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- Wrinkles in nanoscale-sized films
- An international team of scientists from Chile, the Netherlands and the U.S. has found a very simple way to measure the material properties of thin films having a thickness of only a dozen nanometers. The researchers just dropped water on thin film floating in a Petri dish. This causes wrinkles...
- Tags: Film, Wrinkle, Polymer, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-12
- Photos: Arizona city goes wireless
- Tempe, Ariz., has installed a border-to-border wireless network, but it's not without some wrinkles.
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Arizona, wrinkle, wireless, wireless network, network
- Image galleries 2006-06-29
- Photos: Arizona city goes wireless
- Tempe, Ariz., has installed a border-to-border wireless network, but it's not without some wrinkles.
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Arizona, wrinkle, wireless, wireless network, network
- Image galleries 2006-06-29
- Photos: Arizona city goes wireless
- Tempe, Ariz., has installed a border-to-border wireless network, but it's not without some wrinkles.
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Arizona, wrinkle, wireless, wireless network, network
- Image galleries 2006-06-29
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- Lessons from American university education
- I sometimes "relax" by logging on to PalTalk, a system designed for real-time voice chat, finding rooms where I can debate important issues related to politics or economics. I'm not always successful, as it's surprising how often those forums descend into free-for-alls where individuals take turns at the mic throwing...
- Tags: Education, University, Europe, American University, University Of South Dakota, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Microsoft: Pondering the alternatives to Yahoo
- Microsoft's Saturday "negotiate or else" deadline for Yahoo has passed with an eerie silence. Yahoo's board is reportedly meeting Sunday--you'd think the company would have met before the deadline, but I guess we're all prone to procrastination. Microsoft CFO Christopher Liddell hinted on Thursday and in a broadcast to employees...
- Tags: Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
- Microhoo careens toward closure: Assessing the moving parts
- Updated: The Microsoft-Yahoo saga appears to be heading toward closure, but there are multiple loose ends to tie up. Microsoft has set the pace with a three week deadline--quickly becoming two weeks--for Yahoo to join negotiations, but Jerry Yang and company are proving that they have more strategic alternatives in...
- Tags: Antitrust, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microhoo, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- User experience begins with the software installer
- Writer John Welch on his Bynkii blog ranted up a storm this week over his experience installing Adobe Systems' Creative Suite 3. He wonders how it could happen that a software powerhouse could offer such a terrible installer. Or maybe it's because Adobe is so big — Welch isn't the...
- Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., User Experience, John Welch, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Strategy, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Promises, promises: A look at Waste Management's case against SAP
- Waste Management's lawsuit against SAP for a "complete failure" of a $100 million software implementation boils down to promises. What did SAP promise Waste Management? And how much responsibility does Waste Management bear for believing those promises? As background, news surfaced last week that Waste Management filed...
- Tags: Software, SAP AG, Waste Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Is DoubleClick a profit margin killer for Google?
- Google has its display advertising beachhead with its acquisition of DoubleClick, but now the real fun begins: The integration and the profit margin risk. In a research note Tuesday, UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter cut his earnings, revenue and margin estimates based on the usual suspects: A slowing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Profit Margin, DoubleClick Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Blu-ray+add-ons%2C+and+free+dev+tools+for+students
- Blu-ray+add-ons%2C+and+free+dev+tools+for+studentsPITAThe arguable benefits of MS tools are arguably offset by the fact that the terms of use require students to be supervised while using them, which in turn means that they are shackled to a timeslot in the school's computer lab.Not a problem with Brand X11.Streamed downloads or...... regular DVDs...
- Tags: HD DVD, Public relations, DVD, Game players, Consumer electronics, Games, Microsoft Corp., HD-DVD, HD-DVD Drive
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Microsoft-Yahoo: The end game nears; Was there an Amazon-Yahoo deal in the works?
- Yahoo will reportedly have a special board of directors meeting to discuss Microsoft's $44.6 billion unsolicited bid. Meanwhile, the game theories abound. According to TechCrunch Yahoo's fate could be decided today. My guess is that Yahoo's fate won't be completely decided, but the end game is definitely...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Trip Chowdhry, Games, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Why does the MacBook Air make so many so dumb?
- Believe it, Apple's new ultralight notebook is perfect technology. It's an elite product, something that seems to drive populist Mac fans crazy. But this notebook will be Apple's next step in a strategy to infiltrate the enterprise. Smart people at parties and on the show floor here...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Battery, Machine, MacBook Air, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Live: Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld 2008
- Bookmark this page for live, real-time coverage of the Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld Expo 2008. This page will refresh every 150 seconds once the keynote begins at 9am PST. Scroll directly to the latest update. We've also compiled a live gallery of images. 7:53 a.m.: ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Competition, Setup, Apple Inc., Photograph, DVD, Chip, Leopard, Library Title, HD, Steve, MacBook Air, Air, Newman, Podcasts, Keyboards, Notebooks, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- The HD DVD predicament
- The HD DVD camp is probably feeling a bit like Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, facing as they did an astounding reversal of fortunes a day before the start of the CES convention in Las Vegas. Warner Brothers' announcement seemed timed for maximum effect, which seems to belie protestations...
- Tags: Java, HD-DVD, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- What is Facebook's stance on data portability?
- The latest wrinkle on the controversy over importing Facebook data into Plaxo is that Facebook has reinstated Robert Scoble's 5,000 friend account per the following email and caveat in bold: Hi Robert, Facebook's Terms of Use broadly prohibits the running of automated scripts on the...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Facebook, E-mail, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Can Netflix capture the set-top box?
- Netflix's ongoing progression toward digital delivery continues, this time with a set-top box deal with LG. The big question is whether Netflix can capture the set-top box--the Holy Grail and de facto home entertainment server these days. According to a bevy of reports see Techmeme, Netflix will...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Ireland, labor migration and globalization
- It was great to see Ireland again, something I did as part of a trip to London (for those looking for cheap trips to Europe, try flying to Shannon, Ireland then using one of the many discount airlines that fly into that airport, like EasyJet, RyanAir or CentralWings). ...
- Tags: Barrier, Ireland, Tax, Migration, Globalization, Taxes, Free Trade, Strategy, Management, Financial Planning, Finance, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Bill to add emails to sex registry
- The latest wrinkle in the battle against sex offenders: The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to include email addresses and online IDs in offenders' records in the national registry of sex offenders, The Washington Post reports. The legislation is called Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual...
- Tags: Registry, Legislation, E-mail Address, MySpace, Sex Offender, E-mail, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- Ensuring Code Quality in Multi-threaded Applications
- Today, the world of software development is presented with a new challenge. To fully leverage this new class of multi-core hardware, software developers must change the way they create applications. By turning their focus to multi-threaded applications, developers will be able to take full advantage of multi-core devices and deliver...
- Tags: Software, Multi-core, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
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