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- Photos: Meet Dexter and Monty, the Anybots
- Anybots, a start-up in Mountain View, Calif., shows off two humanoid robots, Dexter and Monty.
- Tags: Robots, photograph, Anybots, Dexter, Monty, Mountain View, robot, California
- Image galleries 2007-04-10
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- The Importance of Dissent
- Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his dissent on the road: At this point, however, Monty has done the right thing with his dissent. He has...
- Tags: MySQL, Arjen, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The lighter side of Bill Gates (The lighter side of Bill Gates)
- The lighter side of Bill Gates The lighter side of Bill GatesNot impressed with photosBill Gates will change the world again but even better now that he has left Microsoft. Not many people are willing not only to give away their mass fortune but to be personally involved that it...
- Tags: lighter side, Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic?
- Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic?And then they complain that Vista is slow[i]why I get e-mail and comments from people proudly listing the five separate security products they have running at all times. A couple of anti-spyware programs, antivirus software, a firewall, and invariably one extra layer...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Firewalls, Viruses and worms, security sale, malware, security, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-05-26
- 52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O
- On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...
- Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Python Community, Steve, Programming Languages, Performance Management, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Jim Hendler shares AI's lessons for the Semantic Web
- Professor James A. Hendler goes by the daunting title of 'Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor' at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI in Troy, New York. Behind the title stands a man who has been closely involved with Artificial Intelligence AI research for many years, and someone recognised as amongst the progenitors...
- Tags: Web, Vision, Hendler, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Kill Monty (dmg)
- In the fine tradition of such extinction-level events as asteroid Impacts, supernovas and the Ashlee Simpson Christmas albums, Freeverse proudly gives you Kill Monty, the game that spanks your adrenal gland and makes you call it Papi. With multiple levels of non-stop shooting and bucket after bucket of red, um,...
- Tags: Games, Food & Beverage, Personal Technology, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2007-12-13
- Wikia looking to topple Google, but will fail miserably
- The CEO of Wikia, a search engine launching soon with an open algorithm, has been talking big for a long time now. Unfortunately for Gil Penchina, not much scares Google -- they will just get more aggressive. I can almost hear someone at Google singing "Anything you can...
- Tags: Algorithm, Google Inc., Search Engine, Development, Wikia, Search, Engineering, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2007-12-08
- Judge: 'Personal' spam is not illegal
- Judge: 'Personal' spam is not illegalMemo to Judge Judith Eiler: Spam is Spam.It doesn't make any difference if the sender puts his name real or fake on it: If the recipient didn't request any contact from the sender, it is still unwanted, therefore, IT IS STILL SPAM!If only...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Best of breed now means open source
- In discussing the purchase of Cognos by IBM, BusinessWeek writer Steve Hamm laments the "end of best of breed," meaning enterprise software is now hopelessly consolidated in a few strong hands. That's true if you're looking at proprietary systems. But open source has a...
- Tags: Consolidation, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- IBM silicon rejects reborn in solar panels
- Just a wafer thin. Yes, indeedy, when the Monty Python crew penned that infamous line in their movie, "Meaning of Life" that hadn't one iota of a clue what it could mean for the solar energy industry. And now, here's the point of this blog. There's word...
- Tags: Wafer, Semiconductor, IBM Corp., Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Oracle's anonymous supporters
- Vinnie Mirchandani's note that Oracle Fusion will be delayed drew anonymous responses from Oracle IP addresses. Example: No major enhancements were planned for the acquired products? This is not true, Why you are commenting on something that you don't have all the facts to comment on? This is not...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Vinnie, Sales Strategy, Blogging, Sales Force Management, Sales, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- Fatal Attractions: technology, judgement, and the big four
- Fatal Attractions: technology, judgement, and the big fourLaurence Peter might have predicted itIt's really a variant of what he called "computerized incompetence". I wonder what percentage of senior managers are hired from outside, since it's clear that real accountants at the lower levels are strongly encouraged to go elsewhere.Andersen:...
- Tags: Andersen
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- Can Postini legitimize Google's enterprise ambitions?
- Google has been thundering into the SaaS space with their broadening "application-of-the-day" suite. Google has portrayed themselves as a productivity suite contender in the enterprise space, which supports today's announced plan to acquire messaging security provider Postini. However, they face a Mount Everest-like uphill climb. Google needs to shed their pure-play consumer image, in favor of a provider for consumer and enterprise...
- Tags: Security, Productivity suites, Messaging, Email
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Installing Linux - The joy of live CDs
- Installing Linux - The joy of live CDsBuying a new computerA Live CD is also very handy when you want to buy a new computer. That way, you can make sure that the computer you buy, works fine in Linux.Greetz, Pjotr.You did know...There are live CDs which will let you...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, CD, Linux, Ubuntu, Live CD
- Discussion threads 2007-06-26
- Beware: Google's big, bad privacy risks
- Once again, Google's lack of a meaningful privacy policy is prime "news" fodder.For serious analytical debate over what a Google world really implies for the world's citizens? NO.Remember when Google CEO Eric Schmidt sent "Big Brother" shockwaves throughout the blogosphere? It seems like yesterday it almost was.Schmidt's reveries of a not quite real super...
- Tags: Privacy, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Sprinkle Ajax with some scouring powder by Google Gears
- Sprinkle Ajax with some scouring powder by Google GearsGot any of that cough medicine to share, Ed?Good post, great humor. I'm a sucker for MP-themed posts I guess. Looking forward to more of your thoughts as this grenade goes off.I wave my WebParts at you!Sorry. Couldn't resist. I can't wait...
- Tags: Google Gears, security, AJAX, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax ban
- Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax banThe internet is way to complicated for a tax. Besides we are already taxedHow so you ask? Hosting providers pay taxes on power, water, personell. We pay taxes when we buy a PC, when we turn it on and it...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Internet access, Internet, tax
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Microsoft to push fix for patch trouble
- Microsoft to push fix for patch troubleMicrosoft to push fix for patch troubleSo Microsoft had to fix other people's broken software? That's a pretty generous thing for them to do.Here we go again!Patch the patch to patch the patch that patches the patch which didn't patch the patch which...
- Tags: Patches, SECURITY, patch, patch management, HHCTRL.OCX, Realtek, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-09
- Wikidentity
- Its Saturday, so it must be time for another Wikiscandal. Jimmy Wales has gotten caught with his fingers in the identity till again. This time its concerns "Essjay", one of the Wikipedia activists interviewed last July by Stacy Schiff in a New Yorker piece ominously entitled "Know It All". Essjay...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-03-03
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