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Photo: Robotic jacket has power up its sleeve

Gadgetry from Matsushita could bring new strength to patients suffering from partial paralysis.

Tags: patient, photograph, jacket, paralysis, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.

Image galleries 2006-09-27

Windows Live in a state of paralysis? Surely not...

Windows Live in a state of paralysis? Surely not...Just plain stupidI fail to see how M$ will profit from SOA/SAAS, as the OS is no longer relevant. But the BROWSER will be - and with M$ STILL avoiding the CSS standards with their IE7, is their any wonder as to...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Corp., paralysis, operating system, blog, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

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Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it'

How to get around SOA paralysis by analysis by Joe McKendrick

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Yahoo says no to Microsoft: what's next?

News of this has just come down, less than 1/2 hour ago: that the Yahoo! Board of Directors (that's CEO Jerry Yang) has voted to reject Microsoft's $31 a share bid as inadequate. Seems as though they would take nothing under $40. The...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Terry Semel, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Internet, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-09

Stem cell debate to continue regardless

Here's an easy prediction to make. The stem cell debate will continue through 2008, and beyond, no matter where the stem cells come from. (Picture from Advanced Cell Technology, via Scientific American.) In a society which still debates whether evolution should be taught, and...

Tags: Science, Humanity, Stem-cell, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-11

Can a no-star movie move the stem cell debate?

An Indian-born doctor is trying to move the stem cell debate using a movie without stars. Hope, now in post-production, was written by Shelley Chawla, 42, who now lives in Topeka. His father, L.S. Chawla, was once vice-chancellor of the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences in...

Tags: Cure, Movie, Stem-cell, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Becoming cyborg: Beware inequalities ahead

For the past couple of months I have been exploring a different kind of technology, the biological ones. You see, I need a new neck. Most of the big news in medical technology seems these days to revolve around genetic discoveries. Nevertheless, the first kind of...

Tags: Insurance Company, Disc, Fusion, Surgery, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Updated Skype patches critical and brings high quality video

Updated Skype patches critical and brings high quality video"Skype is a killer-app...here to stay in the home and even business world"Not in my business world it isn't. I won't let my users install it ever.H.264How does it perform compared with H.264 George?Have you tried Ekiga developers edition or Apple iChat?SKYPE...

Tags: Corporate communications, E-mail, patch management, IT IS, Skype Technologies S.A., video

Discussion threads 2007-12-11

An EEG-controlled robotic arm

Many researchers around the world have tried to build robotic devices able to help people with paralysis. Now, European researchers have developed a robot control system based on electroencephalogram EEG. The patients using the Brain2Robot system might regain some of their lost autonomy. The users will control the robotic arm...

Tags: Software, Solution, Patient, Researcher, Robot, Signal, Computer, Test Person, Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-25

10 ways implementation teams destroy IT projects

Fellow Enterprise Irregular, Brian Sommer, is a superb blogger; everything he writes is noteworthy. In his latest missive, Brian's Software Safari blog offers ten common ways that IT implementation project teams contribute to their own failure. From Brian's post: No one in our firm can make a decision -...

Tags: Team, Information Technology, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-15

Five reasons why there's so much CIO angst

Nicholas Carr asks if CIOs are dead weight. David Berlind notes that CIOs may be dead weight unless they are the only thing in the IT department. Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson says CIOs merely keep the lights on these days. CIO executive editor...

Tags: ROI/TCO, information technology, angst, marketing

Blog posts 2007-03-23

What users care about (2)

What users care about (2)"Richard"My friends and I would have an annual "Richard of the Year" award to give to the most deserving candidate (NOTE: This is NOT an award that you would want!). So your characterization of the ShadowIT cowboy "down the hall" fits quite nicely in the award...

Tags: business process, Richard, Alice

Discussion threads 2007-02-27

UW law professors say lifetime GPS law unconstitutional

UW law professors say lifetime GPS law unconstitutionalHave to agree to the unconstitutionalityEither the person has paid their debt to society, or they have not. Once they've completed their incarceration time, and any parole time, and successfully completed rehabilitation, they should no longer have to register for any thing,...

Tags: GPS, GPS Law

Discussion threads 2007-02-12

Can a 'Peanut Butter manifesto' save Yahoo?

Some companies just spread themselves to thin and Yahoo increasingly looks like one of them. Its targeting too many markets and that needs to change, reports The Wall Street Journal. Thats the gist of a memo by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior vice president, who likens Yahoo to...

Tags: Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Inc., vision

Blog posts 2006-11-18

Writer is Microsoft's first Live killer app

Recent murmurs of discontent were beginning to suggest the Windows Live project had stalled in a state of paralysis. Today's release of Windows Live Writer shows it is still very much alive. Despite a deceptively simple appearance,Everything is there to make Live Writer the default editor of choice for...

Tags: blog, Live Writer

Blog posts 2006-08-14

Windows Live in a state of paralysis? Surely not...

Niall Kennedy, the RSS guy at Microsoft (since April 2006 anyway), has announced he's leaving Microsoft. One passage in particular from his blog post caught my attention: "Windows Live is under some heavy change, reorganization, pullback, and general paralysis and unfortunately my ability to perform,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-08-08

Too many chefs in Microsoft's kitchen?

Too many chefs in Microsoft's kitchen?Quite frankly I don't care what MS's corporate structure isHow they get the job done is their problem, not mine. Any speculation on how they will or how we think they should structure themselves is pure gossip. All I want them to do is make...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Alexander, Microsoft Corp., chef

Discussion threads 2006-06-21

D: Al Gore on Current.tv and global warming

Former Vice President and almost President Al Gore discussed his new venture Current TV and global warming with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at D this evening. Asked about why he chose cable TV over a more pure Internet content play for his content venture, Gore said that television is...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, Al Gore, global warming

Blog posts 2006-05-31

Outsourcing, freedom and sovereignity

A recent survey by outsourcing advisory firm TPI found that outsourcing results in less savings than expected. From an article on Information Week: But while more firms are turning critical IT and business functions like help desk support and customer service over to third parties, who in turn often send...

Tags: outsourcing, sovereignity, programmer

Blog posts 2006-04-14

Simultaneous Vista and Office 2007 launch?

Australian IT reports that comments made by Microsoft's Dave Block at the Intel Developer Forum suggest that Microsoft, in an effort to conjure up that old Windows 95 magic, is planning to release Windows Vista and Office 2007 on the same day later this year. If you are old enough...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2006-03-14