Steve Ballmer in Israel
Steve Ballmer's presentation at the opening of Microsoft's new R&D center in Herzliya, Israel. Streaming Video
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May 2008
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The Space Elevator, a Geeks Perspective
I am not only a geek who loves technology but a geek who loves elevators. The past three years I've been following the progress of the "Space Elevator", including competitions, cool animated PBS videos, and news regarding LiftPort, the company who is spearheading the Space Elevator project. While being an optimist at heart, the conclusion that I've come up after reading all the posts, news stories and competition reports is that we are far from developing an actual working "Space Elevator."
Power Vamping
The other night, I was rudely awakened by the phone ringing. Being a mother and also a light sleeper and chronic insomniac, I heard the phone when no one else did, and got up to answer it. Three clocks in the bedroom glowed red with the current time, 1:38 a.m. There is no phone in the bedroom, which is supposed
Asus vs. The Big Guys
I'm typing to you today on my Gateway M275 Convertible Tablet. It is four years old and cost my company around $2500 brand new. I came with a screaming fast processor, plenty of hard drive, a combo CDRW/DVD drive, and a 6-way card reader. I love this machine. It has a 14.1" monitor and weighs about 4 pounds. It's gone
Goodbye Sprint EVDO
Two days ago I was a happy Sprint customer, today I am shopping for a new carrier. Someone at Sprint Corporate has simply lost their minds.
Google in China
I'm sure most readers remember the furore that erupted when Google agreed to the censorship demands of the Chinese government when it launched its chinese portal. Their reasoning for doing so was that it was the only way they could get into China and compete in the growing Internet space there. From the market share data that is coming out
Google Health the Potential(s)
Its to bad there is a real potential for Google to exploit the subscribers data. However the potential contributions to medical science are tremendous. Do you use the Internet to research a product before you make a purchase? Do you ever read user reviews? How often do you find that there just aren't enough users or reviews of a particular product for you to be comfortable with a decision. Even more important is researching a medical condition that you or a family member may have.
Virtual PC 2007 SP1 now out.
If you have Vista, or installed XP SP3, you might have seen some quirkiness out of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. To counter, Microsoft has released a Service Pack for this Virtual environment. The Download is for x86 and x64 and are availablehere. Release Notes are foundhere.
RawVoice Premium Podcast Stats Paint a International Picture
One of the New Features added to the Premium Podcast Statistics Package at RawVoice, is the world view of where people are listening to the show. As you can see in May, Geek News Central has had a large number of people tune in from the United States and abroad.
YouTube to Allow Terrorist Videos?
First let me say this, I spent 24 years in the Military serving in harms way to protect the constitution of the United States. The right to bear arms and the right to free assembly and free speech I feel very strongly about.
Does the Rich Internet Application Forest Need a Lumberjack?
As the world continues to move towards using software online, the development of Rich Internet Applications is necessarily growing. The problem right now is that the Giants (Microsoft, Sun, Adobe, Google) all have their own solutions to this problem, all of which require that visitors have plug-ins for their browser and that developers use tools provided by the giant. Microsoft is pushing it's Silverlight technology, which uses Microsoft's .net framework and uses it's XAML standard for presentation. Sun is pushing it's Java technology with JavaFX being an extension that makes scripting and animation much easier to do in Java with Java Web Start allowing users to run the software locally. The company that is currently in the lead is Adobe with their Flash platform. Flash started out as an animation tool but the latest versions of Flash are essentially a full blown programming platform and with their new AIR tool these tools can be downloaded and run locally. Google is not quite as involved in this war as the other three giants, but they do have their Google Web Toolkit and their new App Engine. Part of their App Engine beta documentation is them stating that they are looking into the possibility of having App Engine applications be downloaded so they can run locally.
Self-repairing Aircraft
A new ability that is similar to a healing process found in nature could let aircrafts mend themselves during flight This self healing process could help in the construction of new airplanes in many ways. By making them lighter, help fuel savings, cut cost for airlines and passengers, and reducing carbon emissions.
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