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."
Monday, March 29, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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?"
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
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."
Sunday, March 7, 2010
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."
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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."
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