Google Android good for Australia

MOBILE phones powered by Google are poised to whet Australia's insatiable appetite for wireless devices, pushing the market beyond $2.4 billion in two years.

A prototype of the Google Android mobile by Qualcomm on display at the Mobile World Congress. Photo: Albert Gea/Reuters
Google entered the mobile world late last year with its Android operating system.
Smartphone makers say Android could slash the development time of the phones from 18 months to six months, leading to a flood of cheap models. About 30 mobile phone, chip and software companies globally have signed up to adopt Android. The list includes LG Electronics, High Tech Computer, Motorola and Samsung - all partners of Australian telcos. The phones will carry their own brands instead of Google's, an arrangement the search and advertising giant is happy with.
Yesterday, highly anticipated prototypes of Android mobile phones were unveiled at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona. Operating systems that compete with Android include Nokia-backed Symbian, Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Research In Motion's BlackBerry and Mac OS X, which powers the Apple iPhone. Taiwan's HTC plans to launch smartphones based on Android this year with LG following suit next year. All this should be music to Telstra and its rivals' ears, says Warren Chaisatien, managing director of Sydney-based research firm Telsyte.
He estimates that 10 million mobile phones were shipped in Australia in 2007, creating a market worth around $2.4 billion. Mr Chaisatien said Android-based phones are a boon for local operators as the use of smartphones is expected to double quickly. Smartphones offer advanced capabilities such as email, internet access, and other PC-like features. Last year, about 800,000 mobiles shipped locally were smartphones, Mr Chaisatien said, constituting 8 per cent of the total market. "We estimate that share of smartphones will double by 2010 in Australia. "In three years, one in six mobile devices shipped will be a smartphone compared with one in 12 currently," he said. Leading carrier Telstra welcomed the news. "There's a growing appetite in Australia for the all-in-one mobile device and this is reflected in the fact that Telstra's revenue for non-SMS data is now higher than for SMS," Telstra spokesman Peter Taylor said.

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When it comes to electronic gadgets Apple's iPod pretty much sets the standard these days. When the iPod first appeared in the marketplace it was the major portable digital audio player available. More commonly called MP3 players, the class of device that the iPod falls into were extremely appealing because they appeared at a time then the best way to listen to music while carrying it on one's person was using an audio cassette deck or a portable CD player. In the case of the audio cassette deck (more commonly called a Walkman after Sony's name for its version of the device) this meant carrying a single cassette inside of the device that could only carry about an hour of music. Most audio tapes stored single albums by a specific artist or group and making a mix tape took time, was inconvenient, and could only be played in a fixed order.
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DLP Is The Technology For Really Big ScreensEven though flat panel HDTV sets get the most attention, there are several other kinds of TV technology that provide a lot of benefits that flat screens using LCD and Plasma technology can't provide. The most promising of these other types of technology is DLP, or digital light processing.
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Lowering Cost of Technology Could be Decisive in HD Disc Format WarAs the hold that Sony's Blu-ray high def DVD format has on the market continues to get stronger in the face of opposition from the competing HD-DVD format, there are a number of things that Sony could do in order to secure a sure victory. One of them is lowering the cost of its Blu-ray disc players.
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Connectivity And Entertainment: Comcast Leading The Way!There are a lot of advantages to buying in bulk including getting better value for what you buy and that's true with the bundled high speed Internet, digital cable TV, and phone services from Comcast. Comcast Cable Service bundles all three of these indispensable services together into one plan that makes them easier to afford and since you only have one bill for all three, they're simpler to deal with as well.

