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Jim Williams Remembered
Jim Williams Remembered

Analog guru Jim Williams died in mid 2011, but his work lives on in circuits, magazine articles, books and photographs. Part of his lab lives on, too, in the exhibit, "An Analog Life: Remembering Jim Williams," at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Remote Testing: the Achilles Heel of Cloud Services
Remote Testing: the Achilles Heel of Cloud Services

The availability of smartphones and the expectation of immediate and simple access are driving demand for centralization of IT services and the related competence required to support these effectively.

Build a Great Company to Build Great Products
Build a Great Company to Build Great Products

Products do not stand on their own, but rather are only valuable in the context of their supplier.

Legendary Investor Calls for Private Approach to Piracy
Legendary Investor Calls for Private Approach to Piracy

The legendary Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway called for a private effort to combat internet piracy during a protest Wednesday at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco. 

Four Things to Watch for on Smartphones
Four Things to Watch for on Smartphones

The year 2011 has unmistakably been the year of smartphone and ecosystems housing this magic gizmo.

What Smartphones Need Now
What Smartphones Need Now

News reports indicate that the iPhone 4S has stimulated users to increase mobile data usage by 1.6 times over that of the older iPhone 3G.

Deconstruct to Construct
Deconstruct to Construct

Reverse-engineering something may be used mostly to copy someone else’s work, but it can also be used as a thought exercise to aid original design.

Samsung and Sony Close the S-LCD Joint Venture: What Next?

On December 26, Sony announced the end of S-LCD, their joint venture with Samsung, which entails Gen 7 and 8 TFT LCD fabs. The joint venture, which started in 2004 and was strengthened through agreements and investments in 2006, 2007 and 2008...

Will the Smartphone Kill the Laptop?
Will the Smartphone Kill the Laptop?

OK, so maybe my headline is a bit of hyperbole – but then again perhaps not as much as you may think.

Seeing Past the Clouds - PLM and what’s What?
Seeing Past the Clouds - PLM and what’s What?

There is a lot of talk about cloud computing today, and its exponentially growing presence among enterprise technology, particularly Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).

Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet
Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet

18 hours ago

The D&D bracer is a fairly quick, fun, nerdy LilyPad project. The final product is a wearable bracer with a display that will randomly generate numbers between 1 and 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, or 100 in response to arm movement, so it can effectively replace all of the dice in your bag for a D&D session.

Sustainable?
Sustainable?

Feb 2

I'd like some genius to define sustainable. Could we count something that we can keep doing for 100 billion years - beyond the death of the Universe as we currently understand such things - as sustainable? How about a billion years?

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