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The Broadband Daily is a brand new group weblog featuring a bunch of bloggers I read already plus some new ones all opining on, you guessed it, broadband. Looks very nice.
On distinguishing humans from robots, which is something we've been dealing with around here lately.
Microsoft launches MSN Spaces:
With MSN Spaces, you can easily create and manage your blog from your computer or your mobile phone. It's a great way to share information and photos with your friends and family. And best of all, it's free!You know, Bill Gates is right, Microsoft is all about innovation. A blog service? At the very end of 2004? Who would have thought?
I thought I remembered posting about this before, but I can't find any reference to it. Liquid lenses for camera phones:
The company was founded two years ago to exploit two core technology patents covering lenses based on the principles of electro-wetting. This is the tendency of liquid to spread on a substrate, Paillard explains. "It means we can tune the shape of the drop to create a lens. Think about a tunable lens, like in the human eye," he suggests....Better lenses are crucial, especially in light of the first round of 1 megapixel cameraphones that are exhibiting lackluster image quality. Sheer megapixels are only part of the issue, and improvements there without corresponding improvements in the lenses and other sub systems are not going to do it. Here's to hoping their time frame isn't overly optimistic.
The company has a non-exclusive licensing deal with a subsidiary of Samsung to develop the lenses for use in its camera phones. Paillard expects products will be on the shelves by Q1 2006 at the latest, and maybe even in time for Christmas next year.