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Teaching a machine to understand love
If computers are ever to understand the complicated nature of human existence, then love is probably the last thing they will truly grasp.But that doesn't mean we can't try to teach them. This blogger provides a blow-by-blow account of his attempt to teach his database of knowledge what love is. After a kind of Socratic dialogue between man and machine, the computer boils down the concept of love into 24 machine-friendly facts (see image, below right).The system built by Cambridge, UK, firm True Knowledge uses a large database of machine-understandable knowledge to answer questions, and infer new knowledge from what is in the original dataset.The system already understands a range of different kinds of objects such as people, books, etc, as well as a range of relationships between them. To add "love" to that list, the company's founder William Tunstall-Pedoe has to answer a few questions about it from the machine.Some of them are entertaining, almost revealing. For example, at one point Tunstall-Pedoe has to respond to machine-musings about whether love is forever:
"Ouch. This question asks about the permanence of the relationship. For example, [is a parent of] is permanent, as is [is the date of birth of]. Unfortunately, this relation is not (necessarily) permanent."Other questions include what kinds of things can love, whether it matters if one or the other person is dead, is love always mutual, can someone be loved by more than one other person, and can one person love more than one other.The results of this slightly odd exchange are that love is reduced to 24 machine-understandable facts and that True Knowledge's "mind" is now able to (attempt to) answer questions about love.You can see a demo of it answering questions such as "Is Jennifer Lopez single?" here and also sign up to question it about love yourself.Tom Simonite, online technology reporter
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Bamboo bikes
Here's a nice engineering project: making bike frames from bamboo in parts of Africa where the materials normally used are hard to come by. Some parts still need to be imported, but making bikes becomes a lot easier.It's a project that started as a collaboration between specialist bike builders Calfee design and engineers at the Earth Institute, Columbia University.A gallery of images shows bamboo bikes being built and ridden. The frames are made from bamboo, held together with resin and sisal fibre.The project has two main goals. First to develop high quality and affordable cargo bikes for Africa, and second to encourage local people to start making and selling their own.Last year the team went over with a bamboo bike, and taught the locals by building another using bamboo growing in the area.I asked Craig Calfee - owner of the bike design firm involved - how building with bamboo is different.
"The stiffness is similar to aluminum, so the tube diameters must be similar to aluminum frames. The stiffness to weight ratio is similar to steel, so the weight of the frames is close to steel. The vibration damping is similar to carbon fiber, so it absorbs a lot of road buzz."That makes for a smooth ride, he tells me. Craig will next week be heading to Ghana again, although this time without funding from the Earth Insitute.
"I want to make sure we get some individuals started up with some microbusinesses there. I'll be setting up the supply chain for the parts that need to be imported and will be finding customers for the bikes over there as well.If you want to try a bamboo bike for yourself you have two options. Either joining him in Ghana, or having one built for you back in California.Tom Simonite, online technology reporterVia
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Why won't the car makers play ball?
Why won't the world's biggest car manufacturers enter a $10-million contest to make a production car capable of 100mpg?It's a question that the organisers of the Automotive X Prize are asking themselves. All kinds of small startups have entered, but the big boys of the car industry don't seem interested. This blogger has a good stab at explaining why.The most interesting point he makes, for me, is that as soon as one big firm enters, the rest will likely feel compelled to follow. I think he's probably right, and that it wouldn't take much for that to happen either.Most of the big car makers are already prototyping advanced "green" vehicles, which could probably be entered without too much trouble. They have likely given some thought to entering, and could probably do so at short notice.The task facing the organisers is clear - work out how to tempt one or more of the big boys and thereby draw in the rest.Perhaps the auto giants are just waiting out the contest, and will buy up any useful technology that comes out of it. After all, unlike the small startups they are in no hurry. Or are there other barriers holding them back?Tom Simonite, online technology reporter
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Friday, February 08, 2008
Towards the Facebook phone
Social networking online is grabbing all of the headlines. But huge numbers of people have been using cellphones to socialise electronically for much longer. Surely the mobile platform is a better one for social networking.Computer scientist Vassilis Kostakos certainly thinks so. He recently told me about some FaceBook plugins he is developing that can connect people you meet in real life with their online profiles. It uses software installed on your phone to look for nearby devices using Bluetooth.One of his plugins, called CityWare, was launched last summer. If you get close enough to another person who is also running the plugin on their phone, you are provided with a link to their profile the next time you login to Facebook. It was developed as part of a research project also called CityWare, partly funded by HP, Nokia and Vodafone.Kostakos is working on more plugins, one of which really brings social networking and phones together.Called Little Bird, it gets your phone to update you with information from your friends' profiles whenever you meet them. "When you walk into a room, a message on your phone tells you what events your friends in the room are attending in the near future," explains Kostakos.I think we'll be seeing more applications like this. It makes sense to help people get at this information on their phones; for example, telling you when contacts stored on your phone come online.Kostakos says that since gaining publicity last year for his first Facebook application, he has spoken with several large European mobile operators interested in bringing social networking and phones together.I imagine the handset makers will also be interested. I wonder how long it'll be before the first 'Facebook phone' appears. Perhaps the first wave of devices based on Google's 'open' Android platform will see that happen.Tom Simonite, online technology reporter
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Thursday, February 07, 2008
Hark! Is that a proton I hear?
