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• Delta passengers to book through Facebook
  NZ Herald, 13 August
  ATLANTA - Delta Air Lines Inc. said Thursday it's launched a new "Ticket Window" on Facebook that will allow passengers to book directly on the social media site.
  It's the first time an airline has allowed customers to reserve flights on Facebook, although nearly all major US airlines use Facebook and Twitter to promote sales.
• Kiwi device to make broadband 50 per cent faster
  Stuff.co.nz, 14 August
  A small Palmerston North company has created a device that will make broadband internet up to 50 per cent faster without having to pay hundreds of dollars installing fibre-optic cables.
  The system looks like a modem, and connects with homes' existing wiring to boost broadband speeds without having to pay the $800-plus fee for re-wiring a home with modern cables to get such fast internet.
• Expert Predicts Reverse Engineering of Human brain likely by 2030
  Wired.com, 16 August
  For nearly a decade, neuroscientists, computer engineers and psychologists have been working to simulate the human brain so they can ultimately create a computing architecture based on how the mind works. Now an artificial intelligence expert claims that reverse-engineering the human brain may be just two decades away which would be the first step toward creating machines that are more powerful than the brain.
  Discussion starters:
  • Digital Technologies: supercomputing; intelligent algorithms
  • Nature of Technology: interdisciplinary practice
• Latest Android smartphones get voice control
  NZ Herald, 16 August
  SAN FRANCISCO - Google has rolled out an application that lets people use voice commands to have Android-based smartphones do tasks such as send email or fetch driving directions.
  The Voice Actions program will only work on handsets running on the latest Android 2.2 software, referred to as Froyo.
• NZ software will make Korean waterworks greener
  NZ Herald, 16 August
  New Zealand software firm Derceto has signed a $1.3 million contract to deliver cost-saving initiatives to South Korean utility company K Water.
  The software will first be implemented at K Water's Cheongju water system, and if successful, could be used across all the company's plants.
• Top award for Kiwi-developed digital 'pet'
  NZ Herald, 17 August
  For those that remember their handheld plastic Tamagotchis fondly, digital pets are back - only this time they are more alive than ever.
  Victoria University's newly developed Tardigotchi, featuring a living microorganism inside a plastic spherical casing, has won first prize at an international festival.
• Coming of age drama for TV on the net
  NZ Herald, 18 August
  NEW YORK - Could you say, these days, where exactly is the line between the television and the internet?
  Even if you haven't worked out quite how to hook your computer to your television set yet, perhaps you have found yourself watching some of your favourite shows on the laptop.
• Who will save the world when the web goes down?
  NZ Herald, 18 August
  On a Thursday evening in December a remarkable attack by a shadowy group of hackers briefly paralysed Twitter. For two hours anyone who typed www.twitter.com into their Internet Explorer's address bar was re-routed to a simple black screen showing a green flag and the words: "This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army."
  Beneath the flag was a line of Persian poetry which read: "We shall strike if the leader orders, we shall lose our heads if the leader wishes."
• Digital minimalists live on less
  Stuff.co.nz, 18 August
  The rise and rise of tech gadgets means most of us have more "stuff" than ever before, but these very gadgets are allowing a new breed of digital minimalists to get rid of most of what they own.
  Kelly Sutton, a 23-year-old from New York who works as a software engineer at video site blip.tv, set up CultofLess.com and used it to sell most of his worldly possessions.
• Facebook checks into location services
  NZ Herald, 19 August
  SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook has thrown the switch on a new feature that lets US members of the social networking service share their whereabouts with friends while on the move.
  Facebook Places marks the firm's hotly anticipated first step into "location-based" services that have been catching on with people who own smartphones equipped with satellite position tracking capabilities.
• From Documentaries to gaming
  TV3 News, 23 August
  Natural History New Zealand has long produced award-winning documentaries from its Dunedin base. Now it has bred a gaming division, aimed at the Facebook generation.
  Discussion starters:
  • Product development: diversification and innovation
• Hi-tech link to prisons
  Stuff.co.nz, 24 August
  Christchurch courts are next in line for a hi-tech audio-visual link that allows defendants to appear in court without leaving prison.
  The AV Link system was used in the Auckland District Court yesterday, with several prisoners at the Auckland Central Remand Prison having their court appearances on the video connection.
• Ping is music to ears
  New Zealand Herald, 3 September
  Users of Apple Inc's iTunes software will now be able to see what songs their friends are buying and where their favourite bands are playing next.
  These social features are part of Ping, a new Apple service akin to Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks. People can sign up, then find friends, acquaintances and public figures to "follow".
• Google cranks up web search speed with 'Instant'
  New Zealand Herald, 9 September
  SAN FRANCISCO - Internet giant Google began delivering turbocharged search results overnight, offering suggested web links as fast as a person can type.
  After two days of teasingly tinkering with the Google logo, or "doodle," atop its home page, the California company ended the mystery by unveiling "Google Instant" - a speedier route to Web search results.
• Gestural hand-tracking interface being developed by MIT researchers
  www.physorg.com, 14 September
  Researchers at MIT have developed software that can track a Lycra fabric glove with a special color pattern. Using only a cheap web camera equipped with a wide angle lens, the software can track hand gestures.
  Wang and MIT associate professor Jovan Popavic have developed gesture-recognition algorithms that are more efficient by reducing gestures to 40 by 40 pixels. Unique patterns are then generated from the layout of the Lycra glove with specially placed color splotches.