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Better tool for counting fish

Researchers at MIT, Northeastern University and the Naval Research Laboratory have for the first time used a low-frequency sonar remote system to track fish populations and scan vast sections of the ocean. For example, the scientists were able to spot a vast shoal of fish only 120 miles from New...

Tags: ocean, Nicholas Makris

Blog posts 2006-02-03

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My Awesome IT Job: Vice president of Operations, Limelight

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Event, Information Technology, Internet, Cloud Computing, Team Management, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Dell's 'Cloud Computing' and other strange stuff

 and When I took a wee poke at Dell the other day I could not possibly have known that labeling something Hybrid and expecting us to meekly gobble it up was only the tip of what can only be described as an ill-conceived marketing strategy iceberg....

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hoover, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Half a million Classmates headed for Portugal

Several news sources are reporting on Portugal's agreement to purchase 500,000 second-generation Classmate PCs. The exact details of the transaction are still emerging, but parents will have the option of selecting either Windows XP or Linux pre-installed on the laptops. The most significant aspect of this...

Tags: Laptop Computer, Portugal, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-30

"IT is boring," scoff students

"IT is boring," scoff studentsIT is like any other career.Some of it is interesting and some of it is boring. There is also a misconception that once you have a degree in computer science you are automatically the cats meow. That is, IT graduates don't believe they need to pay...

Tags: Professional development, Outsourcing, IT IS

Discussion threads 2008-06-28

Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!

Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!There is no future in ITThe IT bubble bust around 2000 was only the tip of the ice burg. Today, IT is a mediocre industry that has an ecosystem of incompetent and insufficiently educated people from the "IT Recruiters/HR", the people doing the hiring to the...

Tags: Professional development, Strategy, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, IT IS, information technology, career

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

The first optical pacemaker

According to a short news release from the Optical Society of America OSA, an international team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan has used a femtosecond laser pacemaker to control heart muscle cells. So far, this optical pacemaker will only be used for laboratory research. As writes OSA, 'exposing...

Tags: Heart, Contraction, Laser, Cell, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-29

From steam punk to the future, and how to plan for it...

I've been doing a lot of reading, most recently 'The Big Switch' by Nicholas Carr. There are plenty of reviews of this fascinating work available - in essence this is actually two books. The first focuses on the history of American public utilities and makes a very plausible case for...

Tags: Collaboration, Information Technology, Nicholas Carr, Nicholas, Collaboration Initiative, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-05-28

XO-2 laptop (Photos: OLPC's new $75 XO-2 laptop)

XO-2 laptop (Photos: OLPC's new $75 XO-2 laptop)A Glimse of the Future for Learning Appliances!Looking at the XO-2 makes me think of an enumerable amount of conversations that I have had with my education counterparts about an appliance that isn't an iPhone/PDA and isn't a notebook computer. I would...

Tags: Notebooks, PRODUCTIVITY, photograph, XO-2, XO-2 laptop, laptop computer, One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?

OK, so this does look cool: OLPC's XO2 is a touchscreen-only book-like device that serves as ebook reader, media player, computer and presumably game machine. Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the specs of the new machine at a press conference in Cambridge. Some crucial facts: estimated cost $75, displays from Pixel...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-21

The XO-2 laptop looks great, but can OLPC deliver in 2010?

The OLPC project announced today the next generation of its XO laptop. The news was expected--enthusiast sites such as OLPC News have been talking about it for a while--but this was the first time that OLPC has shown what it will look like. The concept is pretty...

Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO-2, XO, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Negroponte's big lie

Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back onto OLPC's government customers, probably the worst possible candidates for an IT support organization. I talked yesterday with...

Tags: PC, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Nicholas Negroponte, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-20

OLPC outlines XO-2; Can it deliver?

The One Laptop Per Child project has taken its lumps lately from its own software developers for going with Windows XP, but its next generation XO could be interesting. According to various reports from Laptop Magazine, Xconomy and Gizmodo, OLPC chief Nicholas Negroponte unveiled this e-book-ish device...

Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO-2, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-20

SAP Business ByDesign customers quietly confident

While it is still early days, SAP Business ByDesign customers are quietly confident the service will deliver value. Earlier today, David Suntinger, corporate development at WIMA, a German engineering business with four locations employing 500 person discussed its implementation progress. The project has been running for a...

Tags: Payroll, SAP AG, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer

The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...

Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-17

XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings

At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission....

Tags: Education, Team, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Team Management, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Putting the XP into the OLPC

So, Microsoft has managed to get in on the OLPC bandwagon and put XP in front of millions of eyeballs in the developing world. But is this move about the children's education, or it is about recruiting more Windows users. What's important to note is that Microsoft...

Tags: Team, One Laptop Per Child Project, Team Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-16

It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO

It's finally official: XP is coming to the XOMS themselves have not accomplished this yet...with satisfactory results, so I doubt you will have any success. Why don't you try Xubuntu or Puppy Linux on a USB drive? Or sell it on eBay? http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/xubuntu-feisty-now-from-usb-drive/http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2006/03/25/puppy-linux-on-usb/TripleIIThen drop the Linux version"Let the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, XP IS, One Laptop Per Child project, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-05-15

It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO

Microsoft's participation in the One Laptop Per Child OLPC initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond's official blessing. Up to this point, OLPC Chief Nicholas Negroponte preannounced Microsoft's every move on...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front

Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked or was supposed to work on the backend. Now he,...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Ivan Krstić, Nicholas, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-13