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Nokia has announced a new entry level handset today the Nokia X2 which will apparently go to India at least for now. Nokia is still the main cellphone manufacturer when it comes to the total number of Nokia units shipped each year but its definitely not the most important smartphone maker anymore. The X2 has pretty simple specs which will certainly meet the needs of those people looking for a simple device and not a true smartphone. The X2 will offer you a 2.2-inch QVGA display Blu

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Likening the state’s technical school system to an “unwanted stepchild at the dinner table,” Sen. Thomas Gaffey said the system will no longer be ignored.

“They will get their just deserve,” said the education committee chairman from Meriden.

Tonight, Gaffey explained to his Senate colleagues why a broad-based bill meant to improve the state’s 16 technical schools is important. Technical school parents and staff have told him about a shortage of supplies and about students not being bused to job sites and athletic events because buses were not operable, he said. Last summer — just two weeks before the start of school, Gaffey said the schools were worried about teaching positions, athletic programs and extracurricular activities because a state budget has not been passed.

Gaffey’s bill would require the state Board of Education to hold a public hearing before closing or suspending the operation of a technical school. It would also require the technical school system’s superintendent to share statistics annually with lawmakers about the employment status of technical school graduates and about the adequacy of resources available to schools, and it would help the system secure state funding. If money is available, the State Bond Commission would be required to vote twice a year on whether to issue the system at least $2 million for general maintenance and trade and capital equipment.   

Finally, the bill would require the state to replace any technical school bus that is 12 years old or older, of has been subject to an out-of-service order for two consecutive years for the same reason. The Courant reported in February that nearly 60 percent of the system’s buses had serious safety violations in 2009.  

Sen. Edith Prague, D-Columbia, said she supported the bill and believes that it will help restore the technical school system. Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, D-New Haven, agreed. “The vo-tech schools should not be orphan schools in our system,” he said.  

Sen. Leonard Fasano, R-North Haven, however, said he was concerned about the provision that involves the State Bond Commission. Fasano said he worries that requiring the commission to vote on capital requests for the technical school system would chip away at the commission’s independent authority and could ultimately hurt other projects deserving of money.

Funding for technical school systems is not just another project, Gaffey responded. The state owns the technical schools and has the obligation to maintain building and provide equal educational opportunities for all students.

The Senate passed the technical school system bill unanimously. It now heads to the House.

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Today, Amazon posted an overview of what Kindle owners can expect in its version 2.5 software update now slated for late May.

This will be the first major feature upgrade to Amazon’s e-paper device line since the launch of the Kindle DX last year. After the launch of that model, there was a single software update, which moderately improved the user experience by stretching battery life and adding native .PDF support.

But with that update, one hand gave while the other took away: It also turned off the default text-to-speech option, amid the disputes it caused with the Author’s Guild. In the meantime, however, Amazon was busy growing the Kindle platform with applications that allowed the consumption of Kindle-formatted e-books on iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Windows, and Mac OS devices.

The slow pace of innovation for the e-reader made me wonder last month if Amazon was already forgetting about the hardware that launched the whole Kindle brand.

Fortunately, it’s not. And the 2.5 software update will add exciting and long- overdue features to the device.

Firstly, the native PDF reading function added in the v.2.3 software update was mostly useless because you could not pan and zoom within the frame to read your files. (I put a lot of vintage video game magazine scans in my Kindle, but they’re all unreadable because each page is zoomed to format the screen and the text is tiny.) With the v.2.5 update, PDF pan and zoom will be added.

Secondly, the poorly-designed menu system will be upgraded to let you organize your books into collections. Currently, it’s just a single paginated list that you have to scroll through to reach your files, which are organized alphabetically. With the v.2.5 software, you will finally be able to group books by author, genre, or publication type.

Finally, users will be able to share their highlighted passages with the rest of the world directly from their Kindle. They will be able to be posted on Facebook or Twitter, or will be counted in Amazon’s “Popular Highlights” of e-books. In other words, users will be able to see what the Kindle community thinks are the best lines from their books or books they’re looking to purchase.

There will also be more font sizes added, improved image clarity, and a password protection option in the update. The update will be rolled out in a limited beta soon and will be released as an automatic OTA update to all Kindle 2 and DX units in late May.

