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• Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer

  The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add ...

  Tags: Roland Piquepaille, Details, Emerging Technologies, Robots

  May 17, 2008 9:58 AM PDT

• iPhoneDevCamp 2 announced

  iPhoneDevCamp 2 will be held 1-3 August 2008 at Adobe Systems headquarters in San Francisco (601 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103). iPhoneDevCamp 2 is a not-for-profit gathering to develop ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, iPhoneDevCamp 2, Internet, Digital Media, RSS, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, San Francisco, Quality, Business Operations

  May 17, 2008 9:41 AM PDT

• Review: CardIris 3.0 scanning software

  I've been using the tiny IRIS Business Card Reader II for about two years and love it. A colleague, Ryan Kaplan, recently shared his experience with CardIris scanning software: Having ...

  Tags: Scanners, Peripherals, Hardware, Business Card, Software, Card, Jason D. O\'Grady

  May 17, 2008 9:05 AM PDT

• Novell produces lead pony for Silverlight

  Something has always bothered me about Novell's Mono project. Those feelings came together this week with the release of Moonlight, Novell's implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Linux. It wasn't Miguel ...

  Tags: .Net, Dana Blankenhorn, Software Development, UNIX, Development Tools, Novell Inc., Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software/Web Development

  May 17, 2008 6:02 AM PDT

• Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is released - complete with sneaky change

  Many of you will know that I've been following the progress of the Firefox 3.0 browser carefully over the past few months. Yesterday the browser entered an important phase of ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Web Browser, Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1, Internet, Mozilla Firefox, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  May 17, 2008 5:35 AM PDT

• Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect

  A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being ...

  Tags: Web Site, Web Site Development, Garett Rogers, Web Technology, Internet, Facebook, Google Inc.

  May 16, 2008 9:07 PM PDT

• Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists

  Irony at its best. It appears that Redmond - The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community, formerly known as Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine is currently flagged as a badware ...

  Tags: SQL Injection, F**k, Data Management, Software Development, Redmond, Enterprise Software, Mal/Badsrc-A, SQL, Databases, Dancho Danchev

  May 16, 2008 3:10 PM PDT

• Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?

  Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the ...

  Tags: Management, Anshu Sharma, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Vision, Wall, Software As A Service (SaaS), Yahoo! Inc., Shareholder

  May 16, 2008 2:49 PM PDT

• The power of you: Siemens recognizes green efforts of three U.S. communities

  I've been remiss in following up some admirable community sustainability awards that are being sponsored by Siemens in conjunction with the Business Civic Leadership Center and the U.S. Chamber of ...

  Tags: Community, Heather Clancy, Green Technology, Siemens AG

  May 16, 2008 2:01 PM PDT

• Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF

  Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social ...

  Tags: Spam, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Semantic Web, Social Networking, Paul Miller, QDOS, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Tom Ilube

  May 16, 2008 1:56 PM PDT

• How to ... install Ubuntu 8.04 on a USB flash drive

  From the Hardware 2.0 mailbag: Can you install Ubuntu on a USB flash drive? Yes, yes you can. Here's what you need: Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD USB flash drive (4GB+) ...

  Tags: Ubuntu, USB Flash Drive, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  May 16, 2008 12:30 PM PDT

• XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings

  At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told ...

  Tags: Nicholas Negroponte, Management, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows XP, Team Management, Team, Richard Koman, Education, One Laptop Per Child Project

  May 16, 2008 12:18 PM PDT

• RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working

  RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Components, Peripherals, Handhelds, Hardware, Qwerty, Silicon.com, Apple iPhone, Consumer electronics, Touch Screen

  May 16, 2008 11:25 AM PDT

• Microsoft, HP ready XP SP3 endless-reboot patches

  Help is on its way for users affected by the Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 endless-reboot problem that has plagued some users for the past week-plus. Both Microsoft and ...

  Tags: Mary Jo Foley

  May 16, 2008 11:23 AM PDT

• Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version

  Miguel de Icaza has announced that that the first public sourcecode release of Moonlight CNET articleis now available. This version of Moonlight is based on Silverlight 1.0 and not the ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Linux, Operating Systems, Ryan Stewart, Open Source, Internet, Software, Microsoft Silverlight, UNIX

  May 16, 2008 11:21 AM PDT

• Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?

  Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows ...

  Tags: David Morgenstern, Engineer, ISV, Microsoft Windows, Developer, Scripting Languages, Web Development, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft VBA, Software/Web Development

  May 16, 2008 10:53 AM PDT

• XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?

  Updated: The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the ...

  Tags: Linux, Laptop Computer, Operating Systems, XO, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, One Laptop Per Child Project, XP Screen, Software, Microsoft Windows

  May 16, 2008 10:48 AM PDT

• McAfee's HackerSafe: "Um... we go in like a super hacker"

  Updated 05/16/2008 2:00 p.m. CST: I officially have my first customer for the "Nate McFeters Safe" certification and Jeremiah Grossman and I have signed up another member for Scanless PCI, as noted security ...

  Tags: Nathan McFeters

  May 16, 2008 10:45 AM PDT

• Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform

  Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottowa at a day long event. Dubbed Web Alive, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel ...

  Tags: Channel Management, Web, Telecommunications, Voice, Collaboration, Marketing, Nortel Networks Corp., Web Alive, Dave Greenfield, World Platform

  May 16, 2008 10:28 AM PDT

• Freak helicopter death turns into an anti-iPod story

  Is it me of has this story of death by helicopter been hijacked by the anti-iPod brigade? The death of a pedestrian in Cranbrook, B.C., on Tuesday has raised the question ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Apple iPod, Helicopter, Digital Media, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  May 16, 2008 10:12 AM PDT

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