Blogosphere
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Technology is a 'double-edged sword'
Insight newsmaker Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil weighs in on human vs machine intelligence, and the dangers of advanced technologies.
Tags: Supercomputing, Personal Computers, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Intelligence, Gene, Computer, RNA, emotional intelligence, voice recognition software, Consciousness
Palm: Revenue up, earnings down
News Executives at the Treo maker also report record sales of the flagship product, but won't speculate on rumors of an imminent takeover.
Tags: PalmOS compatibles, PalmOS, Revenue recognition, Sales/revenue
Google plays with Gears, ready to unveil Docs?
News News from the blogosphere today has indicated that Google is preparing to launch one of its first offline-ready Web applications in the form of Google Docs as part of Google Gears.
Tags: Business applications, Search, Open source
Mozilla Labs rolls out usability 'Test Pilot' add-on
News More than a year after announcing its intention to make usability and feature testing easier and more consistent, Mozilla has released its Test Pilot browser plug-in.
Tags: Web browsers, Plug-in, Web Browser, Officer, Survey, Mozilla Corp., blogosphere, Mozilla Firefox, knowledge, product design
A new skin for 'unkind' blogosphere
Blogs Remember that episode of Seinfeld where the four friends were sent to jail for not being good Samaritans? In the fin...
And now...public relations in the blogosphere
Blogs The new media is growing mightier by the day, and bloggers are the new pressure group in the virtual world. That's also ...
Facebook silences Project Playlist widgets
News The legal complaints that earlier saw the social music site's widgets pulled from MySpace have now cut off its presence on Facebook, too.
Tags: Music, Lawsuits, Patents, MySpace, RIAA, blogosphere, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Project Playlist, social networking, Facebook
Bloggers in the news
Blogs Blogging is supposed to be a medium which ordinary folks can use to publish anything they want, be it a personal ramblin...
Parenting young minds in Net era
Blogs Once upon a long time, in a far distant past, as a child, I used to pretend-play the role of a teacher. I would lock mys...
Next-gen Android phone coming soon?
News Gizmodo publishes pictures of the "G2" Android phone for T-Mobile's network. The photos reveal a much thinner phone, due to the exclusion of the slide keyboard.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi, Personal broadband, 3G (Third Generation), Next-generation technology/networks, Handhelds, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Open Source, phone, T-Mobile
Amazon bucks trend of worst retail season in decades
News Amazon proclaims that the 2008 festive shopping was its “best ever,” even though a report released on Christmas Day called the season one of the worst in decades.
Tags: E-commerce, Forecasting, Sales strategy, Sales/revenue, Electronics, Sales, food sale, 1080p, Forecasting, Intel Atom
Yahoo's Bartz: 'No comment' on Microsoft deal
News In a call with analysts, CEO Carol Bartz referred to outsourcing or partnering parts of Yahoo’s business as it rethinks its strategy.
Tags: Business structures, Earning reports/forecasts, Mergers, Microsoft Corp., Outsourcing, Yahoo! Inc., Alibaba.com, financial, restructuring plan, earnings announcement
News flash: Web 2.0 is unreliable
News Recurring uptime problems with Twitter, Seesmic and other sites demonstrate that the much loved Web 2.0 is having growing pains.
Tags: Web 2.0, Google Inc., Site, Yahoo! Inc., Video, Steven Spielberg, movie, Outage, server farm, Facebook
New touch-screen BlackBerrys may be on the way
News Research In Motion is preparing a GSM version of the BlackBerry Storm touch-screen phone as well as a new touch-screen device that sports a full QWERTY key pad, according to rumors circulating in the blogosphere.
Tags: Smart phones, BlackBerry, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., BlackBerry Bold, Touch Screen, phone, 3G, HSDPA, network
Sony Ericsson's answer to the iPhone?
News news analysis Sony Ericsson's Xperia mobile phone will not be released for a couple of months, but it is getting a lot of buzz in the blogosphere.
Tags: Smart phones, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Adobe PhotoShop, Touch Screen, phone, software, keyboard, Apple iPhone
