9. Babies pick up their parents' accents from the womb, and infants are born crying in their native dialect. Researchers found that French newborns cry in a rising French accent, and German babies cry with a characteristic falling inflection.
I love Twitter, but I also understand the frustration sometimes expressed about it being used to merely rehash news or links.
AudioBoo allows users to upload short items using the spoken word only and as Dropbox explains below, it solves the problem of endless tweets that contain less than original content.
Fair enough, but my own solution to that particular issue is to only follow people on Twitter who post updates that are worth reading.
I'm not quite teched up enough for AudioBoo, anyway.
One similarity between the two: Stephen Fry uses both!
OK, I know you're not going to rush out and buy one tomorrow, but as a hint of what H.G. Wells might call The Shape of Things to Come, please take note of the Nabaztag - that's tech language for a white digital rabbit, apparently.
Shall I even be so bold as to describe it as an early example of Web 3.0?
Salt Lake City in Utah is emerging as a one of the top locations in America for telecommuting according to its local paper.
The practice has been technically possible for years but has met entrenched resistance in many companies, fearful of reduced productivity by staff left to their own devices at the end of a web cam.
A combination of the need to cut costs and improvements in technology may be behind the growth of the phenomenon stateside.
If it really takes hold in a big way, we can be sure it will do so over here in a year or two.
