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"At TED@Cannes, Gary Wolf gives a 5-min intro to an intriguing new pastime: using mobile apps and always-on gadgets to track and analyze your body, mood, diet, spending -- just about everything in daily life you can measure -- in gloriously geeky detail."

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

"ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. "

"This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some."

How cellphones work

"The Huerfano School District Re-1 School Board has approved cell phone and iPod use at John Mall High School in Walsenburg"

"Cell phones have become a growing problem in schools, considered "nuisance" items because of classroom disruptions. As many schools tighten restrictions, one metro school is doing the opposite."

"an on-board base station in the plane which communicates with passengers' own handsets"

"Seventh Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study"

"Gregory F. Treverton discusses how organized crime is increasingly involved in the piracy of feature films, with syndicates active along the entire supply chain from manufacture to street sales of pirated movies. His detailed investigation looks into the connections between intellectual-property piracy, organized crime, and terrorism, including case studies of criminal and terrorist groups and recommendations for reducing the demand for and supply of pirated goods."

"ATP's research concentrates on how U.S. advantages, especially the ability to create and apply information technology, can be exploited to fulfill the needs of U.S. strategies. "

"police technology, law enforcement technology, criminal justice technology, public safety technology and homeland security technology"

"Fingerprinting: A Lesson on Classification"

"Austin Police Department hopes a virtual training facility "

Top 10 technology bans