Kids' tech: Creative learning in the iPad age

Kids' play has moved to tablets and PCs. In this new age, toy makers and researchers alike are sorting out the benefits

Inside Facebook

In just seven years, Mark Zuckerberg has gone from his Harvard college dorm to running a business with 800 million users, and a possible value of $100 billion. His idea to 'make the world more open and connected'

eBay’s amazing Give-A-Toy Store

Here is a really cool and innovative way to evoke our sensitive, giving side this Christmas, with eBay’s amazing Give-A-Toy Store window installation in New York

The Amazing Apple Store in Tirana (iStream Albania)

 It was really amazing and i feel proud for the co-operation with the amazing owners & all staff there in iStream Albania Apple Authorised Reseller for 1+ month.

Stanford summer course yields touchscreen Braille writer

In a two-month summer course on high-performance computing, promising undergrads compete to create innovative applications. This summer's winner developed a touchscreen Braille writer that stands to revolutionize how the blind negotiate an unseen world by replacing devices costing up to 10 times more.

RIP Steve Jobs!

..2day is one of the worst day in my life..same as when my father was died!

The flexible future for smartphones and tablets

PaperPhone is the world's first nextgen, thin film smartphone and interactive paper computer. It is based on a 3.7" flexible electrophoretic (E Ink) display that does not consume electricity when it is not refreshed. Thinfilm sensors allow the phone to respond to bending of the screen to navigate pages in ebooks, play or pause mp3s, make phone calls, or navigate apps. A flexible wacom tablet allows users to draw on the screen with a pen as if it were a sheet of paper.

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go.. MoonBots 2.0 Challenge

MoonBots is an exciting contest that challenges teams of youth and adults to learn about robotics, the Moon and space exploration by designing and constructing a LEGO MINDSSTORMS robot that performs simulated lunar missions.



The X PRIZE Foundation and Google have created the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a new, private race to the Moon that is engaging and exciting the global public while enabling the commercial exploration of space and dramatically reducing its cost. The Google Lunar X PRIZE is expected to increase the connection that individuals around the world feel to space exploration, science, and education by taking advantage of new tools for the rapid and targeted distribution of information. By reigniting a race to the Moon, the Google Lunar X PRIZE is intended to engage a new generation, making lunar exploration not just a historical accomplishment, but a tangible reality.


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The future of mobile social media

At Stanford, an engineering research team asks fundamental questions about the marriage of mobile communications and social networking, and begins to design the future of open-source social networking.

They have formed MobiSocial to ask the most fundamental questions about this rapidly burgeoning field, questions that seem obvious now that mobile and social media are firmly entrenched, but which weren't so obvious as the technologies were entrenching themselves: Can social be done better? Can it be even more social and more fun? Can it be more open? Can it be more secure? And, if so, how?

In short, MobiSocial is about imagining and creating an open-source mobile-social media future.

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A next-generation digital book

..the first full-length interactive book for the iPad, with clever, swipeable video and graphics and cool data visualizations to play with.

The Story of Linux: Commemorating 20 Years of the Linux Operating System

Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Linux with us. Watch the Story of Linux to remember - or learn for the first time - how Linux disrupted a market and has begun to change the world. Do you see yourself in its story?

OnLine Shop with live Sales Persons - 3LiveShop

Impressive technology…. innovative idea…. for mobile phone company 3 in Sweden.

A new, safer and easier way to shop over the Internet.

They have created 3LiveShop to make it easier for their customers to choose the mobile, the subscriber and the service that suits their needs.

With 3LiveShop we get all the services and personal contact that they get in a regular store - even though we're sitting somewhere else. We and the seller can see and talk to each other while the vendor demonstrate products and services to you, as a video call around - only better.

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Love..Playmobil, Love Apple Store [Awesome]

This model is so well done I kind of wish it wasn’t a joke. ThinkGeek has taken the time to make little iPads, iPhones, and MacBooks, as well as lovingly reproducing key characters from the world of Apple including a realistic Steve Jobs. The design is incredibly awesome.

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Better ads in Gmail

Coming soon: Better Ads in Gmail

• Fewer irrelevant ads
• Gmail’s importance ranking applied to ads
• Offers and coupons for your local area

With Gmail, they try to do as good a job with ads as they do with email. Ppl use Gmail ourselves, and want its ads to be as relevant and useful as possible.
If you've been using Gmail for a while, you may have noticed a time or two where we've missed. Bad ads tend to annoy people. Google are trying to cut down on these ads, and make the ones you do see much more useful.
With features like Priority Inbox,they ’ve been working hard to help sort through the ‘bacn’ in your messages -- the unimportant messages that get in your way. Soon they ’re going to try a similar approach to ads: using some of the same signals that help predict which messages are likely to be important to you, Gmail will better predict which ads may be useful to you. For example, if you’ve recently received a lot of messages about photography or cameras, a deal from a local camera store might be interesting. On the other hand if you’ve reported these messages as spam, you probably don’t want to see that deal.
Only a few users will notice the change to begin with, but as Google improve it they ’ll roll it out more widely. As always, ads in Gmail are fully automated-no humans read your messages- and no messages or personally identifiable information about you is shared with advertisers. You can read about the principles they follow for advertising in mail here.




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Gesture Sharing..smartphones with Microsoft Surface

Gesture Sharing for Smartphones and Tablets using Microsoft Surface






A smartphone owner can now move their content freely between two devices by simply dragging content off their phone onto a Microsoft Surface Table and back onto another device instantly.


Amnesia Connect works with all Apple IOS devices and is being further developed to work seamlessly with Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry Smartphones.

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Augmented Mobile Commerce

Trying on Glasses App with Face Tracking for iPhone 4

Total Immersion has unveiled a breakthrough mobile commerce application that uses AR face tracking to enable consumers to try -- and buy -- eyeglass frames directly from an iPhone 4.

The app pulls from the frames inventory of an eyeglasses retailer, enables consumers to try various styles, send photos to friends through social networks, connect to a map pinpointing the nearest store to buy offline, or complete the transaction online, on the spot.

"This is the most fully realized mobile commerce application ever to use augmented reality, and the first AR app in the m-commerce space featuring face- tracking technology, newly available on mobile," said Bruno Uzzan, Total Immersion CEO. "Face tracking is ideally suited to purchases like eyeglass frames, where it's essential to try before you buy. In this environment, the m-commerce experience is both more convenient and more satisfying for consumers and merchants alike. Product selection is virtually unlimited -- and those with corrective lenses can keep them on through the AR fitting."

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