2008/04/29

NEW NET Issues List for 29 Apr 2008

Below is the final list of issues for the TUESDAY, 29 April 2008, NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering upstairs at Tom's Drive In, 501 N Westhill Blvd, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.

  1. FAQ: Making sense of Live Mesh http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9926229-56.html http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_live_mesh_first_look.php
  2. Version 1.0 of Yahoo's new platform due later this year http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9928557-80.html
  3. Presdo, The Magical Online Scheduler http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/25/presdo-the-magical-online-scheduler/
  4. Social Tools for the Office Worker http://tinyurl.com/6cosbv (Read/WriteWeb)
  5. 5 Offbeat, Free Utilities for Everyday Tasks http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/07/5-offbeat-free-utilities-for-everyday-tasks/
  6. Broadband 2.0 Poised to Reshape Web http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2008/04/broadband2
  7. Yahoo to outsource Messenger phone calls to Jajah http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_jajah

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

  1. FBI's Net surveillance proposal raises privacy, legal concerns http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9929085-38.html http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/which-gov-agenc.html
  2. Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/04/hundreds_of_thousands_of_micro_1.html
  3. Fighting Storm with smog: researchers pollute botnet http://tinyurl.com/3edgs6 (Ars technica)
  4. Lessig, Google, Obama, and Jesus: a net neutrality mash-up http://tinyurl.com/434o76 (Ars technica)
  5. Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2004379751_msftlaw29.html

Mobile Computing & Communicating

  1. BlackBerry’s Quest: Fend Off the iPhone http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/technology/27rim.html
  2. GPS market at turning point with sliding prices, demand off http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_hi_te/gps_challenge
  3. Mozilla: Fennec to Revolutionize Mobile Browsing http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080424/tc_pcworld/145081

Open Source

  1. Hardy Heron Makes Linux Worth Another Look http://lifehacker.com/383769/hardy-heron-makes-linux-worth-another-look http://www.crn.com/software/207401927 http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/ubuntu-804-fina.html
  2. What Edubuntu can teach your kids http://www.linux.com/feature/132704
  3. Open source applications Keep You Safe http://www.linux.com/feature/132245
  4. Luminotes: No-frills wiki notebook http://www.linux.com/feature/132297

SkyNet

  1. Gdocs: presentations and spreadsheets offline, too http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/04/view-your-presentations-and.html
  2. Google Book Search http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_hi_te/google_book_search
  3. The Real Threat to Google http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080427_580014.htm
  4. Madison, WI, feeling lucky: Google opens office downtown http://www.madison.com/tct/news/283649

General Technology

  1. Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=429
  2. Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9927721-7.html?tag=nefd.only
  3. HP, Lenovo join Dell in extending Windows XP http://blogs.zdnet.com/computers/?p=161
  4. :-( Texting shorthand showing up in schoolwork http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_9050629
  5. PETA offers $1 M for lab-created meat http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVbtxHwjYAbziT5AMH3IVTi4VthgD907AT480
  6. Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak
  7. Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-05/ff_peakwater
  8. Holographic storage, 150GB discs finally coming to market http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080428-holographic-storage-150gb-discs-finally-coming-to-market.html
  9. PARC: New way to save energy -- disappearing ink http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9930674-54.html

Leisure & Entertainment

  1. Asian history inspires new online games http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/wr_nm/column_pluggedin_dc
  2. iBand makes music with two fingers... and iPhone http://tinyurl.com/6brn76 (YahooNews)
  3. Nintendo bucks tradition, says no price cuts for Wii http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_hi_te/japan_nintendo
  4. Spore Creature Creator Launches June 17 (Spore is a potential trend-setter and catalyst for a $100 million dollar product family – watch for ways to leverage it and participate in its mini-economy) http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9928751-7.html

