Sub-Topics 2010 Also Try Cell Phones Child Safety and Filtering Software Current Events Archives Windows Vista News -01-12-12 Ultralights or Ultrabooks: 12 New for 2012 (Time.com) "Though the Envy 14 Spectre may have gotten the crowds talking, it was certainly not the only one people were talking about. The Ultrabook, as a new sector of consumer products, attacking the Air both from below by undercutting its price and head-on with bold new designs, seemingly arose from nowhere here at CES 2012. Below, we've compiled all of the Ultrabooks introduced, with pictures, specs, and pricing and availability where available." 01-12 -01-12-12 Ultralights or Ultrabooks: What's New in 2012 (Huffington Post) "Though the Envy 14 Spectre may have gotten the crowds talking, it was certainly not the only one people were talking about. The Ultrabook, as a new sector of consumer products, attacking the Air both from below by undercutting its price and head-on with bold new designs, seemingly arose from nowhere here at CES 2012. Below, we've compiled all of the Ultrabooks introduced, with pictures, specs, and pricing and availability where available." 01-12 -01-24-10 Best in Show (ABC News) "At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Jan. 9, 2010, CNET announced the gadgets that won Best of CES in each category, as well as the product that won the overall Best in Show award." 01-10 -03-12-10 Smartphones Change the Way We Travel (USA Today) "Few Americans remain untouched by the effects of the mobile Internet. But the tech industry's core mission of getting people to lead untethered lives inevitably invites road warriors such as Monroe as early adopters of all their bells and whistles. The travel industry has responded with some of the most innovative applications available on smartphones. And more are coming." 03-10 -04-03-11 Google Kills Android Malware (CSOnline.com) "For only the second time, Google last weekend remotely deleted Android apps from users' phones." "Google made the move to erase malware-infected applications that users had downloaded from the Android Market, the company's official e-store." 04-11 -05-27-11 Virus Improves Solar Cell Efficiency (PC World) "Solar cells are about to get cheaper! Using a genetically modified virus called M13, researchers from MIT were able to make carbon nanotubes self-assemble allowing the solar cells to collect electrons at a more efficient rate. Scientists already know that single-walled carbon nanotubes have a high electron mobility, meaning that electrons can move through them very fast. Using this knowledge, researchers could in theory improve the efficiency of photovoltaic devices (like solar panels) using these nanotubes" 05-11 -07-24-10 Internet Addresses Running Out (CNN News) "IP addresses are numbers assigned to all of the devices -- computers, phones, cars, wireless sensors, etc. -- that log on to the internet." "According to the blog ReadWriteWeb, the internet is changing and evolving so quickly -- with so many new types of devices connecting -- that we're running out of numbers to assign to all of these Web-enabled electronics." 07-10 -08-10-10 Is the Google-Verizon Proposal a Setback for Net Neutrality? (Time.com) "As recently as last week, Google Inc. was generally known as the nation's largest and most vocal advocate of Net neutrality — the principle that any bit of data online should be allowed to travel just as fast as any other bit, allowing the high school kid in his bedroom to compete on the same viral playing field as a multinational corporation with a server farm." "But that was then, before Google's announcement Monday of a controversial policy proposal with Verizon that would allow for Internet service providers to prioritize data traffic delivered through mobile devices and new premium broadband subscription services." 04-10 -08-21-11 How the U.S. Compares with Other Countries on Bandwidth Usage (Time.com) "The U.S. has the most subscribers of any other country at 302.9 million, followed by Japan with less than half as many at 117.1 million. And U.S. cell phone customers use more minutes on average than any other country's subscribers at 793 minutes per month, followed by France at just 231. Yet the average price of a minute in the U.S. is the lowest of any country, at four cents. Compare that to 23 cents in Japan and 13 cents in France.” "Aside from prices, the most interesting—and alarming—thing about the comparison is how much radio spectrum is poised to be available for wireless. On that front, the U.S. is dead last with only 50 MHz becoming available soon. That spells trouble because the carriers are facing a spectrum crunch as they already serve more customers per megahertz of spectrum available to them than any other country by a wide margin." 08-11 -10-05-10 Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) (Time.com) "Last week, Microsoft unveiled the first beta release of Internet Explorer 9, or IE9 for short. It's easily the most impressive browser upgrade to hail from Redmond, Wash., since the original skirmishes with Netscape." "(One new Internet Explorer feature shuts out a sizable percentage of its potential user base: it now works only with Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Sorry, XP holdouts — Microsoft isn't about to reward you for refusing to upgrade your nine-year-old operating system.)" 10-10 -10-05-11 Steve Jobs Dies (New York Times) "Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder and former chief executive of Apple, has died at 56." 10-11 -10-06-10 Verizon to Roll Out 4G (CNN News) "Last week, Microsoft unveiled the first beta release of Internet Explorer 9, or IE9 for short. It's easily the most impressive browser upgrade to hail from Redmond, Wash., since the original skirmishes with Netscape." "(One new Internet Explorer feature shuts out a sizable percentage of its potential user base: it now works only with Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Sorry, XP holdouts — Microsoft isn't about to reward you for refusing to upgrade your nine-year-old operating system.)" 10-10 -10-16-10 Android Surpassing iPhone (DigitalTrends.com) "After nearly reinventing the smartphone space with the now-ubiquitous iPhone, Apple has finally seen its stampede of buyers surpassed by an even bigger horde: Those chasing Android-powered devices." 