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- Smart Planet: New innovations in Deep Brain Stimulation surgery
- Is there new hope for Parkinson's patients? Imaging scientist, Alastair Martin, and neurosurgeon, Dr. Paul Larson, have teamed up to develop a way to perform Deep Brain Stimulation surgery that's more comfortable for the patients, more accurate and cuts the regular procedure time in half to 3 1/2 hours. The...
- Tags: Innovation, Patient, Surgery, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- New York Times embraces Linked Data
- The keynote on this final day of the Semantic Technology Conference saw Robert Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times talk about the paper's innovative adoption of semantic technologies; "The first semantic search system for The New Times was released in 1913 and...
- Tags: Paper, New York Times Co., Linked Data, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Google plugs 'high risk' WebKit holes in Chrome
- Google has shipped a Chrome browser update to fix two serious security issues in WebKit. According to Google Chrome program manager Mark Larson, the most serious of the two flaws could allow hackers to execute harmful code in the browser's sandbox. It is rated "high severity."...
- Tags: Google Inc., Attacker, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Sandbox, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Acrobat.com release "PowerPoint for the web"
- Acrobat.com release "PowerPoint for the web"To try it, go to http://labs.acrobat.comHi Zack,Thanks for the posting. Folks who want to try out Presentations should go to http://labs.acrobat.com.Cheers!-Erik LarsonAdobe SystemsHave a look at this Project tooThis project, if MS gives some more attention, will be better and faster too.http://silverlight.net/learn/appcorner/slidentity.aspx?pt=slidentityBased on what?What do...
- Tags: Channel management, feature set, Acrobat.com, EPIC FAIL, EPIC, Microsoft Silverlight, Web, Microsoft PowerPoint
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
- Critical security hole in Google Chrome
- Critical security hole in Google ChromeDoes the sandboxing mitigate the problem?[i]A failure to properly validate input from a renderer tab process could allow an attacker to crash the browser and possibly run arbitrary code with the [b]privileges of the logged on user[/b].[/i]Does this apply to v1.x alone or also to...
- Tags: Web browsers, Viruses and worms, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Web browser, Apple Inc., vulnerability, Chrome, security
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- How to make freemium pay
- How to make freemium payI don't like the sound of 'freemium'It is as free as crippleware and trialware was for the desktop apps.I hate them and and moving the same concept from the desktop to the web is no innovation to me.Freemium, or FreeLunch ?SaaS companies taking this approach...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, Acrobat.com, Phil
- Discussion threads 2009-03-10
- Parallels' Summit 2009 Other Keynotes
- After listening to Serguei Beloussov's rapid pace presentation, the other presenters face a difficult challenge - how to keep up! Here are some quick notes from their presentations. Morris Miller, Founder of Sequel Ventures, LLC Cloud computing strategy and the evolving business model for hosting companies. He refered...
- Tags: Hosting Company, Presentation, Strategy, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Parallels' Summit 2009 Serguei Beloussov Keynote
- Parallels is presenting its Parallels Summit 2009 here in Las Vegas. I'll be posting from the show through out the day as I learn what they're doing. 7 AM Update I'm looking over the agenda and see an interesting array of speakers and sessions. Serguei Beloussov, Chairman and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Computing, Parallels, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- See the demo of Windows 7 multi-touch
- Not to say I told you so -- well, OK, I will say it -- but Microsoft demonstrated the multi-touch functionality it is building into Windows 7 at the D6 conference on May 27. (See my original post on Microsoft's plans to demo the touch piece of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Multi-touch, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- A vision of fashionable Windows computers
- I stumbled by accident on this collection of photos featuring a Windows computer "fashion show" at CES wherein models strutted about with unusually designed Windows computers. That was shortly followed by an article on the subject on Betanews, titled quite self-explanatorily: "The future is in fashionable PCs." Mykel Nahorniak described...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Vision, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Computer, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Reading Windows tea leaves
- Though not exactly lighting up the blogosphere, speculations about future directions in the Windows platform have been rife. This article at APC compiled the various rumors together about Windows 7 (the successor to Vista...whatever name it ends up having) into a neat package, and this article on Ars Technica spoke...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Corp., MinWin, UI, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Web collaboration: Cisco and Adobe duke it out
- A fascinating juxtaposition of keynotes from Cisco and Adobe have kicked off proceedings today at the SIIA On Demand Summit in San Jose, which I'm attending as a speaker [disclosure: I'm also on the steering committee for the event, but have paid my own way to be here]. These two...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Web-based Collaboration, Software-as-a-service, WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- What you see is what you publish
- Adobe's acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity and its Buzzword online word processor brings Adobe into direct competition with Microsoft and Google in the Office 2.0 space (or as Scoble sensibly retitles it, Work 2.0). But much more more significant in my view is what Buzzword tells us about the nature of...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Application, Document, Google Docs, Microsoft Corp., Buzzword, Flash, Adobe Share, What-you-see-is-what-you-publish, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Is the 50 watt PC possible using commodity parts?
- Is the 50 watt PC possible using commodity parts?These would be nice, but...How much do they cost when contributing to something like folding. Would I be better off at using a series of cheap Celeron systems.Or if I want to swat folding and rack up massive points, should I...
- Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Corp., commodity part, motherboard, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- A green thumbs-up for tech remarketer Vibrant Technologies
- When I pleaded my case to the ZDNet editors to let me contribute to this blog, I promised to regularly recognize neat-o regional efforts that fall into the green tech movement.After all, for every mammoth corporation looking to eke out some corporate responsibility greenie points in its annual report, there...
- Tags: Heather Clancy, PART-OF
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- What I learned at the Microsoft Vista business launch
- Were there any surprises left for Microsofts business launch of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 on November 30? Surprisingly, there were a few. As expected, Microsoft made available to its volume licensees the final Windows Vista and Office 2007 bits, as marked by its "New Day for Business" launch...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Windows client, Vista
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- US chip leadership is in trouble - but business is good
- I meet with top representatives of the US chip industry every year for an update on their markets and the trends that shape their future. This time around, George Scalise, the head of the Semiconductor Industry Association SIA and top communications execs from Intel, Texas Instruments, IBM and others, provided...
- Tags: chip, chip industry, fab, government, leadership, Semiconductor Industry Association, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- Public getting antsy about laptop thefts
- Many years ago, before Web 2.0, web services and XML, Sun proposed the idea of a Net computer, a thin client that would interact with web-based applications and data stored on remote servers. Responding to concerns about storing personal information on a disk controlled by another company, Bill Joy held...
- Tags: laptop computer
- Blog posts 2006-06-22
- ENIAC: First computer makes history
- ENIAC: First computer makes historyIf only my XP box worked that well!*sigh*ABACUS Makes Mind Stronger.ABACUS is simple Counting Frame, Where YOU DO mechanical operations from your OWN minds trained method, counting up result at end. It wasn't until early 1960s' that computing machine could calculate faster than ABACUS. ABACUS operator...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, ENIAC, computer, Abacus
- Discussion threads 2006-02-13
- GameSpy warns security researcher
- GameSpy warns security researcherwhy?why is the DMCA being used to stop someone from warning people about security issues? was that the design of the DMCA?and when did the company plan to tell customers they were not safe? ever?DMCA DOES apply"While the DMCA is a U.S. law and thus may not...
- Tags: Digital media, security, DMCA, GameSpy
- Discussion threads 2003-11-13
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