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Juniper Networks and EMC Show Tech Industry Strength Returning
It looks like both EMC and Juniper Networks have seen some extremely strong market gains. This should hearten many about the strength of the tech industry and where it’s potentially headed. Especially in light of the recent EMC “Breaking Records” event last week. We’re currently following some of the healthy market indicators listed in UK ...
Social Gaming Still has Big Shoes to Grow Into, Marketers Take Heed of 61.9 Million Potential Eyeballs
Social gaming has become a mainstay of the online experience for millions of Internet users and certainly became a multi-million dollar industry overnight. In fact, if we keep citing figures, we’ll see that it’s expected to surpass the 1 billion dollar watermark. That’s a lot of dollars. The casual and social gaming industry have seen ...
Apple Intends to Join the Smartphone as Wallet Revolution, Plans to Roll Out NFC
Near-field Communication made its first appearance the Android ecosystem, but its obvious usefulness for smartphone payments has made it a powerful technology for the personal transaction industry. The technology only exists in a few handsets currently and it’s obvious to the industry that Apple would be the next best platform to develop it on. Bloomberg ...
University of Washington Students Modify Kinect to Assist with Robotic Surgery
As all the amazing innovations have been coming through involving Microsoft’s highly versatile Kinect controller, I’ve even imagined that it might be useful for robotic microsurgery—it makes sense from a teleoperator angle. At the University of Washington, students have thought along the same lines; however, while my mind went to better focusing the efforts of ...
Nintendo Seeks to Transcend the Handheld Market with 3DS
For a long time the handheld gaming market has been dominated by the console manufacturers: Nintendo, Sony, et al. However, now we’re looking at a different market where smartphones have begun to penetrate deeply into that territory. In order to strike back at this new threat from outside has sought to develop a brand-new technology ...
Twitter Being Sued Over Patent Involving Connecting Famous People Online
Wait…really? Did you read that right? Yes, you did. Right now a company named VS Technologies is suing Twitter, alleging that it infringes on a patent—US patent no. 6,408,309. This patent, according to the title, defines “[a] Method and system for creating an interactive virtual community of famous people,” which seems like a subset of ...
Kristian Larsen Schools Us on Creativity with an Android Smartphone Concept Design
A beautiful video named “What is Creative” is making the rounds of the Internet right now featuring a design concept for an amazing Android smartphone design concept. The video asks the viewer, “What is creative?” and then goes on to make a series of koan-style statements while presenting different types of human-technology interaction involving a ...
Microsoft Kinect Researcher Heads Over to Google
The keen eyes over at ZDNet caught onto the fact that a “core contributor” to the Kinect has left Microsoft to join up with Google. Mary Jo Foley noticed that Johnny Chung Lee’s web site changed to cite that he is now a “Rapid Evaluator” at Google: In a January 18 blog post, Lee acknowledged ...
Nokia and Microsoft, Together They Could Dial It Up to Eleven
Nokia has suffered somewhat as it’s tried very hard to get its MeeGo platform up to spec but the market just isn’t giving it the goods it needs. In spite of taking aim at the iPhone, they have certainly been falling a bit short. Not long after the last release of MeeGo and it’s merger ...
NBC Universal Merger Means Community Service for Comcast, $10/month Internet for the Poor
We’ve been keeping our eye on the FCC’s take on the NBC Universal-Comcast merger with expectation as it would be a game changer for much of the media production and distribution industry. Well, it looks like the FCC and the DOJ have finally OKed the merger, but they’ve done so with a series of demands ...