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- Separate charges in Chinese spying cases
- A former Boeing engineer has been indicted on charges of economic espionage and international spying, Thompson Financial reports. The indictment alleges that Chung took and concealed Boeing trade secrets relating to the Space Shuttle, the C-17 military transport aircraft and the Delta IV rocket....
- Tags: Aircraft, Boeing Co., Letter, Indictment, Chung, Aerospace & Defense, Government, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
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- He wrote 200,000 books (but computers did some of the work)
- Professor's computer algorithms collect publicly available information and turn it into books, printed on demand or delivered digitally.(From The New York Times) It's not easy to write a book. First, you have to pick a title. And then there is the table of contents. If you want the...
- Tags: Digital media
- News items 2008-04-14
- New Association Promotes Virtual Worlds and Business
- New Association Promotes Virtual Worlds and BusinessVirtual Snake OilEDITA KAYE, THE “SKINNY PILL FOR KIDS,” AND THE ASSOCIATION OF VIRTUAL WORLDSThere is a certain species of entrepreneur that capitalizes on the human desire for overnight solutions to intractable problems. Throughout human history, they have lurked in the shadows of the...
- Tags: Entrepreneurship, SKINNY PILL
- Discussion threads 2008-04-13
- Want Surface but not the cost? Try wii'ing
- Courtesy of Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow and another of my Irregular colleagues, I stumbled across this awesome demonstration of using Wiimotes and light pens as an alternative to the $10,000 Surface device. There is none of the hoop-la that accompanies Surface demonstrations but a simple, matter...
- Tags: Demonstration, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- University Builds Universal Access With Learning Portal
- Ma Chung University, a recently established Indonesian tertiary institution, wanted a digital gateway to facilitate state-of-the-art eLearning and resource sharing among its administration and teaching staff. Its goal was to have a single, easy-to-use, customizable information gateway. It decided to deploy Microsoft Learning Gateway with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Microsoft Corp., Portals, E-learning, Web Technology, Workforce Management, Microsoft Office, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Office Suites
- Case studies 2008-02-20
- Will touch drive Microsoft Surface sales or will Surface drive touch?
- Will touch drive Microsoft Surface sales or will Surface drive touch?re: Will touch drive Microsoft surface sales[i]Call me a Luddite, but if the Surface had a keyboard, I’d definitely prefer it over touch or speech.[/i]I think I'm a bit like that... I like the keyboard, though digital or physical probably...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Keyboards, Sales force management, Apple Inc., sales, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Surface sale, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- 2007 year in review: 10 most popular posts
- Due to the lack of news during this time of year (and a gentle prod from my ZDNet editors) I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the most popular posts here on The Social Web in 2007. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these posts were also...
- Tags: Second Life, Facebook, Site, MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-12-28
- WD's surprising little drive
- IIRC, it was just 15 years ago that Maxtor shipped the first 1 GB, 3.5" drive. The usual things happened: database admins all swore it was "too big," techies said it cost too much, and regular users wondered if they could ever fill it up.DBA's still kvetch about disk size...
- Tags: Disk drives
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Second Life mogul regrets DMCA complaint
- Guntram Graef, who along with his wife runs Anshe Chung Studios (Second Lifes biggest land owner) says that he regrets filing the DMCA complaint which looked to challenge the right of the press to publish images originating from the virtual world. The take-down notice was first filed after a video...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life, DMCA
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Virtual land owner challenges press freedom in Second Life
- Virtual land owner challenges press freedom in Second LifeCopyright infringement... or pubic humiliation?I don't believe that the "copyright" of the image itself is the issue. More like someone trying to "save face" for their avatar.Getting a live public "dicking" would be humiliating enough without the press replaying the event....
- Tags: land owner, Second Life
- Discussion threads 2007-01-06
- Virtual land owner challenges press freedom in Second Life
- Citing the DMCA, Second Lifes biggest land owner, Anshe Chung Studios, has challenged the right for users (including members of the press) to publish screen shots from the game that they claim would infringe on their copyright.The issue has surfaced after the avatar Anshe Chung (real name Ailin Graef) was...
- Tags: Anshe Chung Studios, avatar, Second Life, Ailin Graef, image
- Blog posts 2007-01-06
- News to know: Vista fiesta; head roll at Skype
- A look at some notable headlines of the day:Work...Vista is everywhere. Mary Jo Foley is live at Times Square for all day coverage along with all the other resources at CNET Networks disposal. The news and reviews will land here and all the blog coverage here. Skypes almost nightmare Christmas....
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- Small is Beautiful: Building a Successful Company with Less Capital
- At a Churchill Club event on September 14, a gang of venture capitalists participated in a panel, "Small is Beautiful: Building a Successful Company with Less Capital." It's part of the new culture of startups, which are taking far less capital investment than the first round of Web startups. The...
- Tags: Managing Director, Podcasts, Venture Capital, Investment, Strategy, Internet, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- (Images: Teens get a 'Second Life')
- (Images: Teens get a 'Second Life')Just what am i looking at ?This looks stupid !oh let me guess, the players interact through realtime messaging . . .omg, at least let them bounce a ball so they have something to look at while wasting their parents electricity and not doing their...
- Tags: Games, virtual reality, Anshe Chung, card, Second Life, game
- Discussion threads 2006-10-02
- Two new e-voting vendors try to sell to local govts.
- The New York Times reports on two newcomers to the e-voting industry. The companies - AutoMark Techical Systems and Avante Intl. Technology - may prove to be surprising dark horses in the election of e-voting vendors or little more than write-in candidates. AutoMark is the brainchild of Eugene M....
- Tags: Avante Intl, AutoMark Techical Systems, ballot
- Blog posts 2006-06-08
- Can wine over WiFi save your long-distance relationship?
- A few times I have been in love with women who lived in different cities- women who I used to drink a nice bottle of Merlot with when they visited my city, or me theirs.But when I wasn't around, guys were lined up at their door with their own...
- Tags: Cups, made:The Lover
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- Videos from Demo 2006: Blurb, Riya, StreetDeck, Pleo
- Cameraman Vincent Tremblay and CNET's Rafe Needleman got video on some of the hottest products at Demo: From blog to book Eileen Gittins, CEO of Blurb, gives CNET's Rafe Needleman a first look at her blog-to-book application. With several templates to choose from, including...
- Tags: Rafe Needleman, Pleo
- Blog posts 2006-02-09
- Furby goes Godzilla
- From the makers of Furby: your very own domestic dinosaurAt Demo '06, CNET's Rafe Needleman takes a close look at the Pleo dino-bot with Ugobe's CEO Bob Christopher and inventor Caleb Chung.
- Tags: Furby
- Videos 2006-02-08
- Meet Pleo, descendent of Furby
- Demo 2006: Ugobe founder and chief inventor Caleb Chung shows off his latest offspring, Pleo (see photo below). Chung also co-invented Furby, which was a great annoyance in my house a few years ago. His latest invention is much more lifellike and natural. According to the company Pleo is modeled...
- Tags: Meet Pleo
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Alleged hacker faces extradition to U.S.
- Alleged hacker faces extradition to U.S.Let this be a reminder....In the real world, when you hack, you don't get to boink Angelina Jolie. But you may get boinked by a dude named Bubba in Federal prison.Sounds like rhetoricReading the original story, "This was a grave intrusion into a vital military...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, hacker, fair trial, extradition, butt
- Discussion threads 2005-06-08
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