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Old meets new in remote areas of Vermont. Instead of cutting roads, or using helicopters, FairPoint Communications has enlisted draft horses to help lay fiber optic cable.

A new, lighter weight, thinner, non-color Nook is now available for pre-order from Barnes & Noble. According to B&N the new device will have a battery that needs to be recharged only once every other month.

Lodsys owns a lot of patents. In a novel approach, they decided to sue the developers building apps for iOS instead of Apple. Now Apple has stepped in to protect the programmers.

The final release is expected on June 21, but right now the beta of Firefox 5 is available for download. It includes a lot of bug fixes and some new features.

Using a wearable depth camera, you could keep your phone in your pocket and still be able to make calls. Researchers at the Hasso-Plattner Institute have demonstrated how it works in a short video.

Gmail, Picasa, and the Chrome browser are now using WebP instead of JPEG for images. WebP reduces the size of web images by about 40 percent, allowing them to load faster.

Handwritten notes need not be a thing of the past, though you may need to brush up on your handwriting skills. Livescribe Connect allows you to write a note with a smartpen and post it online or send it via e-mail.

HighNote can deliver video, photos, music, maps and customized formatting in a text message – much as you use e-mail. HighNote is currently available for iPhone, iPad, iTouch and Android phones.

There had been plans to digitize old newspapers and make them all searchable. However, the effort seems to have been too much for Google. They’ve decided to let newspapers do their own archives and sell access.