Economy and Technology

  1. Why Steve Jobs is buying PA Semiconductor http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080425_004775.html
  2. Apple's iPod Works Magic on Mac Sales http://tinyurl.com/4xg9qp (TheStreet)
  3. NVIDIA: GPU v. CPU http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9929197-7.html http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36889/118/
  4. E-Trade CFO and general counsel resign http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080426/ap_on_hi_te/e_trade_executives_resign
  5. Yelp Lets Local Businesses Fight Back http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/28/yelp-lets-businesses-fight-back/
  6. McKinsey surveys the new business software landscape http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/04/surveying_the_n.php
  7. Promotions Could Overtake Display and Search Says Report http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3629310

Civilian Aerospace

  1. Team America Rocketry Challenge - 2008 teams picked http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/HSblog.php?itemid=6216
  2. The Future of Space Sports http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080425-space-station-sports.html
  3. New Mexico spaceport still needs FAA license http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24297335/
  4. Swedish City Gears Up For Virgin Galactic Spaceport http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/04/swedish-city-ge.html
  5. $100m moon mission ultimate adventure http://www.business24-7.ae/cs/article_show_mainh1_story.aspx?HeadlineID=6033

Supercomputing & GPUs

  1. Multicore parallel programming: please do it right this time http://www.edn.com/blog/980000298/post/1900025190.html
  2. Extending 10 Gigabit Ethernet http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Extending_10_Gigabit_Ethernet_to_the_Edge.html
  3. Fast N-Body Simulation with CUDA http://media.hpcwire.com/documents/nbody_gems3_ch31%5B1%5D.pdf
  4. Interview with Donald Knuth (including many-core processor rant) http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
  5. Intel to build supercomputers with Cray http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37166/135/

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posted by myDigitechnician at 29.4.08 | 0 comments

2008/04/22

NEW NET Issues List for 22 Apr 2008

Below is the final list of issues for the TUESDAY, 22 April 2008, NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering upstairs at Tom's Drive In, 501 N Westhill Blvd, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.

The ‘net

  1. Social Networking Could Kill web search as we know it http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4259135.html
  2. Six Apart's 'Blog It' Turns Facebook Into a Fire Hose http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/six-apart-launc.html
  3. Zoho can win in second place http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=371 http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9920138-80.html
  4. Encyclopedia Britannica free for bloggers http://tinyurl.com/5vvysx (TechCrunch)
  5. Accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express http://emailsupport.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5D6F5A79A79B6708!5359.entry
  6. eBay's Skype: what went wrong, and who can fix it http://tinyurl.com/5xfkbd (Ars technica)
  7. Skype to offer unlimited overseas calls http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9924123-7.html
  8. Live Mesh week: Ray Ozzie’s biggest bet since Groove? http://tinyurl.com/3oohbh (LiveSide)
  9. Start Pages: The Next Social Networks http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/start_pages_the_next_social_networks.php
  10. Dimdim: A good, free, open source Webex competitor http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9912537-2.html
  11. Hands-on with SlideRocket presentation service http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9901766-2.html
  12. Intel's Mash Maker: Mashups for the Rest of Us http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9921313-7.html
  13. (Mostly) free software for getting together on the Web http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6545453.html?industryid=47079
  14. Grou.ps: All Your Collaboration Tools In One Place http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/22/groups-all-your-collaboration-tools-in-one-place/
  15. Shelfari to Bring Authors and Readers Together http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/21/shelfari-hopes-to-bring-authors-and-readers-together-over-wikis/
  16. Science 2.0 -- Is Open Access Science the Future? http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0&print=true http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

  1. Defenseless on the Net http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080415_792943.htm
  2. PayPal to fight phishers by blocking old browsers http://tinyurl.com/525gpb (Ars technica)
  3. New airport scanner peeks through clothes http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004357441_scan18.html
  4. Wii and iPhone browsers could allow phishing http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9922824-57.html
  5. Woman accused of using RootsWeb to steal IDs of dead people http://tinyurl.com/4vh8dn (Ars technica)
  6. Laptops fair game for airport customs searches http://tinyurl.com/5ofn8l (SFGate)
  7. Microsoft sees big jump in Trojan downloaders http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9925077-7.html

