The Mobile World Congress was held in Barcelona Spain last week, and companies involved in the mobile phone industry traveled from far and wide to attend and show off their latest technologies. Among the highlights from the event were some major announcements that promise to propel the industry forward by increasing competition between the big [...]
This past week Google unveiled its own social network: Google Buzz. This isn’t Google’s first attempt at being social, Google Orkut, Open Social, and Latitude, are previously released applications designed to support online social engagement, but none have garnered much attention. Google Buzz, on the other hand, has made quite a splash in its first [...]
After months of speculation and anticipation, Apple’s latest creation is finally unveiled. Last Wednesday, with a packed amphitheater of journalists poised on the edges of their seats, Steve Jobs and colleagues showed off Apple’s new tablet PC, the iPad. Since then bloggers and journalists have been filling pages with there impressions of the iPad ranging [...]
The Consumer Electronics Show has concluded in Las Vegas, launching a number of new technologies and providing insight into important technologies of 2010. The three product categories garnering the most attention were 3D HD television, tablet and slate computers and ebook readers, and smartphones and superphones. Last year’s CES saw the introduction of the 3-D [...]
Both Microsoft and Apple are investing heavily in touchscreen technologies. The soon to be released Windows 7 software has robust support for touchscreen devices, and its a safe bet that we’ll see touchscreens in Apple PCs very soon as well. One related technology that is looming large on the horizon is haptics. Haptics provides the [...]
There are dozens of pilot programs taking place in schools across the country analyzing the benefits and drawbacks of replacing bound textbooks with digital e-texts. While there may be benefits to students in cost and reduced backpack bulk, a Wall Street Journal article found that e-books are getting mixed reviews from students. A study at [...]
This week Google announced a big new product: Chrome OS, an operating system designed for Netbook computers. Named after Google Chrome Web browser, the new OS will extend the browser to take over the computer system. Utilizing Linux at its core, Chrome OS is designed for users that predominantly work with Web-based services and applications. [...]
Remember the $100 laptop from OLPC? It was the tiny laptop computer designed to bring affordable computing to school children in developing countries. Well, Sugar Labs, designer of the Sugar open-source operating system used on the OLPC XO Laptop, has refined the OS and all of the educational software it includes so that it can [...]
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