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Monday, March 15, 2004
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Personal medical devices: "Ben Shneiderman’s students [work] on interfaces for “personal medical devices”—like the monitors used by diabetics to record blood sugar, for example. [...] Shneiderman told us about a physician he’s been working with at Johns Hopkins who wants to work on how these devices record and report data, so that they (a) better match patient needs for record-keeping..." [mamamusings]
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See a map of software wars fought by the Empire of Microsoft ruled by Emperor Bill the Great.
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This is how PowerPoint was born -- Comment()
Background on Microsoft PowerPoint: "Although now a Microsoft product, PowerPoint was originally developed by Bob Gaskins, a former Berkeley Ph.D. student who envisioned an easy-to-use presentation program that would manipulate a string of single pages, or "slides". [...] PowerPoint 1.0 was released in 1987 and was originally only available for the Apple Macintosh, and only in black-and-white. It generated text-and-graphics pages that a photocopier could turn into overhead transparencies." I didn't realize that PowerPoint was first a Mac product, in the same way as Excel was. And that originally PowerPoint was not a Microsoft product.
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Flashmobs with a purpose: Protests in Madrid organized by SMS, chatrooms: "In Spain today, thousands gathered in the streets demanding answers from their government about this week's deadly terrorist attacks in Madrid. Bloggers in Spain tell BoingBoing the gatherings were decentralized "flash mobs", organized primarily by short text messages sent via Internet-capable mobile devices, and online in chatrooms and weblog forums." [Boing Boing]
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Regulators Meet on Proposal to Brand Microsoft a Monopolist: "On Monday, top antitrust regulators from the 15 nations in the European Union will gather here in the Centre Borschette, a bunkerlike building a stone's throw from the headquarters of the European Commission, to discuss a draft ruling that finds Microsoft guilty of abusing its dominance in operating software."
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