The Web 3.0 Conference, hosted by Mediabistro, kicks off January 26-27, causing keyboard jockeys across the length and breadth of my desk to scream: Dear Academics, please stop declaring new eras of technological advancement every time you've talked the current era to death.

Yesterday, Unwired View (and the rest of the gabbling, CES 2010 attendant world) tossed out some notes on Emblaze mobile's shiny new contender for the global not-an-iPhone smartphone title belt. And the nifty part? The Else Emblaze (also being schizophrenically marketed as the Else Intuition... wait, maybe that's "First Else") features an Access Linux-based OS and a lovely touchscreen GUI that looks - dare we say it - mildly cyberpunk. Do want.

Curt Franklin, online community organizer for Interop events, posts updates from Interop New York, going on now.

"It’s my first day here at Interop New York, and I’m starting with the keynote address. This year, it’s a triple-header, with Mark Templeton (President and CEO of Citrix), Marie Hattar (VP of networking and security at Cisco), and David Pogue (who’s, well, David Pogue of the New York Times). I’ll be live-blogging the keynotes and tweeting in my account (kg4gwa) on Twitter.

"The room’s already at least 2/3 full — not bad for an early morning session that will go for two hours. The music is mellow (rather than the dance-floor techno-rock that seems mandatory for most speeches these days) and my coffee is starting to kick in. Should be a good morning…"

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The ultra-awesome SuperComputing 2009 (SC09) conference kicked off November 14 at the Portland Convention Center, and will run until November 20. Watch the festivities as they happen right here on Con-Techie, with our embedded SC09 live stream action.

Video after the jump.