TechCrunch notes that Stanford professor Larry Lessig revealed profound views on copyright, remix culture, and the new hybrid economy on Charlie Rose last night.
Lessig concludes the interview with his ‘big idea’. It is an inspiring, and elegant reminder that we are in the midst of an unprecedented social change. Just as the Gutenberg press [...]
Venture Beat reviews some envisioneering projects from Nokia Research Labs in Palo Alto, California. They include a bunch of next-generation technologies that are genuinely innovative, including phones that can tell us what we’re looking at and devices that morph their forms from watch to tablet to phone as needed.
Henry Tirri, senior vice president and head [...]
At the LA Auto Show, Mercedes showed off their Web-Connected myComand, which takes on BMW’s iDrive.
One big difference is that myCOMAND is connected to the web, grabbing information wirelessly and presenting it through their own on-screen apps, explains Gizmodo.
It features:
Off-board navigation: The GPS is constantly updated, from the maps to the points of interests. [...]
As America’s newspapers shrink and shed staff, and broadcast news outlets sink in the ratings, a new kind of Web-based news operation has arisen in several cities, reports the NY Times.
Here it is VoiceofSanDiego.org, offering a brand of serious, original reporting by professional journalists — the province of the traditional media, but at a much [...]
Nokia today reaffirmed its commitment to TD-SCDMA at the Mobile Asia Congress in Macau this week.
“Nokia firmly supports the development of TD-SCDMA”, said Colin Giles, President of Nokia China. “Our goal is to not only develop TD-SCDMA products that can deliver outstanding user experiences to consumers, but also to work with operators, chipset providers, developers [...]
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Meraki, the little WiFi mesh networking company that is enabling grassroots networks to be built by just about anyone, today announced two new products; the Meraki Wall Plug ($179), a low-power wall wart that enables quick deployment in large residential complexes, and the Meraki [...]
Today the FCC released their Second Report and Order (pdf) adopting rules for “white space” access points. It will allow unlicensed radio transmitters to operate in the broadcast television spectrum where that spectrum is not being used by licensed services.
The rules will allow for both higher power (4 watt) fixed and lower power (up [...]
The nonprofit One Laptop Per Child is launching an advertising campaign that seeks to sharply increase their penetration, reports the NY Times. Television time, billboard space and magazine pages are being donated by media companies, including the News Corporation, CBS and Time Warner.
About 500,000 OLPC laptops are being used in 31 countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, [...]
Barack Obama hasn’t even appointed a chief technology officer yet, but thousands of people are using a new Web site to suggest and vote on ideas they think his CTO should work on.
Obama has called for tax and loan incentives to spur construction of broadband networks. He wants to divert some of the $7 billion [...]
GeoSIM, an international SIM card supplier, says it has introduced the “SIM PIG”, a SIM-like chip that bypasses the network lock on mobile phones, thus enabling any SIM card from any network to be used in a locked handset.
SIM PIG claims to be able to unlock iPhone, Windows Mobile, HTC, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Blackberry and [...]
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