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Difference Engine No. 2

Considered one of the most startling achievements of the 19th century, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 has come to life 150 years later. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to see the machine in action and meet the men who turned Babbage's...

Tags: News, charles babbage engine no. 2, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, computer history museum, victorian, invention, mathematics, Productivity

Videos 2008-05-02

BlackBerry Patent app boosts ability to simultaneously work with voice and data applications

A newly published BlackBerry Patent application entitled Advanced Voice and Data Operations in a Mobile Communications Device describes a technology that greatly eases these related processes. The Patent Abstract provides at least some insight into what is being proposed here: ...

Tags: Method, Application, Phone, Step, Mobile, Network, Telephone Call, Voice, Data, Information, RIM BlackBerry, Mobile Device, Computer, Wireless, Patent Abstract, Data Item, Invention, Voice Component, Phone Number, Caller Identification Information, Wireless Connector, Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Images: Birth of the first computer

J. Presper Eckert and John Mauch designed ENIAC to calculate the trajectory of artillery shells. Fortunately, we've found other uses for their invention.

Tags: trajectory, computer

Image galleries 2006-02-13

Photos: March of the Demo products

Entrepreneurs tout their latest inventions at Demo '06 in Phoenix.

Tags: entrepreneur, invention, Phoenix Technologies, Demo

Image galleries 2006-02-08

Images: 60 years of IBM innovation

You name it, and there's a good chance Big Blue invented it. Here's a look at some of those inventions.

Tags: IBM Corp., innovation

Image galleries 2005-10-11

Images: Patenting the obvious

Big money can be made if you're the first to claim a new invention. Sometimes the routine even slips through.

Tags: slip

Image galleries 2005-09-13

Additional Resources

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergencyThere are no engineersTheir parents made sure they went into business and got MBAs due to the wonders of globalization!Too many chiefs, not enough indians.-MWhy not just drill for more oil?I think it is simply amazing how everyone in Congress is standing around...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Total Cost, food

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Tech giants aim to cut patent trolls off at the pass

Tech giants aim to cut patent trolls off at the passEasier SolutionAn easier solution to the problem is to get rid of destructive, insidious software patents completely. Software should never have become patentable.Software patents == utter corruption of our market and will be a major cause of the US losing...

Tags: Tech Giants, patent troll, patent, software patent, software

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Cheat High Tech Cheaters

Cheat High Tech CheatersOld-fashioned wayOh, heck, consider the old-fashioned way. Years ago a Japanese father got caught dressing up as a girl to take his daughter's exams that are used to determine which high school the child can enter. Of course, the best universities basically only take students...

Tags: Laziness, Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killer

Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killerOpen sores are good, but when is it too many?It's about time Symbian went open sores. I guess, Nokia, Mot and others saw the writing on the wall. Never mind Android, the real fear is Apple iPhone. The juggernaut is unstoppable if...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, juggernaut, Open Sores, Symbian Inc., open source, Nokia Corp., Nokia Buys Symbian, killer

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

The Water 4 Gas Story (exe)

Find out about huge oil/gas conspiracies, and Stanley Meyer's water 4 gas invention that was suppressed by larger forces. This is a 7 minute video going through everything. Includes information on how to run your car on water. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Phone, Phone Reverser, Telecom & Utilities, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-06-17

The Clumsys (exe)

Tim and his mischievous friends got themselves into quite a pickle when they discovered Grandpas latest invention, The Time Machine. Help Grandpa track down 20 kids lost in time and clean up any traces they left behind. Who knows what kind of chain reaction a toy car could cause in...

Tags: Trace, SpinTop Games

Software downloads 2008-06-16

Thinking about multicore and software

Thinking about multicore and softwareThanks! NT:)RE: Thinking about multicore and softwarePaul,Provided a link to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , which is a website for resources related to multicore processors.Independent JobsIn the Enterprise, dual core makes sense for handling anti-virus, encryption, and other annoying security overhead functions. When you start...

Tags: Network technology, open source, T2, MULTICS & PAPPL, Thinking about multicore, hardware, software

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery

Of telescopes, patents and the death of discoveryPatents are the greatest threat to the software industryIt should be written in our constitution, that no idea should be able to be patented or receive some kind of legal protection - only the [b]implementation[/b] of the ideas. Virtually every software developer is...

Tags: patent

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

BIT: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

BIT: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeThe function, then the how.A discussion beginning: State population totals were derived from individual census tract results by... would create a context. As a narrative strategy, reaching a goal is more organized, satisfying, than describing a process and giving...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Orwell, IBM Corp., data-processing, hypothesis, mainframe, IBM mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Privacy, secrecy, innovation and open source

Many arguments over open source are re-hashed versions of arguments we have about data and the Internet. (Kojac Consulting audits networks. I'll explain why this is relevant soon.) When I say users should see the code they are getting the response might be what about incentives for...

Tags: Innovation, Google Inc., Audit, Permission, Open Source, Privacy, Question, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform

Medical companies celebrate death of patent reformOur health insurance dollars at workIn this case, patents allow medical equipment companies to charge premium prices to medical offices and hospitals, who pass the costs on to insurers, who pass the costs on to employers and taxpayers. Eventually, it's the patients who...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Benefits, patent, Jefferson

Discussion threads 2008-05-15

Patent reform dead for 2008

Patent reform dead for 2008Patent "REFORM"What annoys me about pundits who write about patents is that invariably they have never filed for or prosecuted a patent. Thus, they inveigh for things that they have no clue about. Most of the patent legislation is a balancing of special interests....

Tags: patent, Patent Reform

Discussion threads 2008-05-15

Patent reform dead for 2008

The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...

Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Rumor Mill: What's on the Apple horizon

Hey there, it's Jake, Jason's evil twin. It's Friday which means that it's my turn to take the wheel for trip down Apple rumor lane. Fasten your seat belts because here we go: Apple Developing Wiimote-Like Controller? – AppleInsider reports that a new Apple patent application reveals...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iLounge, 3G, E-mail, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-09