Tag: THE ATLANTIC

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines... Nokia's sleek E7 QWERTY slider phone finally got an official announcement this morning at the Nokia World event. [From: Engadget and mocoNews.net] Microsoft's Bill Puxton claims that Surface, the multi-touch tabletop that has largely been confined to hotels and casinos, will be in homes within three years. [From: Engadget] Last night, ...

Niraj Chokshi over at The Atlantic wrote that, despite Google's waxing nostalgic upon the changes to its Chrome browser over the past two years, the way we surf the Web hasn't really changed since the days of Mosaic. We smell a challenge! We suggest that Chokshi take a look at pioneering 'net artist Olia Lialina's essay 'Prof. Dr. Style' -- required reading for new media artists and Web geeks. ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. We're not trying to take sides in this whole Apple vs. Adobe battle. We do limit our weekly time-wasters to Flash-based games, because, well, they're endlessly ...

Share Last week, The Pew Research Center released a report asking a selection of "experts, organizations, and interested institutions" whether or not they believed Google was making people dumb, and whether or not our collective intelligence would grow or shrink as a result of recurrent Internet use. The report was a somewhat belated response to Nicholas Carr's article, in the July/August 2008 ...

A recent poll conducted by Harris Interactive, and cited by CNET, puts forth an ominous conclusion: a mere 23-percent of Web-surfing U.S. adults are willing to pay for their online news. As the death knell of print journalism reaches a deafening clamor, the statistic does not seem to bode well for news outlets -- or for those of us who like to stay informed. Fortunately, though, the inquiring ...