Business Week online reviews the birth of the Open Architecture Network including reviews by users. Be sure to check out the slide show. View full entry
A much-delayed law that makes British producers and importers of electronic goods responsible for the recycling of their products has come into force in the UK. BBC View full entry
My favorite photoblog daily dose of imagery by Sam Javanrouh has recently documented a cool photomontage technique to create planetary photo panoramas. View full entry
What began as the pet project of a few enthusiastic users has grown into a corporate-backed initiative demonstrating Google Earth's potential as a live-saving humanitarian tool. The interface now includes high-res images of Darfur which document destroyed villages, displaced people and refugee... View full entry
A career in cartography used to be the prerogative of well-funded adventurers — men like Lewis and Clark — with full government backup. Even after the advent of commercial satellite and aerial photography, the ability to make maps remained largely in the hands of specialists. Now... View full entry
“What if Jobs and Apple have peaked? What if, in terms of power and influence, it’s all downhill from here? These suggestions might seem incredible, but half a century of high-tech history indicates otherwise. What that history imparts is that it’s precisely when the mighty seem... View full entry
Yahoo shareholders have rejected plans for the company to adopt a policy that opposes censorship on the internet. As Google has been rated as having the worst privacy policy of popular net firms. BBC1 l BBC2 View full entry
The rumour is dead. Long live the rumour. The byzantine speculation is spent. "Apple will make its Safari Web browser available for Windows-based PCs, opening a new front in its rivalry with Microsoft… Like many of Apple's strategic moves, the implication of an Apple browser for Windows... View full entry
A patented 11 lens camera system that simultaneously takes photos in 11 directions based on a dodecahedron geometry. Watch a youtube movie about the technology here, Impressive > View full entry
literally. Now google maps comes with Street View. Zooming back into street level now you can move around major US cities within a 3d cylindrical panoramic environment. WOW. via Archidose View full entry
"With a bit of fishing line and a couple of office projectors some UK students have put together a great new 3D display. It's called PixelScape, and it has netted them £25,000 in funding to help take their idea to market." New Scientist. View full entry
..."we're here to help." (-cue the ominous music-) So says a company that gathers genetic data. And now has 3.9 bil in funds from Google, not to mention that the owner is in bed with Google founder Sergey Brin. View full entry
A curious interview from 1992 with Taliesin architect and Wright disciple Charles Montooth popped up on YouTube yesterday. Titled "The Advent of Computers at Taliesin," the interview is, of course, anachronistic and thus at times unintentionally funny but also prophetic: Montooth muses the... View full entry
A research team in Germany has developed a computer-software system to piece together some 45 million pages of secret police files ripped into 600 million pieces. The files were torn up nearly 18 years ago by panicking agents of communist East Germany's dreaded State Security Service (Stasi)... View full entry
As prices for 3-D printers keep falling, consumers may see rapid prototypers in their homes within the coming years. The cost of a unit is expected to be under $2,000 within the next three to five years. NYT View full entry
