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From MSNBC: I don’t have kids. But I’m still enough of one inside that I get a certain amount of glee from seeing what’s out there for today’s generation. That, and I tend to spoil my friends’ kids silly, but so far it’s been real young kid/toddler stuff. I’m ready to step it up. When …
From the New York Times: Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive and field general, has Napoleonic dreams of global conquest for his 10-month-old wonder gadget, the iPhone. So it may be fitting that he’s encountering his most serious resistance in a city called Waterloo. That is where, 70 miles west of Toronto in Ontario, 19 nondescript, …
From the New York Times: Who says cellphones are good only for talking? Today they are bringing together two unlikely brand names: Nokia and Spike Lee. Mr. Lee, the director, is teaming up with Nokia, the cellphone maker, to direct a short film comprising YouTube-style videos created by teenagers and adults using their mobile phones.
From CNet News: For years, Microsoft has maintained that the PC is the center of the digital home and office. But Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Tuesday that it’s time for the company to acknowledge a new reality. “Over the past 10 years, the PC era has given way to an era in which …
From CNN: Yahoo Inc.’s first-quarter performance sets the scene for a bitter battle over Microsoft Corp.’s takeover bid. By delivering earnings and revenue Tuesday that surpassed analysts’ estimates, Yahoo added credence to its board’s contention that the Sunnyvale-based company is poised for a dramatic turnaround that justifies a higher sales price than Microsoft’s initial bid …
From MSNBC: A playmate named Sam, a talking dog named Buddy and an Israeli street leading to a Toys”R”Us store all have starring roles in a new generation of virtual reality games designed to teach basic safety and social skills to children diagnosed with autism. For school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders, including Asperger’s syndrome, …
From the New York Times: Contradicting earlier studies, conventional wisdom and politicians’ rhetoric, European researchers say that the Internet infrastructure of the United States is one of the world’s best and getting better. The Global Information Technology Report issued on Wednesday found that the United States now ranked fourth in the world behind just three …
From USA Today: The breadth of a smile can be measured by new technology from Japanese electronics and health care company Omron Corp. The software technology, shown to reporters Thursday, scans a video image to detect faces. It can find up to 100 faces in an image, according to Yasushi Kawamoto of Omron. “Okao Catch,” …
From eWeek: A professor says he has only one girl in a computer science major class in 2008, down from 40 percent in 2000. What happened? eWEEK gets field experts to weigh in. While women hold 51 percent of professional jobs in the United States, they make up only 26 percent of the IT work …
From InformationWeek: A majority of U.S. adults are uncomfortable with Web sites using a person’s online activity to deliver customized content, a study released Thursday showed. However, Harris Interactive found that people became more comfortable after they were presented with Web-site privacy and security policies recommended by the Federal Trade Commission. Based on a nationwide …