WebbAlert - December 15, 2008

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Links: Tech Crunch's Layoff Tracker has now passed the 100,000
mark. Last week's biggest cuts came from Sony, Yahoo and CBS. I
guess the silver lining is that soon there won't be anymore jobs to
cut. Hooray.

A new survey has found that 20 percent of teens and 33 percent of
young adults have posted nude or semi-nude pictures or videos of
themselves on the Internet. The other 80 percent still just send
them through the mail.


New details have emerged regarding Sony's new touchscreen
Walkman. If it looks simliar to that other music player that
starts with an "i" and ends with a "Pod," that's because it is,
even though it does sport some unique features.


Intel's former boss Andrew Grove is urging the company to get
into the electric car battery business. The company has also been
dabbling in solar technology. Geez, you'd think the tech industry
was in trouble or something.


The University of Virginia, and several others, have teamed up
with several automakers to develop highly detailed digital
representations of human bodies to be used in virtual crash
tests. It looks like my crash test dummy video game is closer to
fruition than ever.


The Japanese company NTT Communications is testing a new research
procedure that monitors the effectiveness of billboard ads by
video recording people who look at them. The good news is that
you can stop worrying about billboards watching you. The bad news
is that you were right to be paranoid because billboards are in
fact watching you.


Gamers might not be ready to swap their next-gen consoles for an
iPhone anytime soon, but that's not stopping Apple from viewing
their hand held devices as serious contenders in the gaming
industry. The next question is whether or not Mario should start
sleeping with one eye open.





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