Saturday, 12 November 2011

Technology News

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I have a daughter who wants to design robots. She used to want to be an astronaut, and now she thinks that maybe she’d still like to go into space, but “only for a year or so,” since she’s discovered it could be a dangerous job.

I’ll admit when I first received the offer to review antibacterial screen covers I could scarcely control my snark reflex. Have we as a culture really gotten to a point where we have to sanitize our cell phones? It seemed laughable at best??and idle fear mongering at worst.

This week, November 7th through the 10th, Microsoft hosted educators all over the world in Washington, D.C. for the annual Partners in Learning Global Forum event. Educators got the opportunity to network, attend keynote speeches from educational leaders and present their own innovative projects that leverage technology in the classroom.

The Family Gamer Awards have been bubbling away for quite a few years now. This year the homepage has had a mini-makeover so that you can see all the past winners. Browsing the list makes for some interesting reading, and reveals the sometimes unusual and unlikely selections. Working on these awards has been a real treat.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

On January 1, the minimum wage will rise as much as 20 per cent in China's Guangdong province, a move that could affect the region's status as a hotbed for low-cost manufacturing -- or even raise the prices of the world's electronics.

On this week's edition of the Gadget Lab podcast, we talk about Adobe's decision to kill mobile Flash and the ongoing iOS 5 battery problem saga, then take a look at Motorola's tough but slender new Droid Razr smartphone.

Federal authorities are investigating the safety and proper handling of lithium-ion automotive batteries after a Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid caught fire three weeks after a routine crash test. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked General Motors, Nissan, Ford and others about the fire risk posed by li-ion batteries used in EVs and plug-in hybrids.

It's never easy being a third-party app developer. Besides needing a great app idea, you must master your platform's SDK, and then work hard to make sure your app has visibility in whatever platform ecosystem you've chosen to infiltrate. Enter Microsoft's BizSpark program, which helps software devs bring their apps to market. One of the program's major initiatives is Mobile Acceleration Week, a multi-city road show that's designed to give guidance and support to Windows Phone Mango developers. Last week, the event was held in San Francisco, so we dropped by to hunt for the latest, greatest Windows Phone apps coming down the pike. Here are 10 of the most promising. Just be aware that not all are currently available in Marketplace.


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