Technology

Digg V4: "Chill out," says Kevin Rose, but shows VP of engineering the door

Digg founder Kevin Rose cheerfully responds to the mountains of criticism around the newly launched Digg 4. His overall theme is that users need to deal with it. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 7 2010 - 6:09pm

"Friendly" User Interfaces

It’s long been a peeve of mine that some computer programs are programmed to try to sound friendly, cheerful, or just colloquial. It seems out of place to me, forced, overly artificial. I don’t mean that I want all the output from computers to sound like ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 11 2010 - 1:53am

Very early user experience with a Kindle

I decided to try out one of the new Kindle e-readers. Only, I’m not planning to use it for the purpose that most buyers do — purchasing and reading books. I want to use it to read academic papers, articles, and IETF documents, which I will put on the devi ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Sep 30 2010 - 12:17am

More Kindle notes

Yesterday, I complained about the new Kindle’s handling of PDF files, which, despite my complaints, is better than what the earlier software does. ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Sep 16 2010 - 7:00am

Kindle And Security

Last week, I talked about Amazon’s email-in service, which lets you send documents to your Kindle by email. The nicest part of it for me is the PDF conversion feature, but you can, in general, sent any personal documents you like, with or without conversi ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 23 2010 - 5:04pm

NeuFlow- Supercomputer Can 'See' Well Enough To Navigate Roads

Human vision is very advanced.  While a human child can look at a cartoon picture of a chicken and know that's a chicken, computers cannot.   We can also recognize cars, people, trees and lampposts instantaneously on a busy street without much thought ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2010 - 6:19pm

With Great Technology Comes Great Responsibility

The spread of mass panic through Short Message Service (SMS) and text on phones and services like Twitter is unnecessary and people need to learn to look at information with a more critical eye.   People in general are too quick to pass on information wit ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2010 - 4:14pm

Video game fans rally around fallen developer's widow

Think science is a close community?  Indeed it is, but video game aficionados are not as shallow as they are portrayed either. Relic Entertainment developer  Brian Wood, aged 33, was driving his Subaru Outback with his pregnant wife in the passenger seat w ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 18 2010 - 10:08am

BUMP: Bad Use For A Mobile Phone

The La Jolla, California-based company BUMP launched earlier this week with an eponymous web service that uses license plates as a means to connect with drivers around you. As reported by Technology Review and Popular Science, users can "claim" ...

Article - Lauren Rugani - Sep 20 2010 - 12:17am

Drink Coffee And Support Cancer Survivors With Free IPhone App

The Macmillan Coffee Finder is a new, free iPhone app from Macmillan Cancer Support to help people find the best cup of coffee nearest to them.   And make some new friends.  And help people in the UK with cancer.  The iPhone app has over 900 cafés and cof ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 21 2010 - 6:58pm