HP Hurricane webOS tablet may be released in 3rd quarter
We first speculated that since HP bought out Palm, they would come out wth a webOS tablet. According to many industry insiders, this appears to be more of a reality now. An insider at HP tells us t...
Facebook's Gone Rogue; It's Time for an Open Alternative
Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg's dreams of world domination. It's time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distrib...
BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider gets caught on video
One of our BlackBerry connects sent us in a nice treat a little while ago... it is the first ever live video of the mythical BlackBerry Bold sliding device coming out of Waterloo. The quality of the ...
Robots With Knives: A Study of Soft-Tissue Injury in Robotics
UPDATE: It turns out the brave individual in the video is Sami Haddadin, the study's lead author, who was clearly confident in the collision-detection system he devised. I incorporated some additiona...
The Defensive Patent License makes patents less evil for open source
Two law professors are developing a software patent license in the image of the GPL — Two law professors from UC Berkeley have come up with a novel idea to protect open source developers from patent...
We Stole Your Pictures, Now We're Going To Sue You
Morel's publications under the AFP-Getty-Suaero byline — Imagine you're in an earthquake. Even as the aftershocks continue, looters steal your property. Shortly after you see your stolen belonging...
The Ever-Widening World of Tiny Projectors
WAVING your hand to get the bartender's attention may not be the only way to order a martini in crowded bars of the future — even if they're as busy as the cantina in “Star Wars.” — Instead, you may...
Conan O'Brien at Google: The World Has Completely Changed
Rounding out an unofficial tour of Silicon Valley, Conan O'Brien visited Google's Mountain View headquarters on Wednesday, ribbing Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra about the company's infamous al...
An Early Look At Twitter Annotations Or, “Twannotations”
During a presentation in London today, Twitter engineer Raffi Krikorian offered up an early glimpse of what Twitter's highly anticipated new annotations feature (or, as he refers to them at one point ...
Updated: Washington Supreme Court, 6-3, Backs Library System's Full Filtering Policy
First decision to back full filtering — State Librarian: it's about community needs, not free speech — In a decision that may lead some libraries to adopt more stringent Internet filtering policies...
Hands-on with Microsoft's translating telephone
Microsoft's translating telephone uses a combination of speech recognition and machine translation to help two people who don't share a common language talk with one another. — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif....
Test Flights Into the Google Cloud
JORDON WING is a devoted user of Google products like Gmail, the Chrome browser and Google Docs, the Web-based word processing program. — A few weeks ago, Mr. Wing, a high school student from Spokan...