Mike and I drivel on about Google and Microsoft's new efforts on viewing earth and its wonderful features from the comfort of your search engine.

Also, Steve Jobs says Apple is getting into Podcasting. Whoa. That's market-changing news.

Why wouldn’t the makers of this technology include some sort of Wi Fi/Wimax capability? Seems to me this is a golden opportunity for grocery stores and other retailers to use technology to deliver customized content to shoppers for them to download while they shop—go beyond the experience of content they view while shopping. Advertisers would go wild over this opportunity. Another option is to allow consumers to plug their devices (iPods, PDAs…) into the cart to download content on the fly for later usage. This is one of the elements behind Mike and my notion of “content foraging.”

New Computers Make Grocery Carts Smarter

By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press WriterWed May 4, 7:34 AM ET

New supermarket carts equipped with touch screens will guide you to the tomatoes or toothpicks, let you order deli meat without standing in line and keep a running tally of your purchases.

What they won't do is tell you how many fat grams or calories are in your cart. The idea is to make it easier for consumers to buy, not induce second thoughts that maybe you should put something back on the shelf.

The touch-screen devices are on display at the supermarket industry's annual con