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- 'Kroll' for the iPhone
- At WWDC 2008, Xavier Carrillo Costa from Digital Legends Entertainment shows off 'Kroll', a new game for the iPhone. Costa says his team built the game in just two weeks.
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Costa, Team Management, Personal Technology, Management, News, apple, iphone, developers, WWDC, kroll, Carrillo Costa, games, Digital Legends Entertainment
- Videos 2008-06-09
- Of pigeons, rats and SMS
- New Scientist (February 4, 2006) reports that, continuing a tradition that goes back to ancient Egypt, pigeons may soon be used to transmit messages--specifically, SMS messages. UC Irvine researcher Beatrice da Costa is developing a miniature backpack with cell phone circuitry and sensors that detect carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide....
- Tags: pigeon, Costa
- Blog posts 2006-02-27
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- OLPC faces 'vicious' rivalry in laptop market
- One Laptop per Child exec David Cavallo says the organization welcomes new entrants to the low-cost laptop market, but describes the response of some competitors as "unfortunate." When the One Laptop per Child organization first mooted the idea of a super low-cost laptop aimed at schoolchildren in the developing...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kid, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Natasha Lomas ZDNet China, OLPC, laptops, education, Intel, Atom chip
- News items 2008-09-17
- Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?
- Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?
- Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?a little betterIt's better, in that it involves some competition between private companies, and not full government involvement. It's also good that it provides coverage to everyone.However, as you stated, much of it is paid for by "the wealthy", which...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Dutch model, right reform, U.S. Healthcare, health care, reform, government, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- About that cellular interference...
- So... maybe it is a real problem. Pedram Amini top picture on the right, noted researcher and reverse engineer, posted an article to the Tipping Point DVLabs blog on some interesting observations he made on cellular interference. From the article, Pedram comments on the discovery: "I had...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Researcher, Laptop Computer, Pedram Amini, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficiencies
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficienciesShould have bought AMD first.They could have obtained EDS at a later date, then filled it with cheap AMD products. AMD is a steal right now! EDS is currently filled with IBM products.RE: HP seals EDS deal; Services No....
- Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., No. 2
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- WiMax saved: Sprint, Clearwire form joint venture; Google, Intel among backers
- WiMax saved: Sprint, Clearwire form joint venture; Google, Intel among backersToo many cooks. nt.Seems like the perfect marriageIt's a Mormon marriage for sure, but the list of partners is very impressive in terms of what they bring to the party - aside from money and what is stated above.Intel...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, WiMAX, Clearwire Corp., Clearwire Form Joint Venture, Intel Corp., Sprint Communications, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Cruise Direct (gadget)
- Book Your Cruise on Cruise Direct & Save. Guaranteed best prices on all major cruise lines. Choose a cruise line: Carnival, Celebrity, Costa, Crystal, Cunard, Disney, Holland America, Norwegian, Princess, Royal Caribbean and Windstar. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Cruise, Sidebar Gadgets
- Software downloads 2008-04-16
- XP Starter Edition...Give me some of that!
- Mary Jo Foley wrote a piece today about Microsoft's "stay of execution for Windows XP." In particular, she is referencing the company's June 30th deadline for OEMs to pre-install Windows XP on their systems. After that point, OEMs must install some version of Windows Vista. So far,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Vista price slash
- Vista price slashHmmmm...It's getting hard to tell the fanboys from the trolls.It's not my fault that Microsoft is a monopolyand uses abusive tactics, lies, and bullies businesses with threats in order to sell their technically inferior product that uses the OS/2 memory manager, lifted a BSD TCP/IP stack for NT/2000/XP,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Adrian, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Microsoft goes internal for a new OEM chief
- Microsoft has been looking for a new head of its OEM business since late last year. It has found one: Steve Guggenheimer, head of the company's application platform business. Guggenheimer will become the new Corporate Vice President in charge of Microsoft's OEM Divisionas of early March. He...
- Tags: OEM, Microsoft Corp., Steve Guggenheimer, Steven Guggenheimer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 95, Leadership, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- IBM and Kapow on how enterprises exploit application mashups and lightweight data access
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies. The choices among enterprise application development and deployment technologies has never been greater. But what's truly different about today's applications is that line of business people can have a greater impact than ever on how technology supports their productive work....
- Tags: Web, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Data, API, Information, Data Access, IBM Corp., Mashup, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Bali: what China says the U.S. says about climate change
- As befitting its power and greenouse gas emissions, the U.S. has been the center of much of the coverage of the U.N. conference on combatting climate change. That conference is now in its final stages with the most powerful participants showing up for closing talks. Here's...
- Tags: U.S., Associated Press, Conference, Climate, U.N., Free Trade, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Microsoft's OEM chief defects to Lenovo
- While so many of us Microsoft watchers were preoccupied with the hasty departure of former Microsfot CIO Stuart Scott, the resignation of the company's OEM chief slipped right by most of us. Scott Di Valerio quietly left Microsoft at the very end of October and has resurfaced...
- Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Manufacturer, Microsoft Corp., Di Valerio, Manufacturing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-02
- Facebookers: Choose your words more carefully
- Facebookers: Choose your words more carefullyWhat planet are these pundits from?Facebook shouldn't have ads? That's like trying to say a profit is evil in today's economy. Without accepting a few hundred million investment from Microsoft and every other sideline venture Facebook is involved in, they would be bankrupt, washed out...
- Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- Bank Cuts Project Management Time by 25 Percent and Increases Employee Productivity
- Founded in 1914, Banco Nacional de Costa Rica BNCR is the largest state-owned bank in Costa Rica, with more than 1.3 million clients. It is subject to a very high level of accountability from oversight offices and the people of Costa Rica. A key part of meeting these expectations is...
- Tags: Bank, Microsoft Corp., Costa Rica, BNCR, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Making the case for telework
- Making the case for teleworkRE: Making the case for teleworkMy wife and I are both independent translators living in Costa Rica and we have been working from home for over a decade, keeping in touch with our clients over the Internet and the telephone. That has allowed us to enjoy...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, benefit
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- After Microsoft, Apple's next on the European Commission hit list
- Apple fans might have cheered when the European Commission went after Microsoft for freezing out rivals in server software and products such as media players, but the rejoicing might be short-lived as Apple becomes the next target for the EU. Steve Jobs is already facing pressure over...
- Tags: Apple iPod, European Commission, Commission, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes, Media Player, Digital Music, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, Media Players, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Beach Cams PT (widget)
- Surf Beach Cams from Portugal; Carcavelos, Praia Grande, Guincho e Costa da Caparica. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Portugal
- Software downloads 2007-07-26
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