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- iPod Nano emits sparks, Japan's government says
- iPod Nano emits sparks, Japan's government says3V sparks?One of the things I found hilarious on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the computers exploding in showers of sparks. Even as a kid, I knew computers don't explode! Computers in those days had twelve (12) volt maximum...
- Tags: Digital music, PRODUCTIVITY, Digital media, Telecom & Utilities, spark, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Nano, capacitor, government, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Web 3.0 at Spark in Las Vegas
- I got a chance to present my Web 3.0 model at Microsoft's Spark confab in Las Vegas last weekend. Here's a picture, courtesy of the Microsoft Spark photo album. It's a simple stack that shows raw APIs at the foundation layer, aggregations at the next layer, and...
- Tags: API, Spark
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- SPARK and MIX: Bounding the future of the Web
- The last few days here at SPARK and MIX 06 have been a miniature version of the whirlwind of forces that are remaking and reshaping the Web today. Setting the stage for the week was SPARK, Microsoft's workshop on the future of software architecture. With an emphasis on...
- Tags: SOA, Spark, Web, Web 2.0, software
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
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- A Twitter About Twitter
- The outages are over maybe. Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos ae putting $15 million into Twitter. "Twitter will become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model,'' promised the company's aptly named co-founder Biz Stone. Which was followed last week by Gene...
- Tags: Twitter, Manufacturing, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Smart HCCI cars talk to the pump
- Researchers from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society CITRIS are developing more efficient engines for cars. They are specifically working on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignited HCCI engines. An HCCI engine 'combines the efficiency and versatility of diesel engines with the cleanliness of spark-ignition engines.' For...
- Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Engine, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Amazon's Jeff Bezos invests in Twitter
- Everybody's favorite micro-blogging service, Twitter, has confirmed its much rumored third round of funding, which includes two new investors: Spark Capital and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions. by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Twitter, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Auto MPG in the US, per the EPA rankings: Lamborghini #1 gas hawg
- Auto MPG in the US, per the EPA rankings: Lamborghini #1 gas hawgcomparing apples and ....When you state "the least efficient car in every category is european" you fail to see that the cars listed as the least efficient connot be compared to the most efficient cars. I dont see...
- Tags: Smart Cars, Lamborghini, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Italian Renaissance Screensaver - 800 Paintings (exe)
- Art of the Italian Renaissance Screensaver - Over 800 paintings displayed on your computer screen, over 100 artists, spanning over 400 years. The Renaissance was a spark of brilliant creativity, ingenuity, and excellence in the Arts and Sciences, which grew to inspire the globe. Works by Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Botticelli,...
- Tags: Screensaver, Computer, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses and minuses
- Apple launched a blitzkrieg of iPhone moves: You got a 3G iPhone, a cloud computing and storage service and enterprise support. But there are also a few productivity killers in there that would make an IT exec step back. What do you do? To...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Games, 3G, Web 2.0, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery
- "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." --Isaac Newton. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] It isn't really a surprise that I ended up...
- Tags: Software, Patent, Astronomer, Astronomy, Amateur, Computer, Computing Science, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Jeremy Allison
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- DreamSpark fails to spark anything
- It's fair to say most people are a little reserved and somewhat suspicious when Microsoft of all people offer something for "free". There must be a catch, a hidden something, an underlying reason… well in this case there isn't, not one that I can see anyway. Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., DreamSpark, Microsoft Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Big earthquakes trigger tremors worldwide
- U.S. researchers who have studied 15 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7 since 1990 have found that at least 12 of them triggered smaller quakes thousands of miles away. Their study shows that large earthquakes routinely spark jolts worldwide, 'including on the opposite side of the planet and in areas...
- Tags: Researcher, Wave, University Of Utah, Velasco, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Moody's software bug screws investors
- Moody's, a major credit rating agency, incorrectly awarded its top rating to $4 billion of risky debt due to a software bug in the company's mathematical models. The incorrect ratings misled investors into believing they could earn "very high returns with little risk," according to the...
- Tags: Software, Moody's Corp., Investor, Software Bug, Financial Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?
- You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. That seems to be the mantra of Ubuntu and Sun, both open source underdogs whose relationship and mutual platform support has been growing for three years. On the eve of the release of OpenSolaris, both companies are banging the drum that the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Sun's open source strategy overshadowed by legacy businesses
- Sun reported a nightmare quarter, elicited more cold Java analogies than I can count and announced layoffs due to a weak economy. Can open source move the needle at Sun and spark some growth? In a word: No. Following Sun's dismal quarter, Matt Asay asks whether open...
- Tags: Strategy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- In the beginning (and the end) there was the mainframe
- Mainframes never go away--they just find a new use. One thing that has always amazed me about the mainframe is how IBM has managed to cram it into any new technology frontier. Cloud computing? Mainframe. SaaS? Mainframe enabled. Centralized IT? You guess it: Mainframe. What's more notable...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Zoho can come second and still win
- Earlier in the week I spoke with Raju Vegesna, evangelist with Zoho about the upcoming Zoho CRM for Enterprise. Larry Dignan has all the key facts and correctly surmises: Let's be clear about Zoho's motives: It wants to take on Salesforce.com's CRM, which Zoho portrays as bloated. I...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CRM, Zoho CRM, Com, Raju, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- New Association Promotes Virtual Worlds and Business
- New Association Promotes Virtual Worlds and BusinessVirtual Snake OilEDITA KAYE, THE “SKINNY PILL FOR KIDS,” AND THE ASSOCIATION OF VIRTUAL WORLDSThere is a certain species of entrepreneur that capitalizes on the human desire for overnight solutions to intractable problems. Throughout human history, they have lurked in the shadows of the...
- Tags: Entrepreneurship, SKINNY PILL
- Discussion threads 2008-04-13
- Why Symantec bought Appstream (not)
- Of course we all know the real reason why Symantec is acquiring AppStream — a move announced yesterday at its user conference in Las Vegas. Virtualization is hot and Symantec is big in systems management. AppStream helps round out its offerings for packaging and streaming virtualized software. It's as simple...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Symantec Corp., AppStream Inc., On-demand, Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Sorenson Squeeze (dmg)
- Sorenson Squeeze Suite 4.5 is the industry-leading video encoding tool, enabling users to efficiently re-purpose video content for Web, CD or DVD applications. Includes Sorenson Video 3 Pro, Sorenson Spark Pro, Sorenson MPEG-4 Pro and Sorenson AVC Pro video codecs. Supports the On2 VP6 Pro Encoder plugin sold separately. VP6...
- Tags: Codec, Video, Sorenson Media, Sorenson Squeeze Suite 4.5, VP6, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-09
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