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- News to know: Palm ads; Microhoo SEC filing; U.S. Marines; Bing; Skype; Clunkers
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm Pre's creepy ads: They worked. You're still talking about them Andrew Nusca: Palm's creepy Pre ads:...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Advertisement, SEC Filing, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Projectors, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- News to know: Apple vs. Palm; Windows 7; Adobe; Twitter and Iran
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Apple: Third party read Palm Pre iTunes sync can work for now Jason O'Grady: A fix for Mail...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Twitter, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Mice, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Sales
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Facebook honors election at 1/100th of quorum
- <p>Is Facebook the <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/24/facebook_vote_shock/">Zimbabwe of the Internet</a>? After this year's terms-and-conditions fiasco, Facebook promised to let users vote on two sets of proposed changes. And this would be a compelling vote, with no less than 30% participation required to be binding. <p>As a Facebook user, I...
- Tags: Facebook, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- Massive Chinese spynet targeted Dalai Lama
- It all started with the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan leader's offices in India, Brussels, London and New York asked the researchers to examane its computers for malware. But researchers at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto found something much more than garden-variety spyware, John Markoff...
- Tags: China, Researcher, Toronto, Computer, GhostNet, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- News to know: More Kindle, Intel, IT Talent, Google energy
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Christopher Dawson: Kindle 2.0: Give me a Classmate instead Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Kindle 2 - It is what it...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Smart Phones, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Decision on MIT students' gag order delayed until Tuesday
- The MIT students currently under a gag order not to speak about their research into security holes in the Boston's CharlieCard system will spend the weekend still gagged. A federal judge today declined to lift a temporary restraining order until it expires on Tuesday, News.com reports. ...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Student, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- How radio waves really can kill cancer
- When I first read this I thought it was crazy, but it's not. Scientists at Rice University and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston are injecting carbon nanotubes into tumors, then hitting the tumors with radio waves. Lead scientist Steven Curley of M.D....
- Tags: Rice University, Nanotube, Radio, Scientist, Carbon Nanotube, Cancer, Nanotechnology, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- YouTube vs. MySpace, Facebook: Clip culture vs. friendship
- YouTube’s Chad Hurley is proud of the site’s “clip culture.” In “YouTube’s 100 million videos: quantity vs. quality” I cite YouTube’s “snack-sized” philosophy:We are not trying to stream full-length programming. We have developed a new clip culture. The site specializes in short—typically 2-minute—homemade, comic videos created by users. YouTube serves...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, YouTube&rsquo, s Chad Hurley
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- Who shapes IT?
- What do Adobe's chief software architect, the man behind MySpace, a 19th-century mathematician and a 21st century futurologist, plus the most hated man in cyberspace all have in common? They are regarded, by ZDNet bloggers, as individuals who exert an especially noteworthy influence on the broad field of information technology....
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2006-07-24
- The man behind MySpace
- Tom Anderson, the man behind MySpace, and the ubiquitous friend known as "Tom" to all MySpace users, has created a social phonomenon and brought a revolutionary communication medium to millions of users. Called social networking, this medium allows people to build vast groups of "friends," or other registered users...
- Tags: MySpace
- Blog posts 2006-07-20
- Howard Rheingold about our mobile world
- Howard Rheingold is the well-known author of Smart Mobs and many other books describing the evolution of our societies. His last book predicted the transformation of our society into a mobile one. Four years later, and with thousands of posts published on the collective blog organized around this theme, his...
- Tags: Howard Rheingold, mobile, telephone
- Blog posts 2006-07-20
- Notes from the tech conference underground
- The extended spring tech conference season is beginning to wind down. I have done my share of time watching panels, keynotes and pitches, and hanging out in hallways and lobbys looking for fresh material, seeking out the strongest signals that portend what’s in store for the future. Based on absorbing...
- Tags: Supernova
- Blog posts 2006-07-05
- On the shoulders of genius
- George Boole was born in Lincoln, England in 1815 and published The Calculus of Logic in 1848 - almost exactly 100 years after Euler's Introductio in analysin infinitorum Nothing in modern, science based, computing originated in either publication, but the two set in stone the roots of the research behind...
- Tags: Enterprise software, George Boole, Neumann
- Blog posts 2006-06-30
- Dan'l Lewin: Leading Microsoft Emerging Business Development
- Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, interacts with a worldwide VC network to surface and nurture emerging venture-capital-backed technology start-ups with the potential to be the “next big things” extending the Microsoft platform, a $10 billion business, and growing.I spoke with Lewin to discuss...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
- Barrett Lyon: Internet Influencer
- The first thing Barrett Lyon will tell you when he gets on stage is his age. At a youthful 27 years old he is rapidly becoming one of the most influential technologists of the day. He is founder of Prolexic Technologies, an Internet hosting service that defended dozens...
- Tags: Barrett Lyon, Prolexic Technologies
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
- Making the Rich Internet Application a Reality - Kevin Lynch
- It's difficult to talk about the evolution of the web without mentioning Flash. Over the years Flash has run the gambit from annoying animation, to revolutionary video technology and application framework. Who would have thought during the dark days of the skip intro button that Flash would someday serve up...
- Tags: Flash, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- The most hated man in cyberspace
- Richard Stallman. Having covered this space for nearly two years, I have seen more resentment toward Stallman than anyone in the world, even though on the issues he’s right.Stallman, if you don’t know, is the father of GNU, and the "Free Software" movement. He’s not the father of open...
- Tags: Richard Stallman, BSD
- Blog posts 2006-06-16
- Corporate wikis breaking out all over: MSDN Wiki
- ZDNet blogger Richard MacManus wrote a good post late yesterday about the significant release of eBay's new community wiki pages, likely the largest commercial wiki effort to date. But eBay is almost certainly just one of an early beachhead of corporate wiki efforts that will attempt to use...
- Tags: MSDN Wiki, Wiki
- Blog posts 2006-06-14
- AttentionTrust and GestureBank
- In the moment at SDForum SearchSIG the other night when Seth Goldstein announced the funding grant of the AttentionTrust by the Omidyar Network, a spontaneous burst of applause erupted. Months of discussions and diligence by Omidyar had resulted in a profoundly important ratification of the Trust's mission and its principles,...
- Tags: Omidyar Network, Trust, recorder, Attention Recorder
- Blog posts 2006-03-20
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