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How healthy is John McCain?

Here's a late Friday news dump and question for you. Just how healthy is John McCain? To hear the U.S. press write it, after getting a three-hour look at over 1,200 pages of documents, pretty good: A clean bill of health,...

Tags: John McCain, Medication, Vertigo, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-30

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Updated: Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and Move

There was a lot of buzz around the fact that Silverlight was going to be use at the Democratic national convention for video my post here and off the heels of the Olympics, it seemed like a good thing for Microsoft to get into and I was really looking forward...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Plug-in, Move, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Nintendo to bring DS downloads to Wii

According to the New York Times, Nintendo is moving their two top gaming platforms even closer together: the Wii, designed for casual gamers of all ages, and the DS, designed for players on the go. Both devices feature built-in WiFi connectivity. Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's president and chief operating...

Tags: Game, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Kid, DS, Games, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-01-03

William Gibson: Forget about corporate futurism

Silicon.com has an interview the William Gibson, author of the cyberspace classic Neuromancer and of the just published Spook Country. In the interview, Gibson is asked why he doesn't write about the future in his latest books:The trouble is there are enough crazy factors and wild cards on the table...

Tags: Silicon.com, Possibility, Interview, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-07

MySpace launches movie "mashup"

MySpace to Facebook: anything you can do, we can do better. With Facebook announcing plans to create a User-Generated television series called "Facebook Diaries", MySpace UK is being far more ambitious. In partnership with Vertigo Films and Film4, MySpace has launched "MyMovie Mashup", a UK only competition to find the...

Tags: Video Sharing, Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook

Blog posts 2007-02-08

Vertigo (exe)

Vertigo conversion software will convert between the most important general, scientific/engineering units in over 35 categories of measurement. Vertigo also includes a scientific calculator.Version 2.3 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2007-02-08

Vertigolf 1&2 (exe)

Get high in Vertigolf 1&2 in these two vertigo inducing 3D mini golf games set on floating islands in the sky. In Vertigolf 1 you take on 18 challenging holes with the bonus 19th if you can beat par. Then play one of the three 9 hole courses in Vertigolf...

Tags: Hole, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-01-25

Remote-controlled humans?

Researchers from Australia announced last week that it is possible to guide people movements by remote control. This technique, known as galvanic vestibular stimulation GVS, is not new and has been demonstrated for the first time in 1999. But until now, this technique, which uses electrodes placed just below people'...

Tags: rotation, technique

Blog posts 2006-08-08

Apple partners with Nike on iPod for runners

Apple partners with Nike on iPod for runnersSWOSH - IMOBILE is HERE!As we eagerly await the Apple "Imobile" phone, along comes this Nike/Apple alliance --- can you imagine the marketing campaign? Similar to the iPod, with U2's vertigo and the silhouettes of the "IPODS" --- now we get athletes,...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, partnership, Nike Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., iMobile

Discussion threads 2006-05-24

Fighting complexity with complexity

There was a time when MTV actually had music, and Oracle was just a database company. And, yes, we had Web services as simple interfaces to untangle problematic architectures. MTV has become a hodge-podge of over-commercialized hyperentertainment, Oracle has become a hodge-podge of acquired vendors, and Web services has become......

Tags: Web services, Business process automation, Web service, Web, standards

Blog posts 2006-02-15

Polycolor Screensaver (exe)

The Polycolor Screensaver is the screensaver that generates an endless variety of mesmerizing abstract images with True Color (32bit) color depth. Images turn from one to another in amazing vertigo of flying objects or just a slow Christmas snowfall. The powerful mathematics engine generates different images that are never the...

Tags: Screensaver, Polycolor Screensaver, Mathematics Engine

Software downloads 2005-12-21

Ballmer gives IT pros a bear hug

Ballmer gives IT pros a bear hugHow appropriate.. getting hugged by a dangerous predator.Yep.. Microsoft.. Ballmer .. it all fits.Which is better managed?Linux can easily be managed by the masses. The whole idea is to have one unique kernel and to use the tools accross many boxes. Some...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, amoeba, Linux, server, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2005-06-06

Anticopying fight mars mobile music

Anticopying fight mars mobile musicMobile Phone "Content" ?It's a damned phone people!Cell phones should be good for making callsFirst off, cell phones should be good for making calls, first and foremost. If it makes other sounds or can, say, access the internet, all the more power in some cases. As...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Battery Technology, RIAA, phone, mobile

Discussion threads 2005-05-05

Will Apple flash iPod rock market?

Will Apple flash iPod rock market?about timethe non-replaceable hdd and battery has always been a huge problem for me ... hope the battery pops out too (like that 'zen' ipod knockoff).Mackintosh ReduxApple better work on lowering pricing or they will find them selves having to concede the music market to...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Macintosh, PC

Discussion threads 2004-12-20

Nobel laureate rings energy alarm bell

Nobel laureate rings energy alarm bellAlarm bells ring to deaf ears in Bush administrationThe current Bush priority is to dig for more oil, not find alternatives. This is a disaster in the making.The best hope is for other developed countries not pouring $1Billion a month into Iraq to invest in...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Mobile Energy, FUD

Discussion threads 2004-12-15

Virus warning: Cyborgs at risk

Virus warning: Cyborgs at riskCute, but I wouldn't hold my breathI don't think cyborgs are going to be [i]that[/i] popular. Not in the current century, at least.Plus, Warwick's declaring that people who decide not to participate in cybernetics becoming a "subspecies" sounds suspiciously like he wants to re-introduce bigotry and...

Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Operating systems, CYBORGS, virus

Discussion threads 2004-11-13

Apple's U2 'box set' a sign of shifting music pricing?

Apple's U2 'box set' a sign of shifting music pricing?99 cents worksI buy all my music from iTunes these days. Cheaper would be better, but more? More than 99 cents would probably have a lot of us legitimate downloaders returning to the days of "rip and return" ...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Media players, Benefits, Music Distributors, Apple Inc., Allah

Discussion threads 2004-10-26

Vertigo Brings Office Application Power to the Pocket PC With .NET Compact Framework

Can Office applications really scale to handheld devices? Vertigo proved it's possible to quickly deploy Office functionality on powerful Pocket PC devices. Their application lets people control PowerPoint presentations from a Pocket PC handheld. Taking only one developer two months to develop using the .NET Compact Framework, the application lets...

Tags: Microsoft .NET, PC, Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, PowerPoint Presentation, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Hardware, Office Suites, Software

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