links for 2007-10-05
Posted by derickson on Oct 5th, 2007
2007
Oct 5
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It was about as simple and uncomplicated as shooting demonstrators in the streets. Embarrassed by smuggled video and photographs that showed their people rising up against them, the generals who run Myanmar simply switched off the Internet.
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Until recently, major PC makers shied away from Linux. Now the industry is watching as Dell is selling two Linux-equipped desktop models and a notebook PC.
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Microsoft plans to release the second generation of the Zune next month, backed by a revamped digital-music store and a social-networking site.
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A girl wonder magazine editor unveils her next act, online.
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YouTube channel for Atoosa Rubenstein, the founder and the editor of CosmoGirl magazine and the editor of Seventeen
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As the power of the Internet grows, businesses small and large find themselves confounded by disenchanted employees, suppliers and competitors who seek fertile ground to air grievances online.
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But in the episode for Oct. 24, Taylor, played by Gary Sinise, finds himself entering the computer-based virtual world known as Second Life, walking (and sometimes flying) around three-dimensional, animated Manhattan landmarks, recreated by a technique ca
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In September 2005, about 75,000 active users on the site were 35 or older, accounting for fewer than 1% of all active users. By August 2007, the number shot up 4,700% to 3.6 million active users 35 and older. That accounts for about 9% of active users.
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If you grow old in Japan, expect to be served food by a robot, ride a voice-recognition wheelchair or even possibly hire a nurse in a robotic suit — all examples of cutting-edge technology to care for the country’s rapidly graying population.
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Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site Thursday for managing personal health and medical information, jumping into an industry whose digital future is clouded by privacy worries.
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Microsoft’s health care records management tool.
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Twitter releases ability to track phrases in the Twitterverse.
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In an effort to overcome technology and production barriers, the leading providers of web-based video have joined with media access pioneer WGBH/Boston to develop solutions that will increase the amount of online video accessible to people who are deaf or
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Virtual Worlds Management revealed its findings from a comprehensive study of accountable transactions that venture capital, technology and media firms have invested more than $1 billion dollars in 35 virtual worlds companies in the past 12 months, from O
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Search engine for Internet radio stations.
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Database of books with photographs for covers.
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World’s Largest Searchable Database of Charitable Donations.
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Podcast search engine and community.
