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- A robotic chef for your kitchen?
- The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...
- Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone on way; here's a peek
- On his website, Asterisk developer Chris Carey posts an interesting preview of something he is building called Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone. Chris says Voicemail for iPhone will allow you to check your voicemail messages on your house or business line from...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Chris, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Web Site Development, Open Source, Telecommunications, Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Can Burt Reynolds inspire lust for Michael Dell's products?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk takes a surreal tour of Dell's Star Power holiday shopping Web site featuring Burt Reynolds and other celebrities. If you searched the Web for the next month, how many times do you think you'd find the words "Michael," "Dell" and "lust" in the...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Chris, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Branding, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Is Facebook banking that you're a beacon of egomania?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk writes that the greatest commercial battle currently is between the ad and the algorithm, between predictability and "ticklability." Facebook needs to figure out how to make its users feel like they aren't being sold up the river. Even when you go to...
- Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Banking, Chris, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Technology finally turns fantasy into reality
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk has found the perfect mashing of technology, fantasy and reality to fulfill his dream of owning a sports franchise. There are probably enough readers of this site who, bored with their jobs, their sniveling, ignorant bosses and the fact that none of their...
- Tags: Team, Fantasy, Director, Ebbsfleet United, Chris, Team Management, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Is God on technology's side? Or is it the other way around?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk finds that the Web accommodates all kinds of bloggers, including a nun who says she is "wildly enthusiastic about our mission of putting communications technology at the service of the Gospel." One of the more rewarding things about the Web is that...
- Tags: Web, Bible, Technology, God, Sister Anne, Chris, Channel Management, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Google and the 'American Idol' creator: The secret tapes
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk considers what Google and Idol creator and entertainment impresario Simon Fuller might be cooking up that could revolutionize TV. It has been revealed that Google has been meeting with Simon Fuller, he of the Spice Girls, David Beckham and "American Idol," amongst others,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Winner, TV, Entertainment, Chris Matyszczyk, BRIN, Brinny, SoYouThinkYou'veGotTheSpiceToBeAGoogIdol.com, Chris, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- If you don't like a Facebook advertiser, defriend them
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk has spent years creating award-winning advertisements to motivate buyers. Facebook's ad platform simply reaffirms that individuals are media. Everything is now a pair of boxer's shorts. Even Facebook. When Mike Tyson was around those shorts, if they had a...
- Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Brand, Advertiser, Chris, Branding, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- The computer orgasm. Is it real or is everyone just faking it?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk finds it odd that nearly a third of single Americans feel that the Internet is "sufficient companionship" and about the same percentage of young Americans would sell their name for a piffling $100,000. Research shows that there are basically only two types of...
- Tags: Men, Survey, Computer, Chris, Gender And Diversity, Internet, Marketing Research, E-mail, Human Resources, Marketing, Online Communications, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Why the titans of tech should start playing ball
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk yearns for the application of tech entrepreneurship to moribund sports franchises, following in the fancy footsteps of Mark Cuban. After all, sports is a social network of extraordinary proportions... "I'd run any company; it's completely irrelevant to me. It's really about this drive...
- Tags: Team, Gentleman, Bay Area, Mr., Champaign, Chris, Team Management, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- A big untapped social network opportunity
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk investigates the soft underbelly of Web culture. As Hillary Clinton and Michael Moore will tell you, there is no greater potential money-spinner in the US today than health. We all get sick. So there's always some sicko who wants to make a...
- Tags: Network, Health Care, Geek, FatGeeks.com, Chris, Vertical Industries, Social Networking, Benefits, Healthcare, Channel Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Management, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- The tech world mourns the demise of Nerd Blossom
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk shares his thoughts on Mark Cuban's rumba and his exit from the "Dancing with the Stars" competition. In the end, as so many in the tech world before him, he couldn't do sexy. Mark Cuban was voted off ABC's...
- Tags: Mark Cuban, Tech World, Chris, Professional Development, Strategy, Career, Management, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Are faux-Zuckerbergs a threat to corporate harmony?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk wonders whether Generation Y is Cartesian with a twist: I think, therefore I am great. I had dinner with someone significant in the tech world the other day. Desdemona (guess what, not her real name) had a problem she wanted to share with...
- Tags: Dinner, Advertisement, Harmony, Chris, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Web 2.0: Surfing your way to sanity
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk tries to unpack the the intersection of Silicon Valley cubicle culture and Web 2.0. The huge numbers of wise luminaries gathering to discuss Web 2.0 at the Summit in San Francisco make important questions leap into my mind and rattle around like a...
- Tags: Web, Team, Cubicle, Chris, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- The UK loses its way in technology
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk finds out that using GPS to navigate the roads across the pond could lead to confusion or even disaster. There are those who are in love with them. And there are those who would dearly love it if every one of them was...
- Tags: Lane, Road, Driver, Lady Helper, Chris, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Why Nerd Blossom's feet matter more than Gates' brain
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk considers Mark Cuban's dancing skills and his significance in the tech world, a place where marketing most often lacks the "human" touch. Next Monday, he will be performing the Paso Doble or the Viennese Waltz. With his teeth. ...
- Tags: Mark Cuban, Tech World, Chris, TVs, Gender And Diversity, Tv & Home Theater, Strategy, Marketing Research, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Management, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- Is the road to Moscow paved with good intentions?
- I just finished reading a most interesting post from my colleague, Chris Dawson -- Russia installing Linux in every school in the country -- reporting that ... ... the Russian government is actively pursuing the development of a "Russian OS" to be available to every school in the country -- based upon Linux!...
- Tags: Educator, Russia, Microsoft Corp., Chris, Government, Linux, Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- A cautionary Vista story - steep curves ahead
- Chris Shipley, the executive director of and impresario behind the DEMO Conferences is hardly a technology lightweight. Every year, she and her team evaluate hundreds of emerging technology companies and products and cherry pick the best and brightest to appear under the DEMO microscope for their legendary six minutes of...
- Tags: Windows, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- Local Advertising takes $39 billion starring role
- The Kelsey Group is promising “fireworks” at their “Drilling Down on Local” conference set for next week in Santa Clara, and I will have a front row seat! Kelsey previews the keynoters and the lineup:Hilary Schneider, EVP of Local Markets & Commerce, Yahoo!Steven Aldrich, VP, Strategy and Innovation, Small...
- Tags: Google Inc., Kelsey Group, local advertising, advertisement, Chris
- Blog posts 2007-03-18
- There's no room for bias in academia
- Whenever I sit down to review the comments posted about an article written by one of my fellow bloggers, I am struck by the level of bias that abounds among our readers. To be sure, there are zealots on almost every subject under the sun but sometimes our readers...
- Tags: Classroom Tech, Education Technology, Funding, Hardware, Higher Ed, K-12, Policy
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
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