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We have started working with Centennial, who makes a software package letting companies manage their policies regarding USB-attached devices, called DeviceWall. Consequently I am now paying more attention to these issues, and just saw the news (via Cnet, through Slashdot, through Diggdot) of a new program that lets an iPod user ‘slurp’ the data off […]
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I am sure there is a Web 2.0 service like this somewhere… I’d like to have a “Your Web Today” view, where not only I have the RSS feeds pumping information in me like a goose as it happens already, but more simply pages that I want to revisit. This came to me as I
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The recent decision by Sony to eliminate its robot product lines, the Aibo entertainment robot, and the prototype stage Qrio, certainly pleased its shareholders, and the managers making the decision are still plauding themselves. The resemblance with DEC in its final years is striking. Just as the wind is about to be taken out of
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Amazon has just announced the Amazon Mechanical Turk, which in my opinion will bring great advantages to both the web, and to a lot of people, potentially representing the livelihood of millions soon. The AMT is a web interface linking meatspace with cyberspace at the backend. We are accustomed to seeing people in front of
The Amazon Mechanical Turk that represents a potential revolution Read More »
I am writing this through the blogging interface of Flock, which aims to make the browser the hub of online social interactions in a closer loop.
Blogging through Flock! Read More »
As broadcast live on Chinese national TV, and announced by the People’s Daily Online, now a second nation alongside Russia is capable of sending a human crew in space for extended missions. I wonder when the US will also gain this technological capability?
Now a second nation capable of sending humans in space! Read More »
I’ve created a new blog, with a hat tip to SkypeJournal: www.gizmojournal.net aims to keep you up to date with the technical, commercial, and industry side of Gizmo Project, and SIPphone, the company behind it.
New blog on VOIP technologies Read More »
When I have started listening to ITconversations, and following more closely certain blogs, what I realized that you can very efficiently collect a lot of what you would personally experience by physically visiting a conference or an exhibition. NextFest 2005 was one of the exhibitions I would have wanted to attend, and seeing the great
Remote participation in conferences, and exhibitions Read More »
Solutions to important, complex problems often self selct through economic pressures, so it is natural that alternative energy sources become viable as the traditional ones price themselves out of the reach of their consumers. CNET News.com is reporting that Google founders have invested in
Solar energy gaining exposure Read More »
After a few years the dream of MP3.com is back, and it even more important than before. www.MP3tunes.com offers DRM-free songs at a great price, and couples with a Linux-based media center called MP3beamer that lets you sync it to all your PCs or devices. Digital Restrictions Management, as founder Michael Robertson calls it, cripples
Digital Restrictions Management free music Read More »