The video clip at the end of this post (or here) lets you hear the sound of hydrogen molecules being hit with a high-powered laser beam. I won't give it away, but it isn't a Hollywood-style 'zzzap'.Physicists Uwe Thumm and Bernold Feuerstein made the clip because they are musical as well as scientific collaborators ??? the result lets you hear one of their greatest scientific hits. They made the sound by slowing down the vibration of the pairs of protons that make up hydrogen molecules into the range of human hearing.When you hit hydrogen molecules with a laser, the pairs of protons start vibrating more violently than normal. At first it is possible to calculate the changing distance between proton pairs, but after about 60 femtoseconds (one billionth of one millionth of a second) quantum effects make it impossible to know accurately.But Thumm and Feuerstein found something weird as they worked through their quantum calculations ??? after about 600 femtoseconds it became possible to calculate the distances again. They call that event 'revival'.In the video clip, you can hear the regular pulses of the well-defined initial vibrations, which become lost in noise before they return as the "revival" appears.That has to be one of the best ways to communicate a result. The pair say performing the same trick on other molecules would make it possible to hear the differences between, say, water and methane undergoing the same laser treatment.


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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Hide the Wii-mote
Nintendo has filed a European patent suggesting a bunch of new ways to use the motion-sensing Wii-mote at the heart of its blockbusting console in new ways.They suggest designs that make it possible to shove the accelerometer-packing unit into steering wheels, crash helmets, glasses, racquets, chairs, action figures, bike pedals, skateboards and more.Over at The Register they're quite sceptical. But I think the proposals make sense. For example, third parties are already selling bats and steering wheels that hold a Wii-mote as a way to play sports and driving games. And sticking the Wii-mote into everyday objects like eyeglasses and bikes could be even more interesting.One hacker - see video - has already shown that the Wii setup can be used to track your head for a 3D display. A pair of glasses that hold a Wii-mote might allow similar things.Going further, we recently ran a story about a set of wearable accelerometers and other sensors that can capture your movements in 3D as you perform any activity from walking to skiing (see video). A similar trick might be possible if you could fit your Wii-mote into a bike or skateboard. You could reconstruct your real-life movements, or have them affect onscreen events. For example, your toy truck could become part of a game.Given the large community of hackers experimenting with what the Wii-mote can be used for, the real question raised by this patent is whether Nintendo will try any of this stuff first.Tom Simonite, online technology reporter
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Turn an old cellphone into a robot's brain
Here's a great way to reuse an old cellphone.Software engineer Jatinderjit Singh built a simple robot out of Lego Technics parts, a cheap micro-controller, and an infrared interface, then attached a cellphone so that it could control the robot's wheels and arms via the IR link.His "tele-operated mobile internet robot" or TeMo can be controlled from anywhere in the world where there's cellphone network coverage, using a tiny web server and a graphical interface installed on the phone.The robot also sends images from the phone's camera back via the web link to let the controller see what they are doing, and Singh hopes to have video running soon.Here's a video overview of TeMo on YouTube (also available on his project homepage).Next, he wants to put infrared or laser sensors on TeMo, so that it can accurately map out its surroundings.It's an ingenious project and it makes me wonder if the hundreds of millions of cellphones discarded each year could find a new lease of life. Perhaps there's even money to be made in repurposing them as remote controllers for household robots or appliances.Via: HackadayWill Knight, online technology editor
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Windows Update service causes high processor usage

Microsoft released what they called a “fix” to prevent this very thing from happening but it didn’t take on some systems and the problem persisted. The problem revolves around what Microsoft calls the “svchost/msi” issue in which svchost.exe and its various processes will use 100% of the processor during update scans or downloads.
The simple solution for this is to turn off automatic updates on Windows XP and 2003 systems; Vista does not appear to be affected by this flaw (for once). If you don’t want to deactivate Windows Update then you might try using this patch from Microsoft, but as with all things Microsoft who knows what other problems it will cause.
In addition to the patch you will need to install the stand alone Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 package. However that requires the download, extraction and installation of a CAB (cabinet) file a tedious process that I would skip if the patch fixes the problem.
Some users have done both on affected systems and the problem did not go away. I’m not sure all their programmers know what really caused the problem in the first place, I have one computer that has this problem and I do wish it would go away. If I were a betting man I would say it could be traced back to a faulty update released a while go but trying to figure out which one is like looking for a specific needle in a stack of needles.
ComputerWorld has rounded up several comments on various blogs with one person saying “I have 6 (and counting) computers having issues with SVCHOST process running at near 100% CPU utilization disabling Automatic Updates resolves the issue. What did Microsoft just release?”
