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Virginia Heffernan, New York Times
American children in 2010 have a bright, clear reason for being. They exist to furnish subjects for digital photographs that can be corrected, cropped, captioned, organized, categorized, albumized, broadcast, turned into screen savers and brandished on online social networks.
Josh Lowensohn, CNET News
Read It Later is launching a service called digest that turns your saved bookmarks into a constantly updating news page that's sorted by topic.
Marguerite Reardon, CNET News
The city of Wilmington, N.C., and the surrounding county of New Hanover, N.C., are among the first communities to test wireless applications using TV white space technology. The city and county have partnered with TV Band Service and Spectrum Bridge to launch a new experimental network that uses white space spectrum to provide wireless connectivity to surveillance cameras and environmental sensors in a "smart city" deployment.
Ed Baig, USA Today
Now, New York City-area cable operator Cablevision Systems says it's developed what's it is calling a first-of -its kind "PC-to-TV Media Relay" service that will allow digital cable customers to securely display whatever is on the computer screen on the TV, at the press of a button and in real time. The service will be deployed over Cablevision's network, without requiring any extra equipment.
Daniel Terdiman, CNET News
A new prototype application from the Swedish firm The Astonishing Tribe can auto-discover social-networking information about someone based on nothing more than a mobile phone photo.
Paul Miller, Engadget
John Markoff, New York Times
Researchers are developing a system to create renderings of neighborhoods and potentially even entire cities.
Motoko Rich, New York Times
In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks, Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes.
Nick Bilton, New York Times
The latest online phenomenon connects you through webcams to a random, fathomless succession of strangers from across the globe.
John Brandon, Computerworld
More and more, your desktop can do what a supercomputer does -- and more possibilities will unfold in the next decade.
Ashlee Vance, New York Times
Companies at the Mobile World Congress showed ways to control devices with your body and eyes.
Ashlee Vance, New York Times
Fisher-Price says it will soon offer a tiny touch-screen computer for tots.
Ashlee Vance, New York Times
The frenetic pace of the mobile phone industry has forced some of the technology world’s largest players to make a break with the past.
Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times
Gesture-based computer interfaces are almost a reality, says John Underkoffler, who led the team that dreamed up the version shown in the 2002 science-fiction movie.
Brooke Crothers, CNET News
The technology merger will fuse Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo software to form a new operating environment dubbed MeeGo, which is expected to power a range of devices, including pocketable mobile computers, Netbooks, tablets, connected TVs, and in-vehicle infotainment systems.
Erika Jonietz, Technology Review
Wireless optical networks could provide gigabit-per-second data transfer.
Jasmine France, CNET News
Radio Tuna let's you easily search thousands of online radio stations based on the artists played, the genre, or the name of the station.
Erika Jonietz, Technology Review
Wireless optical networks could provide gigabit-per-second data transfer.
Matt Hickey, CNET News
When I initially saw Microsoft's Surface multitouch tabletop device about three years ago, the first thing I thought, as a geek, was how absolutely perfect it would be for Dungeons and Dragons games.
Brad Stone, New York Times
AOL is opening up its popular AOL Instant Messenger network and combining Facebook's chat service with its own.
Roy Furchgott, New York Times
A new social-network aggregator, Google Buzz, begins its rollout this week.
Ashlee Vance, New York Times
Google will unveil add-ons to Gmail that let people post and view messages about their day-to-day activities.
Steve Lohr, New York Times
In data-center computing, the big trend today is to move from building blocks to bundles.
Randall Stross, New York Times
On FooPets and Puzzle Pirates, young players can buy virtual goods like pet food through Kwedit, with a promise to pay later.
Joshua Brustein, New York Times
Aardvark, a social search company, is developing a new paradigm for Web searches that taps into social networks, not automated formulas, to provide answers to queries.
Dick Brass, New York Times
Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator.
Ashlee Vance, New York Times
Asus is developing new form factors for computers, such as a bracelet and a roll-up tablet, that rely on flexible, ultralight displays.
Eric Pfanner, New York Times
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