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- Enterprise 2.0 Conference notebook
- Ironically this week has probably been my most offline in months - Sprint failed the brand new Westin Hotel in Boston disastrously with terrible or non existent wifi service. It was a real shame because Jive Software had an instance of Clearspace for the conference attendee community and there was...
- Tags: Security, Notebook, Collaboration, Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Wireless LANs, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Linus Torvalds: patents "have no real value"; Microsoft is "convicted monopolist"
- Linus Torvalds: patents "have no real value"; Microsoft is "convicted monopolist"Except you left out...the part where he says big companies like MS are the main targets of patent trolls, and that much of the patenting by these large companies is a defense mechanism for this. This is something I've argued...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., Linus Torvalds
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- DivX support comes to the PS3
- DivX support comes to the PS3: DivX Ecosystem to Expand Significantly with PS3 TOKYO & SAN DIEGO--BUSINESS WIRE--DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) today announced that DivX® video technology will be integrated into PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. SCE. The popular computer entertainment system will be added...
- Tags: DivXNetworks, Sony PlayStation 3, Corporate Communications, Game Players, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Gaming technology helps finding oil
- With the help of an IBM supercomputer, University of Houston UH seismic researchers are using video game technology to help them more effectively target oil reserves. IBM has installed a Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) system 'that represents a new generation of powerful supercomputers with substantial parallelism built in at the...
- Tags: Game, Processor, Cell, IBM Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Coming up: Office 2.0, Singularity, Dreamforce, TechCrunch 40, Demo
- This week we get back into the tech conference season after the August hiatus, starting with the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Thursday and Friday. I will be moderating a panel on enterprise collaboration, which includes Scott Dietzen, president and CTO, Zimbra; Etay Gafni, director of the Technology...
- Tags: TechCrunch, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Agenda, Conference, Office 2.0, Director, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Sony to discontinue 20GB PS3
- Today Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that it will discontinue selling the 20GB PlayStation 3 games consoles. The reason for this move is that it seems that both consumers and retails are shunning this model in favor of the 60GB version.According to David Karraker, a spokesman for Sony,...
- Tags: Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Dell's new kids on the block
- Dell's new kids on the blockCan Dell break the OEM moldthat they themselves created and others followed? As I look at Dell I see a company that came in and dominated the PC market by being one of, it not the, lowest cost maunfacture/assemblers of PCs. It worked...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-19
- Poll: Xbox360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii
- Poll: Xbox360 vs. PS3 vs. WiiI'm sure all of them are great, each for their own reasons.I still have my original Playstation and I consider it to be one of the products I have gotten the greatest dollar per use value in my life. What the original Playstation did for...
- Tags: Game players, Games, Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Playstation, game, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox
- Discussion threads 2006-11-18
- Tech lawsuits: Is it time for a "U.S. District Court of Technology" with its own bench?
- Somewhere in the back of my mind, the fact that I have seen multiple news headlines having to do with new or ongoing lawsuits in the tech industry was gnawing at me. So, I decided to search ZDNet on the words "infringement" and "lawsuit" to see what came up. Here,...
- Tags: General, Legal
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Here we go - PlayStation 3 launch delayed in Europe
- Here we go. The first hint that Sony's PS3 production There's little doubt the success or failure of the PS3 will have a far-reaching impact on Sony's earnings, and delays like this aren't a good starthas serious problems. Ken Kutaragi, head of Sony's global computer entertainment division, has...
- Tags: Game players, Processors, Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- Thinking of getting a PS3 for the Holidays? I'll pass ...
- There's less than three months to go until Sony launch the Sony is going to have to squeeze nearly 670,000 units a month off the production line, which works out at 15 a minutelong awaited PlayStation 3 games console, yet according to SCEA Sony Computer Entertainment America president Kaz Hirai,...
- Tags: Processors, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- Checking out the PS3
- Sony shows off PlayStation 3 specsDuring an event prior to this year's E3 show, Kazuo Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment America, boasted about the Playstation 3 game console's Blu-ray Disc capabilities. He shows off the new box's looks and explains how much it will hit your wallet.
- Tags: Sony PlayStation 3
- Videos 2006-05-09
- Sony's PlayStation 3 race
- Sony's PlayStation 3 raceThe funny thing is...All the gamers I know have both consoles. I don't see that changing anytime soon.PS2?It's interesting, Sony plays up the success of the PS2 all the time, then, in an instant, they forget about the product entirely!!!"I think that you can see from...
- Tags: Game players, Games, Sony Playstation, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox, game, Sony PlayStation 3
- Discussion threads 2006-03-22
- Sniveling about Steve Jobs
- Sniveling about Steve Jobsclose, but not quiteI love my ipod. I'm part way through the excerise of moving my music library into Itunes. My LPs and cassets take more time than the CDs, but I know not all are hindered by such relics. My life is so busy I almost...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Media Center PCs, Digital media, Digital music, Advertising & Promotion, Steve Jobs, digital-rights management, speaker, console, music
- Discussion threads 2006-03-06
- Sony's PlayStation 3
- At CES in Las Vegas, Sony talks PlayStation 3In his keynote, Sony CEO Howard Stringer says the PlayStation 2 and Portable outsold Microsoft's X-box during the holiday season. Appearing on stage with Stringer is Sony Computer Entertainment of America President Kaz Hirai.
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Howard Stringer
- Videos 2006-01-05
- XBox 360: A harbinger of the PC lockdown to come?
- XBox 360: A harbinger of the PC lockdown to come?Sounds to me like they learned a lesson last time.And aren't about to make the same mistake again.Off topic, but..."... the techniques that Apple will reportedly be using to make sure that the Intel-based systems it will be selling won't...
- Tags: Game players, PRODUCTIVITY, Games, Operating systems, Microsoft Xbox, Apple Inc., Microsoft Xbox 360, PC, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-29
- Sony cracks down on PSP hacks
- Sony cracks down on PSP hacksWhy won't Sony learn?Homebrew software helps to sell consoles. That's one of the major reasons that the Dreamcast still has a vary large following despite it being all but dead.Sony is only hurting sales by not allowing people to build their own programs for the...
- Tags: Games, Software development, Hacking, Apple Products, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation Portable, game, hardware
- Discussion threads 2005-09-29
- Future technology: Kutaragi on Cell
- A couple of weeks ago the East Asia Electronic Engineering Times EET did an interview with Ken Kutaragi, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc and the key driver behind IBM's Cell processor. Here's a small part of the exchange: EET: The Cell processor...
- Tags: Cell
- Blog posts 2005-08-05
- Gates considers Xbox clones
- Gates considers Xbox clonesWonderful!I'm hoping that with XBox 360, I could use 3D GameStudio (www.3dgamestudio.com) to make games and make it available for XBox 360 via Live Arcade but I'm not sure...For more information about porting from 3DGS to XBox 360 you can visit this web site:http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=518679&an=0&page=0#518679Why clone a product...
- Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., clone, game
- Discussion threads 2005-06-30
- Media Center and Xbox 360 joined at the hip
- Media Center and Xbox 360 joined at the hipExcellent! We should see the first Trojan for Xbox359 ASAPAs soon as it's released..Brilliant.. join your new product with the source of spyware and worms..Ahh... this will ensure it will never be #1.Media Center and Xbox 360 joined at the hipDoes...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Game players, Games, Media Center PC, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360
- Discussion threads 2005-05-17
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