The latest Apple release has to go down in history as the quietest. Apple just released new products, and the earth didn’t move on its axis, and satellites in space pretty much stayed their course.
Analyst Opinion – On the surface, the cooperation between Intel and TSMC seems like a routine cooperative partnership announcement. Yet with this one action, if managed effectively, Intel has almost assured Atom’s success as a major player in the growing world of consumer electronics.
The proof is in the pudding, as they say. At Yahoo, the pudding is quite murky at present, what with Jerry Yang out as CEO, a disastrous 2008 in terms of stock price and failing to be taken over by Microsoft. Yet, just in the past few weeks, as Carol Bartz took over as CEO, it’s as though the dark cloud has lifted.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt commenting about Twitter:”Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man’s email systems.”
Yesterday, a group of technology entrepreneurs from the UK on a skiing vacation in the Swiss Alps (Verbier) lost two of their party around 4 PM CET. Other members of the group put out a request on Twitter in order to learn the numbers of their mobile phones, so they could use the signals to track them down.
The ReTweetability Index measures and ranks Twitter users based on the infectious power of their tweets. This number accounts for number of followers and Tweets overall, so it is a true indicator of infectiousness.
Pickens writes “Paleontologists recently discovered the world’s oldest brain nestled within a 300-million-year-old fish fossil of one of the extinct relatives of modern ratfishes, also known as ‘host sharks’ or chimaeras. These chimaera relatives, called iniopterygians, represented bizarre beasts that sported massive skulls with huge eye sockets, shark-like teeth in rows, tails with clubs, huge pectoral fins that were placed almost on their backs, and bone-like spikes or hooks tipping the fins. The brain shows details such as a large vision lobe and optic nerve stretching to the proper place on the braincase, which fits with the fish’s large eye sockets. The ear canals of the extinct fish only exist on a horizontal plane so the fish could only detect side-to-side movements, and not up or down. ‘There is nothing like this known today; it is really bizarre,’ said John Maisey, paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. ‘But now that we know that brains might be preserved in such ancient fossils, we can start looking for others. We are limited in information about early vertebrate brains, and the evolution of the brain lies at the core of vertebrate history.'”
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An anonymous reader writes “Ars Technica has a very thorough post of some of the technologies that Microsoft researchers showed off at TechFest last week. ‘The exact number of projects that were demonstrated at TechFest 2009 is not clear, but here’s a quick rundown of about 35 research projects that haven’t received much coverage, accompanied by links that will let you further explore if your interest is piqued. Remember that these are concepts and prototypes, not finished products, and they may never end up becoming anything significant.'” While Microsoft has been criticized for squandering a fortune on R&D, there can be no doubt that they are showing off some cool tech here.
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Flying under the radar of Tuesday’s broad desktop overhaul were quiet updates to Apple’s MacBook Pro notebook line, which now includes a faster 15-inch model, new high-end chip options, and larger solid-state drive (SSD) choices that are also offered alongside the company’s 13-inch MacBooks.
After this Sunday, Circuit Cities across the nation close for good, and its 30,000-member work force (whoever is left, anyway) will join the ranks of the unemployed. But until then, nab some great low prices on electronics!
