Technology Today

• Automatic eyeglasses prescriptions?

  For its space missions, NASA wants astronauts with excellent vision without corrective lenses or glasses. This doesn't prevent its Vision Science and Technology Group to study human vision of ordinary ...

  Tags: Management, NASA, Metric, Roland Piquepaille, Strategy, Vision, Model

  May 16, 2008 9:05 AM PDT

• Universal coverage changes the debate

  Once you start following countries with universal health care, it's clear that problems remain but the terms of debate shifts. Take Canada, for instance. (Please?) Questions of how much money ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Health Care, Government, Dana Blankenhorn, Canada, Software, Benefits, Enterprise Software

  May 16, 2008 8:59 AM PDT

• Putting the XP into the OLPC

  So, Microsoft has managed to get in on the OLPC bandwagon and put XP in front of millions of eyeballs in the developing world. But is this move about the ...

  Tags: Management, Operating Systems, Team Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Team, One Laptop Per Child Project, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows

  May 16, 2008 8:47 AM PDT

• Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200

  The high-end graphics card market isn't the straightforward, mano-a-mano battle it used to be. Graphics cards with dual GPUs, systems with multiple cards in CrossFire or SLI implementations, and most ...

  Tags: Graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, Radeon, John Morris, NVidia Corp., Card

  May 16, 2008 8:44 AM PDT

• Yet another "iPhone killer:" Blackberry's Thunder (updated)

  Did you hear that John Mayer is cheating on Apple again? That's right, Apple's poster boy blogged that he's using a Blackberry Bold. Not really surprising considering that RIM sponsored ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Peripherals, Handhelds, Hardware, Verizon Communications Inc., Consumer Electronics, Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Keyboards

  May 16, 2008 8:17 AM PDT

• WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too

  Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrisy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital ...

  Tags: Bill Gates, Operating System, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Gates Foundation, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp., XO

  May 16, 2008 8:07 AM PDT

• Photo of rumored Palm Treo 800w appears

  Back in the day when I had a Palm OS Treo I used to load up the custom ROMs created by Shadowmite since they took out a bunch of junk ...

  Tags: Peripherals, Matthew Miller, Handhelds, Photograph, Hardware, Palm OS, Microsoft Windows, Palm Treo, Operating Systems, Palm Inc.

  May 16, 2008 7:40 AM PDT

• Open Source in 2013

  Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Workforce Management, World Entertainment Shortage, Dana Blankenhorn, America, Open Source, Job, Recruitment & Selection

  May 16, 2008 7:30 AM PDT

• Let's meet in Berlin

  I'll be in Berlin for a few days, attending SAP's Sapphire conference. I'd love to meet blog readers, so please say hello if you're there. Either send email use the ...

  Tags: Blog, Berlin, Online Communications, E-mail, Internet, Michael Krigsman, Blogging

  May 16, 2008 7:22 AM PDT

• Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put your iPhone 'slide to unlock' screen to use

  Remember when they invented the outside screen for the cell phone? You know, the little piece of crystal that showed the time? A coup for anyone neurotic enough to need ...

  Tags: Screen, Web Browsers, Andrew Nusca, Online Communications, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Internet, Apple iPhone, RSS

  May 16, 2008 7:12 AM PDT

• Barney Pell reports on Powerset's first week in discussion with the Semantic Web Gang

  Powerset CTO Barney Pell joins regular members of the Semantic Web Gang to share some of Powerset's experiences on the week since the launch of their public beta. Gang members ...

  Tags: Internet, Semantic Web, Paul Miller

  May 16, 2008 6:39 AM PDT

• Web 2.0 and the end of advertising

  The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Web, Web 2.0, Software, Phil Wainewright

  May 16, 2008 6:25 AM PDT

• Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA

  Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown ...

  Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Document, Software, Dana Gardner, SOA, Enterprise Software

  May 16, 2008 5:58 AM PDT

• iPhone's international rollout continues; 10 million units not a stretch

  Apple's iPhone will be headed to a few more countries courtesy of a new deal with French telecom carrier Orange. In a statement, Orange said: Orange today announced a new ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Orange PCS, Cellular Phones, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Networking, Telephony, Apple iPhone, Wireless

  May 16, 2008 5:31 AM PDT

• XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?

  The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, ...

  Tags: Operating System, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan, XO, Open Source

  May 16, 2008 4:48 AM PDT

• eCPMs for large Web sites down 52% in April 2008

  eCPMs for large Web sites (more than 100 mln page views per month) dropped dramatically by 52% from 38 cents in March 2008 to 18 cents in April 2008. Medium ...

  Tags: Web Site, Channel Management, Web, Web Site Development, AM, Monetization, Marketing, Web Technology, Internet

  May 16, 2008 4:48 AM PDT

• Video game hardware and software sales up 47% in April 2008

  Americans spent $1.23 bln on video games, hardware and accessories in April 2008, up 47% from April 2007. Total hardware sales grew 26% to $426.2 mln, with the Wii selling ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Sales, Sales Strategy, AM, Video, Hardware, Games, Software, Sales Force Management, Video Game

  May 16, 2008 4:46 AM PDT

• US cable companies added 1.19 mln new broadband subscribers in Q1 2008

  Largest cable companies in the US added 1.19 mln broadband subscribers in Q1 2008, according to Leichtman Research Group. Phone companies added 1.01 mln DSL customers in Q1 2008. Since ...

  Tags: Cable, Personal Technology, Phone, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Cable Company, AM, Telephone Company, Telecom & Utilities, Networking

  May 16, 2008 4:41 AM PDT

• Facebook flap: Google's side

  Amid the Facebook move to block Google's Friend Connect, the search giant has responded. As expected, Google had a few issues with Facebook's privacy assessment of Google Friend Connect. There's ...

  Tags: User Privacy, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan, Online Communications, Marketing, Google Friend Connect, Third Party App, Social Networking, Facebook, Google Inc.

  May 16, 2008 4:12 AM PDT

• News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing

  Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: ...

  Tags: Spam, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Spam And Phishing, Privacy, Microsoft Windows XP, Enterprise Software, Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan

  May 16, 2008 3:52 AM PDT

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