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Monday links 26 Aug 2013 | 03:03 pm
Computer Can Read Letters Directly from the Brain By analysing MRI images of the brain with an elegant mathematical model, it is possible to reconstruct thoughts more accurately than ever before—Scien...
Ballmer retiring from Microsoft 23 Aug 2013 | 08:31 pm
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has unexpectedly announced he is retiring within a year. The blogosphere is abuzz but here is some analysis from Therese Poletti at MarketWatch: Microsoft Corp. is going t...
Quote of the week 23 Aug 2013 | 03:48 pm
It’s out of ideas, out of energy, and out of gas. It’s reduced to putting lipstick on that pig… or gold color on that case. —Carol Kopp commenting on the state of the smartphone industry at MarketWatc...
Grandpa app 23 Aug 2013 | 01:45 pm
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Online and mobile banking 21 Aug 2013 | 02:40 pm
According to Pew Research, fifty-one percent of U.S. adults, or 61% of Internet users, bank online. Thirty-two percent of U.S. adults, or 35% of cell phone owners, bank using their mobile phones. Stat...
Monday links 19 Aug 2013 | 02:08 pm
Microsoft’s bet on touch PCs fails to pay off Buyers reject touchscreen notebooks, spooked by higher prices and concerns about value of Windows 8′s touch UI—Gregg Keizer at Computerworld How You Can ...
Quote of the week 16 Aug 2013 | 02:22 pm
Once, popes wrote encyclicals; now they tweet. —Joe Nocera, writing in his New York Times column about why he dislikes Twitter. The post Quote of the week appeared first on The PC Informant. Related...
Nostalgia 16 Aug 2013 | 01:54 pm
Source: The Wall Street Journal The post Nostalgia appeared first on The PC Informant. Related posts: New book The Smartphone graduates Get his autograph Dinner request Wall Street follies
A computer inside us 14 Aug 2013 | 02:41 pm
I have noted before that the ability to create very small computing devices with very low power requirements could lead to many revolutionary developments. An application that is on the verge of becom...
Monday links 12 Aug 2013 | 02:14 pm
If you’re not paying, you’re the product — so why not get some cashback? Should we get paid to use the free services such as search engines and social networks?—Mary Branscombe at ZDNet Laptops with ...
