Monday, May 12, 2003|
The Economist: On the tube. Though the recent chip is certainly impressive, the reason for getting excited about Nantero is not so much the present as the future. Unlike silicon, which is pushing against its physical limitations, carbon-nanotube technology is in its infancy. [Tomalak's Realm] 7:25:25 PM  comment
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Intel prototype transforms notebook. The company will unveil later this year a new double-jointed prototype portable computer, designed to get people thinking about what's next for notebook PCs. [CNET News.com] 7:24:43 PM comment
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Verizon Plans to Add Wi-Fi to Pay Phones. The telco giant plans to build 802.11b-compliant hotspot extensions of its broadband service in New York, using existing pay phones as the distribution vehicle. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 7:23:33 PM comment
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Conexant Releases Cheap Wi-Fi Chip. As the world moves on to 802.11a and/or g, one company hopes there's still life in 802.11b chips. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 7:22:32 PM comment
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Motion Unveils Centrino Tablet PC. The Texas startup's new M1300 is the first slate-style Tablet PC to include Intel's Centrino bundle of chips. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 7:21:42 PM comment
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Sun dreams of Jini 2.0. Sun reportedly readying a major upgrade to its Jini networking technology for release at its JavaOne developer conference next month. [Computerworld News] 7:16:28 PM comment
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Bango bakes m-commerce cookies. Fingerprints [The Register] 7:10:52 PM comment
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GM's Tony Scott on high-tech driving, wireless cars and software crashes. In the not-so-distant future, not only will you refuel your car. You may need to upgrade its software, too. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 7:06:27 PM comment
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Hill AFB saves $15 million a year with wireless parts-tracking system. Hill AFB has deployed a wireless parts-tracking system that will save money by cutting the time a part remains in the repair pipeline from 24 hours to two. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 7:01:39 PM comment
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Have Phone, Will Not Get Lost. The cost of satellite navigation is dropping drastically and global positioning systems are making their way into -- you guessed it -- the latest generation of mobile phones. The navigation hardware and software will soon be ubiquitous say industry analysts. [Wired News] 6:57:06 PM comment
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The Bionic Leading the Blind. A bionic retina can restore some eyesight for people with degenerative eye disease and may even help children who are born blind. Three patients have been implanted with the device, which is one third the size of a contact lens. [Wired News] 6:48:00 PM comment
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Ferreting Out the Fittest in Cable. A price war over high-speed Internet access may be shaping up between cable and telecommunications companies. By Geraldine Fabrikant. [New York Times: Technology] 6:41:37 PM comment
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Loss Widens as Softbank Spends Heavily. The Softbank Corporation, the Japanese telecommunications and Internet holding company, said that its losses mounted last year. By Ken Belson. [New York Times: Technology] 6:35:22 PM comment
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Lucent to Form a Network Sales Team. Lucent said that it was forming a separate sales team to seek network-services contracts as demand for switches and other components declines. By Bloomberg News. [New York Times: Technology] 6:32:56 PM comment
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Bayesian vs. latent semantic analysis. By way of Michael Alderete's blog, I found this fascinating item by Tim Oren, a venture capitalist whose eight-year stint at Apple included advanced research on the use of latent semantic analysis for document categorization. Although he can't say for sure, Oren strongly suspects that although OS X Mail is widely thought to use Bayesian techniques, it in fact uses latent semantic analysis: ... [Jon's Radio] 6:31:16 PM comment
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Kiechel: You've spoken of high-tech companies, Intel included, moving through a "valley of death" right now. Where is Intel on its trek through that? Grove: Our last-generation growth has been fueled by a fairly major structural transformation of the computing industry from mainframe, centralized computing to distributed computing, PCs. And that defined the structure for the entire industry, defined the growth opportunities, and defined the opportunities for packet software.
That framework is changing now. The Internet is redefining software. The Internet is redefining the role of computing and communication and their interaction with each other. I still don't understand the new framework. I don't think any of us really do. But some aspects of it are pretty clear. It's proven to be not computing based but communications based. In it computing is going to be subordinated to the communication task. It is going to be very heavily dominated by the increasing portion of all intellectual property being created in digital form, stored in this platform, and therefore ready to be transported in digital form. |
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