Copyright Betanews, Inc. 2010

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Thats right folks it looks like Rogers is interested in offering its subscribers a new Android device the Acer Liquid E. While we dont have a definitive arrival date Canadian Android fans that happen to prefer Rogers for wireless service should hold off buying any new Android device before they see this baby in stores.The Acer Liquid E will definitely be a handset worth considering as its ready to offer you a 3.5-inch touchscreen display a 768MHz Snapdragon processor a 5-megap

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In the history of modern media, it’s unlikely that anyone — at least, no one of similar size or scale — has embraced open principles more than Wikipedia. Co-founded by Jimmy Wales, the so-called “open-source encyclopedia” has grown to the point where it now encompasses 3.2 million articles, and is almost certainly far more influential than print-bound predecessors such as the Encyclopedia Britannica. Although the site has a team of editors, known internally as “the cabal” (a wink to conspiracy theorists), and occasionally locks down contentious articles, the vast majority of the site is still open to anyone to edit.

As part of our ongoing series on the tension between “open” and “closed” across a range of industries and markets, I spoke to Wales via Skype from London. Our conversation follows, edited for clarity and length.

GigaOM: Where do you stand on the debate between open and closed standards? I’m assuming that given the nature of Wikipedia, you would probably come down on the open side.

Wales: Well, there are benefits and costs to both approaches, and a lot of those are well known at this point — although I do think that today, the open approach still isn’t as well understood as it should be, because it is a newer approach. There’s a big tendency to gravitate towards a closed and proprietary approach too easily, because it’s what [companies] know, it’s what they’re familiar with, and sometimes thinking up your business model in an open context is a lot harder. When you’ve got something closed and top-down and proprietary, you pretty much know what you’re going to do — you’re going to make something and then you’re going to put it in a box and sell it; and the box might be a downloadable box in the modern world, but it’s the same concept. Whereas with the open approach, it’s more about fostering an ecosystem and then making money in various other ways. What I would encourage people to do if they’re looking at doing something is to sort of step back and recognize the downsides of a proprietary approach.

GigaOM: Taking a more or less closed approach doesn’t seem to have hurt Apple — if anything, it seems to have succeeded more than anyone ever imagined, despite being closed. What are your thoughts on that?

Wales: If you look at the emerging competition between iPhone and Android, clearly the iPhone has the early edge, and of course Apple is quite good at what they do, their extreme controlling nature allows them to do certain things quite well. But at the same time, we’re seeing the beginning of a flood of new phones coming out from all kinds of different manufacturers…because of the open nature of the Android platform, and that’s going to pose a very interesting kind of competition. Google, in this instance, ironically, is more playing the Microsoft role here, to Apple’s Apple. One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they’re viewed as proprietary. But the truth is that compared to a lot of other companies, they really embraced a very open set of standards and had a very open platform, and it enabled them to gain dominance.

GigaOM: And what about the open approach when it comes to desktop software? Being open may have helped Microsoft in the early days, but it doesn’t seem to have helped Linux become competitive. Why?

Wales: One of the key pieces there for me is that there are some business models around Linux, but those business models — like Red Hat — have tended to focus on the server market, where certainly in the web-surfing world, the LAMP stack [Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP] is dominant. And it is dominant in that area in part because there emerged business models that made it possible for people to do things in a sustainable way, whereas Linux on the desktop so far hasn’t really generated a business model. If you think about Android, it can be open source, or very nearly open source, and that doesn’t hurt its chances of succeeding simply because Google has a business model around it that has nothing to do with selling the software. They can fund it, they can support it, and it makes business sense for them to do so, in a way that it has never made a lot of business sense for anybody to really spend the money to get Linux on the desktop to that kind of polished state.

GigaOM: So even if you are taking an open approach, you need to have a business model?

Wales: I’m not sure about the term business model, because if you think about Wikipedia, Wikipedia has a business model, but it’s not a business it’s a charity, and its business model — so to speak — is getting people to donate, because they love Wikipedia. So there isn’t a good buzzword for this, but you need a sustainability model; you need a model that brings in enough attention, revenue, whatever resources you need to make something happen in order to actually get it done. And what we’ve seen is that in open-source software, in some areas it’s worked and it’s great — so if you want a fabulous web server, and you want to scale up a web farm, the tools are free, they’re out there, there’s a whole ecosystem of developers, and it makes a lot of economic sense for people to participate in that ecosystem and it works. On the other hand, if you want to get your mom a laptop, I’m still not recommending Linux right now, because there hasn’t been an ecosystem, a sustainability ecosystem around making that happen in a really professional way.

GigaOM: There seems to be a belief that open systems are more free, but that they are also more chaotic and in some cases ugly, and that a closed approach like Apple’s works because it produces a uniform experience and high-quality design.

