Technology
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Leave it to the guys at Engadget to snag the internet’s first quickie review of a real Origami machine. Their first thoughts – um, nothing special. The Samsung model they played around with was a pre-production unit, so there still may be some changes in store, but overall it didn’t come across as being revolutionary. …
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Today it was Intel’s turn to take the covers off of the UMPC platform. James Kendrick uncovered this page on the Intel website that begins to fill in the missing pieces to the puzzle. The Intel UMPC website reveals even more with four videos showing use cases for the UMPC here. The second video, “Mix…
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The last few weeks, rumors have been running rampant on the blogosphere (really, the entire Internet) about a brand new device that will be loaded with a Microsoft operating system. Whether or not Redmond is orchestrating this buzz is beyond me, but the speculation up to this point does have me very interested. Code named…
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Riya, a very interesting startup company that is building a picture tagging technology, just closed a huge $15MM round of funding. Riya’s face recognition technology auto tags your photos with the names of those people that you’ve trained it to know based on facial characteristics. Like something out of the FBI, or hollywood, this would…
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Apple’s strong run with the iPod has lifted the company’s market capitalization to $72bn, or just slightly higher than Dell. Engadget has a snippet from an internal email that Steve Jobs sent out marking the moment: “Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn’t perfect at predicting the future. Based on today’s stock market close,…
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Toni Schneider, who was the executive in charge of Yahoo’s developer network is leaving to join Automattic, the company that Matt Mullenweg started to build WordPress, WordPress.com, and other cool software. Link to Om Malik’s scoop: Yahoo Exec Exits For Automattic CEO Gig.
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This has to be the best technology news I missed while I was in India. 37Signals, makers of Basecamp, Backpack, and Ta-da lists announced that it will soon roll out Sunrise, a CRM application for small businesses. This is huge! If you aren’t familiar with 37Signals or their previous products, you should check them out…
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I thought it already had become an insult to call your software ‘enterprise’…. Predicting ’06: Enterprise is the new legacy .
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Steve Rubel, over at Micro Persuasion, makes a brief mention of new podcast downloads at Fidelity Investments’ Registered Investment Advisor Group. While not in the true podcast spirit (To access the actual audio, you have to go through a registration process), the fact that Fidelity is offering this service is worth noting. I think we’re…
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De.licio.us is a really cool social bookmarking website. So cool in fact that it’s hot! Yahoo bought de.licio.us last week. I just read an excellent post over at Slacker Manager about how to best use del.icio.us. Now that Yahoo owns del.icio.us, I hope they integrate it with the Yahoo Companion toolbar, a browser add-on that I…
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