This week we feature some video of cutting edge tech from Tokyo, and a look into a project that Microsoft hopes will help improve education in emerging markets.
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos took a trip to Tokyo recently, and came back with some interesting video of the culture of technology, among other things. Here he takes a trip to Kappabashi-dori, a food lovers' paradise, complete with a cornucopia plastic food.
Kanellos also visited National, a sister company of Panasonic, which specializes in lifestyle items and appliances that enhance the lives of people in Japan. Check out the best of what he saw when he visited their headquarters in Tokyo.
And CNET News.com's Ina Fried spoke with Microsoft's Will Poole last week about a new technology the company is developing, called Multitouch. Designed to help multiple students use the same computer, it's an investment in education in places that are in desperate need of a technological solution to limited resources. Check out the demo and hear about the project.
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To bring technology to emerging markets, Microsoft has an ongoing project called Unlimited Potential, the company's answer for classrooms with only one computer.
The two telecom carriers will carry a next-generation iPad running on the fast, next-generation wireless technology, sources tell The Wall Street Journal.
Google creates an animated doodle that features a boy, a girl, Google's search engine, and a jump rope. But might there be darker, more analytical, more troubling interpretations to this tale?
The Silicon Valley online payments startup grew by 1,000 percent last year and is hopeful it can repeat that level of growth this year. To do that, it's had to move away from its early friends-and-family roots and embrace small businesses.
Chamtech's spray-on antenna uses a nano material to provide a low-power boost to antenna range. The wireless-in-a-can product may some day bring an end to unsightly cell towers.
EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
touch screens. MultiPoint is the new thing M$ is doing.