A Wired Campus article reports on a study of student usage of Wikipedia. The finding that the most common reason students go to Wikipedia is to begin research belies the frequent grousing that students probably do not get excellence in research because they rely too much on Wikipedia. The report begins: More than half of college

The Entourage eDGe E-Book Reader has a unique form factor, offering a dual screen display with one being an LCD panel and the other being e-Ink. Thats about the only compliment Wired.com gave the device as putting its uniqueness to good use was a little more challenging: Youd think this mash-up would be fabulous. Its not.

We came across this lip reading prototype during our exploration of the CeBIT 2010 halls, and while we're a bit tardy in bringing it to your attention, there's a certain timeless quality to strapping your face with wired sensors that transcends conventional restrictions of timeliness. That's our story anyway. Devised by researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, it picks ...

Brussels, Robin Bollen, March 13 2010. SHAPE Services has released another great idea. They must have been thinking, Apple is selling around 9 million iPhones per quarter now, that makes a lot of headsets. All these people use already some kind of communication tool on their Personal Computers at home, like Skype, so why not link the 2 together? With Headset you are not wired to your PC anymore an...

Apple began taking preorders for the iPad this morning, and published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader, notes Wired. It turns out the iPad will read books out loud to you with audio dictation, a feature that caused Amazon’s Kindle to make the feature optional. Apples VoiceOver functionality

Theres a great article at Wired Gadget Lab on how Apple is culling not just over explicit apps but also those that are just simple apps that render normal mobile web sites. Lots of companies have sprung up that can create apps from web sites or rss feeds. These so called cookie-cutter apps dont

Candy-bar shaped messaging phone with QWERTY keyboard, Nokia E72i, gets approval to enter China. The new E72i supports WAPI (Wired Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure), Chinas own wireless standard for Wi-Fi connectivity. Other than having WAPI, t he E72i is no different t than a regular E72 phone. The E72i will be available in white, purple,

There's a great post about a recent Clay Shirky talk that highlights one of the key reasons why I think so many people have trouble understanding the economics of abundance. In the talk Shirky points out that, as a society, we're not really hard-wired to deal with abundance: Abundance breaks more things than scarcity does. Society knows how to react to scarcity. Indeed, if you look at al...

AT&T today announced the successful completion of a live network environment field trial of 100-Gigabit backbone network technology. The trial advances development of the next generation of backbone network technology that will support growing volumes of wireless and wired Internet and data traffic in the years to come. During the trial, AT&T field tested the new

AT&T has publicly announced the positive results of a live network environment field trial of 100 Gb backbone network technology. This trial will speed up the development of future backbone technology capable of supporting massive increases in wired Internet and wireless data volumes estimated for the following years. The...