Amazon reacts to its critics on the Kindle 2’s speech-to-text option.Once again the big media conglomerates have taken away digital freedom due to intellectual property rights charges and the new media company, Amazon in this case, caves in to the representatives for the conglomerates. The blind community may have the last say on this since they are now unable to listen to books on the Kindle 2. Lessig refers to the conglomerates as bullies in his blog. I refer to them as the old Soviet Ministry who stifle innovation and capitalism back in the good old days.
Feb
19
Twitter doesn’t have to be just all about you. Here are some great tips to make Twitter actually useful!
Jan
25
Dr. Chris Heidelberg III interviewed by The Baltimore Sun at the last Obama Whistlestop in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dec
31
Fewer college students are pursuing computer-related degrees at a time when demand is increasing and thousands of baby boomers are retiring from technical jobs. The colliding trends have some business leaders worried that they won’t find enough workers needed to maintain expected growth…
Dec
05
Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it’s a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless video camera in it that records your every move. The eye he’s considering replacing is not a working one — it’s a prosthetic eye he’s worn for several years. Spence, a 36-year-old Canadian f
Dec
02
It would be tempting for those in the video games business to take news like the fact that that October sales were through the roof or that the latest World of Warcraft expansion broke the all-time record for single-day PC game sales as proof that their industry may be immune from the deep despair confronting the global economy.
Dec
02
This is the world’s first national ID system based on contactless smart-card technology, according to the press release
Nov
24
The national economy is in a real code red and addressing this issue can’t be put off for two months.
Nov
24
How the moving image is upending the printed word.
Nov
24
Staff Sgt. Brian Schar got behind the wheel of a white Chevy Colorado yesterday and went for a spin. The vehicle remained snugly parked in a room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Northwest Washington, despite the large screens in front of the truck, which showed a street-level view of…