Mobile Computing & Communicating

  1. $549 Eee PC 900 to hit U.S. May 12 http://tinyurl.com/5k3omm (ComputerWorld)
  2. Papyrus: student eReader http://www.thegreenergrass.org/2008/04/papyrus.html
  3. Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball http://tinyurl.com/4t2ab8 (TechCrunch)
  4. Eee! A New Cellphone! http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/04/21/cellphone-eee-asus-tech-wire-cx_ew_0422asus.html

Open Source

  1. Red Hat Skips Consumer Linux Desktop http://tinyurl.com/4x3ezp (PCWorld)
  2. Microsoft, Novell Tag-Team Against Chinese Distros http://tinyurl.com/65beee (eCommerceTimes)

SkyNet

  1. Google-Backed Solar Startup Picks Up $130 Million http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/04/solar_thermal
  2. Google Apps a great choice for small-medium Mac shops http://tinyurl.com/47mt8q (ComputerWorld)
  3. Academia's big guns fight 'Google effect' http://education.guardian.co.uk/librariesunleashed/story/0,,2275375,00.html
  4. Google Summer of Code 2008 http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/announcing-accepted-student-proposals.html

General Technology

  1. AMD going to 45 nm; 12 core package? http://blogs.zdnet.com/processors/?p=162
  2. Intel cuts quad-core prices http://blogs.zdnet.com/processors/?p=163
  3. New WD VelociRaptor Hard Drive Cruises Through Speed Tests http://tinyurl.com/3rptjp (Washington Post)
  4. Windows XP SP3: A quick, painless upgrade http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9924689-57.html?tag=nefd.lede

Leisure & Entertainment

  1. 'The Sims' franchise hits 100 million units sold http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9920327-52.html?tag=nefd.top
  2. Up close with Shigeru Miyamoto and Wii Fit http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9922578-7.html

Economy and Technology

  1. Tesla files trade secret theft lawsuit against competitor http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24165227/
  2. IBM Acquires Storage De-Duplication Company Diligent http://tinyurl.com/6ewtvg (PCWorld)

Civilian Aerospace

  1. Next Space Tourist to Take Custom Snapshots of Earth http://www.space.com/news/080416-spacetourist-earth-portraits.html
  2. College Rocketeers Nationwide to Fly Rockets in North Alabama http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2008/M08-049.html
  3. Long Space Missions Risk Cancer, Premature Aging http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080415-space-radiation-risk.html
  4. Rocket Racing League Sets Date for Exhibition Race http://www.space.com/news/080414-rocket-racing-exhibition-date.html

Supercomputing & GPUs

  1. CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 1 http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/207200659;jsessionid=0UQCLP52MZM5AQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN
  2. GPU supercomputer: Nvidia Tesla cards to debut in Bull system http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37070/135/ http://newsblaze.com/story/2008042202130300001.pnw/newsblaze/HIGHTECH/High-Tech.html
  3. Physics for the masses http://www.techradar.com/blogs/article/physics-for-the-masses-323649
  4. Computing at Scale http://www.computingatscale.com/?p=73
  5. MPI in Thirty Minutes http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5759/
  6. RapidMind Platform Accelerates HD Video Transcoding http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2285942.html
  7. Allinea Tools Offer Path to Parallel Programming http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2293071.html

*****

posted by myDigitechnician at 22.4.08 | 0 comments

2008/04/16

NEW NET Issues List for 15 Apr 2008

Below is theNEW NET final list of issues for the week of 15 April 2008 (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology).

No meeting this week because of a skiing injury and the required surgery and recovery activities of one of the NEW NET main team members. See you next week!

