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Warren Buckleitner, New York Times
Any parent knows the mixed-up emotions of putting a kindergartener on the school bus. What if you could send a scrap of your voice along for the ride?
Peter Wayner, New York Times
There is no still way to avoid the hard slog through vocabulary lists and grammar rules, but the books, tapes and even CDs of yesteryear are being replaced by e-mail, video chats and social networks.
Leslie Katz, CNET
A new sniff-sensing controller out of Israel may enable the severely paralyzed to navigate wheelchairs, surf the Net, and communicate in writing via controlled inhalations and exhalations.
Erica Naone, Technology Review
The development of a technique known as "fuzzing" has led to a shift in the way software bugs are discovered. Fuzzing involves repeatedly feeding randomly altered input into a program, causing the program to crash. Those inputs that caused it to crash could reveal an important bug.
John Pavlus, Technology Review
Creators of two dozen new programming languages--some designed to enable powerful new Web applications and mobile devices--presented their work last week in Portland, OR. The reason for the gathering was the first Emerging Languages Camp at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention.
Technology Review
Telling fact from fiction isn't always easy on the on the web. Now researchers have discovered a method that could help automate the process.
Simson Garfinkel, Technology Review
Instead of enforcing complex passwords, as many organizations do, the new scheme makes sure than no more than a few users can have the same password, which has a similar overall effect on security. Further research from Microsoft also reveals why only some organizations insist on very complex passwords.
Om Malik, GigaOM
Erica Naone, Technology Review
The SuperDialer is the first of a series of releases planned by Vlingo. All are intended to add a stronger artificial intelligence backbone to the company's speech recognition software.
Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review
Electronic paper that reflects light, instead of filtering it from a backlight, as most conventional displays do, is easy on the eyes and saves on battery life. But this reliance on ambient light becomes a handicap when trying to make a bright, beautiful color display. Researchers at HP are addressing the problem by developing new materials that use ambient light to create a more vibrant color for video-capable, low-power screens.
Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal
The drives, called the LifeStudio series, come with simple backup software that, from one screen, performs both local and online backups of your important data at regular intervals, and allows you to restore lost files from either backup repository.
Steve Lohr, New York Times
Google is bringing Android software development to the masses. The company will offer a software tool, starting Monday, that is intended to make it easy for people to write applications for its Android smartphones.
Technology Review
A technique that implants nitrogen vacancies into diamond at a rate of thousands per second could be the scalable technology that quantum computer scientists have been looking for.
Matt Rosoff, CNET
A recent trend among live performers is to record a concert, immediately transfer the recording to flash drives, and sell them as fans walk past the merchandise table on their way out.
Stephen Shankland, CNET
Google has begun work on a new item on a long list of technologies designed to make applications running on the Web more competitive with those that run natively on a machine's operating system: an interface to know which way is up.
Tom Simonite, Technology Review
A depth-sensing camera and palm-top projector turn an ordinary work surface into interactive one.
Erica Naone, Technology Review
A new product called Yolink, which launched this week, aims to help users figure out which search results are most relevant. It does this by looking at the contents of the Web pages that a list of search result link to. The company bills itself as a step toward semantic search, because it attempts to find meaning in the contents of a Web page. And it can do this even though most pages aren't marked up in the formats typically used to help machines interpret content. The product is made by TigerLogic, a company based in Irvine, CA.
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