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- A quick note on Columbus Day
- It's Columbus Day here in the States, so quite a few of us are off. I'm going to consider it a holiday and take the day off from blogging. I do have an interview with Joe Hartley, Sun's VP of Global Education and Healthcare, today, so check back...
- Tags: Holiday, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Clients, Virtualization, Blogging, Cloud Computing, Vertical Industries, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Benefits, Hardware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Repairing genetic mutations with lasers?
- German researchers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel CAU think they've proved that genetic information can be controlled by light. The group studied the interaction between the four DNA bases -- adenine A, cytosine C, guanine G, and thymine T -- by using femtosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. The researchers think that...
- Tags: DNA, Laser, CAU, Adenine Femtosecond, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Text messages save elephants' lives, villagers' crops
- As elephants' habitat is destroyed, the great beasts frequently leave their protected reserves, barging into villages and eventually are killed by rangers. But in Kenya, there is a better way: text messaging. A group called Save the Elephants has outfitted a huge bull elephant named Kimani with...
- Tags: Elephant, GPS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Tim Bray on surviving the tough times
- Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking forward. Speaking at FOWA, Tim's blunt view is that we are headed for tough times but that should not blind...
- Tags: Personal Technology, Tim Bray, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Entellium's lost millions
- Larry Dignan outlines the main points of the Entellium fraud. Regardless of the final outcome, there are three glaring questions: How did the CFO and CEO overstate revenues across THREE financial years by a factor of four to five times without someone noticing the obvious problem of...
- Tags: Entellium, Board, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
- Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...
- Tags: Recession, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS servicesAbout damn timeSince the carriers don't give us any way to shut off the COD messaging, laying a minefield for SMS senders is the only practical way to shut off the flood of spim that I have to pay for.They're starting...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular phones, text fee, Verizon Communications Inc., SMS Service, SMS
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake
- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary FlakeThe Live products keep getting betterI am a Microsoft programmer who does web and normal programming. The web programming tools are getting better and better. But, Popfly is an example of the way that the web can be used for both programming and for...
- Tags: Channel management, PRODUCTIVITY, Web, Popfly, tool, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'
- I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...
- Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for itHard to believeIt's hard to believe that the Bush Administration is on the right side of this one. I guess the RIAA didn't grease the pockets all the way to the top. Live and learn. Next time they will...
- Tags: Pro-IP, Bush, biz, labor
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Are there really too many Windows editions?
- Are there really too many Windows editions?Are there really too many Windows editions?Nope!Still, from a consumer point of view, he wants one version, 20 bucks,enable any features you want. The multiple versions are ONLY for Microsoft's benefit in order to extract more money from YOU the eager customer.There is something...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook Pro
- Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook ProAnd, reportedly, Apple wants to get further into bed with them?Using nVidia Chipsets instead of Intel?I thought Apple uses more quality partsThat's the point iTards throw out every time to justify Macs' insanely high price.I see Dell offering ATI discreet cardson some of their...
- Tags: Notebooks, NVidia Corp., NVIDIA GPU, Macs ARE, Apple Inc., GPU, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations
- Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. And, they say, they listened in and even transcribed couples' phone sex, The New York Times reports. ...
- Tags: Phone, Phone Sex, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- America's airways ready for NextGen
- It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...
- Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureAccretionThe substantial number of miscellaneous applications appear to be unlinked. The IBM-linked approach is e-commerce, replacing another old and working system.Is what you're describing a slow-moving IBM takeover? You've included indications that IBM is gaining administrative authority.This approach is description by strobe...
- Tags: IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- On the Linux laptop the bundle is all
- On the Linux laptop the bundle is allI don´t like teenagersI don´t like teenagers or stories about teenagers. But I will say yours seems dumber than most.The bundle is all only if the package is badA properly packaged Linux system should make installing programs child's play. Though I own an...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, distro, Linux laptop, Linux, Xandros, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UACSo I don't have to wait for Windows 7?The need to wait or upgrade to Windows 7 is looking more dim for Windows Vista users. Microsoft just yesterday announced their intention to improve the user experience for UAC in Windows 7. But with third...
- Tags: SECURITY, Web browsers, EXPLORER, UAC, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Is Google working on the synchronization problem?
- ReadWriteWeb has a post up about the fact that Zoho has added offline access to Zoho Mail using Gears. Zoho continues to do a really good job of innovating when it comes to Ajax-based RIAs. They were very early to the game in creating offline support for Zoho Docs before...
- Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., ReadWriteWeb, Zoho Mail, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
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