Wales: There’s definitely a lot of truth to that [but] at the same time, I don’t think it’s the whole story. We don’t have enough data points, really. We have Apple at one extreme and Linux at the other extreme, and Microsoft somewhere in the middle; so at one end you’ve got the highly controlled thing from a very controlling company that is obsessive about design; it’s proprietary, it’s top down, and it’s gorgeous, beautiful, elegant, simple design. And the open source thing is chaotic, hard, difficult, complicated — but also embodies a lot of amazing values, and it’s highly customizable, and really enjoyable if you like tinkering. You can do all kinds of things with it; it’s very powerful. We shouldn’t be too quick to judge the two. We can envision, for example, a proprietary system that is also complicated and difficult, but powerful because of the complicatedness and difficultnes. But we can also imagine an open-source process that produces a really simple and clean design — I think probably Firefox is the best example.

GigaOM: And why did you decide that Wikipedia should be built on a completely open approach?

Wales: Nupedia (Wikipedia’s predecessor) was top-down and not very open — it was open source, but in terms of management it was centrally controlled. But it failed, because it wasn’t fun for the people who did it; it didn’t harness the passion of the individuals who were involved in that project. I think it’s fair to say that we couldn’t have built such a huge project with literally thousands of people without taking that kind of open approach — it just wouldn’t function. I suppose with a lot of money and time we could have created a traditional encyclopedia, but couldn’t have done this.

GigaOM: But Wikipedia has added controls to the system through the use of moderators and editors and so on, yes?

Wales: Yes, we’ve had to add some features like that. My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged. It’s a balance that you have to strike, where if you leave it alone then the trolls take over, but if you’re too central and controlling, then you can crush it, and we try to strike that balance.

GigaOM: I’m trying now to imagine what Wikipedia would be like if Steve Jobs ran it.

Wales: It would be interesting — it would probably be prettier, too.

Post and thumbnail photos courtesy of Flickr users Fabbio and Tony Duarte

Yesterday, Sprint announced their first quarter earnings, and though the numbers were slightly down, they represented an improvement over past quarters.  At the end of the quarter, Sprint had 48.1 million customers (33.4 million of which are postpaid) and operating revenues closed at $8.1 billion, an $865 million loss. 

Postpaid churn was at 2.15 percent, due in part to the deactivations of former Helio customers (2.12 percent without).  The number represented a drop from 2.25 percent in Q1 2009.  All in all, the company lost 75,000 net wireless customers (including losses of 578,000 postpaid customers), and wireless postpaid ARPU (average revenue per user) was at $55, a year-over-year drop from $56.

“Sprint’s first quarter results, including increased net operating revenues and significant year-over-year net post-paid subscriber improvements show we continue to make progress in improving the business,” said Sprint CEO Dan Hesse.

Despite the fact that the numbers are somewhat lower than the competition’s, I have to give Sprint credit.  People are quick to peg Sprint’s earnings as “dismal,” “average,” and “the usual expectation,” but they’re trimming their losses, working to improve customer service, and have at least one hot new device coming in the next quarter (EVO 4G, in case you were wondering).  Given the improvements they’ve made over the past year on several fronts, I could see them gaining customers by the fourth quarter of this year.  Now it’s time to hear from you – sound off with your thoughts on Sprint’s quarterly earnings!

Via BGR, Sprint

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• AT&T
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Not since the Carter administration has the White House benefited from photovoltaics. Solar company Sungevity is offering President Obama free solar panels for the White House rooftop, including installation. Eco Geek reports:

Sungevity is offering the 102-panel, 17.85 kW solar system, installation and warranty as a free donation, at no cost to the Obamas, the government or tax payers. The only costs associated with the panels would be the upkeep and maintenance. In case the president isn’t comfortable with the $107,900 donation, they’re also offering a 10-year lease of the equipment at $537/month with maintenance and monitoring included.

Obama would be a fool not to take Sungevity up on their generous offer.

Filed under: Wagon, Etc., Videos, Volvo, Humor

Rapper Grynch isn’t about Maybachs and Phantoms – he’s straight up all about a 1986 Volvo 240 DL… wagon. So much so, in fact, he’s penned a song and made a video for it. One never knows what to expect when told to check out a rap video about a Volvo, but we found it a lot cooler than we think we had a right to. Follow the jump for the rhymes, but be ready before you click – Grynch says “I’m gon’ need you to feel me on this…”

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This is awful: during the launch of a high-altitude balloon, something went wrong. The balloon dragged the payload across the ground, destroying it, and in the meantime not doing any good to an SUV parked nearby:

This happened yesterday, in Australia. No one was hurt, but the payload apparently was totaled. It looks to me that the balloon got caught by some wind before they were quite ready to launch, and it pulled the payload off the crane. Seeing what it did to that SUV… yikes.

