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Been watching this with a great deal of interest, and wanted to pass along a good article in case you weren't aware of the ramifications of this auction. Simply put, one of the last wide-ranging/penetrating wireless spectrum chunks is coming up for auction...
Have had the iPhone for just under a week now, and wanted to share some more thoughts. Overall, I am absolutely in love with this device. It feels fantastic in the hand, the screen is drop-dead gorgeous to look at, and in general it "just works" as you...
As with most things high-def, there's a lot of confusion around video codecs and what they do for you. I was pointed to this great summary of video codecs (including quality testing), and just wanted to share. It's an easy enough read such that most people...
Microsoft just announced some cool new technology - basically a table-sized, multi-touch input display with intuitive UI. The videos are great - I love how the table reacts when drinks are placed on it. And I'm already imagining the interesting social...
Wanted to point you to some interesting new Microsoft technology - a high-capacity color barcode that can hold up to 3,500 characters of information. The BBC has a good summary , but I'll give you a quick quote here: The code is made up of up to eight...
With full credit to Kim Pallister's blog for pointing it out, I wanted to share a great video that summarizes the evolution of the web and explains quite succinctly what all this "Web 2.0" stuff is about. Web 2.0 is a pretty over-burdened phrase these...
Just wanted to share a couple of tech demo videos from Lucasarts' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. What's interesting about these demos is that they really begin to show off the potential of next-generation systems, both for physics and AI. It...
Was pointed to flashearth.com , a virtual earth website that uses flash and your choice of many of the satellite map sites to give you a really cool globe browsing experience. I basically "surfed" down to my home neighborhood in a matter of...
Just saw over on Evil Avatar that a hardcore case modder took an Xbox 360 and made a "laptop" out of it - albeit one that's water-cooled and weighs 14 pounds! A couple of choice system specifications (quoted from Evil Avatar since the main...
And I thought I'd never get to use "tsunami" in a blog post... but indeed, in the random yet wicked-cool technology news category today is an article about someone using the read/write head sensor in hard drives to detect tsunamis. To quote: As part of...
A few folks wrote me to point out the distributed client announcement from Stanford and Sony that will allow PS3 users to donate unused CPU cycles to a good cause. To quote the FAQ : Our goal is to apply this new technology to push Folding@Home into a...
Just saw a blog posting from Bryan Ressler, one of the Microsoft Labs PIX team members. In it he gives some details about the Photosynth technology preview the PIX team has been working on. Apparently, this technology takes a collection of photos from...