Blog Alert for NYT > Technology, Mar 29, 2010

New Posts to NYT > Technology on Mar 29, 2010:

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1) For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b2249147289f023949a0515f1fabb657

Amateur photographers, happy to accept small checks for snapshots, are underpricing professionals.

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2) Alstom at Center of Web of Bribery Cases
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=573763391c23a2be71592882e138bd50

Cases involving Alstom, a French industrial giant, are part of a growing number of investigations into corporate bribery.

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3) Advertising: How TV Makers Are Selling the Idea of 3-D at Home
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=3a7da555d63feacb832d8881a9d8bcf1

To drum up enthusiasm for new TVs, manufacturers have turned to 3-D, despite the task of persuading consumers that it is not a fad.

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4) Godfather of iPod Severs Final Ties With Apple
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=7be06776884f51a3eff307554ea1c041

Tony Fadell, one of the creators of the iPod and iPhone, is breaking off his nine-year affiliation with Apple.

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5) What We're Reading: iPad Fanboys and Facebook Likeboys
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=41923f8b72f00d3cb93dcc03d4fc9c46

Monday's roundup of technology news includes a look at the early boom in sales of Apple's iPad, changes at Facebook and the worst civic pitches to get free broadband from Google.

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6) Has Viral Gone Viral?
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=e434fc4df4f63f727193b1afd28ebf70

Information is spreading more rapidly than ever on the Web. The exponential growth of Chatroulette is a case in point.

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7) The Robots Among Us
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=572f55fff6640e413c1051e42c90df75

While no one has yet built a humanoid robot that can do anything a person can do, this photo gallery shows how robots designed to perform specific tasks have become quite sophisticated.

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8) Canesta Has Survived to Beam Up Your Gestures
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=7c58f83cfabe033977f265b9e8f7e2ea

Later this year, consumers will begin to find computers, TVs and gaming systems that they can control through hand and body gestures, enabled with chips from Canesta.

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9) Ballet Stars Now Tweet as Well as Flutter
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=0cccd375321667b89a5ba652de8ba9cb

Long expected to speak with their bodies, ballet dancers are using Twitter to change the public face of ballet.

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10) On TripAdvisor, Reviews Mixed for Schrute Farms
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=d3573ca85caf471e78226f64aa7dc93a

Schrute Farms, the fictional bed and breakfast from the NBC comedy ?The Office,? has been a marketing bonanza for TripAdvisor.

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11) An iPhone Remote Control: Simple but Not Useful
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=544516ac859a3d692aa8b5258a8aaad3

I-Got-Control is one of the easiest universal remote iPhone apps to configure and run. But you are paying to get ads.

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12) A Site That Pays You to Recycle
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=71bef58ffcc9e4d684bd31174316e865

Gazelle will pay you cash to recycle your old gadgets and tech products.

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13) Headphones New Zealand Sheep Died For
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=9bd0734bc92f9b17bdbf0005995b32fb

Bowers and Wilkins is going portable, with its very first pair of headphones.

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