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- A C3PO sighting in Pittsburgh
- While touring Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi literally bumped into Anthony Daniels, the actor behind Star Wars' lovable android C3PO. You might not recognize his face, but you surely know his voice. Take a walk down memory lane with Daniels, who talks...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Marketing, News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, star wars, anthony daniels, pittsburgh, carnegie mellon, entertainment technology center, george lucas, ilm, skywalker, c3po, r2d2
- Videos 2008-05-09
- A snake-inspired robot
- On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, Penn., CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi dropped by professor Howie Choset's Robotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to see his latest creation, the Snakebot.
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, snakeBot, carnegie mellon, howie choset, robotics, rescue, surgery, heart, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Videos 2008-05-08
- 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
Additional Resources
- The future battle between ad networks and publishers...
- Earlier I was writing about Jared Kopf's AdRoll, a new advertising network. I was thinking about the economics of the online advertising market. Advertising networks get to charge a healthy cut of total advertising revenues. This is typically between 20 to 40 per cent but in many...
- Tags: Advertisement, Network, Ad Network, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Windows+Mobile+falls+behind+iPhone+in+latest+mobile-market+numbers
- Windows+Mobile+falls+behind+iPhone+in+latest+mobile-market+numbersLOOK EVERYONE!@#*&#@#! HE MENTIONS ME!!!I am loved >:)
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Smart phones, Operating systems, Handhelds, Apple iTunes, WinMo, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- MySpace: Will its socialist-like approach to its social app developers succeed?
- MySpace kicked off its developer program Tuesday by providing API's and development tools to tens of thousands of developers, with some unique diistinctions, and restrictions, that it hopes will result in high quality apps. Developers were invited to its "Sandbox" event in San Francisco to learn more about the...
- Tags: Developer, Difference, MySpace, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- What will run on Windows Server 2008 -- and when?
- What will run on Windows Server 2008 -- and when?Help me understandIf Microsoft themselves end up having to do this much rewriting of existing applications to run on a new version, how much does the rest of the world end up spending for each upgrade cycle?Wouldn't it make more sense...
- Tags: Operating systems, Servers, DC Role, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., server
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- No Vista SP1 bits for users until mid-March
- No Vista SP1 bits for users until mid-MarchNot strange at all.There is always a 30 day period between release of a Microsoft OS or SP from RTM to general release. This is to allow the OEMs to get their hardware ready for the general release. They did not...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Patches, service pack, SP1, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- DEMO 08: SceneCaster brings 3D Web to any device
- SceneCaster will debut a new feature of its 3D software at the DEMO 08 Conference that allows users to link together 3D scenes and consume them on any device. SceneWeaver strings 3D scenes, and allows objects to be hyperlinked to any Web page. "It's an interconnected...
- Tags: 3D, Goal, SceneCaster, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Microsoft readies free enterprise-search product
- Microsoft is expanding its family of enterprise-search products with a new, free, entry-level product, Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, which is due to ship in early 2008. Microsoft made available on November 6 for download via its Enterprise Search Web site a near-complete release-candidate test version for...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Product, Server, Microsoft Corp., Express SKU, Search, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Interaction08 information - a conference for interactive designers
- The Interaction08 Conference in Savannah announced it's full schedule this week and it looks like it's going to be a great event. Interaction08 is the very first conference being put on by IxDA, the Interaction Design Association. It's a conference aimed at bringing together interactive designers and showing them what's...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Conference, Interaction08, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Detection vs Protection: How to Test Anti-Virus Products
- Evaluating the performance of competing anti-virus and endpoint security products is time consuming, and for enterprise decision makers it can be a daunting task. Many will rely on the numerous competitive comparisons, performance benchmarks, and detection certification -- but the comparisons include a multitude of solutions, use different criteria and...
- Tags: Webcast, Performance, Antivirus, Sophos Plc., Endpoint Security Product, Performance Management, Digital Media, Security, Viruses And Worms, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2007-09-26
- SceneCaster: 3D media creation and sharing for the masses
- At this point 3D hasn't been a mainstream part of the social Web, mostly confined to virtual reality environments like Second Life. SceneCaster, which will debut at DEMOfall 07 this week, takes the concept that Flickr and YouTube has done well--Web 2.0 media sharing in a browser--and applies it to...
- Tags: 3D, Scene, Technology, SceneCaster, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Tracking zebras... and consumers
- Wireless networks have been used before to track animals, such as elephants, koalas, and even pigeons. Now, U.S. researchers are using social networking software to track zebras. They hope to discover how animals interact -- especially when lions are near a herd. They also think their...
- Tags: Social Networking, Animal, Researcher, Network, Herd, Analysis, Species, Rubenstein, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- OH didn't supervise intern who lost 1 million personal records
- When the pressure was on, best practices went out the window for the Ohio state government. That's the conclusion of the state inspector general's investigation into the loss of over 1 million records suffered when a data tape was stolen from an intern's car, the Toledo Blade reports.Because Ohio was...
- Tags: Security, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- As goes Ohio, so goes the country
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation.Guest Editorial by Paul F. RobertsWhat do 225,000 Ohio taxpayers, 64,000 state employees and 600 lucky holders of winning lottery tickets have in common? They were all unlucky enough to have some of their personal information -- names, social security numbers, and bank account numbers...
- Tags: Zero-day attacks, Wi-Fi security, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Responsible disclosure, Privacy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Microsoft, McAfee, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- I am such a weak person - I bought an iPhone
- I am such a weak person - I bought an iPhoneYou're a fine one to talkYou've been pretty compulsive lately if I recall correctly...WelcomeMarc Orchant walks up the aisle and steps up to the podium..."tap tap...is this Mic on? ah hem.Hello my name is Marc Orchant and I am a...
- Tags: E-mail, Cellular phones, Reality Distortion Field, Marc, Apple iPhone, sicko
- Discussion threads 2007-07-01
- Why Google Fears Microsoft, big time
- "Sometimes it takes a lot to wake a sleeping giant. But when he finally stirs, you'd better be ready for a fight."Microsoft enterprise search exec Jared Spataro warned just that, in outlining to me his Microsoft COO Kevin Johnson inspired mission to keep Google out of the rightful Microsoft enterprise...
- Tags: Microsoft, Google, Business Models, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-19
- How Microsoft battles Google in Search warfare
- Is Google Enterprise Search a joke? I noted yesterday, given Google was the butt of jokes at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York City earlier this week. Kevin Gough, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Google Enterprise, made a case at the Summit for why Google to big business: Google...
- Tags: Enterprise, Google, Google Apps, Google Software Applications, Microsoft, Search
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Transformation, agility: are expectations too high for SOA?
- Theres been a lot of discussion lately about SOA "failures," and already, statistics are showing up showing that this percentage or that percentage of companies consider their SOA projects to be failures. Expect to see plenty more of such surveys over the coming months and years. Survey data shows...
- Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research, Vendor Watch
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
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