: "Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta Products The… 06/29/2004
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South Korea’s digital dynasty | CNET News.com: "On… 06/23/2004
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South Korea’s digital dynasty | CNET News.com: “On the brink of financial collapse only a few years ago, the Seoul government and national conglomerates have battled back to become a major force in the global technology economy.”
Steve Gillmor’s Blogosphere: "RSS for Food 06/23/2004
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Steve Gillmor’s Blogosphere: “RSS for Food”
“Sean Gallagher may not have coined the term, but his early use of the phrase Blogging for Food to describe my old CRN blog continues to resonate. While most bloggers don’t derive direct income from their sites (save for some Google bucks,) they certainly take advantage of viral marketing, brand management, and the virtual equivalent of a pan-handler’s pasteboard sign on 25th and Lincoln. “
X-box 2 strategy? | gamesindustry.biz : "There are… 06/18/2004
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X-box 2 strategy? | gamesindustry.biz : “There are a number of reasons for Microsoft’s decision to bring about a swift end to the current-generation Xbox – which will have been on the market for under four years when its new younger sibling appears to usurp its position. The company’s continuing losses on Xbox hardware sales and resultant bleeding of investment in the current generation is something it would obviously like to stem as soon as possible; after all, while Nintendo and Sony are reaping huge profits from this generation, it’s easy to see why Microsoft, bleeding cash with every Xbox sold, would be champing at the bit in its eagerness to move on.”
Sony debuts Linux-based in-car nav | infotainment … 06/11/2004
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Sony debuts Linux-based in-car nav | infotainment line in Japan: “The 3D mapping interface shows actual buildings, and knows street addresses, enabling it to identify destination addresses. In the picture at right, it has identified a gas station belonging to a promotional partner. Advertising for many other businesses, such as fast food outlets, appears to be built into the maps”
BBC NEWS | Technology | Stealth ships steam ahead 06/10/2004
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Stealth ships steam ahead:
“But the Swedes are in the lead, with the Visby.
It is constructed almost entirely of carbon fibre, the same material used to make the chassis of Formula One cars and the hulls of racing yachts.
Its angular design gives it a minimal radar signature, known as a cross-section, and its 57mm cannon can also be retracted to reduce it still further.”
The Undead Zone | Why realistic graphics make huma… 06/10/2004
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The Undead Zone | Why realistic graphics make humans look creepy | Clive Thompson: “Consider Alias, the new title based on the TV show. It’s a reasonably fun action-and-puzzle game, where you maneuver Sydney Bristow through a series of spy missions. But whenever the camera zooms in on her face, you’re staring at a Jennifer Garner death mask. I nearly shrieked out loud at one point. And whenever other characters speak to you– particularly during cut-scenes, those supposedly ‘cinematic’ narrative moments– they’re even more ghastly. Mouths and eyes don’t move in synch. It’s as if all the characters have been shot up with some ungodly amount of Botox and are no longer able to make Earthlike expressions.”
Nokia releases ‘moblog’ camera phone | CNET News 06/03/2004
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Nokia releases ‘moblog’ camera phone | CNET News.com:
“Nokia has begun shipping a camera phone with video-editing and mobile-blogging features in Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region.
The phone maker said its 7610 phone can capture, edit, store, print and send pictures and videos. The handset comes with a Kodak application designed to let users upload pictures to a virtual photo album on the Web. Images can be printed using a Bluetooth connection to a compatible printer or at kiosks at Nokia stores and other photo shops.”
Neal Stephenson Decodes Cryptonomicon 06/03/2004
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Neal Stephenson Decodes Cryptonomicon:
”Neal Stephenson has been called ‘the Quentin Tarantino of postcyberpunk science fiction’ by the Village Voice. He took the SF world by storm with his novels Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Zodiac. He’s been compared to Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson, but Stephenson has a style all his own. His hip, literate novels are read religiously by SF fans and high-tech business types alike.
In his massive novel, Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson tells an intricate, fast-paced story of World War II codebreakers, stashes of Axis gold, modern-day data havens, and digital currency. Cryptonomicon has enough tech to tantalize any cyberpunk fan — everything from undersea fiber-optic cables to a Perl script to try out at home. Stephenson stopped by Amazon.com to field some questions about undersea cable, submarines, character development, and his favorite operating system.”
Applied Abstractions | How to start a business (Neal Stephenson Theory) 06/03/2004
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Applied Abstractions | How to start a business (the Stephenson version):
“The actual contents of the business plan hews to a logical structure straight out of the Principia Mathematica. Lesser entrepreneurs purchase business-plan-writing software: packages of boilerplate text and spreadsheets, craftily linked together so that you need only go through and fill in a few blanks. Avi and Beryl have written enough business plans between the two of them that they can smash them out from brute memory. Avi’s business plans tend to go something like this:”
Read on
Sybase Inc | Data Center | “liquid data states” 06/02/2004
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Sybase Inc | Data CenterThe world of people, devices, and data is going through a transformation–from a static, fixed, “solid” state to a dynamic, mobile, “liquid” state.
Learn how Sybase and Intel are leading the industry into the Unwired Decade: re-envisioning the enterprise for mobility.
Microsoft releases Media Player beta | CNET News 06/02/2004
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Microsoft releases Media Player beta | CNET News.com: “As previously reported, the revamped Windows Media Player 10, which will be released in final form to the consumer market later this year, contains substantial changes to the way music, videos and other media can be organized and retrieved. But the biggest changes in the new ‘technical beta’ software will be invisible to most users until new portable music and video players reach store shelves this summer and fall. “
The Spinning Cube of Potential Doom 06/01/2004
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The Spinning Cube of Potential Doom: “Besides the primary educational aspect of the Cube, the secondary goal of the Cube was to investigate new techniques in visually analyzing network traffic and also to develop a tool that would potentially assist those involved with computer security to visually ’see’ new forms of attacks.
One of the more interesting findings from this method of visualizing network traffic is in the patterns that emerged. “
Gates: ‘Free hardware all round’ | silicon.com: "’… 06/01/2004
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Gates: ‘Free hardware all round’ | silicon.com: “‘Ten years out, in terms of actual hardware costs, you can almost think of hardware as being free,’ he said, speaking at the Gartner Symposium in San Diego. ‘I’m not saying it will be absolutely free – but in terms of the power of the servers, the power of the network will not be a limiting factor,” he added, referring to networked computers and advances in the internet’s speed.
Microsoft has often been at odds with the computer hardware industry during the past 20 years, given its dominant position in software through its Windows operating system. “
NTT DoCoMo’s 4G Test Results in 300Mbps Data Rate 06/01/2004
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NTT DoCoMo’s 4G Test Results in 300Mbps Data Rate in Moving Car: “The company said that the test achieved a maximum downstream data rate of 300Mbps with an average rate of 135Mbps in a car running at the speed of 30 kilometers per hour in areas 800m to 1km away from the 4G wireless base stations.
NTT DoCoMo aims to realize much faster communication speeds by adding the multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) technology, which uses multiple antennas, to the current wireless system. The goal of the wireless data rate is as high as 1Gbps when not moving. The experiment will continue until July.”
