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Photos: NASA prepares for moon mission--under water: A crew of aquanauts is spending 10 days in an undersea laboratory to simulate what life might be like on the lunar surface.Three astronauts and a Constellation Program aerospace engineer are spending 10 days at the bottom of the ocean--simulating what life could be like at a moon base or...; Tags: photograph, Aquarius Underwater Laboratory, aquanaut, shovel, NASA, University of North Carolina, NOAA, alien, coast, stay, ocean, aerospace; Image galleries 2007-08-14

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Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?: Google has entered the virtual world game with a project called Lively and Second Life and IBM have pulled off a few interoperability experiments. Add it up and we may be seeing a little tipping point for virtual worlds. There may be even a few corporate uses in the future....; Tags: Google Inc., Virtual World, Avatar, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-09
Pssst! ... wanna save up to 40 percent on a robotic massage chair?: Okay, I know I'm going to get flamed for furthering ethnic stereotypes, but I have to admit, us Jews love a good bargain. So I'm going to risk getting my butt chewed because I feel compelled to play yiddische consumer advocate. As some of you may know,...; Tags: Chair, Sharper Image Corp., Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters away: Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL researchers have developed a super-sensitive explosives detector which uses a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound. Interestingly, the technique they've used is based on earlier works of Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1880s. In their experiments, the researchers used three...; Tags: Technique, Detection, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Laser, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-27
Polar warming, hot time in the Arctic Ocean: This map of Greenland at end of last year, courtesy NASA. This may the first time in history that the North Pole is open water, not ice. We've blogged about the disappearing ice cap on Greenland, and the opening of the northwest passage between...; Tags: Ice, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-26

PatientOS (exe): Electronic medical record EHR or EMR and PMS for a physician or clinics. Designed to be expanded into a Healthcare Information System for a hospital (Laboratory, Pharmacy, Orders). Distributed clinical system written in pure Java. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Pure Java, Patientos, E-health, Healthcare, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Software downloads 2008-06-23
IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC: Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...; Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-06-18
Robofish teams of underwater robots: Robofish teams of underwater robots'Skills' broken down into specified tasksFor some reason this reminds me of Stanislaw Lem's "The Invincible", where a ship of that name is brought down...depending on your point of view, by either a supercomputer or a bunch of crystals. The kinds of preconceptions we unknowingly...; Tags: Robots, Robofish team, robot; Discussion threads 2008-06-17
Planes, trains, and automobiles: Planes, trains, and automobilesRE: Planes, trains, and automobilesIt's all about fear and control. Since planes can cover a greater distance AND are easier to control points of entry are limited to a plane and fewer connection points they also offer a higher profile of success. The natural fear of flying...; Tags: Government, train; Discussion threads 2008-06-16
Sony MDR-AS20J Active Headphones: Although the headphone market continues to burgeon with new models, it can be surprisingly tough to find a decent, fitness-friendly pair. A few companies, such as Sennheiser, have stepped up to the plate with sport-branded earphones that feature design attributes meant to keep them secured on the head during activity....; Tags: cord, Sony MDR-AS20J, Active Headphones, MDR-AS20Js, Sony Corp.; Product reviews 2008-06-10
Photos: Mars Lander scoops up soil samples: A robotic arm placed Martian soil above a laboratory on the Phoenix Mars Lander where it will be tested--after NASA performs a "shake and bake" maneuver. by CNET News.com; Tags: Phoenix Technologies, Laboratory, Photograph, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-06-09
News to know: Jobs speaks; Microsoft; Healthline; Enterprise 2.0; HTC: Notable headlines: WWDC kick-off: Larry Dignan: Jobs' Apple as a platform mantra to accelerate PGP rolls out Whole Disk Encryption for Mac Matthew Miller: SlingPlayer Mobile on the iPhone will be demoed at Apple's WWDC this week News.com live...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, Web Technology, Sales Strategy, Digital Video, Desktops, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Personal Technology, Hardware; Blog posts 2008-06-09
Wirelessly networking cows: U.S. researchers have developed a Walkman-like headset for cows. This device enables them to 'whisper wireless commands to cows to control their movements across a landscape -- and even remotely gather them into a corral.' In fact, it could help farmers to maintain cows behind virtual fences. According to the...; Tags: Animal, Network, Cow, GPS, Handhelds, Productivity, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-08
Robofish teams of underwater robots: Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...; Tags: Team, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-07
BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...; Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-06-06
IBM cools chips with 'tiny rivers' of H2O; Aims to stretch Moore's Law: IBM Labs is taking water cooling to another level--and pumping water into each layer of a semiconductor via pipes as thin as a human hair. On Thursday, IBM said that its researchers--along with Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin--demonstrated a prototype that integrates a water cooling system direction into...; Tags: IBM Corp., Chip, IBM Labs, Water Pipe, Semiconductors, Data Centers, Network Technology, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Networking, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-06-05
Is the new Flip Mino camcorder worth $30 more than the bestselling Flip Ultra?: [Updated: June 4, 2008 @ 5:01 pm] The super-popular Flip Ultra's incredible success has inspired plenty of competition trying to ride the cheapo-camcorder tsunami that the Flip set off. So less than a year after the Flip Ultra's September 2007 release comes Pure Digital's latest Flip, the Flip Mino....; Tags: Battery, Camcorder, MySpace, Engineering, Janice Chen; Blog posts 2008-06-04
Phoenix Mars Lander's mission site hacked: With the world's eyes on the latest multimedia streaming straight from Mars, during the weekend the Phoenix Mars Mission's site got hit twice, first by an Ukrainian web site defacer who posted a message at the site's blog, and hours later, the Turkish "sql loverz crew 2008" redirected the official...; Tags: Web, Phoenix Technologies, Web Site, Site, Phoenix Mars Lander Mission, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-06-02
Pearl Hunter (exe): Save your peaceful island. Dive into 28 awesome levels of high sea action! In order to save your peaceful island you must begin the greatest adventure of your life! Dive into 28 awesome levels of underwater challenges. Swim and collect pearls to present to the sea gods. Beware of ocean...; Tags: Island, FreeGamePick; Software downloads 2008-06-02
The first optical pacemaker: According to a short news release from the Optical Society of America OSA, an international team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan has used a femtosecond laser pacemaker to control heart muscle cells. So far, this optical pacemaker will only be used for laboratory research. As writes OSA, 'exposing...; Tags: Heart, Contraction, Laser, Cell, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-29