I know there are a billion “Twittiquette” posts out there, but I really don’t care and need to get some Twinger (Twitter + Anger? no? terrible?) off my chest. I’m not saying I’m a big deal or anything (although sometimes I like to convince myself I am as an ego booster?), but I think everyone [...]
Apple has purchased the patents for an electronic casing industry called Liquidmetal®. On August 5, 2010, Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Liquidmetal”), entered into a Master Transaction Agreement with Apple Inc., a California corporation (“Apple”), pursuant to which (i) Liquidmetal contributed substantially all of its intellectual property assets to a newly organized special-purpose, wholly-owned [...]
HP has just announced that it’s acquiring Palm for $1.2 billion or $5.70 per share of Palm common stock. The deal is planned to close by July 31, 2010.
A California Institute of Technology (Caltech)-led team of researchers and clinicians has published the first proof that a targeted nanoparticle—used as an experimental therapeutic and injected directly into a patient’s bloodstream—can traffic into tumors, deliver double-stranded small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), and turn off an important cancer gene using a mechanism known as RNA interference (RNAi).
Cisco chief executive John Chambers’ prediction long ago that video one day would disrupt the Internet is nearly a reality. On Tuesday, the company announced a powerful router designed to help make that prediction come true
A class-action lawsuit was filed against Yelp by two firms in Los Angeles federal court yesterday. The lawsuit alleges unfair business practices against the San Francisco-based user-generated review site, and, in particular, that the company “runs an extortion scheme in which the company’s employees call businesses demanding monthly payments, in the guise of ‘advertising contracts,’ in [...]
Apple, who believes that everyone in the real world (see outside of Cupertino) has hands like a Simpson character, has been granted a patent for multitouch capacitive screens. You can readt it here. “A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same [...]
Google has decided to push the ISP industry into the future. This seems to be similiar to the way the Nexus One has resulted in improved hardware in the cellular industry. If you are interested in a possible (see slim) chance of getting your Interwebz at over 1 gigabit per second. Sign up here: http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi
MIT research is cutting edge. While not yet of the commercial variety, the trickle down effect eventually comes into our current technologies, as they were all lab based at one point in time. It may be 5 to 10 years before we see 500 Ghz CPUs pop up, but we can still dream. According to [...]
Once in your life, if you are lucky, there comes a graph that is so full of win and covered in golden nuggets of awesome sauce, that you MUST to share. This graph here qualifies. Prepare for überocity. Please be seated.
After centuries of cutting down forests to make newspapers, we can see the end of road for the newspaper. Will it be able to evolve? Can MingleVerse help it? Why personal branding is so important to journalists.