The ‘net

  1. Why We Need Web Apps on the Desktop http://tinyurl.com/5wfcr5 (Read/WriteWeb)
  2. How Google is putting us back into the Stone Age http://tinyurl.com/4mbemn (Zooie’s Blog)
  3. Microsoft Introduces Tool for Avoiding Traffic Jams http://tinyurl.com/3jppqu (NY Times)
  4. American Journalist/Student Uses Twitter To Bust Out Of Egyptian Jail http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_8942859

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

  1. Virtualization's Dark Side http://tinyurl.com/3qg4gv (Forbes)
  2. Infected USB Devices on the Rise http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080415/bs_nf/59274
  3. The New E-spionage Threat http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_16/b4080032218430.htm

Mobile Computing & Communicating

  1. Wi-Fi poised for pilot flights at 4 airlines http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/14/BUB41043AJ.DTL
  2. 'Jisus' Eee-alike sub-notebook to use Chinese Atom-smasher http://tinyurl.com/5d5bdh (Register) (background article about the Loonsong CPU: http://www.linux.com/feature/119890)

Open Source

  1. My kid hates Linux http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1626
  2. MySQL upgrade now slated for June http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080415/tc_infoworld/98324

SkyNet

  1. Ex-Googler view of the web: We need a Wikipedia for data http://bret.appspot.com/entry/we-need-a-wikipedia-for-data
  2. Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=490 http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144505/salesforce_announces_integration_with_google_apps.html http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/google_salesforce_deal_shows_google_not_insane_microsoft_disruption_continues

General Technology

  1. Segway's new RMP! (watch the video) http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/04/segways_new_rmp.html
  2. Windows is not collapsing, at least not in the next few years http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8461
  3. The Coming of the Holodeck http://tinyurl.com/6hh7hx (NY Times)
  4. Their passion is Windows XP http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080413/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_save_xp
  5. Seagate makes good on solid-state drive patent threats http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080415-seagate-makes-good-on-solid-state-drive-patent-threats.html

Leisure & Entertainment

  1. Yahoo extends Flickr with video http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9914495-7.html?tag=nefd.lede
  2. Adobe Releases Media Player 1.0 and Adobe TV http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adobe_releases_media_player_tv.php

Economy and Technology

  1. Meet Facebook's new number two http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/11/technology/facebook_sandberg.fortune/
  2. Blockbuster bids $1 billion for Circuit City http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g1fYqj5X5RG6UrI6kk9jeJfOg7jwD901JIG80
  3. He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) http://tinyurl.com/5g6la6 (NY Times)

Civilian Aerospace

  1. SpaceX’s Musk Competes In Space Race http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBD-0001-24448915.htm
  2. Space Industry Symposium Begins http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/04/08/ap4868566.html
  3. Introducing the Committee for the Advocacy of Space Exploration http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1102/1
  4. The Vision for Space Exploration and the retirement of the Baby Boomers http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1106/1
  5. Multiple Student Space Prizes http://spaceprizes.blogspot.com/2008/04/multiple-student-space-prizes.html http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/07/866971.aspx
  6. Commercial Space Hasn't Yet Landed Big VC Investments http://tinyurl.com/3sj239 (CNN)

Supercomputing & GPUs

  1. NVIDIA Powers Hardware-Accelerated SPICE Simulator http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2280819.html
  2. Cinnafilm Unveils Real-Time Film Look System http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2278573.html
  3. Supercomputing With Video Cards: NVIDIA Milwaukee Tech Café http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2277255.html
  4. TACC Hosts 2nd Annual Summer Supercomputing Institute http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2274316.html
  5. SC08 Poster Submissions Deadline Is July 31 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2278494.html
  6. SiCortex Gets Personal (not x86, might facilitate new parallel prgmg paradigms) http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2280922.html
  7. Response to 'The Dangers of COTS Supercomputing' http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2279160.html
  8. RapidMind Platform Accelerates HD Video Transcoding http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2285867.html
  9. Intel`s Looming Battle with Nvidia http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Intels-Looming-Battle-with-Nvidia/
  10. What is the Cost of Performance? http://tinyurl.com/5ohxzw (Interactive Supercomputing)

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posted by myDigitechnician at 16.4.08 | 0 comments

2008/04/08

NEW NET Issues List for 08 Apr 2008

Below is the final list of issues for the TUESDAY, 08 April 2008, NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering upstairs at Tom's Drive In, 501 N Westhill Blvd, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.

