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steve jurvetson: AI, nanotech and the future of the human species

Steve Jurvetson is one of the featured speakers, among other luminaries, at the forthcoming Singularity Summit 2007 on advanced artificial intelligence AI. As a managing director at the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he invested early in the first Web wave, with Hotmail, Interwoven and Kana, and...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Jurvetson, Nanotechnology, Singularity Summit 2007, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Churchill Club: 9th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends

The Churchill Club held its "9th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends Debate" at the San Jose Fairmont last week. Four of the the top venture investors gave their predictions gave their predictions on the top tech trends emerging over the next few years. The event was moderated by Tony Perkins,...

Tags: Steve Jurvetson, Memory, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Marketing, Networking, Hardware, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-04-03

Top tech future trends debate

On January 12, the Churchill Club held its annual "Top Ten Tech Trends Debate." We have a podcast of the event, which was moderated by Tony Perkins, editor in chief of AlwaysOn. The panelists included: John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director,...

Tags: U.S., Opportunity, Steve Jurvetson, Partnership, Entertainment, Tech Trend, Business Structures, Podcasts, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2006-01-20

Additional Resources

Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?

Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...

Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Window, ISV, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Engineer, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Rumor Mill: What's next from Apple (updated)

It's Friday, which means that it's time to look at the latest raft of rumors about our favorite Cupertino company. Atom-powered mini-tablet This one was pretty hot. ZDNet.de reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel's...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Minitablet PC, Intel Corp., Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Open Source in 2013

<satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...

Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

The newspaper's last stand

Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...

Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-15

The real question: Is Microsoft still interested in Yahoo?

I actually believed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when he said he was walking away from buying Yahoo. I wasn't among the crowd who thought Ballmer was just posturing, waiting for Yahoo stock prices to plummet and Yahoo shareholder lawsuits to mount before sweeping back in and getting Yahoo for a...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Can Icahn bring Microsoft's Yahoo bid back?

Updated: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced an alternate board of directors for Yahoo in a move that could revive a Microsoft bid. Will Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer bite? As expected Icahn announced his alternate slate, which includes Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...

Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Photos: Where the building is the network

The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...

Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-14

Icahn reportedly preps his board slate for Yahoo

That Yahoo proxy war looks like it's on, but with a new cast of characters. According to Reuters, billionaire investor Carl Icahn will move ahead with an alternate slate of board of directors. The goal: Turn over Yahoo's 12 directors at once and sell Yahoo to Microsoft--or...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Latest Flock Beta delivers Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail support

Having launched in late 2005 amidst a tsunami of web 2.0 hype, it was always going to be difficult for social web browser Flock to keep up with expectations. But after getting through what seemed like an unhealthy period of stagnation, update by update the software is really starting to...

Tags: Digg, America Online Inc., Twitter, E-mail, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Internet, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-14

News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day

Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers News.com: Facebook pulls ‘stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it Mary Jo Foley: Gates emphasizes PC-phone...

Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Big Steve to keynote WWDC

Big Steve to keynote WWDCI have ideas on what will be announced[i]Anyone have any idea about what might be announced?[/i]The iPhone will come with a revolutionary technology that will communicate with satellites and tell the user exactly where they are on a little map. Jobs will call it iGPS and...

Tags: WWDC, Apple iPhone, developer

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?

Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?I think you're rightWhy else would the current stocks be dried up?Another Blow To Windows MobileI'm getting my next gen IPhone this fall and giving Windows Mobile the boot.I've had it with a second rate garbage OS....everyone I...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Keyboards, Handhelds, Cellular phones, job, Apple iPhone, WWDC, mobile, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to Mac

Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to MacBut those are just sales. We all know everyone is......downgrading to Office 2004.Sorry, couldn't resist.Are you sure you linked to the correct article?The one I was taken to was dated January 11, 2006 9:58 AM PSTAdds to the growing...

Tags: Sales strategy, Scripting languages, Microsoft Office, Microsoft VBA, SP1, Microsoft Corp., sales, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?

Steve Jobs will kick off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC with a Monday morning keynote speech on June 9. Will this be when the new iPhone will be finally revealed to the most rabid of Apple fans? Speculation is rampant that the iPhone 2.0 will be pulled out of Steve's...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Apple Inc., 3G, GPS, Engineering, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?

Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?until Google finnally invest into there own OSthey should start a nice bsd that in time will be the next os x and then MS will fine that they are in real troubleRE: Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?made...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Big Steve to keynote WWDC

Another day, another rumor comes true. Apple today announced that CEO Steve Jobs will give the keynote address to developers at the 2008 love fest known as WWDC and previously known as the Worldwide Developers Conference. The keynote address begins at 10:00 a.m. PT/...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Keynote Address, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-13