The Daily Dispatch is a collection of interesting news about computing, consumer electronics, and other technology gathered from around the Web by Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, and other staffers. If you have a tip on news you want to share, leave a comment below.
The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market (Times UK)
Details on the Googlephone continue to emerge. It is predicted to be one of the fastest mobile devices and will be unique in that:
...a single company will control everything from the software in users’ phones to the services they use to make calls and surf the web.
Interop: New York Tests Xbox-Based Alert System (Information Week)
...The goal, said New York State Deputy CIO Rico Singleton, is to reach younger residents who spend more time on the Xbox, PlayStation, or Wii than with television or radio.
Firefox's Plan to Kick the Login's Butt (ReadWriteWeb)
The good people who work on the revolutionary, open-sourced, and occasionally maligned browser have been hard at work on making cross-site navigation and portable IDs a solvable problem.
Get movie trailers and more with Google Search for mobile (Google Mobile Blog)
Our new movie listings page now includes buttons to play trailers right on your phone, ratings and categories, movie posters, upcoming showtimes, and a concise list of the nearest theaters and their distances from you. We keep information on this page succinct so you can quickly browse through shows and showtimes to help you decide which movie to see. If you want more details about a specific movie, just touch the poster or movie title and you'll see our new movie details page that has a synopsis of the movie, a more detailed list of showtimes, the cast and crew, and pictures.
Navigation App Waze Makes Crowdsourced Map-Building a Game (ReadWriteWeb)
Lighter side: Better Living through Chemistry (LA Times)...To encourage users to contribute to the map-building process, the company came up with an idea to make it more of a game. Originally, the Waze character would appear and munch dots on the screen when you ventured onto a road that didn't previously exist in the company's database.
Listen up, all you science geeks: Do you want to be the star of Thanksgiving dinner? Then watch this video. Taped a few days ago at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., the video features a lecture and demonstration given by chemistry professor Diane Bunce. Bunce is also associate editor for chemical education research for the American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Education. She dons a pilgrim-esque bonnet and apron -- and then a lab coat -- to explain how chemistry and Thanksgiving intersect. Watch it and you'll amaze and possibly annoy friends and family with your newfound knowledge!
Thanks to Cyndi S. for the lighter side share.
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