As though the flood of WTF-type phone concepts weren't enough, KDDI revealed a proof of concept for a wireless, color, e-paper display they have in the works. The idea is that a cellphone would be used to broadcast a signal to the display via infrared. The 13.1-inch display can display up to 4,096 colors and refresh the onscreen image in 12 seconds. KDDI says the display is intended for the finance and insurance industries, where the need to view A4-sized documents are apparently key. [Tech-On]

Pushing Pixels

I have already written about the Ribbon control reaching beyond Office into the core applications that are scheduled to be shipped in the next Windows version. This is gaining even more traction with the inclusion of Ribbon in the official MSDN Windows Vista User Experience (UX) Guidelines. It had been also known as Command Bar [...]

Eclipse3.1M3 comes out later today..

A Microsoft executive explained yesterday how the company figured out that the upcoming Windows 7 really is the seventh version of the operating system. Said one user in response: 'Wow. That makes total sense. Not.'