The balloon was carrying gamma-ray detectors as a testbed for a future NASA observatory. Gamma rays don’t penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere, so observatories have to be launched into space. The detectors on-board can be tested on the ground, but at some point need to get up above as much of the atmosphere as possible to see how they do in those conditions and observing actual astronomical sources. Balloons are the easiest and cheapest way to do that.

I know some folks who have done balloon launches like this, and they’ve told me it can be a little hairy. I trusted them, but until I saw that payload smash into and flip over that truck, I didn’t fully realize what they meant. Wow.

This is a setback for NASA and the team building the observatory. I don’t know how much, exactly, but I’m sure it will be months or even years to rebuild this. I can’t imagine much will be salvaged off this disaster.

I saw this earlier today, but no video was available to embed. So thanks to Tom’s Astronomy blog where I saw this, and Discovery News where I first heard about it.

The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is being tracked from outer space, where the sea’s ugly slick takes on a strange kind of beauty.

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Research will target innovation into new pathways to renewable energy.  DOE spreads the love with funding across a number of energy themes, such as this one: electrofuels.  …

…  “Electrofuels – Biofuels from Electricity — Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis – either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae.  This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Instead, Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions.  Theoretically, such an approach could be more than 10 times more efficient than current biomass approaches. “   …

Via Department of Energy: Transformational Energy Research Projects.

     

Sampling of organizations and their electrofuel research topics:

• University of Massachusetts Amherst: Electrofuels via Direct Electron Transfer from Electrodes to Microbes
• Pennsylvania State University: Development of Rhodobacter as a Versatile Microbial Platform for Fuels Production
• The Ohio State University: Bioconversion of Carbon Dioxide to Biofuels by Facultatively Autotrophic Hydrogen Bacteria
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Engineering Ralstonia eutropha for Production of Isobutanol (IBT) Motor Fuel from Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen & Oxygen
• Ginkgo BioWorks: Engineering E. coli as an electrofuels chassis for isooctane production
• Harvard Medical School-Wyss Institute: Engineering a Bacterial Reverse Fuel Cell
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Bioprocess and Microbe Engineering for Total Carbon Utilization in Biofuel Production

After Steve Jobs published his Adobe Flash rant (an open letter called “Thoughts on Flash,” which is now live on Apple.com, as well as every tech site on the webs), now we have Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen on record with the Wall Street Journal, reacting to the Apple CEO’s letter.

So what does Narayen have to say about that? Well, it’s nearly the same stuff he’s been quoted as saying before. But what he says may not be as important as how he says it. The man’s just seen a very high-profile exec trash his company (or at least one of the tech tools it’s responsible for). How would you react?

Outraged? Defensive? Even combative? Narayen hit all three (and I can’t say I blame him):

According to the Adobe chief, Flash really is an “open specification.” And, firing back at Jobs, he called the letter’s points just a “smokescreen” and accused Apple of being the one that impedes developers. Furthermore, he said Cupertino’s restrictions are “cumbersome” to devs, that the idea of Flash draining batteries was “patently false,” and implied that if Adobe ever crashed an Apple system, it has to do with the Apple OS. 

So no big reveals or surprises there. Of course he defends Adobe. To him, Flash is all about the puppies, rainbows and children’s giggles it evokes in developer-land, as it makes easier work of writing for multiple platforms.

In all seriousness, though, that was actually his real point through all this: “[Apple and Adobe] have different views of the world,” he says. “Our view of the world is multi-platform.” He hit the nail on the head. This is exactly counter to Jobs’ opinion that multi-platform tools make for bad user experiences. And when core operating principles diverge like this, it’s not likely to get resolved quickly.

My favorite part of the interview was when Alan Murray, the interviewer, likened “the Apple-Adobe fight to that between reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin…” So true. These two honchos have a “Jon and Kate” knack for taking potshots at each other through the media.

It does feel like being privy to sentiments that should be between just the two of them, no? Suddenly, I’m reminded of the time I was having dinner at a friend’s house when she and her boyfriend got into a fight. They wouldn’t talk to each other, but they couldn’t stop venting to me.

