Thursday, November 04, 2004

BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic [Slashdot:] 1:45:49 PM      Google It!.

Forget wikis, blogs and other online learning tools -- one professor says the future of higher education is mobile. - Howard Rheingold, the Feature. "This generation entering our schools is immersed in cyberculture and is untethered, mobile and wirelessly connected. At colleges and universities around the world, the nomadic swarms are already arriving," says Bryan Alexander, codirector of the Cent [Online Learning Update] 1:22:02 PM      Google It!.

Thunderbird 0.9 Released [Slashdot:] 10:15:30 AM      Google It!.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8. Like many who pound keyboards more than is healthy, I struggle with RSI (repetitive stress injury). When it started, about seven years ago, I began looking into voice recognition as a way to help minimize my keystroke output. At the time I concluded that the state of the art -- in both hardware and software -- wasn't where it needed to be. At intervals since then I've repeated the experiment and come to the same conclusion. But at some point, a series of incremental gains adds up to a tipping point. And for me, at least, voice recognition may finally be tipping. ... [Jon's Radio] $199+ 10:13:24 AM      Google It!.

China's Superior Technologies [Slashdot:] 9:49:14 AM      Google It!.