Emerging Technology

After many delays, you can finally download Firefox 3.5 from Mozilla.org. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers debate its speed, stability, security, and, err, private browsing mode.

By Richi Jennings: your humble blogwatcher, who selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention life in plastic: it's fantastic...

Until I read Matt Hamblen’s article, “35 years later, bar codes, and scanning, are everywhere” at computerworld.com, I wasn’t aware that we’ve been scanning items for this long. It seems the technology came out only a couple decades ago.

Twitter and other social networkings are helping us understand what's happening in Tehran and the rest of Iran after the election. In IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers feel bad for Iranians, but good about social-network-mediated transparency.

Not to mention how the Finns advertise newspapers...

Step by step Linux keeps getting better. Here's the best of the latest release's features.

Is Google scared of Microsoft Bing? In IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers debate Sergey Brin's rumored reaction to new competition.

Not to mention Post-it® stop-motion awesomeness...

It's Digital TV transition time; got your .gov DTV converter box coupon? In IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers blog the DTV transition from NTSC analog to ATSC digital television.

HDTV via rabbit ears? Let's give it a try!

Not to mention a Star Trek (TOS) communicator? There's an app. for that...

Blogs are abuzz over the Palm Pre, new iPhone 3G S, and BlackBerry platform. But which is best for the enterprise? In IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers pontificate, now they've had a few days to think about it.

Not to mention videogame places you're not supposed to go...

Yamaha Corporation of America uses a third-party electronic signature with its Salesforce.com service to manage contracts and other paperwork. The SaaS tool has eliminated loads of paper and inefficiencies.

The new iPhone 3G S backlash has begun, and iFanbois are astonished by the AT&T cost for an upgrade from their old and tired iPhone 3Gs.

No matter that -- in their drooling haste to upgrade last time -- they signed a two-year contract to get the subsidized pricing.

In IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches some bloggers whine and moan and totally ignore their contractual obligations; while others stand on the sidelines, laughing.

Not to mention Mobiusbiking...

Some bloggers blame the Air France AF 447 crash on the Airbus A330 computer. They're speculating -- often in the most ignorant way -- about the safety of fly-by-wire aircraft. Others work hard to correct these mistakes; some even accusing Boeing of fanning the flames.

In IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings shakes his head at the foolishness. Not only is it an extremely sad time for those left behind by this tragedy, it's also sad to see widely-read commentators get so much wrong, so badly.

Speculation is at fever-pitch in the run-up to the Apple 2009 WWDC: what will the new iPhone Video / 3G / 3.0 / 3GS look like, and how much will it cost? And will we get a boom-one-more-thing update from Steve Jobs? In IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches the fanbois drool in this pre-view of today's Worldwide Developers Conference.

Not to mention Conan O'Brien's "derivative" set...
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The bout is about to begin: 2009's shiny new Palm Pre vs 2008's boring old iPhone. In IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch Apple's iPhone and Palm's Pre pre-pare to slug it out for the title of best smartphone. Not to mention texting the ten commandments...

The Windows 7 release date is October 22, says Microsoft. In IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers react to the news (and notes that the date is as previously rumored). The 7 bits will be baked in July, so perhaps the download will be in August? Not to mention real-life Jenga...

Yesterday, Microsoft showed off its super-secret Project Natal motion controller at the 2009 E3 Expo. In IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch Peter Molyneux introduce a whole-body, controller-free way to play Xbox 360 games. And, yes: there is an IT angle.

Not to mention Twitcaps...

More details of Apple's new iPhone have leaked. In IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch leaks from Hong Kong. And we ask, should we call this iPhone 3, iPhone 3G, iPhone 2009, or what? It's confusing.

Not to mention Autotune The News #4...
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