Now we’re just back to disabling Windows Update. My advice is to apply the patch, if it works, great, if not turn off Windows Update but if you can abide the 100% processor usage for a few minutes, updates can always be run manually. Of course some systems don’t take so great to 100% processor usage and may lock up.
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Multimedia & Internet School

Innovative Learning Conference 2008 Seeks SpeakersNews/Breaking News, Posted 13 Feb 2008
Google Announces Doodle 4 Google Competition and PrizeNews/Breaking News, Posted 13 Feb 2008
Elluminate Releases Open-Source Integration to Bring Real-Time Collaboration Tools to Moodle UsersNews/Breaking News, Posted 12 Feb 2008
Learning.com Launches Curriculum to Teach Online Safety and Communication SkillsNews/Breaking News, Posted 07 Feb 2008
Califone Introduces AV Tutor and Digital Cartridge Programs to Help Develop Core Reading SkillsNews/Breaking News, Posted 06 Feb 2008
PBS TeacherLine Introduces Courses to Help Teachers Support English Language Learners in the ClassroomNews/Breaking News, Posted 06 Feb 2008
Inspiration Launches Kidspiration 3News/Breaking News, Posted 06 Feb 2008
H.W. Wilson Adds Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983 to WilsonWebNews/Breaking News, Posted 06 Feb 2008
MMIS Xtra News: February 2008 iPod Shuffle Winner AnnouncedNews/Breaking News, Posted 01 Feb 2008
Scholastic Launches Children’s Book Search Tool: Teacher Book WizardNews/Breaking News, Posted 30 Jan 2008
SMART-created Lesson Activities on Curriki Web SiteNews/Breaking News, Posted 29 Jan 2008
Video Professor, Inc. Releases “Protect Yourself Online: Viruses, Scams and Social Networking”News/Breaking News, Posted 29 Jan 2008

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The Power of RSS: Instant Information Updating Based on Quality Searches
RSS allows you to keep up with just about anything that you want to on the web. If you want to stay focused on the latest blog posts on the effect of global warming, RSS can help. If you just want to be updated whenever The New York Times publishes its latest book review, RSS can help. And, if you want to know when the next Dave Barry column appears, RSS can help. The greatest part of RSS is that it can do all of this in one place, without your needing to parade all over the web looking for the new content. RSS is a continuously updated customized online newspaper, and it can not only help you in locating new information (in fact, the content comes to you, not vice versa), but it can help you do it in a quarter of the time.
Editorial/Features Posted 01 Jan 2008 - Jan/Feb 2008 By Steven Cohen
Is That ReallyTrue? Urban Legends and Information Evaluation Skills
These days, students are inundated by information in all formats and from all corners of the world, and they are apt to believe what they see, hear, or read without carefully evaluating it. At her school, Debra Gniewek and her colleagues frequently review website evaluation strategies with students and even have some “quick and dirty” methods to help them develop information evaluation skills. Still, they find the students are sometimes too trusting of the information they find on the World Wide Web. To address the problem, they created a unit in which the students study urban legends, which has proven useful in helping them look at information with a more critical eye. The students are genuinely drawn to this modern folklore, one that illustrates the most profound fears of society.
Editorial/Features Posted 01 Jan 2008 - Jan/Feb 2008 By Debra Gniewek
A Look At ... Supplemental Classroom Electronics
Remember folder games and puzzles? Teachers have always used instructional aids of one kind or another to supplement instruction, such as calculators in Math class, games, puzzles, math aids, and other devices for small group or individual work. In recent years, computers and computer-related electronics such as MP3 players, hand-held devices, keyboards, projectors, whiteboards, and a diverse collection of additional electronic instructional aids have become available. Charlie Doe's Look At ... roundup this month sorts these supplemental electronics into categories and describes an array of them for your information.
Editorial/Features Posted 01 Jan 2008 - Jan/Feb 2008 By Charles G. Doe
The Summer Travel Blog: A 2.0 Travelogue to Bridge Summer “Down Time” [Available Full-Text, Free]
Do you still remember the thrill of receiving a summer postcard from your teacher? How exciting it was to open the mailbox and find that personal piece of mail waiting—and to realize that your teacher was thinking of you. Perhaps the photograph on the face of the card led you to the encyclopedia to learn more about a particular place, while a handwritten line or two described a cultural experience, unusual food, or new language. Travel postcards, sent by thoughtful teachers over the years, have broadened the world of many a child. Yesterday’s postcards have gone high-tech. Weblogs, or blogs, enable today’s teachers to send a new kind of post, sharing their travel experiences as they unfold. Blogs provide an up-to-the-minute opportunity for teachers to continue to educate their students through semester breaks, to interact with their school communities, and to share experiences and locales that encourage understanding of the broader world. And those 21st century postcards come complete with the ability to upload and publish journal entries, photos, slideshows, audio, video, and educational links.