The ‘net

  1. The 101 most useful websites http://tinyurl.com/ys4z84 (Telegraph)
  2. Comcast launches 50Mbps broadband in Minneapolis http://tinyurl.com/2aocno (Ars technica)
  3. The Power of Organizing Without Organizations http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/book-review-2008-04-1.ars
  4. Comcast monitoring Twitter, blogs and other social media http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=439
  5. Powerset Will Launch In Coming Weeks http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/05/powerset-will-launch-in-coming-weeks/
  6. Scrabble launches on Facebook: Yanks need not apply http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9912587-36.html?tag=newsmap
  7. Tech news: breaking the Techmeme habit http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/breaking_the_techmeme_habit.php
  8. Congressional hearing in Second Life and DC http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_8779871
  9. Yahoo news guru Budde joins DailyMe start-up http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9911490-7.html
  10. Navajo Nation to lose Internet signal http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_on_hi_te/navajo_internet_shutdown
  11. For some reason, Twitter hasn't yet taken the journalist community by storm http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9912520-60.html

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

  1. DHS blinks on Real ID: No hassles on May 11 http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9909928-38.html?tag=nefd.pop
  2. Internet Providers Quietly Tracking Web Use http://tinyurl.com/56bsjr (Washington Post)
  3. What's in your security toolkit? (read the forum posts…) http://tinyurl.com/2gfuwx (Ars technica)
  4. Guide to Getting and Using Your OpenID http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openid_status_check_a_guide_to_openid.php
  5. DRMed Kindle e-books vs. unshackled music in standard MP3 format http://tinyurl.com/3rme8m (TeleRead)
  6. A class of copyright thieves? A lawsuit over lecture notes http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080406-aclass-of-copyright-thieves-a-lawsuit-over-lecture-notes.html
  7. Big Content in worldwide "whisper campaign" against Fair Use http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080407-patry-copyright-owners-wants-rights-expanded-to-were-rabbit-size.html
  8. Kraken Botnet Twice the Size of Storm http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=150292&WT.svl=news1_1

Mobile Computing & Communicating

  1. Yahoo unveils voice search http://www.mercurynews.com/portal/business/ci_8793463?_loopback=1
  2. AT&T Jumps on Board with Google's Android http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080403/tc_pcworld/144099
  3. Nationwide iPhone shortage reported http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9908322-37.html?tag=newsmap
  4. iPhones to international grey market? http://tinyurl.com/36jga9 (AlleyInsider)
  5. Germany iPhone drops to €99 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120731459898689751.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
  6. Thin Intel Netbook to vie with MacBook Air? http://www.cnet.com/8301-13924_1-9912339-64.html
  7. HP strikes chord with Mini-Note PC http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9912854-7.html?tag=

Open Source

  1. Gartner: Open source will quietly take over http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39379900,00.htm
  2. Microsoft's Savvy Open Source Move http://seekingalpha.com/article/71145-microsoft-s-savvy-open-source-move
  3. 40 Ways to Get Far More Out of Firefox http://ostatic.com/158834-blog/over-40-proven-ways-to-get-far-more-out-of-firefox

SkyNet

  1. Larry Brilliant: the Guru of Google http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/19968512/the_guru_of_google
  2. Gmail being throttled, blocked by some anti-spam vendors http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080406-gmail-being-throttled-blocked-by-some-anti-spam-vendors.html
  3. Google to Lay Off About 300 at DoubleClick http://tinyurl.com/3akkes (NY Times)
  4. Google grants $273.3 M in free AdWords http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/04/google-grants-2733-million-in.html
  5. Google's Users are the Real Commodities - Pt. 1 http://www.straightupsearch.com/archives/2008/04/googles_users_a_1.html
  6. Google Gears: How Important is Offline Access? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_important_is_offline_access.php
  7. App Engine: Host Your Apps with Google http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/04/app-engine-host-your-python-apps-with-google.html

