By DAVID TICOLL, Globe and Mail
As August days waned and September seriousness loomed, newspaper pundits appeared to have risen up against technology. If we could just get ourselves off gadgets, they implied, life would be better. All this literary Luddism reeks of nostalgie de la boue. It looks to me like a denial-tinged rite of passage from the raptures of summer to the cold realities of urban autumn and back-to-work time.
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Placing phone calls over the Internet is now available in a true turnkey package with actual low prices.
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By MICHEL MARRIOTT, New York Times
A FEW years ago, when MP3 players were establishing themselves as the hot cool thing, the next question seemed clear: What if you could take along not only music but movies, television programs, home video and still pictures in a high-tech box svelte enough to slip into a briefcase, backpack or purse, or perhaps a pocket?
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By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com
Ever have the urge to run a mouse across ceramic tile, lacquered furniture, metal, photo paper or opaque glass? The Logitech MX 1000 laser cordless mouse is for you.
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New type of Laser in Mouse allows it to move over more surfacesRead More »
By PATTI GHEZZI, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Teachers at Davis Academy will start beaming out homework assignments next week. Leaders at Davis Academy, a private school in north Fulton County, are giving personal digital assistants to all 142 middle school students. Teachers can transfer homework assignments to their students PDAs either through electronic transfers — called beaming — or e-mail. Students say the gizmos, also called handheld computers, are smaller, cooler and more fun than laptops.
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from the Edinburgh Evening News
8.30AM. The alarm clock at the end of the bed starts beeping, whirring and flashing a silvery white light in my face. I pull out my chrome-coloured infra red “laser gun”, take aim and shoot it. This is what you have to do when your alarm clock is a robot.
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Robots . . today the housework, tomorrow the world?Read More »
HP today announced its expansion into multiple new consumer digital entertainment and digital photography categories with a range of offerings aimed at making it easier than ever for people to live digitally. The offerings include new digital cameras and photo printers, home theater projectors, plasma and LCD flat-panel TVs, entertainment-based notebooks and desktop PCs, and the Apple iPod from HP – all in time for the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons.
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AP , TOKYO
They obsessively collect comic books, dress up like their favorite cartoon characters and buy all the latest gadgets. Japan’s legions of hard-core hobbyists have also done something else: created a big-money market that analysts are calling the “mania” economy.
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By Julie Dunn
Denver Post Staff Writer
Aspen – More than 200 tech and telecom insiders spent the past three days – and some of them spent $2,500 in registration fees – to immerse themselves in heady discussions about the future of the Internet and deregulation. They listened to movers and shakers such as Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell, who spoke Monday, and to F. Duane Ackerman, chairman and chief executive of BellSouth Corp., scheduled to speak Tuesday night, the summit’s last night.
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By JOHN MARZULLI, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
The NYPD is pouring $20 million into a dazzling upgrade of its much-heralded Compstat system that will allow cops to track crime almost as it happens. By next year, the eighth floor of gritty 1 Police Plaza will look more like a war room at the Pentagon, with a “data wall” of video display cubes and computer graphics.
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