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...same time, new display technologies are emerging that promise to improve battery life and make devices more portable and easier to read. U.K.-based Plastic Logic hopes to introduce next year the first e-reader with a plastic screen that will reduce glare and be less prone to cracking when dropped by ham-fisted owners. Electronic-ink technology is set to move from black and white to color by the end of 2010. Even video is on the horizon. "We'll see a range of models start to appear over the first half of 2010" offering "a range of different...
...there's the looming threat posed by next-generation tablet computers. Apple, the king of cool handheld devices, is rumored to be readying a tablet computer with all the functions of a laptop as well as iPhone-like touch capabilities for release early next year. Microsoft has been secretive about its plans for a tablet, but a video making the rounds of the blogosphere show a dual-LCD-screen prototype that closes like a book. "E-readers are a transitional technology," says Rotman Epps of Forrester Research. Which means that just as the e-reader is taking...
...Harvard Crimson just at the moment I was contemplating that I needed to do more things in my life that I really enjoy. One of those things would be baking treats for others. What do you think about me supplying some baked goods for the next faculty meeting for free...
...email, Anna Yun, a mental health counselor at South Bay Mental Health Center in Boston with no apparent connection to Harvard, offered to make “pumpkin muffins, sour cream coffee cake, [or] coconut cream pie” (her specialty) for the next faculty meeting. The reason? None, except “that it would make me happy and hopefully make the faculty meeting more...
President Barack Obama made time for a brief statement about his Nobel Peace Prize award on Friday, before heading in to a more pressing engagement - a high-powered White House strategy session on the next phase of his war in Afghanistan. That was just one indication that this year's peace prize was, as Obama himself put it, honoring aspiration rather than achievement...