10-10 -11-24-11 Why Windows XP Won't Go Away (Time.com) "Microsoft formally introduced the software at a rather somber press event on Oct. 25, 2001, in New York City, just six weeks after the 9/11 attacks. A decade later, it's still the planet's most widely used operating system." 11-11 -12-25-10 Tech Trends of 2010 (CNN News) "Tablets don't have the computing heft of slightly larger laptops or the pocket-size storage of a smartphone. But their video, gaming, Web-surfing and media-consumption abilities are capturing a big audience and it's a safe bet they're here to stay." 12-10 02-15-11 America's Wireless Networks Still Slow, Even With 4G (CNN News) "The real leap forward for next-generation deployments is defined not so much by technology but by speeds. Certainly, in this context, the 4G-branded service available in the United States does not compete with 4G service offered elsewhere." "That's not to say wireless speeds in the United States aren't improving; indeed, they are beginning to match the speeds of lower-end broadband connections. Verizon, claiming the 'Fastest, most advanced 4G network in America,' is rolling out LTE offering up to 5-12 Mbps download speeds." By comparison, "TeliaSonera rolled out LTE services in major Nordic and Baltic countries including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway and Sweden last year with speeds that blow US 4G offerings out of the water: 'In normal circumstances, the average download speed is 20-80 Mbit/s.' " 02-11 08-22-11 The Career of Steve Jobs (Time.com) "As the Apple CEO steps down, TIME takes a look at Steve Jobs' storied, visionary career. 08-11 New 4G Smartphones (Techland.com) "At a special press conference today, Verizon rolled out the new Android devices, including four smartphones, two tablets, two mobile hotspots and two notebooks. Though the company refused to name prices or service rates for the new devices, the first to be released will hit the market in March." 01-10 Technology and Gadgets (MSN.com) Provides news on the latest technology and gadgets. Papers -Google Chromebook Review (KKTV.com) "The Cr-48 is the first real access anyone outside of Google or the development community has had to examine Chrome OS. The software looks and behaves a lot like the Chrome Web browser you can download onto a Windows PC or Mac. The first true Chrome OS-based computers aren't expected to go on sale until the middle of 2011. Acer and Samsung will be the first to sell such machines. Final hardware may look quite different. Google says other PC makers will follow. No pricing has been announced." 12-10 -What Causes Visitors to View Web Ads? (Time.com) "The Internet has cracked open a brave new world for folks whose job it is to spend ad dollars. The ability to track where a Web-user clicks provides a sort of precision intelligence advertisers could have only dreamed of in decades past. But before a click comes a look, and according to new research, advertisers are often wrong about what attracts our attention." "The findings are presented in a chapter of a new book, Eyetracking Web Usability, by Jakob Nielen and Kara Pernice of the consultancy Nielsen Norman Group. Don't let the bland title fool you — what Nielsen and Pernice have done is track the eye movements of hundreds of people as they navigate Web sites, looking up advice on how to deal with heartburn, shopping for baby presents, picking cell-phone features, learning about Mikhail Baryshinkov. By bouncing infrared beams off a person's retinas and recording head movement with a camera, the researchers were able to deduce what sort of ads garner attention in real time — a methodology that runs laps around later asking people to recall what they saw." Comparing eReaders and Pads (ABC News) "Today, Kindle still generates the most buzz in the e-reader/tablet category, according to Zeta Interactive, which scans blogs and online sites to form buzz rankings. That places Kindle ahead of the Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple iPad, and Samsung Galaxy Tab." 01-11 Gadgets: Then and Now (Time.com) "TIME takes a tour through the decades to explore how consumer technology has changed over the years" 12-10 Google Announces Sight Search (CNN News) "On Monday, Google announced the ability to perform an Internet search by submitting a photograph." "The experimental search-by-sight feature, called Google Goggles, has a database of billions of images that informs its analysis of what's been uploaded, said Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president of engineering. It can recognize books, album covers, artwork, landmarks, places, logos, and more." 12-09 Google Wave (Time.com) "Google spokespeople have described Wave as what e-mail would look like if it had been invented now instead of 40 years ago." 10-09 Gorilla Glass for Devices (Yahoo.com) "An ultra-strong glass that has been looking for a purpose since its invention in 1962 is poised to become a multibillion-dollar bonanza for Corning Inc." "The 159-year-old glass pioneer is ramping up production of what it calls Gorilla glass, expecting it to be the hot new face of touch-screen tablets and high-end TVs." 08-10 How Smart Mobs Coped With a Massacre (MSNBC News) "College’s response to tragedy illustrated how wired world now works." "The way students and teachers passed along information during the Virginia Tech massacre — via cellphone videos and campus-watching Webcams, via text messages and Web bulletin boards — demonstrates how the wired world has changed in the 21st century, one of the prophets of the new age says." 04-07 One Million Gmail Phone Calls on the First Day (CNN.com) "For comparison, there are somewhat more than 300 million people in the United States. If the average person makes 10 calls per day--research in 2008 put the number at 208 calls per month--that means about one out of every 3,000 calls in the U.S. went through the service on its first day." 08-10 Technology News and Security Issues (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Provides news related to technology and security related to property rights, government surveillance, and more. Time's 50 Best Websites (Time.com) Lists and describes sites. 08-11 Unplugging on Vacation (CNN News) "One solution is to agree to a particular times set aside to check e-mail. For example, a few minutes after lunch, an hour before dinner, and a half hour before bedtime, Uzzi says." 07-10

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