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- Haptics for stroke victims
- If you think of haptics at all, it's likely in terms of force-feedback joysticks. It's a game. But it's not a game for stroke victims. A Rice robotics team under Marcia O'Malley right is harnessing haptics to promote faster stroke recovery and more accurate measurements for therapists. The...
- Tags: Therapist, Joystick, Marcia O'Malley, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
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- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison
- [ UPDATE: Davidson was found dead, involved in an apparent murder-suicide that involved his wife and 3-year-old daughter. ] Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson...
- Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Davidson, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day
- Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers News.com: Facebook pulls ‘stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it Mary Jo Foley: Gates emphasizes PC-phone...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Starting from scratch at Tasty Baking's new facility
- Brendan O'Malley, CIO at Tasty Baking discusses the pressures with getting design and IT right for the company's move into a new manufacturing facility after 90 years in the same plant. by Administrator
- Tags: Manufacturing, Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Samsung Access
- Though Verizon Wireless ruled the mobile TV roost for more than a year, AT&T finally offered Big Red some competition last month with the launch of AT&T Mobile TV. Like V Cast Mobile TV, AT&T's service offers stunning video quality, but its real appeal depends entirely on the handsets that...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, keypad button, Microsoft Access, phone, LG Vu, mobile TV, AT&T Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., toggle, AT&T Mobile TV, TV
- Product reviews 2008-05-10
- Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters
- Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,...
- Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Library, Brewster Kahle, Cookbook, National Security Letter, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Hey, Toto, maybe we should be in Kansas? In Maryland wind turbines get banned!
- Hey, Toto, maybe we should be in Kansas? In Maryland wind turbines get banned!The danger to birds is vastly overstated.One of the largest objections "that wind turbines kills birds" is also one of the least understood, and is favorite of people linked to oil profits.While wind turbines do kill...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, turbine
- Discussion threads 2008-04-13
- ISP turns over hundreds of email accounts to FBI
- It was a "technical glitch" or "apparent miscommunication" that resulted in an unnamed ISP turning over to the FBI huge quantities of users' email -- far more than a judge approved. A FISA court approved the release of email from a single email account, but due to "miscommunication" the...
- Tags: e-Mail Account, FBI, Internet Service Provider, Episode, E-mail, Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Online Communications, Government, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Robotic help for stroke patients
- According to several estimations, there are more than 5 million people living in the U.S. who have been affected by a cerebral vascular accident. And more than 700,000 persons are suffering from a stroke every year. Some of them recover well. But others need months of physical therapy to regain...
- Tags: Rice University, Patient, Robot, RiceWrist, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Proof that Showstoppers 'gets' social networking in way that Pepcom doesn't
- Earlier this week, I wrote about how Pepcom's Chris O'Malley was threatening to ban me and other editors from CNET from the events it produces: events that are essentially private technology trade shows for the press. See Pepcom to CNET: If you organize any get-togethers after our events, we'll...
- Tags: Social Networking, Event, Network, CNET Networks Inc., David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Pepcom to CNET: If you organize any get-togethers after our events, we'll ban you
- Pepcom to CNET: If you organize any get-togethers after our events, we'll ban youRealisation Sets InThe feedback that I expect they received was something along the lines of how good the aftershow was.Suddenly realisation sets in and they wonder how long it will be before vendors stop paying for stands...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Pepcom, Showstoppers
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- Pepcom to CNET: If you organize any get-togethers after our events, we'll ban you
- Jon Pepper, Chris O'Malley proprietors and the rest of the crew at Pepcom can take their stinkin' events like Digital Experience and, well {fill in the blank}. Not only do Pepcom events deserve to be boycotted by journalists, writers, and bloggers, I'm suggesting that exhibitors such as Nokia, Lenovo,...
- Tags: Event, CNET Networks Inc., David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- EFF sues DHS over risk assessment data collection
- The Department of Homeland Securitys Automated Targeting System ATS has come under fire after a notice in the Federal Register revealed that the agency was creating "risk assessments" of air travelers. The latest fuel on that fire is a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against the...
- Tags: Privacy, Homeland security, Government technology, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Digitize services to give your company a competitive edge
- More and more, savvy corporations are looking to technology-enabled services to give them a competitive edge. Industry leaders and followers alike are digitizing services in order to become more customer-driven and process-centric. In this sample chapter from Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution, take an overview of the concept of...
- Tags: Service, Addison-Wesley, Process Improvement, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Quality, Business Operations, Internet
- Book chapters 2006-11-22
- EFF sues over FBI technology
- The Electronic Frontier Foundations FLAG project filed a lawsuit PDF against the Department of Justice over the departments failure to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request for records concerning two FBI electronic surveillance projects - DCS-3000 and RedHook. According to a March 2006 inspector generals report...
- Tags: FBI, CALEA
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, September 12, 2006
- Dion Hinchcliffe here on ZDNet has a fantastic post titled "The coming RIA wars: A roundup of the Web's new face". It covers everything from Ajax to OpenLaszlo and breaks things down very nicely. I can't wait to see the comments. Adobe's Apollo project is getting some attention at...
- Tags: RIA, SAP AG
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- EFF asks FTC to investigate AOL
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a complaint PDF against AOL for releasing the search histories of over 600,000 users and asked the Federal Trade Commission to required changes in AOL's privacy practices, the organization announced. "Search terms can expose the most intimate details of a person's life -- private...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Blog posts 2006-08-14
- EFF opens DC office
- The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation is opening an office in Washington, to be staffed by two attorneys from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. But unlike in the 1990s, this doesn't mean EFF will get involved in lobbying efforts, News.com reports. The new office simply allows EFF legal staff to...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Blog posts 2006-04-27
- Finally, the government props up ailing encryption industry
- Remember the great promise of encryption? Finally we could all be safe and secure in our communications thanks to the magic of very large prime number pairs. There were several very successful IPO’s Verisign and Entrust for example and dozens of startups funded by eager VCs. But then reality set...
- Tags: e-mail, ATT, encryption
- Blog posts 2006-04-17
- Privatized airport security on the way
- Under the Transportation Security Administration's Frequent Traveler program, people willing to have their fingerprints and background checks etched onto a smartcard would get their own check-in lines at the airport. That's the good news. Wired News reports that under TSA's outline released Friday the lines and the cards would be...
- Tags: fingerprint, Transportation Security Administration
- Blog posts 2006-01-24
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