General Technology

  1. Aiming for a Virtual End to PC Headaches http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/aiming-for-a-virtual-end-to-pc-headaches/ (here’s a pdf that explains the Moka approach to computing: http://www.moka5.com/papers/nsdi05.pdf)
  2. Microsoft's Surface moves beyond demoware http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9908051-56.html
  3. Science for the masses: NYC to host the World Science Festival in May http://tinyurl.com/2hp577 (Ars technica)
  4. WinXP status http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9075062
  5. 10 impossibilities conquered by science http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn13556&print=true
  6. PopURLs: a look at tech news http://blue.popurls.com/
  7. Cell phoning from home pits WiFi against femtocells http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080406-cell-phoning-from-home-pits-wifi-against-femtocells.html

Leisure & Entertainment

  1. Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US http://tinyurl.com/2ddssb (Ars technica)
  2. Record Labels and MySpace Cut a Deal http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_15/b4079032487991.htm
  3. The geeks were right; music labels bow to technology http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9911721-7.html
  4. 3-D Viewfinder for a Shoebox of Digital Photos http://tinyurl.com/2ke58e (NY Times)
  5. Quake 3 for iPod Touch / iPhone http://www.9to5mac.com/quake-3-iphone-ipod-touch
  6. Wal-Mart Abandons Windows DRM, Sony/BMG and Warner http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/wal-mart-abando.html

Economy and Technology

  1. Microsoft CEO sets April 26 deadline for Yahoo deal http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080405/tc_nm/yahoo_microsoft_dc
  2. Zillow Disrupts Lending Market With Mortgage Marketplace http://searchengineland.com/080403-092734.php
  3. IBM and Linden Lab to create enterprise-safe virtual worlds http://tinyurl.com/ytpcsw (VentureBeat)
  4. Companies struggle as Safari pops up on networks http://tinyurl.com/48opfk (InfoWorld)
  5. A new day for Macs in the enterprise? http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080404/tc_infoworld/97429
  6. Beyond the Banking Crisis: A Strategy Crisis http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/04/strategy_and_the_macro_crisis.html
  7. The next bubble http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/0081908
  8. Jive's Clearspace: Using Web 2.0 tools to avoid e-mail in business http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9911489-7.html http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace
  9. AMD laying off 10% of workforce, cuts revenue estimates http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080408/ap_on_hi_te/amd_outlook

Civilian Aerospace

  1. Entrepreneur talks space travel http://tinyurl.com/4txm27 (The Signal, CNJ)
  2. Sierra County Spaceport Vote April 22 http://spaceports.blogspot.com/2008/04/sierra-county-spaceport-vote-april-22.html
  3. Swedish Authorities to Ease Way for Virgin Galactic http://www.space.com/news/080401-virgingalactic-sweden-cost.html
  4. Masten Space Systems: An Old Video and New Pictures http://masten-space.com/blog/?p=140

Supercomputing & GPUs

  1. AMD Lights a Fire Under GPU Computing http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2269095.html
  2. Compilers and More: The Dangers of COTS Supercomputing http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2264586.html
  3. Enhancing U.S. Competitiveness In Today's World http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2264945.html
  4. HPC Players Meet at Application Software Summit http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2269636.html
  5. Nightmare on Core Street http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2008/03/nightmare-on-core-street.html

*****

posted by myDigitechnician at 8.4.08 | 0 comments

2008/04/05

"A Whole New Mind" by Daniel Pink

"A Whole New Mind" by Daniel Pink is a book from 2005 about "why right-brainers will rule the future", so if you want to rule the future, or just be highly successful, you should consider making time to read this book!

I've seen this book recommended many times in the past couple years on websites and in other books. So this week I went to the library and checked out a copy. While not wanting to rule the world, I was curious about why so many people were recommending this book. After reading about half the book, I've been tempted four or five times to put it down to start doing some of the activities recommended in the book or to write a blog post about what I've read.

