1) Post Tech: Google, Twitter team up for Egyptians to send tweets via phone
As Egypt moved Monday to
shut down its sole operating Internet service provider, Google and
Twitter teamed up to create a service for people to send tweets from the
nation through a phone call.
2) At 10, dance-dancing his way to Guinness record
Let other parents stick
honor-student bumper stickers on their cars. Ted Wada has a framed
certificate from Guinness World Records on his mantel to celebrate his
10-year-old's excellence in . . . video gaming.
3) Evernote helps you get organized
Trying to get it together? Evernote might be the app for you.
4) U.S. warns against blocking social media, elevates Internet freedom policies
The decision by Egyptian
officials to virtually shut down Internet access to the country Friday
marked an audacious escalation in the battle between authoritarian
governments and tech-savvy protesters. It was also a direct challenge to
the Obama administration's attempts to promote Internet freedom.
5) Walkie-talkie app: Fun without the tin cans
The novelty of HeyTell, a
walkie-talkie app, is hard to get over. You feel like a kid again, as
if you're holding a tin can at the end of a very long string. Yes, you
could just use the phones you're holding, but what fun is that?
6) Richard Panek's study of the cosmos,"The 4 Percent Universe"
The 4 Percent Universe
Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
By Richard Panek Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 297 pp. $26 In 1969, an
astronomer named Jeremiah Ostriker realized that the Milky Way was
spinning too fast. That may sound odd, given that it takes the sun ...
7) Last Internet provider in Egypt goes dark
SEATTLE -- The last of Egypt's main Internet service providers, the Noor Group, has gone dark.
8) Sherry Turkle's meditation on technology, "Alone Together"
ALONE TOGETHER Why We
Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other By Sherry Turkle
Basic. 360 pp. $28.95 In "Why the West Rules, For Now," his excellent
and amusing survey of the last 70,000 years or so of human history, Ian
Morris discusses an event we can look forward to in 2045: th...
9) iPhone 4 owner sues Apple over cracked class case
iPhone 4 owner Donald
LeBuhn filed a class action lawsuit against Apple early this week,
claiming the company is misleading customers about the strength of the
glass casing on the iPhone 4. LeBuhn is asking that Apple reimburse the
plaintiffs in the case for the cost of the phone and any repairs.
10) Digital tricks to tame an Internet addiction
In the age of the
Internet, two minutes doing nothing can feel like forever. The seconds
ooze by, my mind skipping from dinner plans (healthy acorn squash or a
cheeseburger?) to a Brian Adams song I can't get out of my head
("Everything I do, I do it for you!"), to the Moscow bombing. I look at
t...
