No surprises here, but according to a study by ABI Research, consumers are reluctant to buy standalone Blu-ray players. More than half the people surveyed have no plans to buy a standalone Blu-ray player in the near future, and 23 percent are considering it, but not until 2009. Those numbers seem consistent with our experience, [...]
Privacy–who needs it? The creators of WeFi don’t seem to think much of it, although that might not be a bad thing
I’ll update with links to the Facebook application when the WeFi folks get back to me. In the meantime check out the service in action here.
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Two ways to geolocate your dog
The Windows Mobile [...]
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Traffic Sources for The Open Road - All Time
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Matt Asay)
Last week I had two stories Dugg and two stories Slashdotted. The difference in traffic is striking. Digg delivered three times the amount of traffic as Slashdot did. Granted, my stories hit Slashdot in an off-peak time, but it got me thinking: Is Digg the future [...]
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In the “why didn’t I think of that” category, an enterprising couple of media types (Web designer Jona Bechtolt and freelance science writer Claire L. Evans) were so knocked out by the Steve Jobs Macworld keynote that they decided to create and market a laptop case for the new MacBook Air–based on the simple manila [...]
Wilson Audio's latest, the Sasha W/P speaker.
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Steve Guttenberg)
Wilson Audio Specialties didn’t invent high-end speakers, but its original WATT speaker, introduced in 1986, changed the rules of the game.
Up to that point, state-of-the-art speakers were all large beasts, but the WATT was a comparatively tiny stand-mounted speaker. Its distinctive pyramidal shape went on to spawn [...]
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It used to be so easy to be a proprietary-software vendor.
That is, until the open-source neighbors moved in. As noted in a Gartner analysis from late last year, proprietary software is on the wane within enterprises while open source is gaining:
Open source gaining at proprietary's expense
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Gartner)
That’s not the sort of chart that Microsoft CEO Steve [...]
The labels claim that the ISP has refused to implement a filtering technology by Audible Magic that would block illegal file sharing. McIntyre argued that the content filter would erode privacy of Eircom users.
A digital rights group in Ireland condemned legal action taken by the major music labels against an Irish ISP.
The idea [...]
In December, the FuturGen Alliance, which includes participation of oil and coal companies, announced plans to build its first facility in Matoon, Ill.
The FutureGen project is meant to test cutting-edge carbon capture and storage technology, which is supposed to dramatically reduce emissions from fossil fuel-burning power plants.
Carbon capture and storage is considered an important technology [...]
Do you vet code for patent or copyright?
No. We have legal people on our lists. We have two main lists that track these things. Open-source licensing for incoming code and open-source releasing for outgoing code. Legal has a presence there. Patents are incredibly tricky.
Is it easier to get hired at Google if you [...]
