This Week In Emerging Technology – July 11th | eWEEK Labs

This Week In Emerging Technology – July 11th

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Jim Rapoza
Jim Rapoza
Jul 11, 2007
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Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of July 9th.

Google Lets Users Overlay Data on Personalized Maps – Lots of people talk about making mashups and simple web applications easier to create for regular users. A promising example is this new service from Google called MyMaps, which makes it simple to create custom maps. I have to start playing with this right away.

Fujitsu-Siemens to Offer Flash-Memory Laptops – Fujitsu-Siemens will soon be offering laptops that use Flash based hard drives (starting with 32 GByte versions) in Europe. However, at around $688 these are way over priced which makes them much less interesting.

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