Update On Google iPhone Voice Recognition App: Look For It On Monday
Google's voice recognition search application for the iPhone, originally set for launch on Friday, will likely go live sometime Monday, we've heard from a source with knowledge of the situation.
USB 3.0 to Deliver a Tenfold Speed Increase
Tighten your seat belts. Data transfer is going into overdrive as the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus, better known as USB, prepares to make a tenfold jump in speed. — That means the vast sea of US...
AOL Gets Out Of User Generated Video Business
AOL is on a product-cutting spree. In addition to the shuttering of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring, the company will also be shutting down the AOL Video Uploads service starting this w...
A gift or hard graft?
We look at outrageously talented and successful people - the Beatles, Mozart, Rockefeller, Bill Gates - and assume there is such a thing as pure genius. Not necessarily, argues Malcolm Gladwell... T...
Local Wikipedia Blocked by German MP
Left-wing politician obtains injunction in light of Web pages on his Stasi past — Wikipedia is very popular in Germany. With some 825,000 articles, it is the second biggest edition after the Englis...
Packages You Won't Need a Saw to Open
SAN FRANCISCO — A number of retailers and manufacturers have a gift for holiday shoppers: product packaging that will not result in lacerations and stab wounds. — The companies, including Amazon.com...
What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?
ELLEN SPERTUS, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergradua...