It looks like Microsoft is all set to finally reveal Windows Mobile 7, long-awaited cure to the ills of all the earlier WinMo OSes. The action's due to happen at Mobile World Congress on Monday. When no one in the U.S. will care. Way to go MS!
As cell phones become ever more ubiquitous, phone booths become increasingly irrelevant. But what to do with the thousands of virtually abandoned phone booths scattered in cities around the world?
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Bus stations are generally information-poor, displaying little more than the time of the next bus arrival. But MIT's SENSEable City Lab envisions a richer bus station experience that could, according to MIT's Carlo Ratti, "change the whole experience of urban travel."
AMD [AMD] has been having a mediocre year. Okay, an awful year. First, their quad-core chip, the Barcelona, couldn't find a market because of its reputation as buggy. Then the company announced a second quarter loss of over $1.2 billion. Now the AMD folks, constantly stymied by their colleagues at Intel [INTC], are putting their hopes on Barcelona's successor, Shanghai.
Peer through the shroud of smog, and you'll see Beijing all dressed up for the Olympics, with daring new buildings like Rem Koolhaas's CCTV HQ. China's economy is booming, and the arts scene is too. The newest draw in the hip 798 district is the Ullens Center for Contemporary art, funded by a Belgian baron.
As cell phones become ever more ubiquitous, phone booths become increasingly irrelevant. But what to do with the thousands of virtually abandoned phone booths scattered in cities around the world?
Bus stations are generally information-poor, displaying little more than the time of the next bus arrival. But MIT's SENSEable City Lab envisions a richer bus station experience that could, according to MIT's Carlo Ratti, "change the whole experience of urban travel."
