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- Forbes: No new iPhone chip next week
- Although Apple is widely believed to announce a third-generation iPhone handset at WWDC with up to 32GB RAM and a 3.2MP camera with video recording capabilities, Forbes thinks that it's too soon to see the fruits of last year's acquisition of chipmaker P.A. Semi in the new iPhone. Instead,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Forbes, Apple Inc., Chip, Semiconductors, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Marketing, Networking, Components, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Scientists accurately measure the 'edge of space'
- The fuzzy point where the earth's atmosphere transitions into space has been detected by an instrument developed by scientists at the University of Calgary with "unprecedented detail". According to the team, space begins 118 km (73.3 miles) above Earth, which confirms what other scientists...
- Tags: Earth, Scientist, Kilometer, C/C++, Team Management, Programming Languages, Network Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Networking, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Bang the TomTom slowly
- Bang the TomTom slowlyBang the TomTom slowly but surely"TomTom's use of the Linux kernel in its products, ..."The fact of the matter is, the "Linux Kernel" was mentioned by name.^o^Still, if we let MS keep threatening, and demanding cross licensingagreements for invalid patents, it helps validate invalid patents. One at...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, TomTom, Microsoft Corp., Tom-Tom, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernel
- Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernelA mixed barrel of fish.There are so many threads in this mess that one can look at almost anything. But some things come out loud and clear:1. We are in a post-Bilski situation......software patents (which seem to be at...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Linux kernel, Tom-Tom, TomTom, patent
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- High School Robotics Team Wins the Judges Award at FIRST Robotics Competition
- The FIRST Robotics Competition, FRC, is an international robotics competition for high-school-aged students. They had a grand Vision of what they wanted to accomplish with the Custom Dashboard. However, the visualization of data for real time systems is a challenging field for software development. The company deployed Perpetuum Software Instrumentation...
- Tags: Robotics, Perpetuum Software, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Improve your failed IT culture
- Improve your failed IT cultureRisk and rulesWhat's the connection between your suggested steps to improve projects and the problem identified?Is it possible to deal with the problem identified in the following quoted quotes without using the word "blame"?Creating a culture for risk management is a challenging proposition for most firms....
- Tags: Strategy, Financial Planning, Computer Services, Anton, risk management, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- 2009 Honda Pilot EX-L 2WD
- Photo gallery:Honda Pilot EX-LLet's face it. The Honda Pilot has always looked like a brick on wheels. The new for 2009 Pilot, with its CR-V inspired grille, looks even worse. It doesn't get much better on the inside, with a dash dominated by cheap plastics and questionable material choices. As...
- Tags: Twin-Peaks, mpg, Honda Motor Co.
- Product reviews 2008-08-29
- Quelle GmbH Optimizes Analytical and Operative Customer Relationship Management Strategies
- As Quelle GmbH continued to grow, the challenge for Quelle's database management team was to integrate various data sources and develop an efficient, high-availability platform for the company's data warehouse application. Quelle replaced its Symmetric Multiprocessing SMP architecture with Oracle Real Application Clusters, achieving higher performance and significant cost savings....
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Mail-order, CRM, Quelle GmbH, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Sales Channel, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Sales
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...Continuing Saga to show how great D* is now adayFrom a 7+ year customer and I am a paper thin from calling it for D*.http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=133090RE: DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...I've been with DTV since December 1994. I am also a FCC certified card carrying...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, DirectTV, Ma'am, Well HERE, DirecTV, closet
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- Ruby on Rails: scaling to 1 billion page views per month
- While a lot of attention has been focused on Twitter with questions about whether Ruby on Rails scales, LinkedIn has been quietly running a RoR application on Facebook that is beating down around 1 billion page view per month. Bumpersticker, a relatively trivial Facebook application that allows you to create...
- Tags: LinkedIn, Ruby, Joyent, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Polar robots to explore the Arctic
- It's now almost certain that the world's ice shelves are melting. And while satellites provide lots of data about their evolution, ground-based weather stations could be even more useful. But if scientists can no longer stay on fragile and volatile ice sheets, what can they do? They can use specially...
- Tags: Professor, Georgia Tech, SnoMotes, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Tiny music files almost as good as MP3 ones
- Researchers at the University of Rochester have encoded a 20-second clarinet solo in a file smaller than a kilobyte. This is about 1,000 times smaller than regular MP3 files. But the sound is almost as good according to the scientists. The system works by 'recreating in a computer both the...
- Tags: Researcher, MP3, Modeling, Computer, Music, Research & Development, Productivity, Business Operations, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Beckman Coulter Empowers Sales Force While Maintaining Control of Sensitive Information
- Beckman Coulter, Inc., a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests, and supplies, is in the business of simplifying and automating laboratory processes. Beckman Coulter wanted to create an electronic SRM for its team, but needed to ensure that its information was secure. It also had to be certain...
- Tags: Information Security, Sensitive Information, Oracle Corp., Sales Force, Sales, Information Rights Management, Beckman Coulter
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- i-Snake, a new robotic surgeon
- Several newspapers in the UK have published today very short articles about the i-Snake, a new surgical robot which will be developed at the Imperial College London ICL. For example, The Times of London writes that the ICL team has won a £2.1 million grant (€2.84 million or US$4.2 million)...
- Tags: Robot, Imaging, Surgery, Surgeon, i-Snake, Robots, Document Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-29
- NASA checks coastal waters from space
- Using NASA satellite imagery, researchers at the University of South Florida USF in St. Petersburg have found that it is possible to monitor coastal water quality. This means that water quality can be checked daily rather than monthly as done by traditional methods which involves expensive boat surveys. This information...
- Tags: Technique, NASA, Satellite, Water, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- Microsoft responds to Vista network performance issue
- Microsoft responds to Vista network performance issueSee George criticizes microsoft!I agree w/ you George. I do not understand the need for a tradeoff. Besides, I thought Vista's networking stack was completely rewritten to be more efficient.amenI had never, ever experienced popping or music degredation in XP while transferring...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NETWORKING, Processors, performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, network, CPU, Microsoft Corp., multimedia playback, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-08-25
- iSense? Got'em? SASPO? IEED?
- A research engineering company like the one we're imagining would typically be founded by a senior researcher whose name earns the funding request its DARPA audience and one or two graduate students who see the underlying research as a potentially profitable way of combining their PhD work with service...
- Tags: Software, Wintel, Linux, Satellite, Hardware, Cell, Data Volume, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- EXCLUSIVE: Google Phone Interface platform described in Patent app
- Published just this morning, a new Google patent application illustrates a phone interface that would use a standard desktop-type phone that would display a series of Google-supplied advertisements downloadable from the Internet.This would not be a separate Google Phone instrument, but as the Patent name indicates, an Internet Protocol...
- Tags: News, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Shaking a 275-ton building
- If you want to predict how a tall building can resist to an earthquake, some researchers have better tools than others. Engineers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center SDSC have built a full-size 275-ton building and really shaken it to obtain earthshaking images. The building was equipped with some 600...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet, Science &, Nature, Energy &, Environment
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
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