Editorial/Features Posted 01 Jan 2008 - Jan/Feb 2008 By Johanna Riddle

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THE MEDIA CENTER: Staff Development--Still an Important Role
Technology staff development isn’t receiving the attention it once did in professional journals or at professional conferences, but the need hasn’t gone away; it has simply shifted along with technology and our roles. Staff development continues to be an important role for us because, as an Illinois language arts teacher explained, “not all teachers are on board with technology.” She added that, to such teachers, “incorporating technology into instruction is someone else’s job, and the skills are either not taught or [are] fragmented.” Teachers are also now expected to use instructional management tools in more ways, such as understanding student assessment scores. Quite often if media specialists don’t assume a leadership role in providing technology staff development, it simply doesn’t get done.
Column/The Media Center Posted 01 Jan 2008 - Jan/Feb 2008 By Mary Alice Anderson
EDITOR'S NOTES: The Year Ahead, in Print and in Conference
Column/Editor’s Notes Posted 01 Jan 2008 - Jan/Feb 2008 By David Hoffman
CYBERBEE: Reading Reconnaissance
Finding just the right book that will grab a student’s interest is like looking for Waldo. Tracking down books that correlate with specific curriculum areas and topics for study can be daunting. What is a library media specialist to do? Use every tool in your arsenal as well as lessons and booklists that have already been prepared and are just waiting to be uncovered by the savvy searcher. This collection of websites will serve as a starting point in your quest to recommend the best books to meet the needs of students and teachers.
Column/CyberBee Posted 01 Jan 2008 - Jan/Feb 2008 By Linda C. Joseph
BELLTONES: Celebrating Communicating--To Blog or Not to Blog?
Mary Ann started her own blog recently and since then she has seen some comments that suggest the blogosphere may be imploding, exploding, or otherwise meeting its demise. So this month, with survey results in hand, she explores the question "To Blog or Not to Blog?"
Column/Belltones Posted 01 Jan 2008 - Jan/Feb 2008 By Mary Ann Bell
THE PIPELINE: Did You Hear That? The Internet Firmament Is Shifting
Stephen Abram travels a lot. When he returned from several months of voyaging around the world in 2006, the internet looked the same as it had on his departure. The same could not be said upon his return from his fall 2007 travels, however. In this month's column, Abram recounts internet-related events from late last year that suggest things are changing ... a lot!
Column/The Pipeline Posted 01 Jan 2008 - Jan/Feb 2008 By Stephen Abram

Welcome to Link-Up Digital!

2/1/2008
Finding the Right Clothes for Your Words — by Reid Goldsborough
1/15/2008
When the Internet Becomes Too Much — by Reid Goldsborough
1/1/2008
The Threat of Typosquatting — by Reid Goldsborough
12/15/2007
Looking Good in Email — by Reid Goldsborough
12/1/2007
Toward a Universal Library — by Reid Goldsborough
11/15/2007
Social Networks Versus Blogs Versus Discussion Groups — by Reid Goldsborough
11/1/2007
Keeping Your Computer Going — by Reid Goldsborough
10/15/2007
Phishing Away Your Indentity — by Reid Goldsborough
10/1/2007
Staying Productive at the Keyboard — by Reid Goldsborough
9/15/2007
How Does Your Garden Grow? - Sites to make you the envy of the neighborhood — by Roberta Roberti
9/1/2007
When Blogging Gets Heated — by Reid Goldsborough
8/15/2007
When It’s Time to Spring for a Software Upgrade — by Reid Goldsborough
8/1/2007
Web Sites to Vent and Learn — by Reid Goldsborough
7/15/2007
Ten Things You Should Know About Search Engine Optimization — by Mike Tekula
7/1/2007
The Scoop on Computer Viruses — by Reid Goldsborough
6/15/2007
Computer News and Views: Checking out other sources for tech information — by Reid Goldsborough
6/1/2007
New Developments in Web Searching — by Reid Goldsborough
5/15/2007
Web Design: Balancing Form and Function — by Reid Goldsborough
5/1/2007
Hanging Pictures in Your Home: Web sites show how to do it right the first time — by Ken Rubino
4/15/2007
Using Computers to Save Time—or Waste It — by Reid Goldsborough
4/1/2007
Don’t Let Your PC Turn Into a Zombie — by Reid Goldsborough
3/15/2007
