencies and filter out visible light. The pair also had to remove the filters that usually prevent a camera's silicon image sensor detecting IR and UV rays. Tweet
by Alex Payne
Social networks alone aren’t focused enough tools to bubble up and share quality content. Tweet
by Neil Mcallister, InfoWorld
Artificial intelligence could be the key to building more efficient software for mobile platforms and multicore chips. MilePost is giving it a shot. Tweet
by Claire Cain Miller, New York Times
Wiz World Online, developed by 8D World, a start-up based in Shanghai, China, and Woburn, Mass., was built by Rick Goodman, who developed the popular games Age of Empires and Empire Earth. In his latest virtual world, instead of re-enacting historical battles, Chinese children can learn English. Tweet
by Josh Lowensohn, CNET News.com
As a follow-up to its free, 50-user microblogging product, Socialtext is launching a new paid service for large to enterprise-sized companies that lets them run the Twitter-like service behind the firewall, and with many more users. Tweet
by Ciara O'Rourke, New York Times
A program introduced by the Swiss Post in June allows subscribers to receive scans of their unopened envelopes by e-mail message and then decide which ones they want opened and scanned in their entirety, to be read online. Tweet
by Justin Mullins, New Scientist
Within the past couple of years, memristors have morphed from obscure jargon into one of the hottest properties in physics. They've not only been made, but their unique capabilities might revolutionise consumer electronics. More than that, though, along with completing the jigsaw of electronics, they might solve the puzzle of how nature makes that most delicate and powerful of computers - the brain. Tweet
by Laura Sydell, NPR
Reading a book evokes solitary images of lying in bed late at night or sitting beneath a beach umbrella lost in a fantasy. But BookGlutton.com, a Web site that permits readers to chat about books as they read, may be transforming a lone activity into a communal one. Tweet
by Emily Goligoski, Mashable Tweet
by Colin Barras, New Scientist
It's not only humans that can learn from watching television. Software developed in the UK has worked out the basics of sign language by absorbing TV shows that are both subtitled and signed. Tweet
by Louis Gray Tweet
by David Wiley, The Chronicle Of Higher Education
Professors and universities should work to take advantage of the new economic realities of the Web, and create a collection of online educational resources that students and institutions can pay for once and then own and reuse indefinitely. Tweet
by Miguel Helft and Ashlee Vance, New York Times
In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs based on its Chrome Web browser.
The move sharpens the already intense competition between Google and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system controls the basic functions of the vast majority of personal computers. Tweet
by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a fabric made of a mesh of light-sensitive fibers that collectively act like a rudimentary camera. Tweet
by Vundu Goel, New York Times
If the past four years have taught GreenPrint anything, it’s that progress can be slow. Tweet
by Paul Krill, InfoWorld
W3C looks to focus efforts on HTML upgrade geared to Web development. Tweet
by Paul Krill, InfoWorld
Atlassian this week introduced FishEye 2, which adds social networking capabilities to source code repositories, including Subversion and CVS, and boosts agile programming projects. Tweet
by Anne-Marie Corley, Technology Review
A new robot navigates using humanlike visual processing and object detection. Tweet
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