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- Mark Greaves of Vulcan sees business opportunities in the Semantic Web
- Vulcan shares many traits with its reclusive founder, Paul Allen, yet behind the scenes the company is responsible for philanthropic support to research and community-building activities, as well as investing commercially in the likes of Radar Networks the company behind Twine and Evri. Last week, I had...
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- BayStar confirms Microsoft referral to SCO
- BayStar confirms Microsoft referral to SCOYeah, MS would do so, like IBMseeds open source with contributory code and funds. Sun bought StarOffice to open up OpenOffice as a cash cow killer to MS Office ooops took out Corel as well. Like which companies wouldn't seed a counterstrike on their...
- Discussion threads 2004-03-11
- 3DVoiceNews-Creator 1.0 (Windows)
- Vulcan's 3dVoiceNews technology for windows® 95, 98, 2000, ME, CE and XP, combines real time 3d rendering with dynamic synthetic speech, in turn presenting perfectly lip synched characters who speak your text based news. There are two elements, the 3dVoiceNews player that is made available to your customers and...
- Software downloads 2002-01-14
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- Paul Allen diagnosed with cancer
- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with cancer, according to a memo sent on Monday to employees of Vulcan, Allen's company. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with cancer, according to a memo sent on Monday to employees...
- News items 2009-11-17
- MythBusters spill the beans on new episodes
- MythBusters dirty car vs clean carIn my days as a KC-135 Crew member, I was already aware of the low drag benefits of a rough textured paint. The painted surface on the KC-135 resembled shark skin in feel.There were studies done decades ago proving glossy surfaces on airplanes produced more...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Cisco Buys Tandberg on its way to be your B2B video conferencing partner
- I spent a day with Tandberg management last week and came away very impressed with some things I can't share and also some things that I can share. Tandberg has: Great HD videoconferencing solutions in room-sized all the way down to Webcam. Yep, a Webcam image looks...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- News to know: Microsoft; Linux failure; Mac clones; Chip shortfalls
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Does the Windows 7 team have too much Apple envy? Readers weigh in Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Argentinian Mac clone makes an appearance ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand
- No matter their political affiliation, most people who have an opinion about what President-elect Barack Obama should do first after he’s sworn into office point to the country’s economic identity crisis as his first order of business. And given how much the latest jobs report rattled the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- I was browsing on webmagazine Salon when I came across an interesting review written by Scott Rosenberg of the book "Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know" by Randall Stross. (The title of the article is, "Google's Vulcan death grip." Boy am I a sucker.) ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Semantic Technology's place in the enterprise; key, but low-key ?
- Last week saw over 200 researchers, advocates, implementors and practitioners of Semantic Technology descend upon the delightful Austrian capital for the second European Semantic Technology Conference ESTC. Smaller than the more established Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose and nestling uncomfortably close both spatially and temporally to...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- European Semantic Technology revisited
- I mentioned the European Semantic Technology Conference ESTC in my previous post, just before going off on holiday. Since then, I've been asked to moderate a panel at the event. The topic is clearly directly relevant to readers of this blog, hence the plug. The conference organisers...
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Live from IDF: Entertainment, WiMax and a sense of security.
- When you're talking tech, it never hurts to have a convertible BMW on stage with you. The afternoon keynote speeches at the Intel Developer Forum covered a lot of ground and some eye candy to keep us focused on what a couple of hours of geek speak can morph into,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Venturing into Semantic Technologies ?
- One of the most interesting sessions at the consistently engaging Semantic Technology conference in San Jose back in May was the 'Semantic Venture Panel: Investor Opportunities and Pitfalls.' Alex Iskold did a good job of capturing the essence of the session for ReadWriteWeb and I recommend a...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Earth Day – have a gas
- Sample Vulcan map from Purdue & NASA. The folks at Purdue University have come up with a way for us to watch the CO2 emissions across the U.S. Just in time for Earth Day, 2008. It's called Vulcan, and it's going to...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Laser scanning robot 3D-R1 used to map mines
- A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote survey vehicle RSV 3D-R1 weighs about 135 kilograms and is 0.6 meter high. It...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Fujitsu LifeBook P1620 - Core 2 Duo U7600 1.2 GHz - 8.9" TFT
- The Fujitsu LifeBook P1620 sits somewhere between the ultraportable and UMPC camps, combining a 9-inch convertible tablet display (which rotates both ways--a tablet rarity) with a decent-size keyboard and business-friendly security features, including an embedded TPM Trusted Platform Module chip. Naturally, there are compromises to be found in such a...
- Product reviews 2008-03-26
- FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what?
- Updated: Verizon Wireless was the biggest winner in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 Mhz auction. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin revealed Verizon Wireless as the biggest winner of spectrum. Martin made the comments at a press conference at FCC headquarters. Here's Martin's statement (also see...
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Radar Networks raises additional $13 million in Series B round
- A rumoured additional investment in San Francisco-based Semantic Web startup, Radar Networks, has become clearer over the weekend. Late last week, Dan Primack broke the story on PE Hub, reporting on a lunch he'd had with Ross Levinsohn and Roland Van der Meer of Velocity. VentureBeat's Chris...
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- WiBrain B1E UMPC
- Priced at $699 and offering a variety of useful input options, the Wibrain B1E avoids the two pitfalls that commonly beset UMPCs--high price and low usability. Its price makes it the cheapest UMPC we've reviewed; it's $300 less than the Fujitsu LifeBook U810 and a fraction of the cost of...
- Product reviews 2008-01-17
- News to know: People don't get the MacBook Air; Thinnest digital camera; Merger mania
- Notable headlines: Cisco plugs CallManager vulnerability that rates a '10' Janice Chen: Think the MacBook Air is thin? Check out the thinnest 8-megapixel digital camera. Dan Farber: Salesforce adds $5 per login pricing option and new developer tools. Phil Wainewright:...
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
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