JASON project is high tech education

If you’ve ever wondered how far technology in education has come, you should have been in three Louisiana swamps last week. That’s where a high-tech expedition by one of the world’s leading scientists was dodging lightning and watching out for water moccasins and gators while being beamed directly into classrooms across the country. Kids explore world of nature, from class

Another Microsoft worm issue

Sigh. So maybe I should keep this same post up about Microsoft all the time. The products may change but the company behind the leaky software is the same. Today’s problem is: MSN Messenger worm seeds zombie networks

Everybody has a mobile phone

The penetration of mobile telephone service among U.S. consumers is expected to climb from 61% in 2004 to over 75% by 2010 as high-speed mobile connections spur new adoption and increased handset replacement. Mobile Phone Subscribers to Reach 236 Million by 2010

WiMax is coming

WiMax, which can cover a 5-square-mile area and allow roaming Internet connections like a cell phone does, is slowly getting traction. WSJ.com - Curtain Rises for WiMax Broadband

Bluetooth phone headsets

Bluetooth - that short distance wireless feature that connects our high tech gizmos - is finally beginning to live up to it’s hype in providing us a whole new world of convenience.
For the past year or so, Bluetooth has been common with home computer systems, with wireless keyboards and mice and even cable-less hookups to printers.
But it’s with our mobile phones where Bluetooth is really proving its worth with a proliferation of miniature Bluetooth headsets that fit over our ears or clip onto a pair of eyeglasses.
For the past several weeks, I’ve been alternating between two of the market leaders - the Cardo scala-500and the Motorola HS820, both so lightweight that you hardly know they’re on your ear.
Here’s my Freep review from today.

Alternative search engines

My NBC-TV High Tech Talk segment for the NBC Newschannel this week looks at alternative browsers to IE.

MSN search goes from beta to final product

Microsoft has added a host of new features to MSN Search, finanlizing the MSN Search beta that launched in November.
The final MSN Search released today offers additional online resources from Microsoft?s Encarta encylopedia product, including a free pass to view related Encarta Premium content spanning more than 40,000 unique articles and more than 1.4 million authoritative, direct answers organized by categories such as definitions, facts, calculations, conversions and solutions to equations.
In addition, tconsumers are now able to subscribe to MSN Search RSS Feeds and get the top ten search results for their particular query delivered to their RSS Reader or personalized site like MyMSN. The redesigned homepage is also being built into applications such as MSN Messenger.

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