Deciphering Email Headers — by Reid Goldsborough
3/1/2007
Questions About Online Identity — by Reid Goldsborough
2/15/2007
Windows Vista: What to Do? — by Reid Goldsborough
2/1/2007
When Bad Things Happen to Good Computers — by Reid Goldsborough
1/15/2007
Visiting Museums … Without Leaving Home: The Beautiful and the Bizarre — by Roberta Roberti
1/2/2007
Podcasting Adds to the Media Mix — by Reid Goldsborough
12/15/2006
Printers as Jacks of All Trades — by Reid Goldsborough
12/1/2006
What Should You Do with Your Old PC? — by Reid Goldsborough
11/15/2006
Making a Name for Your Site — by Reid Goldsborough
11/1/2006
Dealing with E-Mail Scams — by Reid Goldsborough
10/15/2006
Keeping Up with Really Simple Syndication — by Reid Goldsborough
10/1/2006
Traveling with Technology—and Its Glitches — by Reid Goldsborough
9/15/2006
Helping Site Visitors Find What They’re After — by Reid Goldsborough
9/1/2006
Anonymity Versus Security Online — by Reid Goldsborough
8/15/2006
Keeping Your Eyes Healthy in Front of the PC Screen — by Reid Goldsborough
8/1/2006
Predicting the Future of Information Technology — by Reid Goldsborough
7/15/2006
Putting Words on Pages — by Reid Goldsborough
7/1/2006
Giving Your Photo Editor a Boost — by Reid Goldsborough
6/15/2006
Flash Drives: Latest and Greatest Gadget — by Reid Goldsborough
6/1/2006
Wikis Offer Promise and Peril — by Reid Goldsborough
5/15/2006
The End of the Free Internet? — by Reid Goldsborough
5/1/2006
Building a Treehouse? How the Internet Can Lend a Helping Hand — by Ken Rubino
4/15/2006
Helping Others Get Up to Speed with PCs — by Reid Goldsborough
4/1/2006
Advertising Is Two-Way in the Internet Age — by Reid Goldsborough
3/15/2006
Going Beyond the Web’s Surface — by Reid Goldsborough
3/1/2006
Virtual Decorating: Free Sites Take the Guessing Out of Interior Home Design — by Roberta Roberti
2/15/2006
Rock of the Ages: The Many Faces of Rock Music on the Net — by Ken Rubino
2/1/2006
Saving Money When Printing — by Reid Goldsborough
1/15/2006
Self-Publishing: The Internet Makes It Easier to Go from Idea to Print — by Ken Rubino
1/2/2006
Web Linking: Is It Legal or Not? — by Reid Goldsborough
12/15/2005
Blogs to Book Deals: Can This Type of Online Forum Help You Become a Best-selling Author? — by Roberta Roberti
12/1/2005
Computer-Aided Photography: Image Editors Provide Tools That Enable You to Make Smart Changes — by Reid Goldsborough
11/15/2005
Time to Buy a New PC? Factors to Weigh Before Making This Decision — by Reid Goldsborough
11/1/2005
How Not to Stick Your Foot in Your Mouth via E-Mail — by Reid Goldsborough
10/15/2005
New Versus Old Media — by Reid Goldsborough
10/1/2005
How Not to Lose Your Laptop — by Reid Goldsborough
9/15/2005
The Future of Computing — by Reid Goldsborough
9/1/2005
Bringing in Outside Help for Your Web Site — by Reid Goldsborough
8/15/2005
In Harmony with Your Remote Control — by J.A. Hitchcock
8/1/2005
Common Sense About Sensitive E-Mail — by Reid Goldsborough
7/15/2005:
Have You Tried Open Source Software Yet? — by Reid Goldsborough
7/1/2005:
Web Content: Knowing Whether It’s to Sell You or Inform You — by Reid Goldsborough
6/15/2005:
Wikipedia: An Encyclopedia of the People, by the People, for the People — by Reid Goldsborough
6/1/2005:
Is Technology Stressing You Out? Here Are Some Ways to Regain Control — by Reid Goldsborough
5/15/2005:
Sending Large Files Without Mucking up the Works — by Reid Goldsborough
5/1/2005:
Making Travel Plans: The Best Sites for Research and Reservations — by Roberta Roberti
4/15/2005:
Fine Art Photography on the Web — by Ken Rubino
4/1/2005:
Sites for Cheese Connoisseurs — by Roberta Roberti
3/15/2005:
Keeping E-Mail in Top Form — by Reid Goldsborough
3/1/2005:
Wine Pairing Sites: Sites to Help You Select a Wine — by Roberta Roberti
2/15/2005:
Instant Messaging for Marketing — by Reid Goldsborough
2/1/2005:
Gauging the Success of Your Web Site — by Reid Goldsborough
1/15/2005:
Magazines on Web Tools and Content — by Reid Goldsborough
1/3/2005:
Cookies, Cookies ... Everywhere — by Reid Goldsborough
12/15/2004:
Wash That Spam Away with MailWasher Pro — by J.A. Hitchcock
12/1/2004:
Going Online to Save Data Safely — by Reid Goldsborough
11/15/2004:
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the indigenous Stolen Generations on behalf of the Parliament of Australia.
