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- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Earth Day – have a gas
- Sample Vulcan map from Purdue & NASA. The folks at Purdue University have come up with a way for us to watch the CO2 emissions across the U.S. Just in time for Earth Day, 2008. It's called Vulcan, and it's going to...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Hasta la Vista, Nvidia
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- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Chinese boy kills mother over Net cafe money
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- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Cory Doctorow on taming the trolls
- Great, great post on the InformationWeek blog by Boing Boing founder, author, and deep thinker Cory Doctorow on how to deal with trolls. It turns out that nuclear science is a great metaphor for managing community and the secret lies in "twiddling the rods" in just the right fashion. Just...
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- On the road with Windows Vista
- I’m away on vacation this week, nearly 7,000 miles from home. But I’m not out of touch. Judy and I have been coming to Italy for the past five years, and it’s instructive to see with each visit just how much the experience of leisure travel has changed for use...
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- FlipStart handheld PC now available from Dynamism
- FlipStart, the handheld PC released a couple of months ago, is now available from Dynamism, a reseller of high-performance mobile gear. Previously, the tiny PC was only available directly from the company. A number of accessories including batteries and a port replicator for use on the desktop are also available....
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Two open source dilemmas
- Neelan Choksi should have been happy yesterday.Hes been promoted to Chief Operating Officer at Interface21. The company just got $10 million from Benchmark Capital, which previously backed Red Hat, JBOSS, and mySQL among others. It was the last day of JavaOne so he was just a few hours from his...
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- MySpace polices video copyright: Where is Google YouTube?
- MySpace is the worlds leading lifestyle portal, as it not so modestly describes itself; The lifestyle portal is owned by an "old" media company, News Corp. YouTube is the premier entertainment destination to watch and share videos worldwide, as it not so modestly describes itself; The entertainment destination is owned...
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Bloggers no fan of Clinton - but does it matter?
- Sam Stein, writing at The Politico, identifies Hilary Clintons "blogger problem" but wonders if it makes a difference. Are politicians and politics-watchers losing perspective with their obsesson with the "netroots" when they should be watching their base? “Her model of doing politics is based on pandering to individual groups,”...
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Intel's embedded anti-malware could help business and consumer
- [Intel is a sponsor of Silicon Valley Watcher]On Wednesday I went to Intels launch of its latest Centrino chipset for notebooks. Everything, of course, is a lot faster, but what caught my eye was a new technology embedded in the chips which, although aimed squarely at business users, would be...
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- 3-D model of breast cancer in the lab
- According to BBC News, U.K. researchers have built a 3-D version of breast cancer in a test tube. Their model contains cells from normal and cancerous breast tissue. The researchers used a collagen gel to form 3-D structures to create structures similar to the ones find in a woman breast....
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- New MS tool isolates Office 2003 zero-day exploits
- Microsoft plans to ship a file conversion tool to give Office 2003 users a chance to protect against exploits rigged into .doc, .xls, .ppt documents.The tool, called MOICE Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment, is a direct response to the nonstop zero-day attacks that use rigged Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents...
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Vista Home Basic on 512MB? Hey, it works!
- Everyone knows Windows Vista is a resource hog. Everyone says it doesn’t even get out of first gear without a gigabyte of RAM, and it takes 2 GB before it stops stuttering and stammering with each mouse click. Everyone says Vista Home Basic is the black sheep of the family,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Faster slamming robots
- Im not speaking here of noisy robots. SLAM is an acronym for simultaneous localization and mapping, and slamming robots are simply robots which at the same time build a map of their environment while keeping track of their own localization. Now, according to New Scientist, Purdue University engineers have designed...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Racing Towards the Future, Stuck in the Past: Microsoft BI Moves… Not Far Enough
- Attending Microsoft’s first Business Intelligence Conference has been an illuminating experience, mostly for how Microsoft’s major strengths in BI are becoming its major weaknesses. The issue is one that I’ve ranted about in the past, and it’s an industry-wide problem, not just Microsoft’s. After a day sitting through the pre-conference...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Google vs. Microsoft Office? NO: vs. Open Office (.org)!
- If we take Google CEO Eric Schmidt at his public words, Microsoft Office is welcome at the Google Apps table. But what about OpenOffice.org? Will the Google chief’s we can all get along in the cloud PR stance apply as well? "FREE OFFICE SUITE" is the succinct,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- New Treo 755p (Sprint) - I want one
- As usual, my friend Andrew Carton at Treonauts is the first with breaking Treo news. Today the news is that Palm and Sprint have officially announced the availability of the new Treo 755p. Im looking forward to seeing this device - it addresses the few concerns I have with...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Disney lays out its online video stats
- Disney outlined its digital video vital signs on its earnings conference call on Tuesday and the stats look like this: 92 million ad-supported episodes from ABC and Disney have been requested since September;23.7 million Disney shows...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
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