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- Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth (and Fortune's CEO of the decade)
- What no comment by NonZ? I hope he/she is not ill or something:PPagan jimThe P.T.Barnum of the Tech Industry......when is he going to cut the Chinamen that work for him in on the big cash flow?NZ will show up at some pointUnless he is on vacation.Or getting over the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy
- Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Geothermal gets its day in the sun
- Wow. Who didn't see that coming.GE, which has been a fervent supporter of Obama, along with Prince Harry's home state, get the lion's share of the federal money. I am sure that none of us saw that coming.From Halliburton to GEsome of us might see that as progress....
- Discussion threads 2009-10-31
- Immelt seeks to unite healthcare with Silicon Valley mainstream
- A lot was written about GE chairman Jeff Immelt's appearance yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, but one key point can't be emphasized enough. Jeff Immelt was at the Web 2.0 Summit. He wasn't at a health care show. He was pitching tech people. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- News to know: Bing-Twitter; Net Neutrality; eBay; VMWare; Nook; Win7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing Sam Diaz: Tweets on Bing: Watch out for more noise,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Web 2.0 Summit video: GE shows off mini ultrasound device
- Not uniqueSonoSite makes a similar product. As part of a an upgrade of portable ultrasound used by the PA's to place central lines in a hospital chain, SonoSite reps used their latest & greatest product at the bedside on my patient who has known abnormal subclavian vein issues that...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- GE shows off mini ultrasound device
- At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt introduces a handheld ultrasound gadget called Vscan. Immelt believes that the new device will be make it easier for clinicians to monitor the human body in a variety of settings, including countries where medical professionals cannot afford...
- Videos 2009-10-21
- Web 2.0 Summit video: GE shows off mini ultrasound device
- At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt introduces a handheld ultrasound gadget called Vscan. Immelt believes that the new device will be make it easier for clinicians to monitor the human body in a variety of settings, including countries where medical professionals cannot afford...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Persona Non GartnerOver the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Apple unveils new unibody polycarbonate MacBook; 7-hour battery, LED display, multitouch trackpad; $999
- Polycarbonate unibody design!!Translation -> moulded plasticIs it molded or is it cut from a single blocklike the aluminum models?No idea but..I would have thought injection moulding would be much easier, cheaper and quicker than milling it. In the end it still translates to it being 1 lump of plastic with...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress
- humm, I don't think we have all the facts.humm, okay.I'm gonna say that there's probably a lot of details involved, and the EPA probably didn't wake up one day, grow a green heart, and take action just because they turned green one day.And don't look now, but the Democrats aren't...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- iYodl 1.1 (Mobile)
- The iYodl App - the Oktoberfest Application for your iPhone and iPod Touch No talent for yodeling? Those complicated Bavarian toasts just don't seem to roll off your tongue? You love the Oktoberfest, but attempts at comunication are all in vain? With the iYodl App, communication is no longer a...
- Software downloads 2009-10-06
- Fourth type of cloud computing
- Close, but no cigarThere is no requirement that a cloud be publicly accessible. In many cases, corporations use cloud products to supplement existing production. In that case, the public access is via the existing security scheme and the cloud assets are never directly accessible via public IP.Also, there...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager
- There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....
- Blog posts 2009-10-03
- News to know: XP Mode; Cisco; Comcast; 'Ardi'
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases XP Mode virtualization to manufacturing [video=346621] Larry Dignan: Cisco doubles down...
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Comcast plus NBC Universal creates a Web juggernaut
- If Comcast did manage to gain control of NBC Universal it would be have an aggregation of Web sites that would make it a top 10 player in comScore's top 50 rankings. According to CNBC, General Electric is talking to Comcast about a deal that would spin...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- What value research? In this case a cool billion dollars.
- Research at MIT led to the founding of A123 Systems. That company just went public to the tune of a billion bills. A123 Systems is in the rechargeable battery biz, a sweet spot these days. It was founded eight years ago with a $100,000 federal grant. My,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- If open source were a monopoly
- As always thoughtful, Dana. But there's a related problem..Open Source projects are notoriously bad a promoting the unpopular decisions. As such you can see open source as a form of populism.If someone wants to do a clean break - the sort of break which move technology forward - you will...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- SmartSynch touts progress in Texas
- What's this, smart grid technology that is actually being used for bonafide business purposes and not just in a pilot? SmartSynch, which provides both smart meter technology and smart grid IP communications technology, is reporting that Texas-New Mexico Power TNMP is about halfway through the deployment of...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
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