Namdaemun (pictured), the southern gate of the original walls surrounding Seoul during the Joseon Dynasty, is partially destroyed by fire.
The 50th Annual Grammy Awards take place in Los Angeles, USA.
President José Ramos-Horta of East Timor is wounded in an attack that leaves rebel leader Alfredo Reinhado dead.
In football (soccer), Egypt wins the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, defeating Cameroon 1–0 in the final in Accra, Ghana.
A fire on the Turkish freighter UND Adriyatik is extinguished, dispelling fears of an oil spill and environmental damage.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the Indigenous Stolen Generation on behalf of the Parliament of Australia. (ABC)
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United States presidential election, 2008:
Illinois Senator Barack Obama wins the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Democratic primaries. Obama now leads Sen. Hillary Clinton in the delegate count for the first time since early in the campaign. (CNN), (New York Times)
Arizona Senator John McCain wins the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Republican primaries. (New York Times)
European Space Agency's Columbus module is attached to the International Space Station. (New York Times)
The U.S. Senate votes to grant immunity to telecommunications companies for their role in NSA call database. (NY Times)
Chilean opera singer Ernesto "Tito" Beltran is sentenced to two years in jail by a Swedish court for rape during a concert tour in 1999.(BBC)
Russia and Ukraine resolve a dispute over Ukraine's natural gas debt which saw Gazprom threatening to cut off supplies. (AFP)
Members of the Writers Guild of America vote to end the WGA strike that had been in effect for just over three months. (CNN)
Current events of February 11, 2008 (2008-02-11) (Monday)
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Judge John Kessler declares a mistrial in the case of China Arnold, who grabbed international headlines in 2005 for allegedly killing her baby by microwaving her to death. (Dayton Daily News)
The United States files charges against six alleged al-Qaeda operatives including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks, seeking the death penalty for war crimes and murder. (Sky News)
Paintings by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet are stolen from the Foundation E.G. Bührle, a museum in Zürich. (AFP)
2008 East Timor coup attempt:
President of East Timor José Ramos Horta is shot and wounded in an attack at his home. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinhado, who led the attack, is killed. (ABC News Australia) (Melbourne Age)
Prime Minister of East Timor Xanana Gusmão escapes unhurt from an attack on his motorcade.
The Singapore Flyer, the largest observation wheel in the world (30 meters higher than London Eye), starts to turn. (The Straits Times)
Gregg Bergersen, a United States Defense Department Analyst, is arrested and charged with espionage after being accused of leaking American military secrets to the Chinese government. (CNN)
Current events of February 10, 2008 (2008-02-10) (Sunday)
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The wooden portion of Namdaemun Gate in Seoul, South Korea is destroyed in a suspicious fire. (BBC News)
Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008:
Illinois Senator Barack Obama wins the Maine caucus. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Patti Solis Doyle resigns as campaign manager for New York Senator Hillary Clinton. Maggie Williams replaces her. (AP via Yahoo! News)
A suicide car bomb at a market in Balad, Iraq kills 25. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates also arrives in Iraq from a Germany security conference to meet with Iraqi leaders, General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker. (CNN)
Association football: Egypt beats Cameroon 1-0 to win the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana. (BBC News)
Ten people are trampled to death at a rock concert in Bandung, Indonesia. (AFP)
Over five hundred people are evacuated from the North Sea oil rig Safe Scandinavia, 282 kilometres (175 mi) northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland after a hoax bomb scare. (RTÉ News)
Current events of February 9, 2008 (2008-02-09) (Saturday)
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Writers Guild of America strike (2007–present): Hollywood writers reach tentative agreement with the major movie studios. (The Washington Post)
United States presidential election, 2008:
Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee wins the Kansas Republican Party caucus and the Louisiana primary. (The Washington Post) (Reuters)
Illinois Senator Barack Obama wins Democratic Party caucuses in Nebraska, Washington and the U.S. Virgin Islands and the primary in Louisiana. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Arizona Senator John McCain wins the Washington Republican primary. (The Oregonian)
A suicide bomber kills 20 people at an opposition rally in Pakistan. (AFP)
