Quoted: The Android Developer Challenge (ADC) is a Google-sponsored program providing $10 million in total awards for the best mobile apps built on the Android platform. The first phase of the ADC is now complete. 50 teams of developers each received a $25,000 award and the opportunity to compete in the second and final round. One of them is Breadcrumbz

Quoted: Polaris, a poker playing program developed by the computer poker research group at the University of Alberta. competed On July 3-6, 2008, against six human professional poker players in the Second Man-Machine Poker Championship which took place during the 2008 Gaming Life Expo at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Polaris defeated the

Quoted: A Dutch University has received a targeted research grant for developing a next generation smart card for public transport on the basis of open-source technology. Earlier a major smartcard system with similar goals in the Netherlands was easily compromised by the investigators, who were able to repeat their findings with the Oyster card scheme used

Quoted: A Maglev train floats about 10mm above the guidway on a magnetic field and is propelled by the guidway itself rather than an onboard engine by changing magnetic fields. An exotic proposal based upon this principle is the Trans Atlantic vactrain: a Maglev train in a long near-vacuum tube with speeds that allow less than one hour travel times between

Quoted: According a U.S. patent, granted by Infosys by 2010 the handsets will beam 3D films, games and virtual goods as holographic images. Infosys's device will be able to send and receive the 3D images, allowing for example 3D text messaging on an iPhone. clipped from www.zdnet.com.au ZDNet Australia - Where Technology Means Business Holograms beamed to

Quoted: The tour de France 2008 can be followed on Google Maps with panoramic images of the route provided by the Street View feature. clipped from www.letour.fr Tour de France 2008 Running from Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2008, the 95th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,500 kilometres. clipped

Quoted: clipped from www.tuaw.com iPhone 3G to be shipped in eco-friendly packaging: spuds clipped from www.theregister.co.uk Apple's new iPhone 3G will be shipped on July 11 in a potato starch paper tray. Apple placed an order with Dutch company PaperFoam, which also makes packages for Motorola. clipped from www.paperfoam.com PaperFoam Carbon Friendly

Quoted: How technology might change daily life in the future: the house of tomorrow, a supermarket of the future and a robotic restaurant. clipped from en.wikipedia.org Living Tomorrow From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Living Tomorrow is a research oriented company with projects in the towns of Brussels and Amsterdam. It focuses upon opening what it calls

Quoted: The Indian blog network Instablogs, announced today the launch of its Global Report. Global Report consists of news stories and opinions from all parts of the globe, reported everyday by citizen journalists in a video format. Some clips about this event and about Instablogs in general: clipped from press.instablogs.com Instablogs launches Global