Top Items:
![](/090309/i8.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Webcam Brings 3-D to Topps Sports Cards — Since the 1950s, Topps has sold baseball trading cards filled with photos and stats, bringing the game to life. Now the company is bringing its cards to life. — Beginning Monday, collectors who hold a special Topps 3D Live baseball card in front …
![](/090309/i5.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Windows Mobile Marketplace Website Comes Online — We know very little about the Windows Mobile marketplace. Microsoft was very quiet about it at MWC - no screenshots, no specifics details. At first, the word was that only Windows Mobile 6.5 devices could use the Marketplace …
![](/img/pml.png)
Wolfram Alpha is Coming — and It Could be as Important as Google — Stephen Wolfram is building something new — and it is really impressive and significant. In fact it may be as important for the Web (and the world) as Google, but for a different purpose.
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Wintek to supply touch panels for Apple netbook, says paper — Taiwan-based Wintek will supply touch panels for Apple's new netbook, and shipments will start in the third quarter this year, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. — Wintek revealed that it is currently working …
![](/090309/i10.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc! — Compact discs weren't always impromptu drink coasters. Once, in the not-so-distant past, they played music, contained pictures, and let people play video games with tacked-on FMV sequences. And today, the venerable CD turned 30. — Happy birthday!
Discussion:
Engadget
![](/090309/i9.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Japanese gadget controls iPod in blink of an eye — A wink, a smile or a raised eyebrow could soon change the music on your iPod or start up the washing machine, thanks to a new Japanese gadget. The device looks like a normal set of headphones but is fitted with a set of infrared sensors …
![](/090309/i7.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Caustic Graphics to create graphics chips with novel ray-tracing technology — Caustic Graphics is planning to take on graphics chip makers with a new way of rendering images that can enhance realism and improve cost efficiency. — The San Francisco start-up, formed by ex-Apple engineers …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal
![](/090309/i12.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Back to the future: MediaNews revives “print your own newspaper” — In an approach rather different from Microsoft's vision of content delivery in the future, which I described yesterday, MediaNews Group has announced plans for I-News, a system that will print your own customized newspaper on your own printer:
![](/img/pml.png)
Ooma rebounds after cutting price for service — (03-08) 15:20 PST — After it stumbled out of the gate in July 2007, it's hard to imagine that Palo Alto's Ooma would look forward to an economic downturn. — But the startup, which offers free home phone service with the purchase of an Ooma box …
![](/090309/i13.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Intel Wants Atom Inside Almost Everything — Intel Corp. desperately wants the hit Atom netbook processor inside smartphones, cars — even factory robots. — After initial reluctance, it's also pushing Atoms for lower-end desktop and notebook PCs. — For only one market is the Atom entirely verboten: server computers.
![](/090309/i2.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
The Search for Change — Eric Schmidt of Google on why the company spends so much time worrying about energy — Many think of Google Inc. as a search company. But it's also an investor in renewable energy, and it has proposed an ambitious plan to put clean energy at the heart of the U.S. energy mix.
![](/090309/i3.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Your guide to SxSW Interactive 2009 — During the second week of March each year, there is a mass pilgrimage of geeks from the San Francisco bay area to the heart of Texas. Not for BBQ, not for a suntan, but for probably the best interactive web conference in the history of the world.