Some of the ideas the book lays out are a bit disturbing both for me personally and for many engineering and technology types who have helped build large sectors of the American economy, including the internet and the high tech world in general. A large number of those people are predominantly left-brained. That's why they are so good at what they do. This book suggests those logical, sequential left-brain tasks are increasingly being moved to lower wage areas of the world or to computers. Somewhat the same thing that Thomas Friedman says in "The World Is Flat." As a result, Daniel Pink says, left-brain Americans are going to have to become more right-brain, or at least more balanced, if they want to maintain their standard of living. They need to learn how to provide something which the lower-cost labor regions can't provide, and a more right-brain approach to life is a big part of the answer.

One of the nice aspects of the book is that it provides specific recommendations for improving your right-brain capabilities. After each chapter about the six right-brain senses there is a 'Portfolio' section with usable, interesting action items. I plan to do at least some of those exercises myself, although my days don't have enough hours in them to do all of the things suggested. That's ok-- I'm sure there's a limit to how much my brain can switch from being left-brain to being right-brain!

Based on what I've read so far, this book is highly recommended to others for reading. Especially if you're an engineer or technology type person. You won't change your stripes, but the book may make you aware of opportunities you would otherwise have not seen.

*****

posted by myDigitechnician at 5.4.08 | 0 comments

2008/04/01

NEW NET Issues List for 01 Apr 2008

Below is the final list of issues for the TUESDAY, 01 April 2008, NEW NET (Northeast Wisconsin Network for Economy and Technology) 7:00 - 9:00 pm weekly gathering upstairs at Tom's Drive In, 501 N Westhill Blvd, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.

The ‘net

  1. Chat app Digsby goes public with with A/V, Twitter support http://tinyurl.com/22zfnj (Ars technica)
  2. Zoho: Invoices Next http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/27/the-zoho-business-machine-rolls-forward-invoices-next/
  3. Adobe Is Slowly Building an Online Empire http://tinyurl.com/2nvx7w (Read/WriteWeb)
  4. Boonies broadband $267M boost http://gigaom.com/2008/03/28/broadband-in-the-boonies-gets-a-boost-new-service-coming/
  5. 20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider http://tinyurl.com/yuvlcx (ProBlogger)
  6. Free Copyrighted eBooks in at Wowio http://lifehacker.com/373615/get-free-copyrighted-ebooks-in-pdf-format-at-wowio
  7. Flickr's New Friend Finder: Data Portability or Privacy Violation? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flickr_friends_data_portability_or_privacy_violation.php

Security, Privacy & Digital Controls

  1. Plagiarism screener gets passing grade in copyright lawsuit http://tinyurl.com/2epwwm (Ars technica)
  2. 7 Whole-Disk Encryption Apps Put A Lock On Data http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20080329/tc_cmp/206905765
  3. Money will Fuel Mobile Spyware Programs http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080328/tc_pcworld/143932

Mobile Computing & Communicating

  1. Getting things done traveling thru SE Asia http://lifehacker.com/362895/getting-things-done-traveling-through-southeast-asia
  2. Traffic GPS Helping Drivers Avoid Traffic http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0308/507154.html
  3. Software turns smart phone into hotspot http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080326/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_walking_hotspot
  4. Nokia N810 gets long-awaited WiMAX support http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080401-nokia-n810-gets-long-awaited-wimax-support.html
  5. iPass to Add Consumer Wi-Fi/3G Service http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2279745,00.asp
  6. Windows Mobile 6.1 unveiled http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9905822-7.html

Open Source

  1. Vista, MacBook Out--Only Linux Left in Hacking Contest http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080329/tc_pcworld/143962
  2. Microsoft's Brad Smith Tries To Make Nice With Open Source Community http://tinyurl.com/yuuvgj (Information Week)
  3. OpenOffice.org Update Arrives http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080327/tc_pcworld/143900
  4. Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux http://lifehacker.com/367714/run-windows-apps-seamlessly-inside-linuxx

