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Around November time each year there is a flurry of emails from my contacts to ask “Are you at CES? If so, let’s hook up!” (It used to be September, and Comdex, but now Comdex is no more, and the pattern is the same with CES, and I can safely ignore all the car-audio, and […]
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The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has had his space exploration company operating for some time, but very little was known about it, and the type of launch vehicle that it was developing. A few days ago the website of Blue Origin has had a major update, and posted images of its vertical take-off and
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Remembering the heroism of our space explorers – 1 Originally uploaded by david.orban. The space museum is closed. Not just closed, but in ruin, and abandon. Russia is a leader in the commercialization of its space infrastructure, as well as everything else it has, but in the meantime it forgot to keep an eye on
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Pirates’ market Originally uploaded by david.orban. Inside this market all types of software can be found on conveniently assembled CDs or DVDs. A typical price for a CD is 100 rubles ( about 4 dollars, or 3 euro), independently of the content. You can find the latest releases of Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007,
Al Shugart, founder of Seagate Technology, the leading hard disk manufacturer, died yesterday at 76. Shugart invented the technology behind the hard disks, starting from a a capacity at that time unbelievable of 5 MB, and built starting from scratch the company that brought them with a constant evolution, to become the basis of our
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Segway i2 For a few days, thanks to the friends at SCM I am testing the newly released Segway i2. I have already driven the old model, but I am glad to have the chance and test it at some length. My intention is that of bringing it everywhere, to see how people react. This
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As reported by Reuters this morning, and by the Italian news agency Ansa more detailedly this afternoon, the offices of Google Italy have been raided today by the Guardia di Finanza police force, and its American legal representatives have been notified of accusations against them of defamation, and omitted control of the content of a
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The Italian Post Office was privatized recently, and they pulled the freely downloadable database of Italian postcodes, right before introducing a new series of postcodes, extensive changes to existing ones, and a new rule by which they would refuse the delivery of any letter with an imprecise postcode on it. Simultaneously they started selling a
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For the last couple of days, one of the top articles, with more then a hundred of others, in the health section of Google News was from The Times Online talking about the proficency of the search engine with diagnosing medical conditions. None of the articles, or even the blog posts picking up on this
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