Tech news round-up – CES 2010 special: 21st Jan 2010

The International CES is the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow. This year it took place in Las Vegas where tablet computers and 3D tech reigned supreme

Tech news round-up: 5th Jan 2010

A round-up of tech news, links and need-to-know info from the corners of the internet

Tiger Woods: Top 5 spoof videos

Tiger Woods has gone viral. Here is a round-up of the spoof videos doing the rounds on YouTube

Women control web with hormones

According to The Times, women over 35 are taking social media by storm.
It’s fascinating how women and web are portrayed. Shock horror “Figures gathered for The Times by Nielsen, the market research firm, show that just over half of all social-networking users in the UK are women.”
Isn’t that because a large majority of the population are [...]

Flickr goes 3D

 Made from 150,000 Flickr users’ photographs, this 3D image of Rome demonstrates the beauty of social media in sharing and sharing alike.
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 As Popsci.com reports: “a team of computer scientists at the University of Washington’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory assembled digital models of three cities - Rome, Venice, and the Croatian coastal city of Dubrovnik - in 3D. Their work [...]

Telegraph 'clueless' about women…

Shock and horror over article in Telegraph yesterday – what would Ben Goldacre say about this research I wonder?

Desperate housewives get connected with 'virtual school gate'

Gossiping at the school gate has been stepped up by the government. The children’s secretary, Ed Balls, is launching a new social networking site for parents – a “virtual school gate” for every secondary school in England this week, as the BBC reported today.
The Guardian reported:
The new social networking site – which will enable parents to communicate [...]

Audio labels speak to the blind

Following yesterday’s blog post on web accessibility, came across this BBC article explaining a “device that allows blind people to attach and read audio labels on everyday objects”.

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Beyond web accessibility, this proves that technology is fast adapting to the needs of all users.

Textise: Bridging the gap in web accessibility

Web accessibility: tools to bring the internet up-to-date.

Semantic web technology used to reunite Colombian families

Further to my blog post about Dublin Core’s focus upon semantic web technology at their International Conference this year, an interesting article has emerged about semantic web technology.
Semantic web technology will be used to reconnect Colombians who have been displaced by the country’s conflicts involving armed guerrilla groups or drug cartels, as the BBC reports.
The [...]