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• Bear Hug Camp: a microblogging meetup

  CBS Interactive hosted a meetup about the state of microblogging. Bear Hug Camp is about discussing the future of messaging. People use Twitter as a way to communicate and stay ...

  Tags: Andrew Mager, Twitter, Online Communications, Instant Messaging, Internet, Blogging, Steve Gillmor

  Sep 12, 2008 4:51 PM PDT

• My Awesome IT Job: Web developer, Martha Stewart, Webmaster, Emeril Lagasse

  Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that ...

  Tags: Management, Web, Web Developer, Information Technology, Strategy, Martha Stewart, New Orleans, Deb Perelman, Webmaster, New York

  Sep 12, 2008 3:31 PM PDT

• Video look at the Palm Treo Pro, my soon-to-be new daily device

  Back on August 22nd I posted an unboxing of the Palm Treo Pro because it was unique for a Palm device and then posted my full review of the device ...

  Tags: Palm Treo, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Peripherals, Handhelds, Matthew Miller, Palm Inc., Keyboards, Video, Hardware

  Sep 12, 2008 2:15 PM PDT

• Microsoft ads are still shoulder-tapping. OK. OK. I'm listening already.

  You know that Microsoft ad campaign we've been discussing here? Bill and Jerry? Churros and toe-nail clippings? Yeah, the $300 million one. That's the one. It appears that the reactions ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Oscar Wilde, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz

  Sep 12, 2008 12:52 PM PDT

• Yammer wins TechCrunch50; enterprises lose

  While I do believe there is a better business model out there for corporate microblogging, Yammer is not it. by Jennifer Leggio

  Tags: Employee, Jennifer Leggio, Enterprise 2.0, Network, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Social Networking, Yammer

  Sep 12, 2008 12:35 PM PDT

• Open source patents: Four companies offer green tech to public domain

  So it turns out that the Eco-Patent Commons, which I wrote about back in January, isn't just another empty-handed cooperative industry effort. Three new companies, Bosch, DuPont and Xerox, have ...

  Tags: Patent, Xerox Corp., Open Source, Sony Corp., Heather Clancy, Green Technology, DuPont Co., Public Domain

  Sep 12, 2008 11:47 AM PDT

• iPhone 2.1 first impressions: So far, so good

  Now that I've finally got the 2.1 upgrade installed, I must say, the early returns are looking promising. Up until now when friends and family have asked me whether or ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Engineering, Phone, Cellular Phones, Battery, Apple iPhone, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Josh Taylor

  Sep 12, 2008 11:11 AM PDT

• Japan is Web "Future-Ready." U.S. lags far behind.

  Japan is the place to be if you're looking for the bandwidth to tackle future technologies – things like HD video streaming, visual networking and large file-sharing, according to a ...

  Tags: U.S., Web, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking, Sam Diaz, Broadband, Broadband Internet

  Sep 12, 2008 11:06 AM PDT

• The iPhone Dev Team vs. Apple arms race

  Apple keeps trying to foil the efforts of the iPhone Dev Team with intentional roadblocks built into each successive build of the iPhone/iPod touch firmware - and the newly-minted firmware ...

  Tags: Management, Personal Technology, Firmware, Apple Inc., Team Management, Team, Apple iTunes, Digital Media, Apple iPhone, Digital Music

  Sep 12, 2008 10:41 AM PDT

• About those Windows Live Messenger outages...

  In case you were one of the many Windows Live Messenger users affected by the recent outages of Microsoft's consumer IM service earlier this week, here's an update on what ...

  Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Outage, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Manufacturing, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows

  Sep 12, 2008 10:28 AM PDT

• China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymity

  Troubling news from the United Nations, via News.com A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source ...

  Tags: Network, Network Technology, U.N., Richard Koman, Networking, Internet, IP

  Sep 12, 2008 10:10 AM PDT

• Nanotechnology-based flexible actuators

  In 'Nanotube paper flexes on demand,' nanotechweb.org reports that French researchers are using multiwalled carbon nanotubes MWCNTs reinforced with polyvinyl alcohol PVA to develop ultra-lightweight actuators for aerospace applications. The ...

  Tags: Researcher, Aerospace, PVA, Polymer, Roland Piquepaille, Nanotube, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Carbon Nanotube

  Sep 12, 2008 9:45 AM PDT

• Does interoperability violate the GPL?

  If you want to bring suit based on an interpretation of the GPL at odds with the understanding of the Linux Foundation go ahead. But so far no one has ...

  Tags: Linux, Operating Systems, F/OSS, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Software, GPL, Interoperability, UNIX, VMware Inc.

  Sep 12, 2008 9:39 AM PDT

• Private browsing becomes the new cool feature.

  First Apple's Safari had it. Then came IE 8 (with "InPrivate) and Google Chrome (with "Incognito"). Now, here comes Mozilla, on track to deliver a privacy mode feature in Firefox ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Web Browser, Internet, Sam Diaz, Google Inc.

  Sep 12, 2008 9:30 AM PDT

• Hollywood preps new copyright bills

  Declan McCullagh reports over at News.com that Hollywood is gearing up for another copyright expansion attack. Two major bills this time: No. 1 is the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Federal Government, Purchasing & Procurement, Government, Hollywood, Business Operations, Corporate Law, American Library Association, Piracy, Richard Koman

  Sep 12, 2008 9:08 AM PDT

• Browser Wars 2.0: Firefox scrambles to add 'private mode' browsing

  At Black Hat last month, when I spoke to Mozilla security chief Window Snyder, she made it clear that Private Browsing would not make it into the next revision of ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Ryan Naraine, Web Browser, Internet, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox

  Sep 12, 2008 8:58 AM PDT

• The LHC and the importance of pure research

  America often has difficulties funding pure research because, as a society that sees itself as market-oriented, there is a misperception that such funding smacks of socialist central planning. The reality, ...

  Tags: Vertical Industries, Government, Taxes, Enterprise Software, John Carroll, Europe, Human Resources, Finance, Healthcare, Health Care

  Sep 12, 2008 8:37 AM PDT

• Hackers deface LHC site, came close to turning off particle detector

  Is it now cyberwar over atom-smashing? A team of Greek hackers calling themselvses Greek Security Team has penetrated the Large Hadron Collider and defaced a public website. No real damage ...

  Tags: LHC, Richard Koman, Content Management System, Hacker, Hacking, Security

  Sep 12, 2008 8:35 AM PDT

• What the business doesn't know about SOA won't hurt it (Part 2)

   Maybe that "blank stare" suggests that the business needs a bit more of an explanation on how the system is more streamlined and agile, and will save mucho bucks. Thanks ...

  Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Joe McKendrick, Business, Software, SOA, Enterprise Software

  Sep 12, 2008 8:15 AM PDT

• A mezzanine for your final days

  A mezzanine facility would accept its patients' physical infirmities but allow them to stretch their minds. It would feature technology, partly to reduce nursing costs, but also partly to keep ...

  Tags: Financial Accounting, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn, Mezzanine, Insurance, Corporate Insurance, Business Operations

  Sep 12, 2008 8:09 AM PDT

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