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 American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day (Bits)...So where does all this information we consume come from? Everywhere, it turns out. The report suggests the average American consumes 34 gigabytes of content and 100,000 words of information in a single day. (Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is only 460,000 words long.) This doesn’t mean we read 100,000 words a day — it means that 100,000 words cross our eyes and ears in a single 24-hour period. That information comes through various channels, including the television, radio, the Web, text messages and video games.
3M Creates a Mobile Division Dedicated to Putting a Projector in Your Next Mobile Phone (IntoMobile)
3M creates a mobile division dedicated to putting a projector in your next mobile phone 3M has just announced that they’re creating a “Mobile Interactive Solutions Division” to focus on tiny projectors for mobile devices. Today they ship battery powered projectors that are a little larger than a smartphone, but in the future your next mobile device may very well have a projector built in.
AT&T Claims Its 3G Net Is Fast—Except Where It's Used a Lot (Ecommerce Times)
...Wireless data hogs who jam the airwaves by watching video on their iPhones will be put on tighter leashes, an AT&T executive said Wednesday.
The Green Watch: Crowdsourcing Air Quality Measurements (ReadWriteWeb)
Yesterday, during a meeting with a number of startups in Paris, we met up with the team behind the Green Watch project. Just like Google collects data from cell phones with GPS chips to aggregate real-time traffic information, this watch measures ozone levels and noise pollution.
Milo’s Local Shopping Engine Leaves Beta With One Million Users In Tow (TechCrunch)
...Milo is a local shopping engine that’s looking to help you get the best of both worlds: it lets you search for goods online, and then uses product inventories of the retail stores near you to tell you where you can go buy it.
Nuance Responds to Dragon Dictation for iPhone Privacy Concerns (The iPhone Blog)
Privacy concerns were raised when users realized that their contact information was being uploaded to Nuance's servers. Nuance states:
...We do this for a pretty simple reason: we found that people are often dictating names from their address book and expect the names to be recognized. We take this information and create an anonymous user profile for your device that understands what names are likely to dictate into a document. It’s important to note that we only upload the names, not the e-mail addresses, phone numbers or any other personally identifying information from your contacts.
Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar (New York Times)
...Text messages are the new lipstick on the collar, the mislaid credit card bill. Instantaneous and seemingly casual, they can be confirmation of a clandestine affair, a record of the not-so-discreet who sometimes forget that everything digital leaves a footprint.
Lighter side: Every NBA ref's dream comes true: Mark Cuban gets put through a table on WWE Monday Night Raw (L.A. Times)
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