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- Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?
- In a Wall Street Journal editorial Esther Dyson outlines how she will post her genome, medical history and health questionnaire for the world to see on the Web. Will you follow?Dyson, an investor in genome information startup 23andMe, is participating in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome project. In the...
- Tags: General, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Misusing open source in a good cause
- Misusing open source in a good causeI missed it.I thought he was simply comparing the way open source currently shares code and ideas, once mainly the property of companies and research facilitiesusually funded by companies or the government, to an era where the sharing of genetic code and ideas will...
- Tags: Dyson, Open Source Developers, Freeman Dyson, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-07-01
- Dyson's new hand-drying tech
- Dyson Airblade aims to cut drying time at restroomsCNET's Rich DeMuro dries his hands with the Dyson device at the U.S. launch. With the Airblade, the company hopes to transform public restrooms.
- Tags: Dyson Airblade, Dyson
- Videos 2007-06-27
- At e-mail summit, a push for authentication
- Dyson discusses importance of peer-to-peer systemAt the Email Authentication Implementation Summit in New York City, business technology analyst Esther Dyson explains why companies need to work together to make e-mail sender authentication technology a key component of blocking spam and phishing attacks.
- Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Spam, e-mail, authentication, Dyson
- Videos 2005-09-14
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- Merger target suspect Citrix assembles virtualization products as Delivery Center
- Citrix Systems, Inc. has announced a restructuring and rebranding of its key virtualization products, as well as the introduction of a new orchestration technology. My question is when will the cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS and advertising combined synergies bubble up to show Citrix' substantial strategic worth? Who...
- Tags: Merger, Citrix Systems Inc., Workflow Studio, Citrix XenServer 4.1, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- 404 and DNS re-directs are evil
- Practically one of my first blog postings ever I publishedBlack and white and gray all over a continuum of good and evil. I was attempting to investigate the shades of gray in moral behavior when it comes to online practices. Since 2005 there have been many innovations in unwanted...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, DNS, Fun, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Defragging identity, disclosures and vendor relationship management
- In the afternoon session at the Defrag conference, some old friends took the stage to defrag some things. Dick Hardt is well known for his Identity 2.0 presentation on the state of digital identity. He is the CEO and founder of Sxip Identity, which focuses on Internet-scale identity and...
- Tags: Data, Identity, Tool, Productivity, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Leopards and development platform strategies
- Leopards and development platform strategiesWowNo Mac fans have posted angry, longwinded responses to this yet? And no linux fans have posted sarcastic, dismissive reponses to this yet? Not to mention smug MS fan responses....But seriously folks, I'm not a developer, but I can imagine that the 80%+ marketshare that MS...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Scripting languages, In-House, strategy, Microsoft Corp., ISV, Apple Macintosh, developer, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Today's Debate: Are genetic tests a threat?
- The start-up 23andme, whose best-known board member is Esther Dyson (right, from their web site), has an interesting goal. They want your genome. The company wants to build a database of genomes and offer "private, secured" access to it. Jesse Reynolds of the Center for Genetics and Society writes...
- Tags: Genome, Esther Dyson, Biotechnology, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Dyson Innovation Network Yields Revolutionary Products
- Led by its charismatic founder, James Dyson, Dyson is an innovation success story. In 1993 the company introduced the Dyson DCO1 Dual Cyclone, the first vacuum cleaner with constant suction. The company wanted to take vacuum cleaner performance to the next level with revolutionary new Ball technology to maintain fast...
- Tags: Innovation, Network, Siemens AG, Performance Management, Leadership, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Case studies 2007-09-01
- BlogHer07: A 2.0 human community
- About a year ago, I was a neophyte blogger. My first few posts were force-fed into my blog. They were a "should" chore -- I should be blogging. I approached "the blog" as unfamiliar technology. I didn't yet realize that blog posts are born from passion, and that "should blog" is an...
- Tags: Web, Women, Blog, Maurene Caplan Grey
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- NASA to test-fly 'Orion' spacecraft next fall
- NASA to test-fly 'Orion' spacecraft next fallMisuse of a proud name for a space-going klugeMaybe it's a petty gripe, but I wish they'd called the thing something else. "Orion" will always be the name of the bold concept authored by Freeman Dyson and Ted Taylor in the late 1950s...
- Tags: ORION, spacecraft, NASA
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- News to know: Free security apps; Apple earnings; $150 laptop; Business.com sold
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Some great security apps are still free. Gallery: Ten free security utilities you should already be using right.Larry Dignan: Apple delivers strong earnings; Countdown to 1 million iPhones on hold; Outlook conservative. Apple earnings soar as iPhone shipments revealed. Apple statement.Jason O'Grady: iPhone battery tips from Apple.Judge...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?
- Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?Health Insurance was soon after unavailable for heryeah great way to market a bad idea
- Tags: Biotechnology, Channel management, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, genome, Esther Dyson, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- Misusing open source in a good cause
- The great scientist and futurist Freeman Dyson has an important essay today in the New York Times. (Picture from Wikipedia.)He writes about green technology, science built on biology, overtaking gray technology, science built on chemistry and physics. He writes about creating new forms of life to solve intractable problems, about...
- Tags: politics, Government, General, education, Development
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- Charles Simonyi: From Microsoft Word to outer space
- Charles Simonyi is on his way to the International Space Station aboard Expedition 15, which blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 17:31 GMT April 7. Along with other crew members, Charles is slated to rendezvous with the space station on April 9 at 19:15 GMT. He...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- Yes, IT is a competitive differentiator
- Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings and one of the top thought leaders in technology who was contributed blog postings here at ZDNet, just published a piece in the Wall Street Journal on the business potential in the aerospace and commercial space travel. (March 20, 2007) Esther points to...
- Tags: Blogging, IT IS, competitive differentiator, differentiator, McAfee Inc., information technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- A $2,500 billion sun umbrella?
- A $2,500 billion sun umbrella?cap'n we have a problem !the house is on fire !and the fire brigade is out star-gazing !!But seriously, maybe we should thank these guys for showing us that it may well (will!) be cheaper to roll up sleeves and get to work fixing the planet...
- Tags: sun umbrella
- Discussion threads 2006-11-04
- Liveblogging AttentionTrust and GestureBank Announcements
- Continued coverage of the AttentionTrust luncheon follows:Comments from Seth Goldstein: Seth discusses attention attributes that have quantified value, email addresses, etc. On the Internet, our gestures (what we do, what we dont do) form this mass of data. And increasingly, that attention data comes to represent who...
- Tags: Seth, Liveblogging AttentionTrust
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Office 2.0: Questions for Esther
- Next week at the inagural Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, I will be kicking off the proceedings, interviewing Esther Dyson. The concept of Office 2.0 is not simply an alternative to Microsoft Office. Its a rethinking of how productivity software is created, packaged and distributed. Its building for the...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Office 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-10-03
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