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Gibson 'Guitar Hero' suit thrown out

Gibson 'Guitar Hero' suit thrown outGood!Nice to see the courts make a good call once in a while.RE: Gibson 'Guitar Hero' suit thrown outJust a case of greed by Gibson, when they signed on they probably thought it was a flash in the pan. Only later when it...

Tags: Gibson, Guitar Hero

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Gibson sues over 'Rock Band,' 'Guitar Hero'

Gibson sues over 'Rock Band,' 'Guitar Hero'Dumbest thing I've heard todayIf you need to burn off some of your profits, Gibson, why not do a price drop on your product instead of feeding it to your lawyers?

Tags: Gibson, Rock Band, Guitar Hero

Discussion threads 2008-03-24

Gibson: Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patent

Gibson: Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patentTotally BogusNot only did Gibson wait three *YEARS* to file this, but they also licensed the guitar design to begin with, so its not like it was a secret. One can assume that they will soon file a lawsuit against the makers of Rock Band...

Tags: Games, Gibson, Guitar Hero, Activision Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patent: Gibson

Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patent: GibsonMessage has been deleted.That doesn't compare with a patent for toilet paperI have it. Everyone who wipes their a** now owes me money.The inspiration for the patent came from inspiration from a foundation comprising of idiots who patent the obvious.I'm so brilliant.-MWow! Gibson's showroom must...

Tags: Games, Guitar Hero 3, Gibson, patent, Activision Inc., Guitar Hero

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

Gibson's self-tuning guitar

CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos takes a look at a guitar that can tune itself, saving time and making it possible for musicians to carry only one guitar instead of several. After selecting a key, a computer embedded in the back of the guitar takes over from there and automatically tunes...

Tags: Michael Kanellos, News.com, Gibson, Productivity, Robots, music, Home Entertainment

Videos 2007-12-05

Opening act for Gibson's self-tuning guitar

Opening act for Gibson's self-tuning guitarSounds fancyHow lazy would you have to be to use one of these? Really, tuning is not the hardest or most time consuming thing in the world.Now show me a 'robot' that can tune a guitar with a floyd rose and level the bridge and...

Tags: Robots, guitar, Gibson, self-tuning guitar, tuning

Discussion threads 2007-12-04

Photos: Gibson's self-tuning six string

Gibson has come out with a Les Paul guitar that tunes itself. by CNET News.com

Tags: String, Photograph, News.com, Gibson, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-12-03

William Gibson heads for 'Spook Country'

William Gibson heads for 'Spook Country'A point blank review of Spook Country by William GibsonA point blank review of Spook Country by William GibsonPosted in Uncategorized by chrisbradley on the October 4th, 2007Let's get started on the best note possible. William Gibson stated yesterday in the California Literary Review that...

Tags: Marketing research, Spook Country, Milgrim, William Gibson, Tito, Gibson

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

We're all swimming in media now

William Gibson, "Father of Cyberpunk," long known for his prescience, has put his finger on a fundamental truth about the world we live in today. His new book, Spook Country, contains a couple passages everyone concerned with media business models should read and consider (along with the rest of the...

Tags: Social Networking, Network, Media, William Gibson, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2007-09-06

Video: Weblogs in the classroom

Will Richardson, who writes the weblogg-ed blog, has posted links to a video presented at the National Education Computing Conference back in 2004. If you haven't seen it before, it's definitely worth a quick look (quick over a broadband connection, that is). Here's a quasi-transcript of the section where...

Tags: Richardson

Blog posts 2006-03-06

Steve Gibson weighs in on WPA-PSK keys

When I got an email from a gentleman pointing me to a link where the great Steve Gibson weighed in on my blog about sufficient key lengths for WPA-PSK keys, I knew I had to brace myself for a good old fashion can of WA. Little did I know...

Tags: WPA-PSK cracking tool, WPA-PSK Cracking

Blog posts 2005-11-15

Additional Resources

(Photos: Video guitars, crafted by hand)

What is the point of this thing?Solidity and mass is what gives a guitar sustain.This is basically a semi acustic without sound holes...How does having a screen in the front improve the sound?...The article mentions the peformance being centered around the screen???You can get amp modelers with MIDI controls built...

Tags: video, photograph, guitar

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

What's on your watch list? Forrester identifies 15 key technologies for enterprise architects

Enterprise 2.0 is here todayThanks for sharing Forrester's 15 Key Technologies. Though they represent discrete capabilities, collectively they nicely sum up Enterprise 2.0.Global adoption will take awhile, not for a lack of interest, but rather due to the slow up take of the underlying architecture, database, and coding methodologies.Forward...

Tags: Development tools, Key Technologies, Forrester Research Inc., Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Net Neutrality: Hit satire coming to a theatre near you

The world is a simple place, until someone wants to tell you what to do.  The realization that not everyone believes in common ground that surrounds each of us seems to be a new discovery to some. The sanctity of individual requirements is wrapping around our lives with a plethora of effects that...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Actor, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-21

New Adobe PDF flaw under attack; Patch coming Tuesday

Note to all Knuckleheads....The vulnerability affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 and earlier versions on Windows, Macintosh and UNIXWhy announce at all? Just fix the thingI'm getting really tired of any company that gives the ostensibly obligatory "We're on that!" and then it's some time before the fix comes. These...

Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, Windows IS, Adobe PDF flaw, flaw, Adobe PDF, operating system, Adobe Systems Inc., attack

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

MADD, DOT push alcohol-detection tech for cars

Great articleGood facts. I'm gonna wait for the next update on this.RE: MADD, DOT push alcohol-detection tech for carsGood facts. I'm gonna wait for the next update on this.

Tags: Good Facts, MADD, car

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Lexus a nexus between cars and phone viruses?

Lexus a nexus between cars and phone viruses newsGreat. I love this.RE: Lexus a nexus between cars and phone viruses?Good facts. I'm gonna wait for the next update on this.

Tags: Cyberthreats, phone virus, nexus, Lexus, car, virus, phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Apple: Won't somebody please think of the cellphone towers?

Apple: Won't somebody please think of the cellphone towers?24 season 9 plot thread?Jack Bauer has to foil an assassination attempt on Steve Jobs. Chloe arms him with a jailbroken iPhone that cripples every cell tower in Cupertino. Jack activates the iPhone, only to find out that Steve Ballmer has already...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., cell phone, Jack Bauer

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Social Services ISV Cuts Time to Market by 33%, Speeds Performance, With Move to Windows

Gibson began to develop LyncServ using Java and Linux for their supposedly lower cost - until Gibson realized that cash-strapped local agencies would have to run dual systems (the Linux for LyncServ, the Windows Server operating system for everything else), with dual costs for training, support, and hardware. Gibson also...

Tags: Applicant, Performance, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Programming Languages, Java, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Case studies 2009-07-15

Required summer reading: Neuromancer turns 25

Most of us have probably read Neuromancer, the canonical work by William Gibson, the loose basis for the Matrix movies, and, arguable, the first major book of the cyberpunk genre. Can you tell I'm a fan? I bring this up because this is the book's 25th...

Tags: Idea, Computer, WWW, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-07