Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent - NYTimes.com

Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent - NYTimes.com: "Bryan Roberts, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist, said the decision could push more work aimed at discovering genes and diagnostic tests to universities."

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Researchers use light from LEDs to send data wirelessly

Researchers use light from LEDs to send data wirelessly: "Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications at the Heinrich-Hertz Institute in Berlin experimented with using visible light from commercial light-emitting diodes to carry data wirelessly at speeds of up to 230Mbit/sec."

NPR and WSJ Building Ipad-Only Websites - NYTimes.com

NPR and WSJ Building Ipad-Only Websites - NYTimes.com: "Today, companies are already tasked with creating a traditional website, a mobile website and sometimes a customized mobile website designed just for iPhone visitors. Now there's the iPad-only website to code for and soon there may be another one, too. Recent news reports state that Amazon is working on a new web browser just for their Kindle e-Reader. Will that be yet another website needing its own custom version?"

C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web - NYTimes.com

C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web - NYTimes.com

Monday, March 8, 2010

Carriers Are Playing the Field When It Comes to Search – GigaOM

Carriers Are Playing the Field When It Comes to Search – GigaOM

Does the Cloud Need a Specialized Chip? – GigaOM

Does the Cloud Need a Specialized Chip? – GigaOM: "A key problem in all of these endeavors is figuring out how to get the multiple chips or cores to function together in such a way that performance scales linearly with the addition of each new core rather than tapering off as the communications between the cores or chips becomes overloaded. Intel and Tilera are hoping to do this on the chip itself, while systems vendors are trying to do it with a better box."

Economist.com

Economist.com: "Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier"

How Pandora Avoided the Junkyard, and Found Success - NYTimes.com

How Pandora Avoided the Junkyard, and Found Success - NYTimes.com: "Pandora’s success can be credited to old-fashioned perseverance, its ability to harness intense loyalty from users and a willingness to shift directions — from business to consumer, from subscription to free, from computer to mobile — when its fortunes flagged."

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Apple sues HTC over phones with Google software - washingtonpost.com

Apple sues HTC over phones with Google software - washingtonpost.com: "In its ITC filing against HTC, Apple noted that some of the patents at issue are at the center of its legal fight with Nokia."

Dot-com bust ripples still felt 10 years later

Dot-com bust ripples still felt 10 years later: "Flowtown.com, which creates personal and professional profiles of people by gathering information from social networks, data it then sells to marketers."

The Spark That Could Ignite Web M&A – GigaOM

The Spark That Could Ignite Web M&A – GigaOM: "Over the past several years, web content has developed something of a split personality. Part of it is driven by information, navigated by search and static in nature. The other part is driven by conversation, accessed through discovery and protean in essence. This distinction has been around for some time, and discussed at length on this site, but it’s becoming more and more of an acute reality, especially when it comes to big web companies."

Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance to Print - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance to Print - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: "roadly into two categories: content where the form is important, such as poetry or text with graphics, and content where form is divorced from layout, which he says applies to most novels and non-fiction."

Monday, March 1, 2010

Network Acceleration | Silver Peak Systems, Inc.

Network Acceleration | Silver Peak Systems, Inc.: "Silver Peak utilizes a proprietary round trip measurement scheme that enables RTTs to be calculated more efficiently. This leads to more accurate RTO (retransmission timeout) measurements which, in turn, improves throughput."