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…
Now laptops getting phone
Indian Sentiments (in Cricket)
It was very interesting to read Dileep Premchandran write on a situation in Indian Cricket: Eventually, the need to move on and forge a new direction for Indian cricket lost out to that great enemy of excellence: sentiment. Having stripped…
Visual search on mobile phones
Once cameras started becoming popular, it was clear that there will be many innovative uses of camera phones. For one obvious thing, these cameras could be used to read special symbols — like special kind of ‘bar codes’ — that…
Video games in Academia
NYT reports on the growth of courses and programs on video games in academia Three decades after bursting into pool halls and living rooms, video games are taking a place in academia. A handful of relatively obscure vocational schools have…
Total Recall — an eChronicle
MyLifeBits project by Gordon Bell has received good media attention from its early days. There is a nice article in the latest issue of Spectrum on this project. If privacy is your overriding concern, MyLifeBits may not be for you.…