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Stephanie Clifford, New York Times
As concern increases in Washington about the amount of private data online, and as big sites like Facebook draw criticism that they collect consumers’ information in a stealthy manner, many Web start-ups are pursuing a more reciprocal approach — saying, in essence: give us your data and get something in return.
Barbara De Lollis, USA Today
InterContinental Hotels Group next month will begin testing new technology at two Holiday Inns that lets guests use their smartphones to unlock their hotel-room door, Hotel Check-In has learned. IHG figures that many guests today already carry smartphones and some would enjoy the freedom to avoid the front desk.
Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review
The company's latest prototypes show crisper, brighter color, and are being combined with flexible backplanes.
Erica Naone, Technology Review
Soluto's software runs in the background on a PC and is designed to detect problems that slow a machine down as well as solutions that speed it up again. The idea is to collect this information and use it to recommend software and hardware fixes to other users.
Christopher Mims, Technology Review
A new partnership between "music intelligence" platform Echonest and streaming music service Play.me lets developers create apps that offer new ways to find music and stream whole tracks for free.
Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review
A new screen could enable more sophisticated touch computing and glasses-free 3-D.
Kate Greene, Technology Review
A simple gesture-sensing interface could add new meaning to mobile-phone conversations.
Kristina Grifantini, Technology Review
"EyePhone" lets users browse through mobile phone menus at the blink of an eye.
Erica Naone, Technology Review
A new browser extension would allow developers to use third-party code without worrying about the vulnerabilities that such code might open up.
Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post
Google wants to fix two sticking points with the Web of today: watching video without having to fuss with extra browser plug-ins and finding Web-based applications that are good enough to bump off the disk-based programs you're used to.
Stephen Shankland, CNET News
Lance Ulanoff, PC Magazine
That robot standing over your shoulder is not waiting to grab you by the ears and tear you asunder. In fact, in Anybots' vision, its new QB mobile telepresence robot is simply checking in. To be fair, the robot isn't checking anything at all. It's your telecommuting boss, hundreds of miles away, who's checking up on you through QB.
Jennifer Saranow Schultz, New York Times
In a recent Bucks post, “Doctors, Let Me Pay You for E-Mail,” my colleague Ron Lieber said he would gladly pay his family doctors a flat annual fee to be able to e-mail them questions and get a timely electronic response, and he questioned why this isn’t the norm.
Well, it turns out that it’s possible now in one state, Minnesota, to pay $25 and then actually get treated for certain basic ailments online thanks to a just-introduced yearlong pilot program offered by the health care provider Park Nicollet Health Services and Zipnosis.com, a start-up in Minnesota.
Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review
DuPont has developed a printing process to bring down the cost of high-performance displays.
Stephen Shankland, CNET News
Google has released a programming tool to help move its Native Client project--and more broadly, its cloud-computing ambitions--from abstract idea to practical reality.
Prachi Patel, Technology Review
Machines made of DNA could one day assemble complex--and tiny--electrical and mechanical devices.
Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times
Erica Ogg, CNET News.com
Ashlee Vance, New York Times
A couple of easy-to-use applications have helped Autodesk come out of the design shadows to sell directly to consumers.
Josh Lowensohn, CNET News
Ina Fried, CNET News
It's always fun to catch up with Microsoft's Lili Cheng. In addition to being a bundle of energy, she's always working on some interesting project.
In her years, she has worked in Microsoft's research labs and on the Windows team. Since last year, she has been heading a social software project known as Future Social Experiences, or FUSE Labs. The effort, under chief software architect Ray Ozzie, looks at how to merge the social computing world with traditional software.
Josh Lowensohn, CNET News
Dropbox is getting more serious about its efforts to bring its cloud storage solution to mobile devices. On Tuesday the company is announcing a mobile API for developers to build ties to Dropbox's servers into their own apps, as well as formally launching first-party applications for the iPad and Android and BlackBerry devices.
Caroline McCarthy, CNET News
YouTube's fledgling movie rental program will soon be taking an interesting twist: some content owners will soon be able to use a "self service" tool to charge for access to their videos, product manager Hunter Walk said this week in an interview with MediaPost.
Josh Lowensohn, CNET News
The facial recognition technology that powers Face.com is now available to third-party developers. Those who are interested in using it inside of their applications will be able to take advantage of an open API that the company is making public Monday morning.
Stephen Williams, New York Times
For children, dealing with diabetes daily is anything but a game. But Bayer HealthCare, with its Didget, is aiming to take a little bit of the anxiety out of the arduous process of blood-sugar monitoring. The gimmick: video games.
Jenna Wortham, New York Times
Betaworks has become prominent in New York technology circles for helping entrepreneurs fine-tune and expand their companies. The company has guided some entrepreneurs to lucrative sales and helped others raise cash from notable New York and Silicon Valley investment firms.
Stephen Williams, New York Times
Sony’s newly released “personal Internet viewer,” the Dash, is a sort of sleek alarm clock in overdrive.
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