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Last updated: April 6, 2007 6:15:56 PM Pacific Time
News.Com: IBM Research turns 60. While IBM remains a major center for nanotechnology research, the company's push toward services and software has prompted it to dedicate more of its laboratories toward solving business process problems: supply chain management, application integration and transactional inefficiencies. NY Times: Online Pioneer Sets Out to Shake Up TV. Set in an office building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brightcove will offer three interrelated online services. It has tools that let television producers load their video onto its servers, arrange them into programs and display them to Internet users. NY Times: Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed. A ubiquitous city is where all major information systems (residential, medical, business, governmental and the like) share data, and computers are built into the houses, streets and office buildings. New Songdo, located on a man-made island of nearly 1,500 acres off the Incheon coast about 40 miles from Seoul, is rising from the ground up as a U-city. eWEEK: Experts Question Future of Sony's New Memory Stick. Some mobile device experts are questioning whether Sony's new Memory Stick Micro format will expand beyond the company's own products, and whether the firm's device storage technologies will eventually lose their appeal with customers. EE Times: LG claims most advanced fuel cell. LG Chem's portable fuel cells are a micro miniaturized product, which is less than 1 liter in the core and weighs less than 1 kilogram. The company claims that its fuel cell system produces 25-W of power, which is the world's largest power output of its kind. PC World: SanDisk Puts Copy Controls on Flash Cards. Adding DRM will motivate providers of music, games, movies, and other content to sell those products for mobile phones, either as cards sold in retail stores or as downloadable files that can be put on a TrustedFlash card, said Eli Harari, president and CEO of SanDisk. NY Times: Aha! Video Straight to a Computer. The "Aha!" moment came when JVC looked at the iPod. Why, JVC wondered, are we still recording onto tapes and discs, if we can record directly onto a tiny little hard drive like the iPod's? The camcorder could hold hours and hours of video, and you'd never have to buy another tape or specialized blank DVD. Technology Review: Will Windows Upgrade Hand Power to Big Media? The idea is to make it easier to download HDTV-quality video to your desktop or laptop. But, in the process, critics fear you will lose something: the freedom to use whatever hardware or software you want. So what you'll hear about Vista depends on whom you ask. The Economist: Science fiction? Whether or not computer, software, consumer-electronics, telecoms, cable and internet companies are in fact out of touch with consumers may be the biggest question facing these industries today. That is because the "digital home", a concept and category hugely hyped in executive circles but still rarely heard in discussions among consumers, represents their greatest hope for revenue growth. NY Times: A Baby Step Toward Wi-Fi Photos. All this and more awaits the consumers who embrace the first fully functional wireless digital camera. Unfortunately, the Nikon P1 is not it. Incredibly, the P1 can't connect to the Internet at all, even when its Wi-Fi signal-strength indicator has more bars than a federal prison.
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