Google, Microsoft each seek search "game changer"

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222897/Google_Microsoft_each_seek_search_game_changer_?taxonomyId=212&pageNumber=1

The year in mobile apps: where we’ve been, where we’re going

http://gigaom.com/2011/12/25/the-year-in-mobile-apps-where-weve-been-where-were-going/

Easy tweak for a more responsive home button on your iPhone

... or other iOS device:

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/12/easy-tweak-for-a-more-responsive-home-button/#more-411454

World's data centers refuse to exit ice age

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/data-center-ice-age/

Can floating turbines save wind power?

A problem with renewable energy is that some forms are intermittent.  E.g. wind doesn't blow all the time – on land.  But, travel just 20 miles (32 kilometres) off shore, & the wind blows at a constant 33 feet per second (10 meters/sec, 36 km/hr, 22 miles/hr).

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/solar-wind/can-floating-turbines-save-wind-power

Amazon builds world's fastest non-existent supercomputer

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/nonexistent-supercomputer/

EFF's 2011 Holiday Wish List

This is  the Electronic Frontier Foundation's wish list of 16 items in the interests of Web users' rights & online safety.

Least likely wish: "Apple, Amazon, HTC, & other makers of mobile computing devices should give customers an officially documented way to get root access on every device they sell."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/effs-holiday-wish-list