Thursday, January 7, 2010

07-Jan-2010 PM clippings

Enjoy:

Waikato University uses an Open Source mobile framework from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a student e-guide:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1001/S00005.htm

Amazon makes a new, larger Kindle ebook reader - but you can't have one in New Zealand. Thanks heaps, again:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/3211200/NZ-stiffed-again-over-larger-Amazon-Kindle

So how prevalent will NZ's new e-tracking be? In the US one carrier (Sprint) alone received 8 million warranted location requests:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/surveillance-shocker-sprint-received-8-million-law

One set of research into mobile phone radiation on rats suggests it may actually help stave off Alzheimer's disease:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8443541.stm

And finally. 30 Novotels categorise what we leave behind at the hotel, what we take, and what we throw out of the window...:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/3212745/Sex-and-sex-toys-the-new-vibe-at-hotels

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