January 2011
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Amazon.com touts more e-book sales than paperbacks →
Third-gen Kindle sold millions in fourth quarter, CEO Bezos says
via @mitchbetts
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China to make largest city in the world by... →
climateadaptation:
Facts:
26 times the size of London
1/10th of China’s economy, growing at 4+%
Highly industrialized section of China - lots of pollution
Searching for a new name for the new city
29 rail lines, 3100 miles of track (NYC has 24 lines, and 800 miles of track)
42 million people -…
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Swinburne University of Technology to go it alone... →
SWINBURNE University of Technology will expand online degrees in a marketing deal with internet recruiter Seek designed to capitalise on galloping demand by off-campus students.
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Wired and wireless broadband in India, the next... →
While mobile communication (voice+text) has seen incredible growth in India, broadband connectivity hasn’t been taken as seriously. Last year, India announced a National Broadband Plan with the intention of connecting close to 160 million households compared to an estimated 10.3 Million connections as of now.
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In Pursuit of Qubits, Uniting Subatomic Particles... →
In a step toward a generation of ultrafast computers, physicists have used bursts of radio waves to briefly create 10 billion quantum-entangled pairs of subatomic particles in silicon. The research offers a glimpse of a future computing world in which individual atomic nuclei store and retrieve data and single electrons shuttle it back and forth.
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2 billion people now surfing the net: UN →
The number of mobile phone subscriptions also reached the symbolic threshold of five billion, the secretary general of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) told journalists.
“At the beginning of the year 2000 there were only 500 million mobile subscriptions globally and 250 million Internet users,” he said.
“By the beginning of this year 2011 those...
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Yahoo!7 acquires online voucher website →
Yahoo!7 has announced it has acquired online deals and voucher website Spreets. Spreets was the first group buying site in Australia and New Zealand and has been in operation for almost a year.
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Scientists Create Injector for Generating... →
Scientists at Los Alamos National Lab, N.M., have achieved a breakthrough with the Office of Naval Research’s Free Electron Laser (FEL) program, demonstrating an injector capable of producing the electrons needed to generate megawatt-class laser beams for the US Navy’s next-generation weapon system.
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The Era of the PC is Over →
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has just released its tenth annual Predictions for the next 12-to-18 months
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Open Grantmaking in Practice, Not Just In... →
The announcement from the Labor Department that it is requiring the work product of $500 million (the first tranche of $2 billion appropriated) in new grant money to be free for others to reuse represents a fundamental and laudable shift in how grants are made in government.
Since grants represent half of the federal budget this is important news with potentially powerful implications for...
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Internet Gains on Television as Public's Main News... →
In 2010, for the first time, the internet has surpassed television as the main source of national and international news for people younger than 30. Since 2007, the number of 18 to 29 year olds citing the internet as their main source has nearly doubled, from 34% to 65%.
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Mindfulness meditation training changes brain... →
Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. In a study that will appear in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers report the results of their study, the first to document...
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How computer games could help us all make better... →
A prototype computer game has been developed to help improve decision making skills in all aspects of our lives.
Supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a team at Queen’s University Belfast has developed a prototype that could be built on by commercial games manufacturers and turned into an e-learning or training tool for professionals in all walks of...
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Great Question from Umair Haque on The new... →
Paul Higgins: In part a response to the fact that there were 20,000 new products on show at the recent Consumer Electronics Show Umair says about your product or service:
“Does it make people lastingly happier, in a sustainable way, while being of enduring benefit to society? (Read: all the above, plus a healthy dose of what economists term “social usefulness”, or residual...
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World Future Society Top Ten Forecasts →
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