November 20, 2007
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You cannot shake a stick today without hitting an article about Amazon’s new Kindle wireless reading device. 10 ounces and able to ‘carry’ 200 books. A price tag of $400.00 + the cost of content? Well if it drives people … Continue reading
November 9, 2007
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The on-again, off-again relationship between Internet2 and the National Lambda Rail has hit another snag. Maybe permanently. At the Internet2′s member meeting last December in Chicago the board announced the merger was off. Then less than three months later both … Continue reading
October 11, 2007
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I was amused to read Arstechnica‘s News Desk article Internet2 at 100Gbps posted October 9th. However my blog post about this very topic from June 13th … well okay, I’m still glad to see more researchers, scientists, faculty and artists … Continue reading
September 25, 2007
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Nicholas Negroponte‘s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program is off to a less than stellar beginning. The biggest hurdle (outside of Intel) is securing funds from third world countries who verbally promised to purchase units for their school children. The … Continue reading
September 19, 2007
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Google has now added to their on-line tools solution to include presentation software very similar to PowerPoint. This compliments their word processing and spreadsheet tools, virtually serving online version of Microsoft Office. And all you need is a Google account. … Continue reading
September 9, 2007
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In less than three years Firefox has turned a movement into a crusade. A open source web browser written by a programmer in Australia and a undergrad at Stanford and distributed via the internet for all for free. The staggering … Continue reading
August 23, 2007
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You may need to buckle up first if you have not read Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Although its never too late to change…it is however, way too late to ignore. Implications … Continue reading
August 9, 2007
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Apple has released a new iMac generation that has a couple of more powerful features that you may have overlooked by it’s visual design: HD video and internal hard drive capacity of 1 terabyte in size. And built-in support for … Continue reading
August 1, 2007
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MIT has posted a free online course on the engineering and design aspects for 2.993 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering: The Art and Science of Boat Design, taught in January (IAP) 2007. This class seems like a great opportunity for … Continue reading
July 17, 2007
by donkasprzak
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Intel received a lot of negative PR (rightfully so) when 60 minutes aired an interview with Nicholas Negroponte from MIT. He has worked to produce an affordable laptop for children living in third world countries. This project is called One … Continue reading