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CNET News: We heart robots
"Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon" is the name of a new exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art. CNET News.com’s Kara Tsuboi pays a visit to the California museum to learn how and why artists have used robots to mirror society an…
Added: June 24, 2008
Air date: June 19, 2008
Duration: 03:19
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0
CNET News: Scaling Fast-Growing Facebook
Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, talks with CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber about devising the infrastructure to support the social network’s hypergrowth.
Added: June 24, 2008
Air date: June 23, 2008
Duration: 06:38
Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
CNET News: RoboGames: a fight ’til the death
It’s the Robot Fighting League’s largest contest and CNET News.com’s Kara Tsuboi has a look at the action. Teams from Australia, Brazil, and elsewhere around the world battle for robot glory.
Added: June 19, 2008
Air date: June 09, 2008
Duration: 03:58
Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
CNET News: RoboGames: a fight ’til the death
It’s the Robot Fighting League’s largest contest and CNET News.com’s Kara Tsuboi has a look at the action. Teams from Australia, Brazil, and elsewhere around the world battle for robot glory.
Added: June 19, 2008
Air date: June 09, 2008
Duration: 03:58
Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
CNET News: Medical imaging on Apple device
At the Apple WWDC 2008, Mark Cain of Mimvista shows off the company’s new iPhone software that will allow doctors to download, colorize, and share patients’ CT and PET scans. The images were previously only available in black in whi…
Added: June 10, 2008
Air date: June 09, 2008
Duration: 01:41
Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
CNET News: iPhone 3G makes its debut
At Apple WWDC 2008, Steve Jobs reveals the iPhone 3G with faster download speeds, longer battery life, GPS, a lower price, and a near worldwide release on July 11.
Added: June 10, 2008
Air date: June 09, 2008
Duration: 05:01
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
CNET News: An iPhone app for the body-conscious
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, S. Mark Williams of Modality shows off an iPhone application that gives detailed views of the human anatomy, including the heart and brain.
Added: June 10, 2008
Air date: June 09, 2008
Duration: 02:15
Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
January 30, 2008
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Yahoo will be laying off about a 1000 people. Alley Insider says Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is basically asking investors to be patient for another year, according to Alley Insider.
eBay has announced big changes in the company’s fee structure and reputation system. The company will drop its listing fees, but charge more when an item’s actually sold. The shifts will hurt sellers of low-priced items the most, because commissions will increase by almost 60% for items under $25.
Paul McGuinness has been managing U2 for thirty years, and he thinks companies including Google, Apple, Nokia, Microsoft, Yahoo are the knowing beneficiaries of “countless tiny crimes.”
An EU court decided that ISP’s do NOT have to hand over the identities of people accused of pirating music through peer to peer networks.
Firefox continues to gnaw at Internet Explorer’s lead.
Digg has just under 3 million users, and has roughly tripled over the past year. TechCrunch points out that the Digg site actually gets a lot more visitors than this.
Videoegg just announced that it sold $1.5 million of advertising for its partners on Facebook over the past five months. But that amounts to about $2000 per application per month. Not much to make a living on.
The analyst who touched off a firestorm by saying unsold iPhones were piling up in stores now thinks the root of this is a lot of unlocked phones, rather than unsold inventory.
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January 29, 2008
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Over the weekend, key news sources like Ars Technica and Tech Crunch took new music service Q-Trax at their word when they claimed to have licenses from all the major labels. Then the LA Times revealed that this wasn’t true – but the Times of London STILL believed the company. Finally the BBC verified it was all hogwash.
Rumors I recently discussed of Windows 7 shipping early are just wishful thinking.
What do you do for an encore after Technorati? Launch a HotOrNot for websites. Yow!
Rumor is that much bigger layoff’s are coming to Yahoo than previously believed. Here’s your handy cheat sheet on the bottom-line ramifications.
At last – the pen is mightier than the mouse.
Lego turns fifty, and Google celebrates. As well they should – their first drive array was built around Lego’s – and let’s not forget their office art in New York.
The robber barons may have been rich – but not even they could give their passengers the convenience of broadband wireless networking. A century later WiFi finally comes to the iron horse.
At last – a flashlight that can start your campfire and cook your marshmallows!
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