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- Investors to commercialize open source
- Investors to commercialize open sourceQuite commonHadn't you noticed, but pretty much every ISP offers a LAMP configuration: (Linux/ Apache/ Mysql /PHP /Perl) as an option. All of that is a business model built on open source.Also take a look here:http://www.digital-focus.us/I saw these guys site yesterday, they charge $400 for a...
- Tags: commercialization, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2005-05-20
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- Blackberry steals iPhone's virtual keyboard
- Blackberry steals iPhone's virtual keyboardCopying Apple???By stating that RIM is "stealing" iPhone's virtual keyboard, you are assuming that Apple were first to market with said on screen keyboard.Back in the real world, where Apple are lagging behind "big time"... they are one of the last mobile phone manufacturers to use...
- Tags: Keyboards, Well Let, Touchscreen tech, keyboard, virtual keyboard, Apple iPhone, touch screen, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- This could be a window to our solar future
- This could be a window to our solar futureVenture CapitalistsA good chunk of the new energy science comes out of our universities and national labs. It's pretty common to see a team of professors and grad students come up with something hot and spin it off into company funded...
- Tags: kW, solar future, solar energy, venture capital, window
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Nanorobots to improve health care
- Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...
- Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- The next big thing? Crimeware-as-a-service
- Finjan says Crimeware-as-a-Service CaaS is becoming an increasing problem and the ability of law enforcement to track malicious hackers will become increasingly hampered. On Monday, Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center MCRC released its first quarter Web security trends report registration required and highlighted CaaS. finjan's release is...
- Tags: Finjan Software Inc., CaaS, Security, Productivity, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- C2: Microsoft's take on FriendFeed?
- Microsoft isn't usually the first or second or third company that folks associate with social networking. But maybe the Redmondians, or at least the researchers on the Microsoft Research C2 team, aren't as unsociable as some assume. Microsoft showed off earlier this month at its TechFest research...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., C2, C2 Data, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Exclusive: iPhone DevCamp's Raven on iPhone SDK and what it means
- Just a few minutes ago, I had a most enlightening email conversation with someone who knows as much about the new iPhone SDK, and its effects/potential, as anyone who doesn't work at Apple. And probably know more than most who do. That'd...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, SDK, Apple Inc., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, RS, RZ, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Sun refuses to give up on software acquisitions, buys MySQL for $1 billion
- We knew that Sun has been lusting after a real software business in addition to Solaris. We knew that Sun "shares" -- that it digs open source, including Solaris and Java. And we knew that Sun had a love-hate relationship with Oracle and a hate-hate relationship with IBM and Microsoft....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Problem, IBM Corp., Open Source, Databases, Linux, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Operating Systems, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Eco-friendly next-generation mobile homes
- Usually, mobile homes are not associated with terms such as long-term quality or environmental friendliness. Now, a professor of architecture at Mississippi State University MSU wants to change this. He has developed the concept of the GreenMobile home, an ultra-affordable and ecological-minded, factory-built housing unit. The first prototypes of these...
- Tags: Mobile, Home, Mobile Home, GreenMobile, Utility Cost, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Designer of laptop for poor kids starts company
- Designer of laptop for poor kids starts companyThanks Mary Lou for all of the brilliant work!!! I think you new company isa very important step in commercializing all of the breathtaking innovation that went into the OLPC, and even getting it into computers for adults. And, OLPC will probably only...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, One Laptop Per Child project, poor kid
- Discussion threads 2008-01-10
- Nanorobots for drug delivery?
- The idea of using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases such as cancers is not new check this story for example. But there are still lots of issues to solve before nanorobots can diagnose our diseases and treat them. Now, an international team of researchers has designed a software...
- Tags: 3D, Researcher, Protein, Environment, Cone, Sensor, Nanorobot, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-08
- Lasers to guide your car?
- Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST have developed a laser-based system to improve the performance of car collision warning systems. The U.S. Department of Transportation DOT also worked on this project. And the automotive industry will be able to use this technology to 'accelerate the development...
- Tags: Laser, NIST, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- 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
- Coal's in our future. So what IS wrong with Kansas?
- FutureGen's diagram of it's near-zero emission coal plant. You may think I really don't like coal. Bunch of petrified plants, after all. But the questions about coal are, after all, largely technological. It's unlike the debate over peak oil, and what supply...
- Tags: Kansas, Coal, Carbon Dioxide, Plant, FutureGen, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
- Will Microsoft follow European open source edict worldwide?
- Will Microsoft follow European open source edict worldwide?matter of law and matter of qualityFor to long now the Microsoft way has been followed in our industry. The Microsoft way has been - Break the Law because the penalty never exceeds the benefit or can be avoided. It is the way...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft Corp., European open source edict, open source edict, Microsoft Way
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- Taking the 'Inter' out of Internet: TiVo-Rhapsody deal just another nail in the Internet's coffin?
- Recent events involving Tivo, Real Networks, and eBay are a reminder that right before our eyes, the "inter" is being taken out of "Internet." Although some people might argue this point, the "inter" in "Internet" is about interoperation. For the longest time, prior to the commercialization...
- Tags: Protocol, Layer, TiVo Inc., eBay Inc., Internet, Tcp/Ip, Ethernet, Networking, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Fluid Innovation bets on Virtual Ventures
- If you've ever wanted to be a venture capitalist betting on whether a technical innovation will succeed, Fluid Innovation will let you do so virtually. At DEMOfall 07 the company debuted Virtual Ventures, a fantasy VC game that applies crowd sourcing and prediction markets to determine the viability of technologies...
- Tags: Innovation, Fantasy, VirtualVentures.com Site, Sales Strategy, Leadership, Venture Capital, Intellectual Property, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Where does SCO go from here?
- Anyone who was surprised by this week's court decision (Another nail in SCO's Linux lawsuit coffin) has not been following the history-turned-saga of UNIX all that long. AT&T unwittingly spawned what would become the open-source movement by turning to America's colleges and universities for UNIX software development during the 1970's. In...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, SCO Group Inc., AT&T Corp., Unix, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- How data gets lost
- How data gets lostOne of the most frequent data loss problemsOne of the most frequent data loss problems that people come to me with: after working for hours on an Excel spreadsheet or Powerpoint slide deck, they get in a hurry when closing the file and hit the "No" button...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, hard drive, malware
- Discussion threads 2007-08-07
- Hydrogen turbines generate clean electricity
- The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LBL has developed near-zero-emission gas turbines using pure hydrogen as a fuel. But because this LSI (low-swirl injector) technology also can use other fuels, it has the potential to help eliminate millions of tons of carbon dioxide and thousands of tons of nitrous oxides NOx...
- Tags: Turbine, Burner, Adobe PDF, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
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