Submitted by Hyperkinesis:
The prospect of air passengers trilling "I'm on the plane" at 37,000ft moved closer yesterday following a ruling from communications watchdog Ofcom.Signalling that one of the last refuges from annoying ringtones and loud phone conversations is likely to disappear soon, Ofcom granted licences for mobile communications on air (Read More)
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In her two years at Google, Anna Patterson helped design and build some of the pillars of the company's search engine, including its large index of Web pages and some of the formulas it uses for ranking search results.Now, along with her husband, Tom Costello, and a few other Google alumni, she is trying to upstage her form (Read More)
Google Operating System
Sometimes error messages can reveal more than they were supposed to. Rahul Bansal writes about a simple trick that helps you find out if one of your Google Talk contacts is offline or uses the invisible mode. The trick takes advantage of Google's off the record feature which lets you chat with your contacts without saving t (Read More)
Broadcasting Brain
The phrase six degrees of separation is permanently etched into our collective psyches. The idea that every person in the world is generally no more than six degrees or connection removed from each other is a powerful, sticky concept that resonates with many people. Web 2.0 technologies, a continuation of the advancement (Read More)