By Wright Bryan

In response to a tweet I sent out the other day, a handful of our 500 followers offered ideas on what All Tech Considered should cover.

@unteer, who describes himself as a "Peace Corps Volunteer working with computers" in Mombassa, Kenya, asks that we "cover the battle of the smartphones" and "the politics of The Cloud."

I think you'll see more about smartphones in the coming months. I've just purchased my own iPhone 3G S and can't say enough good things about it. I'll write about it soon. I'm also about to review the Nokia N86. And the Blackberry Tour is en route to our offices, so look for something on that device, too.

That said, we're new at this and are feeling our way forward on the gadget front and are not sure how deeply we'll delve into testing devices.

The politics of the "The Cloud" are certainly of interest to everyone with the Google Chrome OS announcement, and the following announcement of online MS-Office products. We'll definitely keep an eye on that space, as they say.

@adamgtwork says he wants to "to hear about next gen infrastructure development - Energy, transport, communication."

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Wade Davis gives a talk at the TED conference, captioned in Farsi using dotSUB technology. TED Media

 

By Andy Carvin

For the last 25 years, the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference - better known has TED - has served as an annual pilgrimage for some of the world's leading thinkers to present their best ideas. For those of us who weren't able to attend in person, TED's online videos have served as a gateway to these discussions. One problem that's cropped up with these videos, though, was that these "TEDTalks" were usually in English. Today's rollout of TED's Open Translation Project intends to change that.

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