MIT Siftables: The Coolest Thing You'll See Today Check out this video on the MIT Siftables project, which is getting closer to commercialization. Each tiny block is an interactive computer with an OLED screen that can display graphics, sense movement and interact wirelessly with a computer and other Siftables. 5 'marketing opportunities' hospitals are missing Doctors Twittering from the operating room is yesterday's news. "Brain Surgery Cam"? Now that one got my attention while reading the May 24 edition of The New York Times. Videoconferencing hits the big time
for real It feels like 1989 all over again. Wacky haircuts are back (I think I saw a mullet the other day). "Alternative rock" sounds a lot like what used to be called "new wave." Big shoulders are back. And we geeks are waxing rhapsodic about the wonders of videoconferencing. Willful technological ignorance Mark Gibbs is irked by a GE marketing program that willfully uses the wrong name for a technology it uses. He sees this as symptomatic of a trend of needless inaccuracy about technology that just keeps us slightly dumber than we ought to be. "The Larry Awards" Interop Las Vegas Awards for Best Presentation I decided to have a little fun and send some emails to friends who attended Interop to get their opinions on who had the best presentations from any technology. The name of the awards came from a few people who thought my name should be the award (sounds good to me). The votes were very different from what I thought and we had many discussions, but we do have our winner for this year listed below. Also I have added some comments that came back about what they did not like. Maybe this will help vendors do better next year. 25 Gigs of Someone Else's Data Keith and guest co-host Matt Hamblen from Computerworld talk about Microsoft's Bing, how they circumvent e-mail capping limits and why texting while driving is a really bad idea. (46:41) May Giveaways Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet are collectively giving away books on Google Apps Deciphered, the CCNA Security exam, an awesome SQL Server 2005/2008 training video and the grand prize, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500. Deadline for entries May 31. |
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