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Google’s Android: First open and free mobile platform
I came across Wired’s article “Google’s Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web” today that provides an expose of the birth of the project through to its current status. Google is positioning itself with the increasing demand of people’s preference to connect with each other and everything else via their mobile phones. Hence [...]
Future View: The Age of Distraction
Michael Bugeja, director of the Greenlee School of Journalism at Iowa State University argues that academia is failing to inform future generations about social problems that require critical thinking and interpersonal intelligence because of its reliance on technology and the media’s overemphasis on trivia.
In his article “The Age of Distraction: The Professor or the Processor,” [...]
Top 10 Google searches in 2007
Technology and entertainment topped Google’s searches in 2007, with the iPhone grabbing the No. 1 slot on a list of the fastest-rising search terms in the United States.
The Google top 10 search list for 2007 is:
Iphone (Mobile phone, music and video player and Internet browser device)
Webkinz (Online virtual pets for kids)
TMZ (Celebrity news)
Transformer toys (From the popular movie “Transformers”)
YouTube [...]
