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  • Maker Camp at Google+
    I love the core idea behind Maker Faire: Project based learning. Learning by doing. Putting the "construct" in constructivism. Maker Faire NY has been an annual family highlight for us each of its last two years--and we're already looking forward to our next craft and explosion-filled weekend this September at the New York Hall of Science.
    07.19.12
  • Government Needs a Trip to Startup Land
    Both entrepreneurs and government staffers would benefit from learning more about the other, and developing a more meaningful working relationship.
    07.19.12
  • Windows Azure Quietly Puts Its Pieces Into Place
    Winning, for Microsoft, won¿t be about beating Amazon or VMware in the specific territories of public cloud computing. No, winning for Microsoft is remaining present in many positions, exerting influence and working on a much, much bigger picture, writes Alexander Haislip.
    07.18.12
  • Raspberry Pi Launches Summer Programming Competition for Kids
    Raspberry Pi, the new credit-card sized and moderately-priced computer, is announcing a summer programming competition for kids. If you're a kid under 18, write a program for Raspberry Pi that impresses the judges and you could win $1,000!
    07.18.12
  • Dell Launches Flying Data Center at War Fighters
    We're still waiting for Google's Data Center Navy. But Dell is doing its best to feed the Data Center Air Force. On Tuesday, the Texas computing giant took the wraps off what it calls the Dell Tactical Mobile Data Center -- a kind of data-center-in-a-box that's specifically designed for military outfits looking to air-lift temporary computing power into emergency situations.
    07.17.12
  • How to Steam Penguins: The Valve Linux Blog Goes Live
    If you have ever dabbled in Linux or Steam and wished for the two to combine forces, look no further. The Linux Valve blog went live on July 16 - watch this space for open source game development news.
    07.17.12
  • VMware 'Replaces CEO' On Flight To The Clouds
    VMware is on the verge of a major shakeup that will see the company replace CEO Paul Maritz and spin-off Cloud Foundry, its highly-regarded open source cloud-building platform, according to reports citing unnamed sources.
    07.17.12
  • Google Glass Anti-Theft Patent Detects Burgled Headset, Calls the Coppers
    When you plunk down $1,500 for the chance to purchase the future of wearable computing, you might expect some sort of security component to protect your investment. While tethering your augmented reality glasses to your belt with a chain is a plausible option, Google has come up with a much more technical solution.
    07.17.12
  • Google Lets You Follow in Antarctic Explorers' Footsteps
    A century after the great Antarctic explorers crossed that icy continent, many of their destinations remain inaccessible -- at least on foot. From your desktop, though, you can visit huts built by Ernest Shackleton and Robert Scott, even plant a virtual flag on the Ceremonial South Pole.
    07.17.12
  • Marissa Mayer: Yahoo's New Pregnant CEO
    Marissa Mayer is a big deal. She's Google employee 20, the first woman engineer, and the highest ranking woman there. Well, she was. As of yesterday, she's a Xoogler. Mayer quit Google in order to become Yahoo's new CEO. As if that weren't enough, the same day she made the announcement, she tweeted that she and her husband were expecting a baby boy in October. That's right, Yahoo hired her with a visible baby bump.
    07.17.12
  • The Ultimate Googler Is Yahoo's Ideal CEO
    If you were to tick off the ideal leader for Yahoo, you¿d wind up with a description that sounds a lot like Marissa Mayer: Highly technical, product-oriented, as Internet-savvy as anyone in the world, and charismatic enough to energize followers.
    07.17.12
  • NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate
    In 2008, a team of software coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google. They closely followed the Google research paper describing BigTable -- the sweeping database that underpinned many of the Google's online services, running across tens of thousands of computer servers -- but they also went a little further. ...
    07.17.12
  • Hands-On: Microsoft Office Finally Gets Serious About the Cloud
    With competition coming from Google's Drive products and Apple's iWork and iCloud integration, Microsoft is finally getting ready to step up its game with the company's immensely popular Office suite. Microsoft officially unveiled Office 2013 and Office 365, the latest versions of its productivity suite at an event on Monday.
    07.16.12
  • Oracle Rejected in Bid to Resuscitate Google Trial
    If Oracle wants to win its lawsuit against Google over the Android mobile operating system ¿ and it does ¿ it will have to file an appeal. On Friday, Judge William Alsup denied Oracle's motion for a new trial after a San Francisco jury returned an incomplete verdict the first time around.
    07.16.12
  • Measuring Mobile-Data Burn on the Road
    To get an idea of the real-world data usage while on the road, we took a Motorola Droid Razr Maxx along on a recent drive from LA to San Diego and back, all the while playing Pandora internet radio (using the service¿s standard audio quality, 32 kbps) and running the Google Maps Navigation (Beta) app.
    07.16.12


 

 

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