You might have heard of Doug Engelbart, and you might know him as the inventor of the computer mouse. But you probably don't know that he is one of the most influential computer visionaries of all time. In the 1960s he and his colleagues were playing with concepts and designing systems that today we take for granted: visual interfaces, spreadsheets, email, and much, much more. I had the great privilege of interviewing Mr Engelbart more ...

Le journaliste belge Thomas Scheen, qui couvre le conflit du Kivu pour la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a été enlevé le 4 novembre par des miliciens maï-maï. Trois jours plus tard, il était libéré. Il raconte.

There are no killer applications being developed by Microsoft's Robotics Developer Studio there are only "compelling applications," jokes Tandy Trower GM of Microsoft Robotics Group. The software giant today released a major new version of its toolkit that helps robotics researchers develop routines for controlling domestic robots. Microsoft believes that domestic robots will become as common and as useful in the home as PCs are today. "We are still at an early stage, at the ...

There is a perception among some of my contacts that the financial crisis has stabilized and that the fallout from the sub-prime bubble has been contained. What is missing in that analysis is the fact that this financial crisis has still a long way to go because there are other bubbles bursting. Interestingly, this time there is no tech bubble but there might be little that tech can do to mitigate the effects of this ...

sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is a technology that allows you to use any font you wish on your web pages. Long story short, it uses JavaScript to target certain text page elements and replace them with a block of Flash, which is the same text only rendered with a new font. This means you are free to use any font you wish in your designs instead of being limited to very small set of ...

Well, the time has come, the new Shepard Fairey designed Obama print is now up for sale. “Vote” is a 26″ x 40″ offset, has an edition of 5000, and is $70. I’m willing to bet these go pretty fast, so get on it. Visit BarackObama.com. EDIT: Thanks to Arrested Motion for the info, use promo code “25OFF” for 25% off your order.

I've been covering the venture capital community for many years and I'm always mystified why they all act like sheep yet think they are wolves. Why is the VC community running around like Chicken Little saying the sky is falling when their horizons aren't in the now, they are in the future? If I'm a startup, what do I care about what the economy is like today? I care about what the economy is going ...

El servicio permite 'callejear' por las grandes ciudades gracias a la unión de los mapas y las fotos. Leer. Escuchar

No hay cliente más rentable ni agradecido que el de las grandes petroleras. Es rentable en extremo porque paga por un servicio que nadie le presta. Y agradecido, porque repite. Más que estudios de mercado, a los usuarios de las gasolineras de marca habría que hacerles un perfil psicológico para averiguar la razón de tan enrevesado comportamiento. Leer

Using an ATtiny13 microcontroller and some matrixed LEDs, hacker Randomskk designed a jar full of electronic fireflies. A bulb is picked at random and flashed on one to three times. 255 different patterns are available and the entire thing is powered by a watch battery. Seems like it’d be pretty easy to make your own. What do you think? Weekend project or five minutes of fury? Link

Filed under: Laptops Lenovo's IdeaPad S10 has already started shipping out to those who were sold from the word go, but if you're still hungry to see how this thing performs, HotHardware has the goods. In a recent video hosted up by the site, we're shown a hands-on overview of the unit itself, a peek at the innards, a look at multimedia performance and even an energy test. Got five minutes to spare for a ...

I arrived in Silicon Valley in 1984 just after the PC bubble had popped. It was all doom and gloom at the time, there were stories about how Silicon Valley was washed up, and that innovation would move elsewhere. There have been many boom and busts in Silicon Valley since 1984 and similar stories about Silicon Valley all washed up and that innovation was moving elsewhere. Silicon Valley didn't go anywhere, it got bigger and ...

Check out this video from 1992 which outlines Australia Telecom’s vision for the future…broadband in 1996. via Paleofuture Having to explain broadband may seem a quaint concept in 2008, but consider that in 1992 the Internet as we know it (indeed, the World Wide Web) did not exist. Development of Mosaic, the web browser which introduced many to the Web, began in December of 1992, and its release in 1993 eventually precipitated the founding of ...

Excellent analysis of AIG bailout and the US/global financial crisis from an angry John Gapper at the Financial Times: Some extracts from: This greed was beyond irresponsible I have a fine seat in the FT’s New York office looking down the canyon of Sixth Avenue towards the banks of Midtown. From my perch, I have watched the flabbergasting events of the past week. My initial reaction was excitement – what a time to be observing ...