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Wowwee's Top 10 Love-Starved Androids (and yeah, the toys are on sale)

I get a lot of stupid pitches from PR folks for Tech Broiler. Most of them I ignore and go directly into the bit bucket. But as tomorrow is Valentine's day, this one particular amusing distraction from the guys over at Wowwee, makers...

Tags: British SF, Marvin, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-12

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Wowwee

WowweeHow about Rosie, the housekeeperfrom The Jetsons. She was always way too interested in what Judy Jetson was doing, and with whom.How about the "Sexy Robot"......from the I think ALCOA TV ad from I think about twenty years ago:http://www.skrenta.com/images/sexy-robot.jpg(I couldn't find a video of it...)Those gold-plated joints are cool...RE: WowweeWho...

Tags: Robots, WowWee, robot, Marvin, Daleks, Wall-E

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

CIO Sessions: 1-800 Flowers blossoms with new technologies

In a CIO Vision Series interview, Steve Bozzo, CIO of 1-800 Flowers talks with me about what it takes to run the company’s daily IT operations, across a network of more than 9,000 florists. Today, about 75 percent of 1-800 Flowers transactions are...

Tags: CIO, Environment, 1-800-FLOWERS, Web 2.0, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-04

Silverlight Dev Camp and Vancouver Flex Camp

There are a couple of events worth mentioning that are going on in the rich internet application world. The first is this week, the 30th, in Vancouver, British Columbia. It's a RIA/Flex Camp at which I'll be speaking. I'll be covering how to build an AIR application in Flex, but...

Tags: Vancouver, Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-08-26

New Orleans is up and running with muni Wi-Fi

New Orleans is up and running with muni Wi-FiGreat, But...I think it is Great they deployed that, but I am not sure that they are the first city in the US to put up a city-owned Muni Wifi.Cerritos in California has been up and running for over a year. Fullerton...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2005-12-03

In planning TechConnect, SF should look to London

San Francisco's TechConnect Initiative is unique in the US, in that it specifies portable and mobile broadband connectivity. That's why the city should look not to other US cities but to London, writes Martin Uden, the British consul general in San Francisco, in the SF Chronicle. The Westminster City...

Tags: TechConnect Initiative, Martin Uden, broadband, Westminster City Council

Blog posts 2005-09-26

'All-out war' in Intel-AMD antitrust case

'All-out war' in Intel-AMD antitrust caseIf AMD doesn't win, it's game over for them.This is truly a bet the company move, and from my perspective a very poor one.AMD also 'hired' the following....I believe AMD has also 'hired' the following institutions to "support" their case in the court of public...

Tags: Processors, antitrust, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-15

BBC probes Net leak of 'Doctor Who' episode

BBC probes Net leak of 'Doctor Who' episodeI've seen this floating around for a whileSince January to be exact. I haven't downloaded it as I'd rather catch it on TV but it's there and also more than 1 epsisode to boot.I did not know about the come back until I...

Tags: TVs, British Broadcasting Corp., SciFi Channel

Discussion threads 2005-03-08