Tuesday, April 23, 2002|
Jenny found true convergence. Digital cameras combined with personal storage (MP3 player). Next: Video/camera devices combined with copious, mobile personal storage. Add in glasses mounted displays and surround sound and you have a movie theater-like set-up that can span personal/family generated content to professional content. Hey, let's stretch our brains a little more. If combined with a OQO PC, voice control of a weblog app, and a next gen P2P network, it would be possible to totally document a life in full surround sound, video, stills, writing, and audio narration. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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Rob McNair-Huff, editor of MacNet Journal, has a public outline of Mac OS X apps by category that tracks the development of each product. This is beyond what the tech pubs used to do. They'd publish snapshots of markets, that were useful, but didn't change over time. This is very cool.  [Scripting News]2:18:32 PM  comment
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Forget Laptops, the Folding Screen Lands in Korea A new paperback-sized computer screen that folds like a book will be ideal for Internet users reading online novels, its South Korean inventor said on Tuesday. 1:48:33 PM comment
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Increasing profitability through Web services The idea of investing in the latest technology may have a certain trend appeal. However, unless it solves some problem in a way that either reduces costs or increases revenues, then the investment is not warranted. To understand how Web services can reduce costs and increase revenues, you must have an understanding of the technology landscape existing within many large corporations. Corporate America has invested heavily in information technology. Many front-end and back-end operations have been automated, including accounting systems, Web sites, manufacturing, and so forth. The next challenge lies in integration. The investments to date have created an IT landscape comprising variegated and often disparate systems. Many systems automate specific tasks, yet these systems fail to interact with one another to achieve one cohesive system. These disconnected systems are often referred to as [base "]islands of automation.[per thou]
Companies have spent millions of dollars on products such as Tibco, Vitria, and Crossworlds in an effort to build bridges between the islands. However, this effort has been further complicated by the rise of business-to-business (B2B) operations. With B2B, bridges must be built not only between islands within the same company but also between islands existing outside the corporation. Supply chains are a classic example, since they typically have multiple market participants, from suppliers to manufacturers to distributors to resellers. |
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How Web services cured my integration headaches At my last company, we had a major application integration problem primarily caused by a corporate growth strategy that centered around acquisitions. With each acquired company came various new applications that had been developed in different development environments and that operated on heterogeneous operating systems. For us, application integration seemed impossible. 1:23:27 PM comment
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Case study: Developing scalable and reliable .NET services Since the beta 2 release of .NET, I[base ']ve been developing and implementing a set of services designed to be used by organizations that want to manage their member community. I designed and implemented the system in .NET to support hundreds of thousands of daily requests from thousands of organizations. In this article series, we[base ']ll look at the key design issues I faced while architecting an application of this scale, and we[base ']ll discuss how I[base ']ve used .NET to solve them. 1:21:39 PM comment
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InfoWorld: Nokia, IBM set sights on public WLANs. IBM and Nokia, the world's largest mobile-phone maker, have agreed to jointly pursue the public wireless LAN market with the hope that in combining their strengths, they can add extra momentum to the spread of WLAN networks, the companies announced Monday. [Tomalak's Realm] 1:20:05 PM comment
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Building a Time Machine With Minimal Brain Fuel. "How to Build a Time Machine" actually lays out some plausible construction tips while covering the basics of time, relativity, black holes and other weird aspects of modern physics. By Malcolm W. Browne. [New York Times: Science] 1:19:37 PM comment
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Tiny PCs: Is There a Market?. A San Francisco startup makes a prototype for a full-fledged computer that's the size of a pocket novel. Will it find room for itself in the market or on the history shelves? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News] 1:19:24 PM comment
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Gates: Leave My Windows Alone. Testifying live for the first time since antitrust proceedings began, Microsoft chief Bill Gates says the 'proposed remedy would prevent perfectly appropriate pro-competitive behavior.' By Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate. [Wired News] 1:19:09 PM comment
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Handheld market alive but not kicking. Although the market is showing some signs of life, it has seen a year-over-year decline in units shipped during the first quarter of this year, according to IDC. [CNET News.com] 1:18:27 PM comment
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Your Reality Will Be Augmented. The April, 2002 issue of Scientific American has a very nice summary of current activity in Augmented Reality. Although superficially similar to Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality (AR) does not aim to replace the users environment, but to enhance it. Stephen K. Feiner describes the work of his group at Columbia University, and provides information on work being done elsewhere. [kuro5hin.org] 1:18:07 PM comment
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Stealth Transformation of the US Army. While air assets have become the preferred method of power projection for the US, the army is attempting to reassert the strategic relevance of its armored corps by quietly committing itself to a truly revolutionary transformation in land warfare spearheaded by the Future Combat Systems. [kuro5hin.org] 1:17:54 PM comment
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Sun Adds Wireless to Java Smart Cards. Updates its smart card platform [allNetDevices Wireless News] 1:12:17 PM comment
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AWE Adds AOL to i-mode Service. Also reports subscriber growth, revenue loss [allNetDevices Wireless News] 1:08:23 PM comment
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Symbian Gets Another Owner. Siemens buys in, Motorola strengthens commitment [allNetDevices Wireless News] 1:07:08 PM comment
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Ericsson Battens Down Its Hatches. As Europe's mobile phone industry reels from mountainous debt and emptying order books, Ericsson said that it would cut its work force by an additional 20 percent. By Alan Cowell. [New York Times: Business] 1:05:11 PM comment
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E.D.S. Cites Lag in Orders for Decline in Earnings. Electronic Data Systems reported first-quarter earnings that declined 21 percent, as the company felt a sharp slowdown in corporate spending and changed its accounting methods. By Chris Gaither. [New York Times: Business] 1:00:18 PM comment
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Demand for PDAs stalls in Q1 [IDG InfoWorld] 12:51:39 PM comment
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