Cool slideshows: Death of the mouse New touchscreen and voice recognition technologies could make the mouse obsolete. Here are some products that don't require pointing and clicking. Viva La Mouse! Innovations in voice and speech technologies may make the mouse obsolete, but we've seen plenty of innovations in the way we use our hand to provide input for our PCs. Here's a bunch of our favorites, as well as a look at the latest mice that make us happy. Latest Cool Tool blogs: The "original" Star Trek prequel This week's big-budget Star Trek prequel will certainly make more money, but this parody version of what a Star Trek prequel would look like had it been made in the... Palm Pre coming ... to Canada! The big announcement is here! The Palm Pre has an announcement date! Whoo! Oh, wait, it's in Canada. And the announcement is similar to the Sprint announcement. Never mind. Latest Newsmaker of the Week podcast: Swine flu scare shines spotlight on telework Chuck Wilsker, president and CEO of the Telework Coalition in Washington, D.C., explains why businesses shouldn't wait for a swine flu epidemic to establish a solid telework program for their employees. (11:01) Latest Twisted Pair podcast: Movie Madness is NOT Caused by Swine Flu Keith and guest host Jonathan Summey discuss swine flu mania and malware attacks, possible good news for IT spending, and the return of the Movie Madness prediction contest. (36:22) Latest from The video library: Inside the Enigma: Not a Riddle Neal Weinberg gets a special sneak peek inside the Enigma device, which was used by the Allies in World War II to help crack German codes. Server Virtualization Road Trip The Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) deployed server virtulization to consolidate more than 300,000 servers, saving the military more than $800,000 in power costs and freeing up physical space. Find out how they did it. IBM supercomputer takes on Jeopardy! What is Watson? That’s the name of the advanced computer system IBM unveiled on Monday that producers of the long running TV game show Jeopardy plan to pit against human contestants. Researchers show speaker made of paper Here's an invention that looks great on paper. Researchers at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute have developed a speaker that's made of paper and can be gently bent and rolled. Latest cool news from Microsoft Subnet Microsoft Imagine Cup U.S. finals: Team Multipoint wins The Microsoft Subnet has video of a team of brothers who won the U.S. finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup on Tuesday, and two others, to make you feel like you were there. Imagine Cup video coverage: Solving world problems through software Microsoft's Imagine Cup, now in its seventh year, allows high school and university students worldwide to develop software in hopes of solving global problems. The U.S. finals were held recently in Boston. Multipoint moves on A team of 3 brothers was named the U.S. winners of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup on Tuesday. They’ll now head to Egypt to compete against other teams from around the world in a software design competition that hopes to solve global problems. Cell phones record erratic driving A team of students competing in this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup developed a system that blocks cell phone calls and text messages while driving, but one that also gathers information about driving habits like rapid starts stops and turns. May Giveaways Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet are collectively giving away books on Google Apps Deciphered, the CCNA Security exam, an awesome SQL Server 2005/2008 training video and the grand prize, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500. Deadline for entries May 31. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. |
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