Monday, October 21, 2002|
Polymer Memory While microchip makers continue to wring more and more from silicon, the most dramatic improvements in the electronics industry could come from an entirely different material: plastic. Labs around the world are working on integrated circuits, displays for handheld devices and even solar cells that rely on electrically conducting polymers[~]not silicon[~]for cheap and flexible electronic components. Now two of the world[base ']s leading chip makers are racing to develop new stock for this plastic microelectronic arsenal: polymer memory. 2:32:58 PM  comment
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E-Textiles Come into Style Next season's smart outfits will be wired. 2:31:36 PM comment
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Five Missteps to Avoid When Times are Turbulent Yes, there is plenty of uncertainty in the current environment that can cloud strategic judgment. But there is much more clarity by experts on one subject: what companies should not do now. Here's what they say. 2:30:58 PM comment
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Will Business Buy Tablet PC?. After buying the latest and greatest efficiency tools in the late 1990s, corporate executives might not jump on the Tablet PC bandwagon. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 2:30:09 PM comment
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10 rules of e-business failure, a list inspired by the recording industry's imaginative approach: "Computers are just tools, and useful only in making your existing marketing model more efficient. Give word-processors to your secretaries and install computerized stock-tracking systems so you can lay off staff. Declare the future to have arrived. Collect your performance bonus." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] 2:28:34 PM comment
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InfoWorld reports on Apple's Bluetooth strategy. Senior management at the Cupertino, Calif.-based company believes wireless access to corporate data will coalesce around synchronization software, Bluetooth-enabled handsets, notebooks, desktops, and wireless carriers.[The Bluetooth Weblog] 2:26:47 PM comment
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Triangulating on Wi-Fi: A Swedish firm updates their positioning software to include Wi-Fi triangulation to offer services that would be specific to a user's location. But, of course, this could also be used to detect rogue users and rogue APs. I found this story via Slashdot, where a number of posters noted that any site smart enough to deploy this kind of sophisticated positioning software was probably already taking security pretty seriously. [80211b News]2:25:50 PM comment
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Mitch Kapor's open source PIM to use wxPython. Mitch Kapor's Open Source Applications Foundation has emerged into blogspace, where Mitch says he'll chronicle its progress. The first project: a powerful, easy-to-use personal information manager for Linux, Windows, and Mac. Mitch writes: ... [Jon's Radio] 2:24:18 PM comment
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Kapor's open source 'spreadsheet for the mind'. In, er ... Python? [The Register] 2:23:18 PM comment
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Apple's road less traveled. Technology strategy maps a path to the enterprise's front door [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:20:42 PM comment
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ERP targets mid-market. Microsoft, Baan, Oracle, PeopleSoft rev enterprise apps for the mid-market [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:20:18 PM comment
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BizTalk to support Siebel's UAN. Architecture lets businesses rapidly deploy, modify business processes [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:19:46 PM comment
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Nokia boosts Symbian's handheld OS market share. Study says market shares will keep fluctuating [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:19:08 PM comment
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Siebel pledges support for .Net. Siebel plans to integrate with .Net, but not exclusively [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:17:41 PM comment
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Here is an example of a digital picture taken with the new Foveon chip. It is from a German camera company called Sigma (thanks Ted for the link). As we continue to see high quality digital camera equipment roll-out, it is likely that many people would like to be able to get the full image (rather than a reduced quality file). Reasons? To be able to get a high quality print. To be able to view it on high end (HDTV) monitors. To see all the detail possible in a family photo etc. To do offline editing. The list is endless. I personally would like to see news photos of this quality. But there is a problem. This picture is 2.5 Mb (it's huge and will take a long while to download). Also, streaming doesn't really work in this case. That means that for the low-end broadband we are currently getting, viewing high quality photos is too slow for a good experience unless it is downloaded in the background as part of a subscription. It gets even worse for photo albums. Again, I have added it as an enclosure for Radio users, so sit back and wait for it to download as part of your RSS subscription to this site. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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Kevin Werbach's paper on "Open Spectrum" is a good overview of "the right" wireless philosophy (and something that should be the mantra of the FCC). The problem is, as he mentions in the paper, that entrenched telecom intrerests will prevent progress. We continue to grind to a halt as an economy and a society as the "toll" takers (from telecom to media) continue to block innovation. They want stasis. Status quo. Exclusive franchises. High tarriffs. Monopoly rents. In other words, they want societal and economic death. Why do I say that? What happens when you slow an accelerating frieght train to 0 MPH in an extremely short time frame? You get a train wreck. His paper (PDF) is included as an enclosure to this post. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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Wow. I have the quote of the week on the Harrow Technology Report. If you haven't subscribed to this yet, you should. It is one of the gems of the NET (it also includes audio versions). Sample quote: Serious "competitive advantage" could easily overcome peoples' reluctance to accept even invasive "accessories." Consider how, on a less personally-invasive note, the telephone was initially received in British society in 1876: Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer of the British Post Office, said, [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 2:15:20 PM comment
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Report recommends shuttle privatization. A report commissioned by NASA suggests that the agency further privatize shuttle operations, including possibly... [spacetoday.net] 2:09:02 PM comment
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More power to the thumb There has to be a better way of typing text messages on cell phones. There is, but mobile operators are reluctant to introduce it. 11:50:53 AM comment
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Watch this airspace Wireless telecoms: Four disruptive technologies are emerging that promise to render not only the next wave of so-called 3G wireless networks irrelevant, but possibly even their 4G successors 11:48:31 AM comment
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Goodbye to the video store Streaming video: For too long, [base "]video-on-demand[per thou] has promised more than it could deliver. But new ways are emerging for shrink-wrapping massive video files for delivery over the Internet . 11:45:29 AM comment
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Cutting the ties that bind Better than Bluetooth or WiFi, a robust new wireless scheme promises to deliver multimedia around the office and home without cables or fuss. 11:42:51 AM comment
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Comeback kid? As the locus of innovation moves on to other fields, can information technology ever regain its pre-eminence? 11:41:30 AM comment
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Texting the television Interactive TV has taken off in Europe in an unexpected way: via mobile phones
THERE was a time when any self-respecting television show, particularly one aimed at a young audience, had to have an e-mail address. But on Europe's TV screens, such addresses are increasingly being pushed aside in favour of telephone numbers to which viewers can send text messages from their mobile phones. And no wonder: according to research about to be published by Gartner, a consultancy, text messaging has recently overtaken Internet use in Europe (see chart). One of the fastest-growing uses of text messaging, moreover, is interacting with television. Gartner's figures show that 20% of teenagers in France, 11% in Britain and 9% in Germany have sent messages in response to TV shows. |
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