Via: Wall Street Journal

I’m talking about “The Case for Pluto” and the search for planets again this week in the Second Life virtual world. You can catch me during a return appearance on “Virtually Speaking” with host Jay Ackroyd at 6 p.m. SLT/PT tonight. Then I’ll be giving a talk at the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics at 10 a.m. SLT/PT Saturday. Don’t worry: I’ll go easy on the computational astrophysics. And even if you miss seeing my spruced-up avatar in real time, both talks will be…(read more)

You are invited to enter the 2010 "Create the Future" Design Contest, sponsored by COMSOL, PTC, and Tech Briefs Media Group. The eighth annual contest will recognize outstanding innovations in product design, awarding a Grand Prize of $20,000 USD. Visit www.createthefuture2010.com for the exciting details. There is no cost to enter. In addition to individual entries, design teams are invited to submit their collaborative work, in any of six categories: * Consumer Products * Machinery and Equipment * Medical * Safety and Security * Sustainable Technologies * Transportation Prizes will be awarded for the top entry in each category. You can choose to display your entry on the contest Web site and compete for Most Popular Entry prizes, based on the votes of site registrants. All qualified entrants will be included in a drawing for NASA Tech Briefs T-shirts, and the winning entries will be featured in a special supplement to NASA Tech Briefs magazine. The Top 100 entries overall, as determined by an industry panel of judges, will receive a certificate of achievement suitable for framing. Best of all, your winning entry will receive worldwide recognition and publicity to business and industry leaders who can help bring your idea to market. All entries must be received by June 30, 2010. For complete information and the official entry form, go to: www.createthefuture2010.com. Good luck!

GeoQuiz by Brain Cafe is a multiple-choice quiz game that purports to ‘test your knowledge of the planet Earth and all its wonders’. Sleek and well-presented, GeoQuiz is part game, part visual tour of Wikipedia.

Open up the app and you’re greeted with a bright, simplistic menu screen more reminiscent of an iPhone app than your typical Android game. Pick a category (choose from topics like ‘People’, ‘Capital Cities of the World’ or ‘The Great Explorers’) and you’re taken to a simple game screen with a question on the left and a set of four possible answers on the right. Whether you pick right or wrong, an information screen will pop up explaining the facts behind the question. Thoughtfully, there’s a Wikipedia link to the relevant topic included with every answer.

Complete a quiz and your score is saved in the app’s records. Feeling the need to brag about your intellect? You can even tweet your score and time from within the game.

The Good:

• It’s pretty. From high-res menu photos to bright buttons and crisp transitions, GeoQuiz comes across as clean and attractive.
• You might learn something. Most answers include detailed information about the facts behind the question, and if you want to know more, there’s a built-in Wikipedia link for every answer.
• No 3D or flashy effects. This means GeoQuiz runs great on older phones such as the T-Mobile G1 and HTC Magic.

The Not-So-Good:

• Some answers are missing explanations. Most of the quiz answers include detailed information explaining the facts behind the question, but around 10% of questions lack this detail.
• Questions often repeat themselves, occasionally in the same quiz.

The Final Verdict:
GeoQuiz is easy to pick up and play for a few minutes at a time. The perfect casual time-waster for when you need a quieter, more cerebral game experience.

Note: This review was submitted by Xander Bennett as part of our app review contest.

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Friends for better or for worse: interracial friendship in the United States as seen through wedding party photos. “Friendship patterns are instrumental for testing important hypotheses about assimilation processes and group boundaries. Wedding photos provide an opportunity to directly observe a realistic representation of close interracial friendships and race relations. An analysis of 1,135 wedding party photos and related information shows that whites are especially unlikely to have black friends who are close enough to be in their wedding party. Adjusting for group size, whites and East and Southeast Asians (hereafter E/SE Asians) are equally likely to be in each other’s weddings, but whites invite blacks to be in their wedding parties only half as much as blacks invite whites, and E/SE Asians invite blacks only one-fifth as much as blacks invite E/SE Asians. In interracial marriages, both E/SE Asian and black spouses in marriages to whites are significantly less likely than their white spouses to have close friendships with members of their spouse’s race.” Image: flickr/Bludgeoner86 Related content:
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Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Audi, Celebrities

Audi’s major push for Iron Man 2 tie-ins begins now, with the Tony Stark Innovation Challenge. A real way for life to imitate art, Challenge entrants will create videos to showcase their ideas that will make the world better through technology – just like Tony Stark does in Iron Man, but without the guns. The winner gets all kinds of swag, including $15,000 to make it all come true. Sadly, there’s no mention of Audi making you a billionaire or having your contracts notarized by Scarlett Johansson. Follow the jump for all the details and Audi’s first video.

[Source: Audi]

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Cambridge Consultants has unveiled the next phase in the development of its Suma sensor technology, which transforms user touch on its surface into an individual action on a computer or gaming device. The wireless Suma mouse prototype opens up a multitude of three dimensional navigation possibilities by taking every squeeze, stroke or swipe of a user’s touch and translating it into an onscreen reaction such as a pan, tilt or zoom…
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