Some Chinese bloggers are questioning whether a lunar photo taken by a Chinese satellite is real. The doubters claim that the photo was copied from an old NASA shot. The Chinese government has been quick to rebut the claims, pointing out moon craters that appear only in the Chinese photo and arguing they [...]

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Just when it seemed I was getting tired of the same old daily grind, I came across this odd gadget that purports to distill the day’s news into your morning cup of coffee. News Brews “connects to internet news feeds and . . . brews a cup of coffee from freshly ground whole [...]

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India’s incumbent telecommunications company BSNL has just announced plans to deploy a mobile WiMax broadband network covering a region with a population of over 200 million people. Mobile WiMax (a.k.a. IEEE 802.16e-2005) is a technology for delivering very fast wireless data communications over long distances. Download speeds on BSNL’s network are expected to [...]

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Online social networks have their own cultures. Erica Naone of MIT Technology Review (TR) writes that social networking sites’ growth outside the U.S. has exploded recently, but different regions have adopted different sites as their favorites. I find it interesting how each site has developed and grown in its own way. The [...]

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Unofficially crowned most bizarre gadget this year at CES, the Sony Rolly is an egg-shaped MP3 player (with stereo speakers) which also “dances” in a unique and expressive fashion, by rolling around the floor and “flapping” its… um… ears. Users can create their own “motion files” using Sony’s Motion Editor software, and then share [...]

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I’m bored with Google’s U.S. year-end “zeitgeists” (no surprise that Paris Hilton is still a top search term in 2007) — but there are still some interesting tidbits in Google’s monthly Zeitgeist Around the World, which lists the top-gaining search queries in various countries around the world.
The results can be quirky and interesting. For [...]

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