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Thursday, January 18, 2007

A Way to Lose the Headset and Still Make Cheap Skype Calls. Netgear[base ']s Dual-Mode Cordless Phone with Skype mixes plain old landline communications with cutting-edge Internet calling. By JOHN BIGGS. [NYT > Technology]
9:25:52 AM      Google It!.

Entrepreneurial Edge: The Route From Research to Start-Up. Many universities now have offices of technology transfer looking to turn research into commercial ventures. By JAMES FLANIGAN. [NYT > Technology]
9:24:35 AM      Google It!.

Take an Internet Call and Some Notes, or Just Doodle. Nokia[base ']s N800 Internet tablet lets you browse the Internet, send and receive e-mail, download audio and video and get R.S.S. feeds. By IVAN BERGER. [NYT > Technology]
9:23:35 AM      Google It!.

Apple Profit Rose 78% in Quarter. Apple delivered $1 billion in profit for its first quarter, based largely on the Christmas performance of its iPod music player business. By JOHN MARKOFF. [NYT > Technology]
9:21:56 AM      Google It!.

Scientists discover stage at which an embryonic cell is fated to become a stem cell. University of Cambridge scientists have discovered the stage at which some of the cells of a fertilized mammalian egg are fated to develop into stem cells and why this occurs. Their evidence suggests that differences between the embryonic cells a... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News]
9:20:54 AM      Google It!.

Virtual reality spreading in business world. The $2 million Vis Lab at the Joshi center at Wright State University allows businesses to outsource virtual-reality work without having to buy the technology themselves.  The technology is used for simulation, training, and to speed up and improve... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News]
9:19:51 AM      Google It!.

Intel builds 80-core chip. Intel's researchers have produced a research prototype 80-core chip that uses less energy than a quad-core processor and has teraflop performance capabilities.It expects to be able to produce a chip with 80 cores in five to eight years.... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News]
9:18:57 AM      Google It!.

Research removes major obstacle from mass production of tiny circuits. A Princeton-led team has developed Nanoimprint, a form of nanoimprint lithography that uses a nanometer-scale mold to pattern computer chips and other nanostructures. This technique allows for creation of circuits and devices with features not muc... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News]
9:16:25 AM      Google It!.

Nanowires as brain sensors. Rodolfo Llinas has developed 500-nm. nanowires that can be inserted into the blood vessels of human brains. They nanowires may allow for stimulating the sen... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] this was showcased in a PBS pilot 22ndcentury mind which was a little fluff piece on brain implants --BL

9:14:54 AM      Google It!.

Latest ELI White Papers Explore Web Savvy and Information Fluency.

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The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative has taken on information fluency and Web savvy in the Net Gen age in three recent white papers:

[EDUCAUSE CONNECT blogs]
9:09:45 AM      Google It!.

Microsoft Grava?. Has anyone hear about Microsoft Grava? I hadn't heard of it before and just stumbled upon it.
[base "]Grava[per thou] is the codename to a new set of tools from Microsoft[base ']s Education Product Group that will allow the education community to create and assemble materials that will increase discovery and allow learners to go at their own pace and learning style. Grava tools are slated for release in the Fall of 2007.
You can find out more at:
https://connect.microsoft.com/Grava [EDUCAUSE CONNECT blogs]
9:08:43 AM      Google It!.

Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register. Thebes writes "Under Senate Bill S.1, political bloggers with a readership of over 500 who comment on policy matters or hope to incite 'grassroots' action amongst their readers would be forced to register with the Federal Government as lobbyists."[Slashdot]
9:07:23 AM      Google It!.

Will Telecommuting Kill a Career?. coondoggie writes to mention that Network World has a piece taking a look at the effects of the telecommute on advancement within your career. From the article: "Over 60% of 1,320 global executives surveyed by executive search firm Korn/Ferry International said they believe that telecommuters are less likely to advance in their careers in comparison to employees working in traditional office settings. Company executives want face time with their employees, the study said."[Slashdot]
9:06:04 AM      Google It!.

Deathblow To a Voting Machine. SiggyRadiation writes "According to their newsletter (my English translation here), the Dutch group that 'doesn't trust the voting computers' has won a round against the industry and the civil servants that seem hell-bent on reintroducing voting machines [~] NewVote, made by SDU [~] that the Dutch minister of the interior has suspended. Apparently SDU provided 5 slightly different samples of its machine to the Dutch version of the NSA (well... the very humble Dutch version anyway) for testing purposes. Of those five, four machines emitted radiation in such a way that the votes cast could be monitored. SDU's NewVote received its final deathblow when it became clear that the one machine that stayed within the radiation limits used a green-on-red color-scheme for its screen. And that would be a small problem for the 4% of all men that cannot distinguish between red and green."[Slashdot]
8:58:25 AM      Google It!.

At last! A free, open and cross platform desktop publisher.

Derek Chirnside points to a gem of an application - Scribus.

Scribus brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOSX, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of [base "]press-ready[per thou] output and new approaches to page layout.

Here[base ']s my quick screenrecording of myself finding my way through the application. At first glance its beautiful! Great application for creating fliers, fancy layout handouts, posters, and books.


Click To Play

An even better screenrecording
comes from Jason Scott.

[Learn Online]
8:53:14 AM      Google It!.

LG's New Phone Resembles IPhone . SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's LG Electronics Co. said Thursday it is launching a new mobile phone that incorporates a buttonless touch-screen that resembles the much-hyped Apple Inc. iPhone _ and will be in stores next month.
 By AP. [washingtonpost.com - Technology - Industry News, Policy, and Reviews] good ideas catch on very quickly now as the pace of innovation quickens --BL

8:50:43 AM      Google It!.

How Real Is Too Real? . A controversial computer game based on the Columbine High School shootings of 1999, called Super Columbine Massacre RPG, has nearly upended a game-design competition that kicks off today in Salt Lake City. By Mike Musgrove. [washingtonpost.com - Technology - Industry News, Policy, and Reviews] this is not benign entertainment - violent games increase the probability of antisocial attitudes and action as the line between real and virtual blurs --BL

8:43:37 AM      Google It!.

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