Archive for April, 2008
Ultra-free gNewSense 2.0 beta released
Brian Brazil and the team behind the ultra-free gNewSense Linux distribution have released a beta of the forthcoming 2.0 (or Deltah) series. gNewSense is based on Ubuntu but strips the distribution of non-free components to provide users with a truly free operating system. gNewSense is backed by the Free Software Foundation. Among the changes in [...]
Cellphones used for medical imaging
A team of engineers at the University of California at Berkeley has developed a technique for transmitting medical images via cellphones. This potentially could bring medical imaging to the ‘three-quarters of the world’s population which has no access to ultrasounds, X-rays, magnetic resonance images, and other medical imaging technology.’ The lead researcher said that this [...]
How to watch Web Search Trends
The search engines have become an integrated part of our lives. Each and every day billions of searches are made all over the world, reflecting stories of work and leisure, strife and passion, and the interests of millions of Internet searchers….
AOL To Unveil Open Voice APIs
AOL plans to roll out open voice APIs today for developers and device makers to integrate the company’s AIM Call Out service into the hardware and software used to make phone calls over the Internet
Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 - Part 1
The massive list of all Web 2.0 sites - who says they are dead?
A lawyer inside your PC - Intelligent Information Governance Platform
Autonomy has launched Autonomy Information Governance (AIG), a software that can understand in real-time the meaning of email, blogs, and other documents. It can flag illegal communications and also find documents related to a lawsuit against the company, and also destroy documents that don’t require to be saved yet could raise the risk of a successful future legal action against the company.
Google forges ahead with next generation of image search
Search giant Google wants to push forward with a new, improved form of image search that’s based on visual characteristics, not just text. Last week, two of the company’s scientists presented a paper outlining a system they’re calling VisualRank.
First Psystar Mac Clones Ship
According to Gizmodo, Psystar has begun shipping its Macintosh clones, thus proving that the company is not a hoax. Initial impressions seem to be positive, though Software Update does not work.
Shutdown Day 2008 - Can you? Will you?
Shutdown Day 2008 is your opportunity to be part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the Internet. The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day on Saturday 3rd May 2008.
I think we can all agree that [...]
Rare interview with Donald Knuth
Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend about winning a programming contest with a single compilation.
