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• EIC podcast: Microhoo; OLPC and Twitter

  In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Microhoo, the latest from the One Laptop Per Child project and Twitter's business model--assuming it can stay up long enough. ...

  Tags: Twitter, Podcasts, Larry Dignan, One Laptop Per Child Project, Internet

  May 21, 2008 4:25 PM PDT

• Just as old media once berated and belittled the Internet as a silly fad, now too with cleantech

  That venerable pillar of old, very established business, the Wall Street Journal has gone public with the bitter resentment of old business and fossil fuel for those upstarts who are ...

  Tags: Media, Biofuel, Wall Street Journal, VC Vinod Khosla, Business, Internet, Harry Fuller, Clean Technology

  May 21, 2008 4:02 PM PDT

• Cisco plugs holes in Voice Portal, SSH implementation

  It's Patch Day in the land of Cisco. The network routing and switching giant today released three security bulletins with patches for multiple vulnerabilities affecting the Cisco Voice Portal and ...

  Tags: Ryan Naraine, Voice, Cisco Systems Inc., Security, Portal, Vulnerability, SSH

  May 21, 2008 1:43 PM PDT

• Holy power supply, batman, how soon does crude oil hit $150 per barrel?

  Windmills, solar panels, bicycles and nuclear submarines are looking like energy must-haves as crude oil prices keep shooting over the top. Today the market for the crude crud topped $133 ...

  Tags: Biofuel, Harry Fuller, Power Supply, Price

  May 21, 2008 1:30 PM PDT

• Can Nortel pull an AMD on Cisco?

  Nortel is apparently trying to take a page from AMD's old playbook and sneak up on its much-larger rival-Cisco. Just a few years ago-it's hard to believe given AMD's recent ...

  Tags: Larry Dignan, Cisco Systems Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Nortel Networks Corp.

  May 21, 2008 12:56 PM PDT

• Apple's Mighty Mouse sued over name

  Apple and CBS are the targets of a trademark infringement suit being brought by Man & Machines over the use of the name "Mighty Mouse." The company claims that it ...

  Tags: Peripherals, Mice, Apple Inc., Hardware, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Productivity, Jason D. O\'Grady, Computer

  May 21, 2008 11:35 AM PDT

• Office to support ODF, PDF as 'first-class citizens'

  Big news on the open document format front: Microsoft announced press release minutes ago (actually about 18 hours early, since someone broke their embargo) that Office SP2 will include native, ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Richard Koman, Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Software, Office Suites, Adobe PDF

  May 21, 2008 11:34 AM PDT

• Could an OEM like Dell ever be as cool and as stylish as Apple?

  The news that Apple now commands a massive 66% of the market share of PCs costing more than $1,000 and 14% of the overall market mush have sent shivers through ...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Operating Systems, Apple Inc., OEM, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Software, Desktops, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  May 21, 2008 11:27 AM PDT

• Psystar offers 13 non-Apple Software Updates

  Yesterday, Mac cloner announced a series of Software Updates for their Open Computer: Safe updates, as well as bug fixes and workarounds, are now available in our Support section. We ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Personal Technology, Leopard, Peripherals, Hardware, Apple iTunes, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Apple Mac OS, Psystar

  May 21, 2008 11:23 AM PDT

• DOD gunning to nix Apple-PA Semi deal?

  According to EE Times, the Department of Defense is reviewing Apple's reported acquisition of a PowerPC processor maker. The concern is over an embedded chip, the PA Semi 1682, which ...

  Tags: Components, IBM PowerPC, Chip, Semiconductors, Processors, Network Technology, David Morgenstern, Apple Inc., Hardware, Networking

  May 21, 2008 11:09 AM PDT

• Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?

  OK, so this does look cool: OLPC's XO2 is a touchscreen-only book-like device that serves as ebook reader, media player, computer and presumably game machine. Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the specs ...

  Tags: Peripherals, Keyboards, Hardware, Richard Koman, One Laptop Per Child Project

  May 21, 2008 11:06 AM PDT

• Napster gunning for iTunes with DRM-free music

  Does Apple have a Kick Me sign on their back or something? First Netflix fires a major shot over the bow of the Apple TV with their new Netflix Player ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Apple iTunes, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, MP3, Digital-rights Management, Apple Inc., Napster Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Security

  May 21, 2008 10:44 AM PDT

• Eye-Fi's new SD memory cards add geotagging and Wi-Fi to any digital camera

  I've been a fan of Eye-Fi's Wi-Fi enabled SD cards since they first came out late last year, so I'm excited to see the company has added two new cards ...

  Tags: Memory, Components, Personal Technology, GPS, Digital Camera, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Wi-Fi, SD Card, Semiconductors

  May 21, 2008 10:31 AM PDT

• Did Congressional Budget Office call health IT savings bunk?

  The headline is the Congressional Budget Office says a claim by RAND Corp. the nation will save $77 billion through heavy use of IT in health care is bunk. But ...

  Tags: Blog, Health Care, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Automation, Congressional Budget Office

  May 21, 2008 10:21 AM PDT

• Stanford Information Law Symposium

  Though it could scarcely be more cumbersomely named — the Transatlantic Information Law Symposium — this upcoming and free program at Stanford Law School looks excellent, featuring such big thinkers ...

  Tags: Regulations, Government, Denise Howell, Internet, Blogging

  May 21, 2008 10:14 AM PDT

• Should Apple fear the Netflix Player?

  Yesterday Netflix announced a new US$99, Roku-designed, set-top box that will allow customers to stream more than 10,000 movies and TV episodes. In a review on 19 May 2008 CNet's ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, NetFlix Inc., TVs, Home Entertainment, Apple Inc., Netflix Player, Tv & Home Theater, Jason D. O\'Grady

  May 21, 2008 10:04 AM PDT

• A robotic brain-computer interface

  California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers ...

  Tags: Roland Piquepaille, Algorithm, Telecom & Utilities, California Institute Of Technology, Positioning, Electrode

  May 21, 2008 10:03 AM PDT

• iCal vulnerabilities put Mac OS X users at risk

  Heads up to Mac OS X users:  It appears Apple will be shipping high-priority security patches sometime today. See important update at the end According to a security alert from ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Hardware, Desktops, Patches, Vulnerability, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine, Operating Systems, Apple Inc., Calendar File

  May 21, 2008 9:53 AM PDT

• Next-generation Radeon GPUs to feature GDDR5 memory

  AMD has conformed that its next-generation Radeon HD 4800 GPU series will feature Graphics Double Data Rate version 5 (GDDR5) memory. Here's what Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General ...

  Tags: Memory, GDDR5, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, Radeon, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  May 21, 2008 9:23 AM PDT

• Microsoft wants to "buy" your searches - but are they for sale?

  The blogosphere is frantically hyperventilating today over speculation that Microsoft will try to attract search users to its services by offering cashback to users who search and then make a ...

  Tags: Web Site Development, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Blogging, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Search, Google Inc.

  May 21, 2008 8:25 AM PDT

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