Need a Ride? Check Your iPhone
SOON you may no longer need to stick out your thumb to catch a ride. Instead, you may get one by tapping your fingers on your iPhone. — Avego, based in Kinsale, Ireland (www.avego.com), is demonstr...
Hard Work and Practice in Programming
At the Program For the Future event commemorating the 40th anniversary of Doug Englebart's “mother of all demos” in 1968, I was privileged to hear an inspired rant by Alan Kay about the unwillingness ...
Yes Dear, There Will Be a Gizmondo, Just Not This Year... And It Will Be Different
As you may have suspected by now, there will be no launch of the new Gizmondo in December, but it's not because of any evil shenanigans on Carl Freer's part. It was the financial crisis that killed …
Twitter Venn, text snowflakes and other entertainments
One of the interesting things about Twitter is the fast-growing “tweecosystem” of add-ons and applications that expand or exploit the basic service. I've just been playing with a new one called Twitt...
The key(board) to equality
Communication technology can change the lives of women around the world — Geeks and feminists have much in common. If feminism is about embracing and striving for some kind of utopian dream of huma...