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Brooks Barnes, New York Times
In what it bills as an industry-defining moment — though rivals are sure to be skeptical about that — Disney Publishing plans to introduce a new subscription-based Web site. For $79.95 a year, families can access electronic replicas of hundreds of Disney books, from “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too” to “Hannah Montana: Crush-tastic!” Tweet
Erica Ogg, CNET News.com Tweet
Peter Glaskowsky, CNET News
Intel promotes the Turbo Boost technology in its new Core i7 Mobile processors as a way to adapt to the needs of the software and get more performance from the chip, but this isn't the real reason the technology exists. Tweet
Ron Nixon, New York Times
Each day, Ms. Muhima and two other young women at this small call center on the outskirts of Uganda’s capital city answer about 40 such calls. They are operators for Question Box, a free, nonprofit telephone hot line that is meant to get information to people in remote areas who lack access to computers. Tweet
Ariel Kaminer, New York Times
GoMobo does offer delivery, but its focus is on letting you pick up your food without the attendant hassles of waiting in line or waiting for change. Tweet
Pam Belluck, New York Times
Advances in technology, genetics, brain science and biology are making a goal that long seemed out of reach — restoring sight — more feasible. Tweet
Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
A startup uses PC idle time to crawl Web pages on demand. Tweet
Rafe Needleman, CNET News Tweet
Cade Metz, Register
Google has added a new contraption to its browser toolbar that lets you annotate any web page - and read annotations left by others. Tweet
Paul Krill, Infoworld News
Zend, Microsoft, and IBM lead the open source cloud portability effort, which seeks to eliminate vendor lock-in by helping developers create apps that can access all major cloud platforms. Tweet
Kim Severson, New York Times
As the digital age seeps into the kitchen, it’s time to reconsider whether too many cooks spoil the broth.
Crowd-sourcing recipes — corralling a group of strangers on the Internet to create and edit a bank of recipes — is gaining popularity and investors. Tweet
Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service
Swedish company Accumulate has implemented a version of the OpenID standard for mobile phones. Tweet
Steve Lohr, New York Times
Wrangling over patents is beginning to move out of the courtroom and into the marketplace. A flurry of new companies and investment groups has sprung up to buy, sell, broker, license and auction patents. And venture capital and private equity is starting to pour into the field. Tweet
Joyce Cohen, New York Times
Thanks to digital technology, cake toppers are more customizable than they have ever been. Tweet
Steve Lohr, New York Times
I.B.M. is providing more evidence on Thursday that its “smarter cities” program is more than a marketing campaign. The company is starting a project with the city of Dubuque, Iowa, that over the next several years will use sensors, software and Internet computing to give the city’s government and citizens the digital tools to measure, monitor and alter the way they use water, electricity and transportation. Tweet
Daniel Terdiman, CNET News
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a far-reaching and long-term cloud computing policy intended to cut costs on infrastructure and reduce the environmental impact of government computing systems. Tweet
MG Siegler, TechCrunch
Remotely connecting two computers is still a pretty big pain. It usually requires two parties jumping through a bunch of hoops to get things working. This includes each computer having the same software, using various passwords, and waiting on a connection. iTwin, a new startup launching today at TechCrunch50 aims to make the process entirely plug and play. Tweet
Migue Helft, New York Times
Google, long seen as an enemy by many in the news industry, is making a bold attempt to be seen as its friend with a new service it hopes will make it easier for readers to view newspaper and magazine articles. Tweet
Brooks Barnes, New York Times
Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are now considered essential parts of the entertainment factory’s marketing arsenal. Add another service to the list: SayNow, a tiny Silicon Valley company whose low-key approach — connecting stars and their fans through voice mail — is gaining traction, particularly among teenage audiences. Tweet
Steve Lohr, New York Times
Today, though, 21st-century technology carries the potential to nudge mainstream education back toward the 16th-century vision of one-to-one tutoring. Tweet
Penelope Green, New York Times
Ms. Lewis, 35, is part of a wave of young product designers intent on embedding electronics into “soft” areas like fashion or home furnishings. She has the can-do spirit that defines the modern crafter and hopes to engage other young women in her blinking, D.I.Y. world. Tweet
InformationWeek
Google is developing a micropayment scheme to allow users to buy digital content through its Checkout online payment system. Tweet
James Urquhart, CNET News.com
One of the most interesting aspects of the weeks leading up to and including this year's VMWorld was the incredible innovation in cloud-computing service offerings for enterprises--especially in the category of infrastructure as a service. A variety of service providers are stepping up their cloud offerings, and giving unprecedented capabilities to their customer's system administrators. Tweet
Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb
RSSCloud is an element that's always been present in the RSS 2.0 spec but has drawn new attention with the rise of interest in the Real-Time Web. Tweet
New York Times Tweet
Tim O’Reilly, TechCrunch Tweet
Tom Espiner, CNET News.com
Red Hat has launched a project to create an application programming interface that will let developers write applications for use across many kinds of clouds. Tweet
Henry Fountain, New York Times
Inspired by PageRank, Stefano Allesina of the University of Chicago and Mercedes Pascual of the University of Michigan have devised an algorithm of their own for the relationships in a food web. Tweet
Paul Krill, Infoworld
Red Hat is seeking REST standardization through an effort it is calling REST-*, which could serve as a counterpoint to the alternative WS-* specifications for Web services. Tweet
Jason F., Signal Vs Noise
So I guess what ultimately bothers me most about this New York Times piece, and many other pieces just like it (see TechCrunch daily), is the example that’s being set for the next generation of entrepreneurs. They’re seeing business success defined as “the projections say we’ll profitable later”. They’re constantly being exposed to excuses. They’re being taught that profits are these things that only happen one day far away. That’s just wrong. Tweet
Taylor Buley, Forbes
A new Wyse application uses virtualization to deliver computer desktops over the Internet. Tweet
Robert Lemos, MIT Technology Review
Scientists love the cell phone. Researchers have used the ubiquitous device as a portable polling station, a tracking device, and a sensor. Now, computer scientists want to use mobile phones to exchange data without using the phone's network, instead of communicating directly with cellular towers, base stations, and the occasional wireless network. Tweet
John Markoff, New York Times
Dr. Ross, an I.B.M. researcher, is growing a crop of mushroom-shaped silicon nanowires that may one day become a basic building block for a new kind of electronics. Nanowires are just one example, although one of the most promising, of a transformation now taking place in the material sciences as researchers push to create the next generation of switching devices smaller, faster and more powerful than today’s transistors. Tweet
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