Indeed, Google is working on ever more wireless applications. At WWW2008 in Beijing on Wednesday, Google’s president for Greater China, Kai-Fu Lee, gave a speech on “cloud computing” — the idea that data will be stored online and accessible from a variety of devices, following users from device to device rather than tying people to [...]

In the past six months, operators have seen the writing on the wall of their “walled gardens.” They recognize that consumers want access to the real Internet. They don’t want some stripped down version of the Web. And as a result they’re adapting.
Many of these changes are occurring now because the traditional PC-based Internet has [...]

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Murata Girl, aka Seiko-chan, can ride forward and backward at 2 inches per second–or idle in place. Tiny sensors tell the bot when it’s about to bump into something, and gyroscopes on her back, plus a spinning disc embedded in her stomach, help her stay balanced.
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As for eMachines, it remains committed to bringing you dual-core PCs on the cheap. We’re glad to see that it has embraced AMD’s full-fledged Athlon X2 chips, rather than the half-baked AMD Sempron chips it had lying around the warehouse. The T5246 offers the Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2GB of RAM, a 400GB hard drive, [...]

Truth be told, this remains a debate primarily between the elites and for the elites. These folks are ready to talk this topic to death, though the forums often degrade into personal slugfests.

When the focus of the debate shifted, Lessig brought up a more provocative point: Is the golden age of newspapers, when [...]

The estimate is based on 600 tests Keynote conducted across two major carrier networks on the Obama Campaign short code from August 13 to 22.

Failing to deliver the text before the press announced it probably didn’t help Obama’s marketing campaign, either.

There were just two problems with that plan. First, the Obama campaign chose the [...]

In one notable case, Fleischer passed the buck to the EU, and said that the only reason that Google kept its log data for so long was because it was forced to by EU regulations. In response to these claims, Fleischer was sharply criticized by the online press, with one journalist calling his statements “misleading” [...]

If you have voter-verified paper audit trails, voters can actually look at a physical representation of their cast vote, which provides a check against election fraud or malfunction. Without that paper trail, an intentional or unintentional glitch in the machine can skew the election and not be detected.
Shamos: The theory of the voter verified [...]

The contest rules stipulated that any winner sign a nondisclosure agreement immediately after a successful hack, so that the nature of the flaw could be disclosed to the vendor. Once Adobe and Apple patch their flaws, the nature of the flaw will be disclosed.
It held out as long as possible, but a Windows Vista [...]

Hulu's new sharing options now offer eight ways to share a video with others. Previously you were limited to e-mail and URL sharing.
Want to watch Hulu videos in your favorite RSS reader? Hulu's got you covered with nine feeds that will serve up playable videos for RSS readers.
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