New Internet Archive video from an interesting Future Salon session on digital identity. The presenters are Jeff Hodges from Liberty Alliance, Fen Labalme from Identity Commons and Eric Sachs from Google, with Mark Finnern moderating.

Accelerating change guru John Smart discusses the LUI, personality capture and Windows 2015 in this fascinating late-night from ACC2004.

Audio recording from IT Conversations.

Original post at Future Salon.

The World Economic Forum released its annual Global Information Technology Report, which ranks countries according to their Networked Readiness. Singapore emerged as the global leader, while the U.S. slid from 1st to 5th place.

The new top ten list:
1. Singapore
2. Iceland
3. Finland
4. Denmark
5. U.S.
6. Sweden
7. Hong Kong
8. Japan
9. Switzerland
10. Canada

The Hindu recently announced a “breakthrough in solar photovoltaics” by Palo Alto - based Nanosolar Inc.

[They] developed a commercial scale technology that can deliver solar electricity at 5 cents per kilowatt-hour.

The breakthrough has come through the application of nanotechnology to create components via molecular self-assembly, including quantum dots (10nm large nanoparticles) as well as nanotemplates with structural order extending through all three dimensions.

Another article in TechNewsWorld was quick to question this announcement.

“I don’t believe their claims,” an executive at one solar energy company, who asked to remain anonymous, told TechNewsWorld. “It doesn’t make sense what they’re saying.”

from LinuxElectrons

A full-scale quantum computer could produce reliable results even if its components performed no better than today’s best first-generation prototypes…