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- Photos: Scanning brain waves
- Upstart EmSense reads people's brain waves to gauge their emotional response to advertisements and video games.Hans Lee, chief technology officer of EmSense, wearing the company''s wireless headband, which includes a dry EEG electroencephalogram sensor to measure the electrical activity of the brain without the use of gels; an accelerometer, which...
- Tags: Mice, Games, photograph, Upstart EmSense, Lee, rabbit, mouse, sensor, video game company, cage, gel, Monterey, THQ Inc., Santa Monica, Super Bowl, game company, headset, chief technology officer, video, sales, video game, gamer, advertiser, Hollywood, California, monitor, photogra
- Image galleries 2007-08-21
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- Apple iPhone 3G launch roundup
- "I have an iPhone... and you don't!" I decided (ok, my financial advisor, aka spouse, decided for me) to skip the iPhone 3G frenzy this morning and just sit back and watch the fun. For...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Searching for definition
- Searching for definitionThe stage 1 levellerThe development that is seeding right now is predicted by many to be a growth phase of around 10 years. Why ten years I'm not sure, probably it links to the cycles inherent in our financial systems.Enterprise must adapt very quickly. Whilst they can grow...
- Tags: Searching
- Discussion threads 2008-06-15
- Blade's "rackonomics" approach to data center cooling
- I love it when companies pitch me because they've been reading this blog and have something that they think one-ups something I've already written about. Thus was the case with Blade Network Technologies, an upstart in the blade networking space working closely with blade giants IBM, NEC and Hewlett-Packard. (Others...
- Tags: Data Center, Network, Blade, Switch, Blade Networks, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a chipmaker again?
- Via has open sourced a laptop--computer assisted design documents, 3D models and all of the specifications--but let's be clear about the motives. Via wants to sell more chips and motherboards to power this device with hopes to become a little more relevant. Via calls this contraption the...
- Tags: Open Source, Motherboard, Laptop Computer, Laptop Design, Wireless Module Option, Module Option, Chipsets, CAD, Notebooks, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- The company people want Microsoft to be
- The recent announcements regarding Microsoft's plans to include native support for ODF and PDF as part of Office 2007 SP2 was certainly unexpected. They had just managed to get OXML ratified by ISO, a move that was clearly aimed to counter a format that had benefited from its decision to...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, IM, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Instant Messaging, Game Players, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Kickfire: MySQL data box for the rest of us
- Given all the various technology news in the last two weeks, it would have been relatively easy to overlook a press release from a small startup called Kickfire, which produces an appliance to run MySQL applications. Snore. Yet another dime a dozen appliance vendor, which will probably...
- Tags: Performance, MySQL, I/O, Kickfire, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Of course you realize, this means war.
- Fanboys exist for every favored computing platform. When you've been writing about computing for any number of years, such as I have, you are eventually going become the target of kooks – people who post completely random stuff on your blogs, send you crazy and inflamed emails, or write...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Macalope, Jason Perlow, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- PC Industry Episode II: Attack of the Mac Clones
- As I am sure like many of you, I watched the entire Psystar imbroglio unfold last week, snickering under my breath with unabated amusement while I imagined the collective blood pressures of Apple executives boil to a protective fever, with armies of attorneys ready to stream out in phalanx attack...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Attack, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- An (Imaginary?) Hannaford Conspiracy
- The regularity with which geezers like me see history repeating itself suggests some combination of memory influencing perception with an amazing continuity in the forces driving human behavior. Worse, our perceptions of what happened then may be wrong but influence our interpretations of what's happening during the perceived re-run anyway,...
- Tags: Point-of-sale, Debit Card, Computer, IBM Corp., Hannaford, Data Breach, Linux, Financial Services, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Photos: Electric cars in New York
- At the 2008 New York auto show, the race is on to offer a production electric car. Major automakers Nissan, Subaru, and Mitsubishi showed working vehicles, while an upstart brought in a conversion with impressive stats. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Car, New York, Photograph, Manufacturing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-03-21
- This is why I'll always remain a Microsoft skeptic
- This is why I'll always remain a Microsoft skepticAnd cue NMB'ers ....Personally, I see straight through their horsesh*t.Because they've lied so many times in the past, there is a remote possibility that at some time, once, they said something and I was wrongly over-skeptical, but I doubt it.RE: This is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Microsoft Corp., skeptic
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- News to know: IE 8; eBay security; Microhoo; Favorite Windows programs; Apple
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft caves: 'Super-standards' mode to become IE 8 default. Microsoft's IE blog Microsoft, Nokia to port Silverlight to Symbian phones Nate McFeters: eBay Red Team Event - Creating Security Awareness and Sharing Strategies Ed Bott's 10 Favorite...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Data warehouse appliance upstart plays the green card
- Heard today that the Dataupia Satori Server 12000 data warehouse appliance uses about 10 percent of the energy needed by a regular server designed for similar data warehousing applications. Likewise, it uses about half the energy that a SAN would need to store similar types of data. Or at least...
- Tags: Card, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Google+launches+its+%27let%27s+annoy+Microsoft%27+plan%3A+Pings+Yahoo+and+works+regulators
- Google+launches+its+%27let%27s+annoy+Microsoft%27+plan%3A+Pings+Yahoo+and+works+regulatorsNow where ..... have I seen tactics like this before , oh yeah Microsoft ...desperate?No more so than MS. Both are giants trying to watch out for number one. MS is trying to catch up and Google is trying to keep their lead.nobody clicks on ad-sense ads anmore.....
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-03
- OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world
- OLPC: the best designed notebook in the worldYou know, I was thingking the same thing. The OLPC would be great forschools right here in the good old US of A. I would think they should hire somebody to sell the idea to schools HERE. If we get a critical mass...
- Tags: Behar, notebook, Design Continuum, One Laptop Per Child project, Third World, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Intense interest in Microsoft Office standard
- Intense interest in Microsoft Office standardHigher up the tree[i]The underlying question remains this. Is standards-setting a judicial or a political process? Even if it is a judicial process, should such a process ignore politics, or be informed by it?[/i]I beg to differ. The underlying question is, "what is the...
- Tags: Quality, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, standards, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, Microsoft Office, Standards Bodies
- Discussion threads 2007-12-14
- Browser battle v2: Opera's complaint about Microsoft IE may fly in Europe
- It's the brower war v. 2.0. No doubt, Opera's antitrust complaint filed against Microsoft today to the European Commission is causing huge headaches in Redmond. The Norwegian company, whose pioneering open source browser rose to prominence on mobile devices, claims that...
- Tags: Web, Opera Software, European Commission, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Standards, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Quality, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Business Operations, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Hey Facebook's Zuckerberg, we're the blogosphere and we won't ease up until you kill Beacon
- Hey Facebook's Zuckerberg, we're the blogosphere and we won't ease up until you kill BeaconRun and hide little boyMore likely than not, he has ran and hide in his parent's basement, that punk that he is. He really thought he is smarter than everyone else and he can abuse them...
- Tags: Blogging, Facebook, blogosphere, Zuckerberg
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine
- Facebook has stirred up a great deal of controversy and now harsh criticism with its Beacon advertising program. Three weeks after launching Beacon Facebook, the company did a 180-degree turn to make it more palatable for users rather than advertisers. It still fell short of the total opt-in approach that...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, MySpace, Google OpenSocial API, Social Networking, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-01
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