SkyNet

  1. Woohoo!! Google Docs launches offline capabilities! http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/03/bringing-cloud-with-you.html http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_docs_offline_support.php
  2. Google Calendar outages anger users http://tinyurl.com/33oolk (ComputerWorld)
  3. Google looks to cellphones for next bout of growth, profit http://tinyurl.com/yrlsrn (AZCentral)
  4. Is Google Over? http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/03/28/is-google-over.aspx
  5. Why would Google Web Services cost $0? http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/03/30/whyWouldGoogleWebServicesC.html

General Technology

  1. Video: How to Get Noticed At A Conference http://tinyurl.com/2wd88x (DatacenterKnowledge)
  2. High-Tech Soldier Suit, Crawling Back From the Dead http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/land-warrior-ba.html
  3. Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/16-04/ff_kurzweil
  4. 11-year-old runs school network http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032708-netkid.html?ts0hb=&story=wknd_jpenn
  5. 101 Fantastic Freebies http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143642/article.html# (At the meeting on Apr 1, let’s discuss whether any of us have used and would recommend either the programs listed in this article or others that they’ve found. The ones of most interest to me that I don’t already use are: Zamzar, CCleaner, SpamFighter, Secunia PSI, Spyware Doctor Free, meeVee, Photoscape, Miro, FlightStats, and Foxit Reader. Two other free programs I wondered about that are not in the article are GMER anti-rootkit and NoScript for Firefox.)
  6. Windows Search 4.0 vs. Google Desktop 5.5 http://tinyurl.com/yrl374 (DownloadSquad)
  7. Free Ways to Synchronize Folders Between Computers http://lifehacker.com/372175/free-ways-to-synchronize-folders-between-computers
  8. Finding Registry Keys the Easy Way in Vista or XP http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/finding-registry-keys-the-easy-way-in-vista-or-xp/

Leisure & Entertainment

  1. Adobe opens shop on Web-based Photoshop Express http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9903446-7.html
  2. Send Pictures from Google Picasa Directly to Photoshop for Editing http://tinyurl.com/2retxn (Digital Inspiration)
  3. The music industry’s new extortion scheme http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/27/the-music-industrys-new-extortion-scheme/
  4. Amazon takes on Apple with drm-free music http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008-03-25-sony-music-service_N.htm
  5. Musicians take social networking into their own hands http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080329/wr_nm/social_dc
  6. Consoles to “die out” in the next 5 to 10 years http://tinyurl.com/3x3mt6 (ThatVideogameBlog)
  7. Catch your favorite TV shows on the Web http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/2008-03-27-web-tv_N.htm

Economy and Technology

  1. Motorola to split in two http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9903426-7.html
  2. The tech world's lesson for newspapers, traditional media http://tinyurl.com/26xt4m (Ars technica)

Civilian Aerospace

  1. XCOR to Unveil New Suborbital Rocketship http://www.space.com/news/080326-xcor-lynx-spaceplane.html
  2. Economy Fare Lifts Space-Tourism Race http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120649603238064447.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
  3. Space elevators face wobble problem http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13552-space-elevators-face-wobble-problem.html
  4. Merging Man and Machine to Reach the Stars http://www.space.com/entertainment/080328-robots-vs-humans.html
  5. All eyes on a future in the skies http://www.startribune.com/local/east/17117246.html

Supercomputing & GPUs

  1. Interactive Supercomputing Launches Parallel Computing Blog http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2251943.html
  2. SC08 Tech Program Submissions Deadline Extended http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2257096.html
  3. Nvidia Processor Has New Niche http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120649136650364147.html (if WSJ link doesn’t work, go through Digg http://digg.com/hardware/WSJ_com_Nvidia_Processor_Has_New_Niche)
  4. Building EKA - The world’s fastest privately funded supercomputer http://punetech.com/building-eka-the-worlds-fastest-privately-funded-supercomputer/

*****

posted by myDigitechnician at 1.4.08 | 0 comments