Calendar of events is a common item in most Newspapers. You can find it on the websites of most organizations also. We find it very useful in planning what with our own calendar. So the main use of the calendar of events for us seems to be populating our personal calendars using these calendars of [...]
When the amount of information started growing exponentially on the WWW, many people felt the need of tools and environments that will help people find information on the Web. This resulted in attention to organizing all the information on the Web to make it easily available to users. Yahoo, Altavista, Infoseek, Lycos and others started [...]
It had to happen — wearable systems that could be used to give the feel of hug from distance. This is what a researcher at NTU in Singapore has developed. Now it is easier to develop rendering approaches than to develop ingest approaches. So it will be easier to give a simple feel of hug [...]
Nirmal Sethia has an interesting perspective on IT for emerging countries or for the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). Recently there is good amount of media attention to Negroponte’s $100 computer for poor people. A question many people are asking is whether such an approach based on price is the long term solution. He argued [...]
So far it was common to see that phones and PDAs were extending their functionality to include computing. Now it appears that the trend is changing and laptops are becoming small enough to carry them everywhere and they are getting functionality of the phone. See details in NYT by David Pogue. I wonder when we [...]