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Sorin Adam Matei

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State of the Art: A Laptop, Its Head in the Cloud

Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook (Arctic White) Google Chromebook, the minimal-OS, always on, wireless laptop is a major disappointment for David Pogue… Truth is, considering how stripped-down the Samsung is, you have to wonder why it’s as big, heavy and expensive as…

‘2012’: Audiences might be better off looking, not listening – MOVIE REVIEW – Los Angeles Times – calendarlive.com

Image by Marshall Astor – Food Pornographer via Flickr Kenneth Turan, the LA Times movie critic, gives this absolutely infallible  verdict on the 2012 apocalyptic movie, which takes the Mayan calendar vvvvv seriously. (Acording to the Mayans 2012 is the end of…

Windows 7 is all its hapless precedessor should have been

Image by cocoate.com via Flickr The Economist gives Windows 7 two thumbs up NOT since the launch of Windows 95 more than a decade ago has your correspondent seen such a fuss over a new piece of software. In some cities, people…

Wikipedia in academic studies

Wikimedia maintains this extensive and valuable list  of academic papers dedicated to academic research that focuses on Wikipedia (such as our own Ambiguity and conflict in the Wikipedian knowledge production system Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.