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Erica A. Taub, New York Times
Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
This website will be dark until Jan 2010, as I wind down the year for a short vacation and some down-time.
Have some holiday fun, and see you in the new year.
Miguel Helft, New York Times
More than a million businesses use Google’s search advertising system to attract customers, a strategy combining gamesmanship with frequent data analysis.
Tom Krazit, CNET News
In a 4,000-word manifesto recently penned by Google's Jonathan Rosenberg on the importance of being open, the company once again swears it is a force for good.
Steve Lohr, New York Times
The country needs more cool nerds — people who can use computing in ways that haven’t even been thought of yet. High schools are starting to do their part.
Tim Hornyak, CNET News
A humanoid robot has been deployed to a supermarket in Japan to help senior shoppers with their grocery purchases.
Brian X. Chen, Wired News
The debate over the longevity of native software continues. Mozilla, creator of Firefox, claims that its new browser for smartphones will contribute to the death of smartphone app stores.
Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
VoIP does for voice what cloud computing did for the Web, experts say.
John Markoff, New York Times
In a speech given just a few weeks before he was lost at sea off the California coast in January 2007, Jim Gray, a database software pioneer and a Microsoft researcher, sketched out an argument that computing was fundamentally transforming the practice of science.
Steve Lohr, New York Times
Microsoft is releasing new image-matching software that promises to streamline and automate the difficult task of monitoring child pornography on the Internet. Tweet
Eric A. Taub, New York Times
Why would you want a voice activated clock? If you’ve ever tried to set the alarm on a hotel’s clock radio as you’re falling asleep, you could appreciate this type of product.
And if you’re blind or have very limited sight, setting a clock by simply speaking commands (and then having the time read to you) could be a godsend. Tweet
Erica Naone, Technology Review
Many Web companies already use analytics to optimize their content throughout the course of a day. Some online news sites will, for example, tweak the layout on their home page by monitoring the popularity of different articles. But traditionally, information has been collected, stored, and then analyzed afterward. Using seconds-old data to tailor content automatically is the next step. In particular, a lot of the information generated in real-time relates to advertising. A few startup companies are developing technologies to process this data rapidly. Tweet
John Markoff, New York Times
Researchers who in the 1960s tackled a field that is still mystifying scientists come together again. Tweet
Claire Cain Miller, New York Times
Many local governments are turning over big chunks of data to programmers to create useful Web sites and apps. Tweet
Anne Eisenberg, New York Times
Now there is a new approach that may adapt well to textbook pages: two-screen e-book readers with a traditional e-paper display on one screen and a liquid-crystal display on the other to render graphics like science animations in color. Tweet
Eric Schmidt, Wall Street Journal
Video didn't kill the radio star, and the Internet won't destroy news organizations. It will foster a new, digital business model. Tweet
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Gordon Haff, CNET News Tweet
Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review
A new version of Netvibes focuses on real-time data from around the internet. Tweet
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