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An iPhone app for the body-conscious

At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, S. Mark Williams of Modality shows off an iPhone application that gives detailed views of the human anatomy, including the heart and brain.

Tags: Apple iPhone, News, apple, iphone, developers, WWDC, modality, s. mark williams, medical, images

Videos 2008-06-09

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News to know: Bing-Twitter; Net Neutrality; eBay; VMWare; Nook; Win7

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: Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing Sam Diaz: Tweets on Bing: Watch out for more noise,...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Twitter Inc., Net Neutrality, VMware Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Software As A Service (SaaS), Podcasts, Microsoft Windows, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-22

News to know: Google I/O; Zune HD; Bartz and Twitter at D7; Mac updates; AT&T's 3G

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. Sam Diaz: Google I/O kicks off with bigger push into Android, Web apps and more Google: Programming for the...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, I/O, Microsoft Zune, AT&T Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, 3G, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-05-28

The ROI From Twitter: "Don't bother" telling your CFO, O'Reilly says

O’Reilly Media held a Webinar this afternoon that was promoted as delivering “power tips” on how to use Twitter. In the question and answer period, after Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein delivered their tips, one of the questions was: “How do you quantify...

Tags: ROI, Twitter, Tweets, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-05-21

It's all downhill for Twitter, politics from here

This week, "tax protesters" gathered across America to dump bagged tea into symbolic bodies of non-potable water and Ashton Kutcher challenged CNN to a Twitter follower showdown. I admire anyone who takes to the streets for their ideas and recognize the power of media, even when it is lowered to...

Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Twitter, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-04-17

Salesforce.com: High maintenance costs are pushing customers to us

Salesforce.com delivered strong fourth quarter results that put CEO Marc Benioff in a more chatty mood than usual. The big takeaway: Salesforce.com is using high maintenance costs from big vendors like Oracle and SAP to its advantage.  First, the financial figures. Salesforce.com reported fourth quarter earnings of...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Customer, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-26

TechCrunch50: Day 2

Yesterday's presentations were a lot of fun to cover. I'm getting right back into the grind today. 6:30 a.m. Here is a list of today's presentations: Alfabetic Presented by Oded Broshi and Arik Kopelman DropBox (Presented by Drew Houston...

Tags: Facebook, Phone, Tim O'Reilly, Mark Cuban, Mytopia, Swype, Mixtt Redefining, iMindi World, Popego Cut, exchangeP, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Channel Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting

Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting*New* news of *new* shocking meetings...... at http://www.groklaw.net/ Groklaw.LOL...Anyone that uses Groklaw as a source for any kind of information should probably know that Groklaw is the gutter tabloid of the internet.There is absolutely nothing unbiased about that sorry part of the internet.Seriously, someone thought...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OOXML, Details Emerge, Groklaw

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Singularity Summit 2007: The Pell iCan brief

Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...

Tags: Barney Pell, Brain, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber, human brain, Robot, Singularity

Blog posts 2007-09-08

TSA watchlists based on antique technology. Would ChoicePoint do a better job?

Writing in Technology Review, Mark Williams explains that the problem with the Transportation Security Administrations watchlists - which famously produce reams of false positives - is based on a very old algorithm called Soundex. Latanya Sweeney, director of the Data Privacy Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon Universitys School...

Tags: Government technology, Privacy, Homeland security

Blog posts 2007-04-13

The 100 Greatest Short Stories 1.0 (Mobile)

Now you can enjoy these "byte-sized" masterpieces any time and anywhere with The 100 Greatest Short Stories. A timeless collection of the world's greatest short stories, it includes the works of authors such as O. Henry, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Guy...

Tags: Mobile, Rampart Software Development, Maupassant, Adventure, Packletide, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-02-21

Obvious Odeo exit: Correcting mistakes

Venture capital and angel money is coveted in Silicon Valley. Everyone wants it, not everyone should be excited to get it. Case in point: Odeo, the audioblogging/podcasting startup that Ev Williams, Biz Stone and others bought from the previous investors today for an undisclosed amount.  Odeo was stuck trying to...

Tags: Podcasts, investor, podcasting, Odeo

Blog posts 2006-10-26

The 5 Minute Sports Medicine Consult (Mobile)

powered by Skyscape Authors: Mark D. Bracker, MD Source:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 5mSports is the handheld version of 5 Minute Sports Medicine Consult, your favorite reference for on-field and off-field treatment of sports related problems. Topics including medical and surgical conditions and guides to pre-participation examinations, commonly used and abused...

Tags: Mobile, Skyscape Inc., Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-07-31

Intellectual property in the era of open source

Intellectual property in the era of open sourceCLUE for ya!Most programmers do NOT want to be a service company.the premise is wrongthe author's premise seems to be that hard = proprietary, easy = open source. This is wrong. There are several open source projects and products that are...

Tags: Development tools, intellectual property, Brad, open-source software, open source, programmer, software

Discussion threads 2006-07-19

For all the good it does, technology often fails us in big ways

For all the good it does, technology often fails us in big waysWorking as I do in government IT/development...If we can't get FEMA or the DMV right, I assure we can't get this right either. Big Brother will be it's own worst enemy...if not be laughed out...it will all...

Tags: comma, trooper, pass

Discussion threads 2005-12-06

Next generation tech leaders

As part of the Churchill Club's 20th anniversary event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, Sun co-founder and now venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Bill Joy moderated a panel entitled "Next Generation Leaders." The panelists see image below included Evan Williams, Founder of ODEO;...

Tags: Leader, MP3, Podcasts, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2005-09-26

Evan Williams: From Blogger to Odeo

I caught up with Evan Williams at the Churchill Club's 20th anniversary event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Evan was one of the founders of Blogger, which was sold to Google, and is now involved in the podcasting startup, Odeo. We discussed his views on podcasting...

Tags: podcast

Blog posts 2005-09-26

Blake Ross on Firefox vs. IE and other topics

Blake Ross is one of the co-creators of Firefox and is on a mission to make software for mere mortals. That's one of Steve Jobs' favorite phrases. Like Jobs, Blake is starting out young. The 20-year-old is on leave from Stanford, still working on Firefox, and has also started a...

Tags: Web browsers, Podcasts, Mozilla Firefox, Blake, Microsoft Internet Explorer, podcast

Blog posts 2005-09-26

Blogosfear

It's amazing how quickly we settle into a notion of what's the right thing to do. Take the crisis over newspaper business models. As my brother and the Cluetrain brothers have lamented, the newspaper business is on the decline. The Times and Knight Ridder have announced significant cuts, with the...

Tags: Blogging, Green Day, Naomi

Blog posts 2005-09-25

Comparing code bases

Comparing code basesThe trouble isyour proposed comparison would do exactly what the legal standard rejects: compare functionality. Two implementations of the same specification would come up as similar.My favorite example is sort. I can write dozens of different implementations of gnu [b]sort[/b] with identical external behavior, yet they're...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Insurance, PC industry, AT&T Corp., Ritchie, patent

Discussion threads 2005-07-22