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- Digital Universe wants to be the Wikipedia academics can count on
- Digital Universe wants to be a more authoritative version of Wikipedia, eSchool News reports. Founded by high-tech entrepreneur Joe Firmage, the company plans to service the academic market by paying top academics to create authoritative articles, maps and pointers to other research. A...
- Tags: Digital Universe, portal, Joe Firmage
- Blog posts 2006-03-13
- Wikipedia alternative aims to be 'PBS of the Web'
- Wikipedia alternative aims to be 'PBS of the Web'Another Mis-titled piece of trash by ZDnetThanks for wasting my time yet again.This article barely mentions Wikipedia, but rather goes into a spiel about how Digital Universe is supposed to be better. And ofcourse PhDs go on to talk about how they...
- Tags: Wiki, Now IT, Web, PBS, Wikipedia, Digital Universe, PhDs
- Discussion threads 2005-12-19
- The Digital Universe 2.40 (Mac)
- The Digital Universe is a complete astronomy program useful for everyone from a student learning astronomy to a professional observer. It combines the advantages of traditional "planetarium" programs with a massive hypertext multimedia encyclopedia to create an easy to use and effective tool which assists the user in observing and...
- Tags: Multimedia, Apple Macintosh, Digital Universe
- Software downloads 2001-11-21
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- GoPro Motorsports HD Hero
- GoPro had a hit on its hands with the first-generation GoPro Hero. The small camera combined decent video quality and rugged reliability in a small package that was easy to use in action-based scenarios. However, the Hero wasn't without its flaws. Finicky battery choices that often cut recording sessions short...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Engineering, battery, video, camera
- Product reviews 2009-11-24
- News to know: T-Mobile; Cloud computing; Oracle; HP; Apple
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: HP revamps TouchSmart PCs with Windows 7; starts $899; will you ditch your desktop PC, HDTV? HP...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., PC, T-Mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- (NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)
- Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...
- Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Amazon: Congress, not Google, should make digital book policy
- In its stinging rebuke PDF of the Google Books settlement, Amazon lays out the full, horrendous ramifications of the deal: it rewrites copyright law, creates a monopoly in perpetutity, short circuits debate on the issue and takes the matter out of Congress' hands. Here's the major points...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, U.S. Congress, Amazon.com Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Western Digital debuts 2TB, 7200RPM enterprise-class hard drives
- Too bad we'll never see the full 2TBWish HD Mfr's and Windows OS's would actually give us the full marketed space. Hate paying for a marketed MB, GB or TB and having formatting and pre OS install crap taking up a good portion of that space. Oh well, capitalism at...
- Tags: Western Digital Corp., hard drive
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- MGM Creates Virtual Online Tour to Expand Fan Base, Drive New Revenue
- To give fans the ultimate preview of its Stargate Universe television series, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM worked with Microsoft to create a three-dimensional virtual tour of the show's set. The team used Microsoft Photosynth to stitch together hundreds of digital images of the set and then embedded the synths in a rich...
- Tags: Revenue, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Microsoft Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Case studies 2009-08-13
- 'EvoGrid' to model life's origins, and maybe answer the big questions
- EvoGrid is a grid-computing concept that'll attempt to digitally simulate the primordial soup from which life arose and it may shed light on the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. It may also provide new tools for evolutionary biology, biochemistry, and complexity studies. Studying...
- Tags: Earth, Soup, Computer, EvoGrid, Life Form, Productivity, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!
- Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!Um, that should be good enough I guessntIntel needs to spec a backplaneIt would be nice if Intel would speck out an 8x backplane that processor modules could plug into. That way multiple manufactures could build compatible modules and backplanes.With...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Servers, Network technology, Nehalem-EX, transistor, processor, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
- Our brilliant kids are bored
- Our brilliant kids are boredSmart kids are bored, but is this really the explanation?Smart kids have always been bored because American schools do not recognize the difference in the learning paces of children. Fast learners are not challenged by a school curriculum designed for the lowest common denominator. They...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Smart Kid, OKC, brilliant kid
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - conversation with Frank Eliason
- As I mentioned in the post Outrageous Comcast updates to customer agreement - all your systems belong to us, Comcast has revised its residential customer services agreement and imposed those revisions on subscribers. Here's a pointer to the revised customer services agreement for those of the legal persuasion. ...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Agreement, Customer Services Agreement, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Picasa makes iPhoto irrelevant
- Picasa makes iPhoto irrelevantiPhoto was irrelevant to begin with...the whole iLife app suite is garbage... only thing that saved iTunes was iTMS/iPod, GarageBand is trying to become relevant w/ music lessons, iWeb and .mac/MobileMe and iMovie and iDVD should be the same app, but are crappy compaired to their Adobe...
- Tags: photograph, Google Picasa, Apple iPhoto
- Discussion threads 2009-04-02
- US Internet usage in February 2009
- Sessions/Visits per Person 57 Domains Visited per Person 105 Web Pages per Person 2,405 Duration of a Web Page Viewed 0:00:55 PC Time per Person 61:11:56 Active Digital Media Universe 166,897,330 Current Digital Media Universe Estimate 230,011,248 ...
- Tags: Internet Usage, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, NB
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Vizio VSB210WS Sound Bar
- Vizio bills itself as "America's HDTV Company," but the company has begun dipping its toe into the home audio side of the electronics pool with the VSB210WS. Billed as a "High Definition Sound Bar," the $349 package is comprised of a sleek-looking single speaker paired with a full-size 2.4GHz wireless...
- Tags: Engineering, System Setup, cloth grille, VSB210WS, light-emitting diode, sound bar, speaker, Vizio
- Product reviews 2009-03-26
- Where to stick your digital camera (and how)
- During the post-PMA lull in the digital camera universe, I've stumbled upon two interesting albeit a little odd accessories, that might just help you get that difficult shot. Both the Monster Pod and the Fat Gecko Camera Mount let you boldly go where no tripod will take you, letting...
- Tags: Monster, Digital Camera, Camera, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- The Twitter Fantasy
- It seems everywhere you turn these days there's an excitable story about Twitter, the microblogging tool that is a mystery to some people, a miracle to others, and a service some are noisily evangelizing in hope of self publicity. As Twitter scales up...
- Tags: Twitter, Desktop Publishing, Productivity, Blogging, Collaboration, Groupware, Software, Internet, Enterprise Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-02-21
- Microsoft retail: Redmond start your copiers?
- Microsoft retail: Redmond start your copiers?they better get this rightif microsoft doesn't get this right, they will get an even more mud thrown at them and their image will be damaged beyond repair. vista has left a horrible taste in people mouth and crappy stores will only make it...
- Tags: Operating systems, Monitors & displays, Advertising & Promotion, vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, photocopier
- Discussion threads 2009-02-16
- US Internet usage in December 2008
- Sessions/Visits per Person 59 Domains Visited per Person 108 Web Pages per Person 2,353 Duration of a Web Page Viewed 0:00:55 PC Time per Person 68:23:22 Active Digital Media Universe 166,120,474 Current Digital Media Universe Estimate 225,748,755 ...
- Tags: Internet Usage, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, NB
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
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