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Coffee tables are rarely very interactive, and unless there's something very interesting sitting on top of them, aren't usually the focal point of a room either. This would all change if you owned a Zen Table, though. The brainchild of Simon Hallam, a software developer whose previous credits include working for Rare back in the late 80s to recently developing the award-winning Wik: Fable of Souls for the Xbox, the Zen Table sees art… Read More

Well, December 9 has come and gone and still no word from Apple or News Corp on the future of The Daily. But All Things Digital is reporting that insiders say January 17 could be the day, and that Steve Jobs “may or may not” be a part of the press event. [Full disclosure: News Corp owns Dow Jones, which owns All Things Digital]. But you probably shouldn’t write anything in ink quite yet, as the site mentions that various launch dates have been… Read More

Virgin is holding a competition for its iPad-exclusive publication, Project, and calling designers to create a new cover for the recently launched magazine. A scavenger hunt was held in New York and San Francisco earlier this week to find USB drives containing the contest guidelines. But if you couldn’t make it out to frantically comb the city for the flashdrives, Mashable has had the instructions come into its possession and is sharing them… Read More

As Virgin’s iPad-only magazine launches and the media waits for the possibly delayed News Corp publication, there’s still a considerable amount of tension between the App Store and publishers when it comes to subscriptions. The news about the possible arrival of subscriptions through iTunes has been building since the announcement of the The Daily. But multiple sources are reporting that any possible agreements between Apple and publishers have… Read More

Richard Branson's Virgin has launched the inaugural issue of its magazine designed to be read on Apple's iPad. The magazine, dubbed simply Project, is currently on sale in the Apple App Store for $2.99 for issue number one. Project will focus on entertainment, design, technology, and entrepreneurs. The magazine plans to have a new issue launched monthly, but with new content constantly being added throughout each month. Engadget has… Read More

News Corp and Apple are rumored to be making a joint announcement on December 9, reportedly concerning the imminent arrival of the iPad only magazine The Daily. Looks like they’ve been beat to the punch by Virgin, which will launch Project, a magazine exclusively available for iPad, tonight. Initial reports pegged Virgin founder Richard Branson’s Project as a light, browse-worthy, in-flight magazine – a logical conclusion for the Virgin Airways… Read More

The Australian government, led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, has announced a new project to bring ultra-fast broadband to 90% of the country’s population, fulfilling a promise from his 2007 electoral campaign. Instead of putting the project out to private tender, the government is going to invest A$43 billion (US$30 billion) to create the infrastructure that will make 100 megabits per second connections available to 90% of… Read More

Most of the time we’re only using a fraction of the capacity of our computers. Instead of playing Spider Solitaire, they can perform billions of calculations a second. That’s why the World Community Grid exists, harnessing the power of people volunteering the capacity of their home computers to crunch numbers. Now it’s being used in a joint project between IBM and Harvard University to help discover new solar and energy… Read More

The P2P Next Project is investigating what might prove to be the future of television. It’s testing software, the SwarmPlayer, that can stream programs across the Net by using BitTorrent technology, and the EU is putting millions of dollars into this to create what will be a Europe-wide standard for broadcasters, according to the BBC. Now they’re looking for thousands of volunteers across Europe to try out the technology… Read More

At its annual developers conference in Chicago this week, online auction giant eBay plans to announce Project Echo, a new platform that will enable developers to embed applications where more than 700,000 eBay sellers can subscribe to them. Project Echo will also include APIs that provide developers with information on buyer demographics and habits, along with inventory management tools. eBay's primary focus with Project Echo is to… Read More

Sony Ericsson is hoping to jump-start a new generation of mobile phone applications with a new mobile phone development environment called Project Capuchin, which enables Java ME applications to use Adobe Flash Lite for animation or as a front-end to the application itself. Most mobile phones that support Flash do so with a “playback only” methodology: thy can display and run the Flash content, but the Flash project cannot pass… Read More

When it was launched a few years ago at MIT, the One Laptop Per Child project came under some criticism from domestic groups who argued it was disingenuous for the project to focus on the needs of educational systems in developing nations when there were plenty of needful, under-served children and students right in the OLPC organization's backyard in the United States. Now, in an interview, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte says the… Read More

No one really knows how many people live in shanty towns in countries around the globe. They don’t show up on censuses, and their lives are lived under all official radar.   But a newproject from Stanford University, called Mobile Metrix, aims to count the inhabitants and detail their lives.  The idea is that the gathered data will be given to governments and aid groups so they can focus their projects in the areas.  … Read More

Despite years of skepticism, higher-than-expected costs, and competition from commercial endeavors like the Intel Classmate PC, the One Laptop Per Child project continues to gain momentum, with the government of Peru signing a deal to purchase 280,000 of the systems. Thew news comes just as the first non-pilot deployment of OLPC notebooks gets underway in Uruguay, and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has purchased 50,000 of the systems… Read More

Mass production on the OLPC XO low-cost notebook computer has begun at Quanta Computer's factory in Changshu, China, only a couple weeks after the project admitted a production delay. The start of production actually came sooner than the OLPC effort anticipated: the new schedule called for production to begin November 12. Children should start receiving machines this month; last month, the OLPC project confirmed its first official… Read More