A fire at Camden Market in London, England forces the evacuation of residents. The London Ambulance Service reports no casualties. (BBC News)
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey votes to change the Constitution of Turkey removing a ban on wearing religious head cover in Turkish universities. (The New York Times)
The military government of Myanmar announces a national referendum to pass a new constitution will be held in May, and that democratic multi-party elections will take place in 2010. (CNN)
Current events of February 8, 2008 (2008-02-08) (Friday)
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The Serbian minister for Kosovo claims that his government has information that the province's Albanian leadership will declare independence on February 17. (AFP via Google News)
A 5.4 Mw earthquake southeast of Mexicali, Mexico causes 400,000 people to lose power. (CNN) (USGS)
The Nebraska Supreme Court rules the electric chair unconstitutional. (AFP via Google News)
Hamas militants launch nearly 20 rockets at nearby Israeli towns. (BBC News)
A fire in a nursing home in Egg, Austria kills at least 11 people. (BBC News)
A student shoots two students and kills herself at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (CNN)
Scotland Yard detectives investigating the death of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto say that she died from the effect of a bomb blast not gunfire. (BBC News)
A woman attacks two pilots on Eagle Airways Flight 2279 from Blenheim to Christchurch, New Zealand. The aircraft lands safely at Christchurch and the suspect is arrested and charged with hijacking and three counts of assault. (New Zealand Herald)
The man accused of the Gurgaon kidney scandal is arrested in Nepal. (NDTV India)
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A gunman kills five and wounds two people at city hall before being shot and killed by police in Kirkwood, Missouri. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) (Reuters)
Four people die and dozens are hurt in an explosion at a sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia. (CNN)
The United States Congress approves a $168 billion economic stimulus package and sends it to President George W. Bush for his approval. (The New York Times)
The Slovakian Parliament vote on the Lisbon Treaty ratification is indefinitely postponed. (SkToday.com)
The National Assembly of France approves the Treaty of Lisbon by 336 votes to 52. (AP via Google News)
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches successfully on its STS-122 mission. (Fox News)
British Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri will be extradited to the United States to face terror charges. (BBC News)
There are mass arrests in the United States and Italy in an anti-Mafia sweep including three suspected senior members of the Gambino crime family. (Reuters)
United States presidential election, 2008: Former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney suspends his campaign. (CNN)
The Orthodox Church of Greece elects a new leader, Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens. (CNN)
NATO meets in Vilnius, Lithuania.
No agreement on Afghanistan ahead of NATO meeting. (AFP via Google News)
Robert Gates will discuss the need to boost NATO forces in Afghanistan. (Presszoom)
The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband visit Afghanistan. (AP via Google News)
Rio Tinto rejects BHP Billiton's $147 billion hostile takeover bid. (Financial Times)
WHO declares global tobacco control efforts and an approach to avoid tens of millions of premature deaths by the middle of this century. (WHO)
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February 13: Barack Obama and John McCain sweep Potomac states' primaries
February 13: George Bush meets with Mali president Amaour Touré
February 13: Danish police arrest three in cartoonist murder plot
February 13: Australian parliament apologises to the Stolen Generations
February 12: New 'Star Wars' film to be released in August
February 12: TIBE joins International Publishers Association for publishing industry in Taiwan
February 12: 2008 Taipei International Book Exhibition Preview: An exposition with different cultures
February 12: Finnish internet censorship critic blacklisted
February 12: Four new breeds in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
February 12: Newspaper campaigns to elevate Vancouver Olympic character from sidekick status
February 12: France's Sarkozy to meet with Brazilian president da Silva
February 12: Broken pipes cause flood in Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York
February 12: U.S. entertainment writers' strike may end this week
February 12: Australian parliament to apologise to Stolen Generations
February 11: Israel town sues Google for slander
February 11: Victims of torture among detainees facing death penalty in Guantanamo
February 11: Columbus module added to ISS during spacewalk
February 11: Huckabee wins Kansas and Louisiana
February 11: State of emergency declared in East Timor
February 11: Paintings worth millions of euros stolen in Zürich