10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
1. Study: Android to lead smartphone growth
Infonetics Research released a study that projects that the smartphone market will continue to grow despite an eight percent drop in mobile-phone sales this year. The report also predicts that "open source platforms like Android" are leading the way in shaping the smartphone market.
More @ LinuxDevices
2. Researchers identify brain activity related to phantom limbs
Researchers in Switzerland think they had identified the regions of the brain responsible for creating phantom limbs and the senses that go along with them. Scientists studied a stroke victim who claimed that the phantom limb of her now-paralyzed left arm could do a number of things a normal limb could do, including "scratch an itch on her head, with an actual sense of relief."
More @ Examiner.com
3. Two new improvements to Google results pages
Today we're rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions -- both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.
More @ Googleblog
Infonetics Research released a study that projects that the smartphone market will continue to grow despite an eight percent drop in mobile-phone sales this year. The report also predicts that "open source platforms like Android" are leading the way in shaping the smartphone market.
More @ LinuxDevices
2. Researchers identify brain activity related to phantom limbs
Researchers in Switzerland think they had identified the regions of the brain responsible for creating phantom limbs and the senses that go along with them. Scientists studied a stroke victim who claimed that the phantom limb of her now-paralyzed left arm could do a number of things a normal limb could do, including "scratch an itch on her head, with an actual sense of relief."
More @ Examiner.com
3. Two new improvements to Google results pages
Today we're rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions -- both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.
More @ Googleblog
4. Vexduino
5. Two Great Kid-Friendly Linux Projects
At any rate this is not about me, but about two genuine community-driven Linux projects that aim to help children learn about tech, and to engage them in high tech in a good way, rather than trying to turn them into good little compliant button-pushers: the Helios Project and the Qimo 4 Kids project.
More @ LinuxToday
6. Apple developing 'stealth' biometric security for iPhone
Apple has developed a new technique that would hide a biometric reader inside an iPhone or a Mac and let owners lock down their systems with fingerprints or even facial recognition -- all without ever having to break from their usual routine.
More @ AppleInsider
7. Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?
When Facebook signed up its 100 millionth member last August, its employees spread out in two parks in Palo Alto, Calif., for a huge barbecue. Sometime this week, this five-year-old start-up, born in a dorm room at Harvard, expects to register its 200 millionth user.
More @ NYTimes.com
At any rate this is not about me, but about two genuine community-driven Linux projects that aim to help children learn about tech, and to engage them in high tech in a good way, rather than trying to turn them into good little compliant button-pushers: the Helios Project and the Qimo 4 Kids project.
More @ LinuxToday
6. Apple developing 'stealth' biometric security for iPhone
Apple has developed a new technique that would hide a biometric reader inside an iPhone or a Mac and let owners lock down their systems with fingerprints or even facial recognition -- all without ever having to break from their usual routine.
More @ AppleInsider
7. Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?
When Facebook signed up its 100 millionth member last August, its employees spread out in two parks in Palo Alto, Calif., for a huge barbecue. Sometime this week, this five-year-old start-up, born in a dorm room at Harvard, expects to register its 200 millionth user.
More @ NYTimes.com
8. New Airplane Interior Design Allows for Romantic Dinner for Two
9. Users already honing their IE 9 wish lists
Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) to the Web exactly a week ago. But that doesn’t mean users and developers are satisfied. Instead, many are champing at the bit to get Microsoft to commit to their favorite missing features for IE 9.
More @ ZDNetBlog
10. The genius behind Google’s web browser
About five miles outside Aarhus in Denmark – the country’s second-biggest city and the unofficial capital of Jutland – sits a converted farmhouse. Inside, in a large wood-floored space with vaulted ceilings – once part of the stables – a big brown leather sofa is positioned a few feet from a DVD player. From the outside, with its rough cobbles and small, recessed windows, the farmhouse still seems steeped in the past; yet this is the place where a key part of the future of the internet first took shape.
More @ FT.com
Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) to the Web exactly a week ago. But that doesn’t mean users and developers are satisfied. Instead, many are champing at the bit to get Microsoft to commit to their favorite missing features for IE 9.
More @ ZDNetBlog
10. The genius behind Google’s web browser
About five miles outside Aarhus in Denmark – the country’s second-biggest city and the unofficial capital of Jutland – sits a converted farmhouse. Inside, in a large wood-floored space with vaulted ceilings – once part of the stables – a big brown leather sofa is positioned a few feet from a DVD player. From the outside, with its rough cobbles and small, recessed windows, the farmhouse still seems steeped in the past; yet this is the place where a key part of the future of the internet first took shape.
More @ FT.com
