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Ready for a CyberWalk?

Even with recent improvements in virtual reality technology, it's still almost impossible to physically walk through virtual environments. Now, European researchers have started a project named CyberWalk and they'll demonstrate next week their omni-directional treadmill, named CyberCarpet. According to ICT Results, the researchers 'had to address five key issues: providing...

Tags: Treadmill, Environment, CyberWalk, CyberCarpet, Chain Element, Virtual Reality, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-11

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Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users

Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...

Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Apple's coming notebook transition

Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...

Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog

Yesterday, Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans wrote a guest blog for this column on "Starbucks' Dirty Little Secret". The blog is worthy of some followup, as well as some additional information that Dean shared with me about their corporate philosophy. Growth is good for a company,...

Tags: Trader, Blog, Dean Cycon, X2 Development Corp., Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Firefly flyPhone (blue)

Though cell phones for youth came into vogue two years ago, it wasn't long before they fell out of favor. While some parents liked the idea behind simple handsets such as the LG Migo and the Enfora TicTalk, many children weren't so impressed. They wanted more features for playground comparisons,...

Tags: Cellular phones, display, Firefly flyPhone, Firefly, phone, cell phone

Product reviews 2008-07-23

MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release

Today, MindTouch Deki announces Kilen Woods, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism

Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalismIt's happening everywhere.Nobody wants to be in business or make a transaction unless they make a killing, not just a reasonable profit.I have nothing against making money, but when your greed hurts others, like the Starbucks managers and employees, I think it's time...

Tags: Retail, Blogging, Investment, Food & Beverage, Starbucks Corp., compassionate capitalism, capitalism, blog

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Another student hacks another police website

Oh the fun. Once again, another police website has been hacked by a student, showing that even the police aren't safe from all crimes. This is another link in the long chain of attacks over the years from egotistical teenagers trying to get a kick out of life without sticking...

Tags: Web Site, Attack, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-23

The $200 web tablet ... dream on!

The $200 web tablet ... dream on!Reinventing the wheelIt's been done albeit not quite $200 but the technology has been here--The Nokia N800/810. I've got an 800. The 800 shares the same multi-core TI ARM processor as the 810, except the 810 has a slide out keyboard. ...

Tags: Notebooks, Channel management, Keyboards, Operating systems, OS 2008, web tablet, laptop computer, Web, Nokia Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws

In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...

Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Element Browser (zip)

Element Browser is a full featured, fast and Web standards compliant Web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. It features a intuitive, modern ribbon interface with tools that are designed to simplify every day browsing tasks. Element Browser has been designed from the ground up to be one of the...

Tags: Web Browser, Element Software, Web Browsers, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Security

Software downloads 2008-07-23

E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering

Wow, big morning!  If anyone has seen Nitesh Dhanjani and Billy Rios's talk on phishing and identity theft, which was presented at the last couple Black Hat conferences, and will be on display again at Black Hat Vegas, you know that the identity theft market is a huge problem.  You...

Tags: Flooz, Currency Service, Identity Theft, Phishing, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Nikon AF-S DX VR 18-200mm f3.5-5.6G IF-ED

One of the blessings of an SLR can also be a curse: having to choose which lenses to carry, which means finding the right balance between weight and bulk, and having the focal lengths you need. The Nikon AF-S DX VR 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 G IF ED lens offers Nikon shooters...

Tags: Nikon Corp.

Product reviews 2008-07-21

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!Good RiddanceGood riddanceZD Can't SpellIt's "riddance" not "riddens". If "riddens" was supposed to be a play on words or a joke or a reference to something having to do with coffee, I don't get it.Otherwise, since you guys write about tech, maybe use that there...

Tags: Starbucks Corp., bean, Riddens

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddance!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! As the great Obi-Wan Kenobi once said "I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Click on the "Read the rest of this entry" link below...

Tags: Coffee, Starbucks Corp., Modems, Retail, Wireless LANs, DSL, E-mail, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Android losing its mojo fast

Android started off being a great idea, from a great company, with lots of support from carriers and manufacturers, and an awesome $10million contest to get developers drooling. With some stiff competition from Apple, and loss of developer morale, I'm afraid of what the future might hold for this...

Tags: Google Inc., ADC Telecommunications Inc., SDK, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-07-19

Techie's green pet: IDC develops new report card for tech asset recyclers

Does your IT services company make the grade when it comes to retiring and disposing of technology assets in the greenest way possible? Researcher IDC has come up with a new certification and weighting system for IT assess disposal functions that it is calling the Green Recycling...

Tags: Asset, Card, International Data Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.

OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-16

iPhone 3G succumbs to being jailbroken

iPhone 3G succumbs to being jailbrokenWhat good does it do to "jailbreak" an Iphone?Now that Apple and AT&T require the 3G Iphones to be activated in the store, it must mean that a person might be able to use another carrier, but AT&T and Apple have made their profit, at...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Sun's ZFS/Flash initiative

Sun's ZFS/Flash initiativeFlash sizes?What size flash are we talking about here? There is no way we are flash freezing a 200G database in any flash implementation that I know of.Leading to what?Will this work - as soon and as well -for ZFS on Linux? (and Mac?)If so cue AntonHow...

Tags: ZFS/Flash initiative, ZFS/Flash, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-15