Guardian Unlimited: Technology
Print-on-demand company Moo.com - purveyors of teeny business cards - have long trumpeted their fondness for Britain's Royal Mail, which helps them deliver around the world. And I've written before about them transcending their physical location to act like a global company, rather than one that feels hindered by being base (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
It's time for our annual predictions post, in which the ReadWriteWeb authors look forward to what 2009 might bring in the world of Web technology and new media. Looking back at our 2008 Web predictions, we got some of them right! "The big Internet companies will [embrace] open standards" (Google, Yahoo and others did this); (Read More)
: Some very interesting predictions for 2009. Some of them I agree with, a couple I highly doubt will come to be. But we'll see how these turn out this time next year.
Submitted by Joespake:
"This has always been my favorite holiday. No gifts, no guilt, no doctrine.
For me, the holiday celebrates people who contribute with no expectation of anything in return.". (Read More)
The most recent articles from VNU Business Publications
Angelica Mari, Computing, Wednesday 22 October 2008 at 14:19:00 The Finnish city of Oulu is creating a highly connected society through the pioneering use of near field communication technology For a city born out of trading in tar, sailing ships and salmon, Oulu in northern Finland is an unlikely hotbed of technology inn (Read More)
Submitted by Imjustcreative:
Twitter have finally come out and responded on the Status blog about Instant Messenger support or the lack of, this is what they had to say; In October 2006, just three months after Twitter launched publicly, we added IM support—i.e., the ability to get and send tweets via XMPP/Jabber/Google Talk. I was a big fan of this (Read More)
Submitted by Flevour:
Let’s talk about the newly launched Zoho Mail. To get a new email account there you can go through the standard sign up process, filling your preferred username, password, password again, email address, i-am-not-a-robot-check captcha. It’s pretty straightforward, it’s not hard to find more intimidating registration forms a (Read More)
Lifehacker
Google adds another experimental opt-in feature to its roster of Gmail Labs experiments: Advanced IMAP Controls, a way to selectively decided which of your Gmail labels are available to your IMAP client plus other tweaks. With the new feature enabled, go to the Labels tab under your Gmail account's Settings area to select (Read More)
louisgray.com
By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Identi.ca/FriendFeed)In working with Google FriendConnect recently, I realized that Google has a unique opportunity that perhaps they did not have previously. In only the last few months, Facebook has opened up the opportunity for any 3rd party site to integrate with Facebook, all via a spec (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
It's now over a month since Google released its open source web browser, Chrome. An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web - a.k.a. the 'dark web'. Right now the Chrome Terms of Service (TOS) prevents Google from indexing private data. But when you consider th (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler
from YouTube:
This clip shows Sony's new flexible OLED display. Its only 0.3mm thick and fully flexible. You can see how the presenter is bending it and how the movie is still being played. (Read More)
: @niksmit I need to find it again but researches at MIT are working with Wall sized multi-touch screens. They allow for users to interact with complex data, display video, and most importantly allow multiple users to work on the same screen/wall. they can work independently or together, sharing data with a flick of a finger. I also forgot, it really excels in 3D virtual worlds I'll try to find it and let you now. It is so cool! I'm sure it will be some time before its ever ready for consumer use, so for now I guess we will have to settle for flexible OLED's.
: @michalefidler - thanks, that sounds interesting. I'm not 100% convinced that using our fingers/hands for all this interaction is actually the way to go. For something like a huge wall, it sounds a bit inefficient - a bit too much like hard work to get things done (although more exercise can't be a bad thing). In addition, your hands and fingers get in the way of what you're doing in a way we're not used to with mouse pointers. I suppose we'll only be able to properly evaluate once we start using large multi-touch devices properly, but what I'd like to see is an interface that uses our hands, feels very natural (Minority Report style), but doesn't require the hands to be *on* the surface.