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Enviro-Bear 2010 1.1 (Mobile)

In the iPhone game Enviro-Bear 2010, a bear is driving the car. You can grab stuff with your finger, eat fish and berries, and when you are fat enough drive into a cave to hibernate. You can throw stuff out the windows and sunroof.

Tags: Mobile, Bear, Cave, Justin Smith, Construction, Games, Smart Phones, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-08-05

SquidGuard Saves Local Government a Tidy Packet

Justin Smith thinks in practical terms. As CTO of Guilford County Government in North Carolina, budgetary concerns were the driving force in his considering Open Source technologies. Smith saved an estimated $27,000 a year by replacing two servers on the edge of his network, and began to train his staff...

Tags: SYS-CON Media, SquidGuard, Justin Smith, Government, Linux, Vertical Industries, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software

Case studies

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There's a little pig in each of us

That's genetically speaking. A new paper just posted on Nature indicates we must monitor pig populations to track the evolution of influenza virus. So far the current swine flu pandemic is underwhelming but the next one.... Here's the title and the multiple authors: "Origins and evolutionary...

Tags: H1N1 Flu, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Intel's research into robotics

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, the company's Justin Rattner and Joshua Smith talk about advancements in robotics. The research involves dexterous robots with new sensory abilities. In the demo, Rattner grabs an apple from the grasp of a robot hand that can sense objects purely by changes...

Tags: Robotics, Intel Corp., Robots, Emerging Technologies, Intel

Videos 2008-08-22

Facebook's data feeds a data leak?

[Update, 8/16/07, 11:50 a.m.: Facebook's Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly has responded that Facebook addresses these issues, but I think there's more they should do on the disclosure front, and hope there's more they can do on the technological one.]Please correct me if I'm wrong about this; I want...

Tags: Facebook, IBM Lotus Notes, Friend, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-08-15

More cool stuff from Intel

Intel scientists unveiled a series of intriguing announcements at the last day of the Intel Developers Forum. While these are all future technologies, Intel feels they are solid and important. The Automatic Network Outbreak Containment program identifies and quarantines worms that attack a network. Because the program looks at...

Tags: Justin Rattner, Intel Corp.

Blog posts 2005-08-25

Time for telcos to rebound

Analysts are saying the telcos could be on the verge of serious growth. One analyst says the slump never really happened at all. For the last couple of years, the telecom sector has rightly suffered the consequences of hubris. New service providers took out debt to build out...

Tags: Analyst, British Telecommunications, Service Provider, Telephony, Business Services, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Peter Judge

News items 2003-01-13

MSDN Webcast: MSDN geekSpeak: Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) With Justin Smith (Level 200)

This webcast covers the esoteric areas of Windows Communication Foundation WCF.

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Windows Communication Foundation

Webcasts