http://www.stimutran-sme.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:38:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en commentary Alas, Oracle's consolidation play suggests that the big enterprise software vendors struggle to see the market in terms other than zero sum. IBM is looking abroad to developing economies for growth, and surely Oracle and SAP are doing the same. But what about here in the US? Or Western Europe? ... http://www.stimutran-sme.com/2010/09/04/sap-claims-100-of-oracles-customers-have-defected/ Research chief Rick Rashid didn't mention Google by name, but did say that investing in basic research can help a company when technology shifts and as new rivals emerge. Other projects include the well-publicized WorldWide Telescope and LucidTouch, a new touch-based interface for mobile devices. REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft kicked off its annual TechFest ... http://www.stimutran-sme.com/2010/08/30/microsoft-kicks-off-techfest/ Intel likes to mention that it's the world's leading supplier of graphics technology. The only reason it can claim that mantle, however, is because people like bargains, and the way they get those bargains is through the use of integrated graphics chipsets. It needs to somehow get up to ... http://www.stimutran-sme.com/2010/08/24/high-time-for-intel-to-get-serious-about-graphics/ IBM and Saudi Arabia's national research and development organization have created a joint nanotechnology lab to develop new technologies in solar power, seawater desalination, and recyclable materials. An agreement to create the Nanotechnology Centre of Excellence, established by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and IBM Research, was ... http://www.stimutran-sme.com/2010/08/21/ibm-saudis-partner-on-green-nanotech-lab/ Dino-Light Digital USB Microscope AM413M (Credit: CNET Networks) At this year's CES, adrift between meetings, I stumbled into a few digital microscope booths and spent a little time at the other end of the image-capture spectrum; in cameraville, we tend to concentrate on the telephoto megazooms, which make big things ... http://www.stimutran-sme.com/2010/08/21/for-the-dino-lite-handheld-microscope-its-not-su/ Sling Media has plans to connect your Slingbox to Apple's 3G iPhone. But don't get too excited; there's no release date set yet. Sling showed us a brief demonstration of what the company's mobile application, SlingPlayer, looks like on a jailbroken first-generation iPhone. It's merely a proof of concept, the company ... http://www.stimutran-sme.com/2010/08/21/slingplayer-wants-to-come-to-the-3g-iphone/ A group of researchers from the University of Colorado and University of Washington could face both civil and criminal penalties for a research project in which they snooped on users of the Tor anonymous proxy network. Should federal prosecutors take interest in the project, the researchers could also face up ... http://www.stimutran-sme.com/2010/08/21/researchers-could-face-legal-risks-for-network-sno/ Earlier this year, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke explained to the AP that the band was going to take concrete steps to minimize its contribution to global warming, including traveling by airplane only when necessary and using solar-powered generators. But the biggest contributor, by far, to the band's global carbon footprint ... http://www.stimutran-sme.com/2010/08/21/radioheads-green-promise-must-not-apply-to-seattl/ The Macalope knows the MacBook Air isn't perfect, but the amount of silly punditry it's attracting is seriously out of control. First, did you know that the MacBook Air Lacks Features, Analysts Say (tip o' the antlers to the Rat Boy)? It's true! And, according to squirrels, it lacks delicious nuts! Well, pardon ... http://www.stimutran-sme.com/2010/08/21/macbook-air-attack/ This post was updated at 10:11 AM on Friday with comment from Chi.mp's Myles Weissleder. SAN FRANCISCO--Wednesday night was a wild one. As part of this week's Web 2.0 Expo, the ubiquitous digital-media blog Mashable enlisted a brand-new social-media site called Chi.mp to sponsor its all-night bash at a cavernous nightclub called ... http://www.stimutran-sme.com/2010/08/21/the-web-20-economy-hangs-in-limbo-2/