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New Items Since 10/25/2005 – Unranked
Mum, My Cereal's Talking!
Books with photos that move - Harry Potter-style - may soon be with us. But before that, get ready for boxes of cereal that extol their virtues via a built-in video display, and chocolate bars that flash to attract attention. .add your new item here... http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/mum-my-cereals-talking/2005/10/16/1129401144959.html
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802.11n: Is it Already Too Slow?
The 802.11n specification, speeding wireless packets along at 100Mbps, is already too slow for some organizations. http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3510911
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Battle Lessons: What the Generals don't Know
New Yorker article on just-in-time learning in Iraq (January 2005)
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050117fa_fact
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Blog-Writing Teachers Crowd Information Highway
Teachers are turning to the world of blogs as a way to express themselves – and reach their students. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/12054027.htm
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Broadband Growth Narrow in US
After years of double-digit growth, the rate at which Americans are switching to high-speed broadband Internet connections is slowing considerably and could slow further. http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/09/21/broadband-growth-peaks-cx-ld_0921broadband.html
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Broadband Ubiquity Chugging Along
Eighty-eight million American households will be Internet-connected by the year 2010, and 78 percent of those households will have broadband access, according to a report issued Thursday from Darien, Conn.-based Jupiter Research. Dial-ups may soon be a thing of the past. http://www.techweb.com/wire/networking/163703303
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Chinese Firm Debuts TV Show For the Small Screen – the Very Small Screen
Mobile phones are the rage in China – and companies are vying to offer engrossing features for them. By Stephanie Hoo http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/ap/ap_2062705.asp?trk=nl
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Continuous Commuting
No, that's not a typo in the headline. I want to pass on some intriguing ideas I've been hearing recently about how the mobile computing device that's already ubiquitous – the cell phone – could become a "command station" for commuters ... By Wade Roush http://wade.trblogs.com/archives/2005/06/continuous_comm.html?trk=nl
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Commonplace Thoughts
Blogs are more than simple outlets for thinking. They function as a distributed media, a virtual scrapbook. By Jason Pontin http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/issue/editor.asp?trk=nl
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Ending the Grid Lock
Grid computing has long found a following in academia, the financial industry and pharmaceutical enterprises, but other industries have been slow to follow. Until now. By Karen Epper Hoffman. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/03/wo/wo_hoffman030205.asp?trk=nl
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Firefox Downloaded 75 Million Times
As it marked the 75 millionth download of its Firefox Web browser, the Mozilla Foundation said it was expanding in several directions. http://news.com.com/Firefox+downloaded+75+million+times/2100-1032_3-5805807.html
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The Gathering Wave of Wirelessness
Today's papers seem full of encouraging news about the wireless revolution. By Wade Roush http://wade.trblogs.com/archives/2005/06/the_gathering_w.html?trk=nl
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A Look At Truly Portable Laptops
Most of the attention in notebook computing has been on full-size models, the hefty laptops with 15- or 17-inch screens that can replace desktop units. But a spate of new ultraportable notebooks have also recently emerged, in the category often called subnotebooks or ultralight laptops. http://tech2.nytimes.com/2005/05/26/technology/circuits/26basics.html?
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MMS is Passé, Here Comes SMS
Switch on your mobile and read a novel on its screen. Yes, an SMS novel written in SMS lingo. 2 ct a lng stry shrt, rd a bk 2nite! A rage in China, Japan and Taiwan, novels over short-messaging system, SMS, are still a curious phenomenon in India. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1189453.cms
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New Blog Created Every Second
The number of personal online journals, known as weblogs, have doubled since March, with a new blog being created every second, according to a new report. In its State of the Blogosphere report, Blog information site Technorati said that it was tracking more than 14.2 Million blogs and over 1.3 billion links at the end of July 2005. http://www.netimperative.com/2005/08/02/blog_every_second
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Research Shows Digital Divide Etched Into U.S. Net Use
The latest research findings from Pew Internet highlight how teens use technology. The survey, carried out in the States, suggests that the 87 per cent of teenagers (those between 12 and 17) use the Internet, which is up by a quarter since a similar survey four years ago. And of those online, 51 per cent enjoy a broadband connection. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/75722/research-shows-digital-divide-etched-into-us-net-use.html
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Research on BitTorrent — It Aint Dead Yet (hardly)
Monkeymethods.org has published a fascinating report on BitTorrent that looks at the distribution of content and download power, in light of the recent legal attacks on the network. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1705&trk=nl
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The Road Ahead
We assembled some of the smartest people we know to identify the trends that are most likely to affect our future. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1118376-1,00.html
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Study: More Than A Third Of PC Software Pirated
More than a third of the software installed on PCs worldwide during 2004 was pirated, with losses from unauthorized software increasing by $4 billion from 2003, according to a study released Wednesday by the software trade group Business Software Alliance (BSA). http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/18/HNthirdpirated_1.html
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U.S. Broadband Penetration Lags
It turns out that broadband penetration in the United States may not be all it's cracked up to be.... By Brad King http://king.trblogs.com/archives/2005/08/us_broadband_pe.html?trk=nl
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What Students Hate to Do
Pupils have strong views about which teaching methods work, reports Caroline Milburn. http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/07/15/1120934409238.html
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Yahoo Adds Blogs to its News Section
The search-engine giant gives a boost to alternative media outlets. By Michael Liedtke http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/ap/ap_101305.asp?trk=nl
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