Gizmodo:
Wow, this is great. The "Educate to Innovate" campaign will aim to improve U.S students' grounding in science, technology, engineering, and math education through $260 million in public-private partnerships, plus the first "National Lab Day" to update school science labs. The president also said he's introducing an annual W (Read More)
Engadget:
Travel mice don't tend to be fashionable things. Tiny? Yes. Lookers? No. Elecom's latest, the Like a Spoon mouse, bucks that trend, following in a long line of tidily designed gadgets from the company. In terms of buttons it's got nuffin' on the OpenOfficeMouse, but it looks to fall to hand much more comfortably, with a so (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The central guideline of museum going has long been "do not touch." Soon, the Uffizi will flip that rule on its head by allowing visitors to flick and pinch their way through the museum's works of art. The Uffizi Galley, a museum in Florence boasting one of the world's most famous collections of Renaissance art, is readying (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[UK] If you are a technology startup and want to network with Silicon Valley type then one way of doing it is to go to South By South West Interactive. Those who attend in the past have informally called it ‘Spring Break for Geeks’, but it is a little more significant that that suggests. Twitter took off in the US by launch (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Wow, this is great. The "Educate to Innovate" campaign will aim to improve U.S students' grounding in science, technology, engineering, and math education through $260 million in public-private partnerships, plus the first "National Lab Day" to update school science labs. The president also said he's introducing an annual W (Read More)
Gizmodo:
If you're going to buy a travel mouse, it might as well, in some small way (possibly entirely induced by marketing), resemble a spoon. Right? The Elecom "Like a Spoon!" mouse wraps stainless steel around plastic like a little, electronic amuse-bouche. Of course, given its $90 price and necessity to import (it's Japan-only), (Read More)
Engadget:
The speakers on the MacBook line are generally quite good -- for a laptop. Rock your world they won't, but Twelve South's BassJump might just add that low-frequency kick your unibody workhorse has been missing. The solitary speaker connects via USB and, through an analog-styled tuning app, augments the built-in speakers of (Read More)
Engadget:
One could argue that the Motorola Droid is in fact the first-ever Android-based in-car navigation solution, but we're surmising that ArcherMind would disagree. Over at the Embedded Technology 2009 trade show in Yokohama, the outfit has demonstrated an Android-laden navigation system that could actually be inserted as a fact (Read More)
Gizmodo:
QWERTY is pretty much the king of smartphone text input. But there's a new challenger on the horizon. It's called Swype, it works with one-hand input and, yeah, it is pretty fast. Yes, the first thing you may notice is that Swype technically uses a QWERTY layout. But instead of pushing each key individually, you drag your (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Microsoft is losing its chief financial officer, Chris Liddell, who will be departing the company at the end of the year. Liddell will be replaced by Peter Klein, the current CFO of Microsoft’s Business Division.
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TechCrunch:
Mike Clark and Geoffrey Arone are preparing to roll out a new startup – SafetyWeb – we’ve confirmed. The company has raised a small angel round from Battery Ventures.Clarke was an early executive and SVP of Engineering at Photobucket and was there from the start and for two years following the $300 million acquisition from (Read More)
TechCrunch:
As fashion magazines, like Vogue, are trying to establish viable digital strategies, Lucky Magazine is making their first venture into the e-commerce world with the launch of a online retail site. Partnered with loyalty shopping technology startup Mall Networks, Lucky is rolling out a retail site that makes editorial picks (Read More)
Engadget:
Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.It's been a year of milestones for Android in the U.S. The number of handsets with the Google-developed software has grown from one to eight. Three of the four major national carriers, including Verizon Wireless, the country's largest, now o (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The central guideline of museum going has long been "do not touch." Soon, the Ufizzi will flip that rule on its head by allowing visitors to flick and pinch their way through the museum's works of art. The Ufizzi Galley, a museum in Florence boasting one of the world's most famous collections of Renaissance art, is readying (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There's a certain type of person for whom airports and airplanes cease to be novel, and start to feel like home. This is depressing, on many levels! Which is why these people need gifts. Lots and lots of gifts. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here. A good pair of in-ear phone (Read More)