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Thursday, March 5th, 2009Liam Casey runs PCH, a supply chain management company in Shenzhen, China. We visited him recently to understand how China's manufacturing capabilities are changing and also how consumer electronics are made, marketed, and delivered to your home from PCH's factories in China. ...5 Comments
Thursday, March 5th, 2009In the building where the hard drive was invented there's a team of researchers who are working to build new kinds of memories. Ones that are smaller, faster, cheaper to build, and that use less power. Here I meet with the guy who runs that team, Stewart Parkin, who gives details of what they are ...
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Jen Gilburg of Verisign shows me Verisign's two-path authentication tokens so that users can better protect themselves online by having very strong passwords. Interesting way to protect your accounts. Will this take off with users? ...
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Want to work with a ton of cool startups like iPhone app developer Shazam? Well, then you'll want to check out Thinkspace which is run by Peter Che up in Redmond, WA. Right near Microsoft's campus. Here Peter gives us a tour and talks about why he has one of the hottest places to work in the ...
Thursday, March 5th, 2009How do you measure the world's fastest punch? Turns out it's not as easy as you might think. Here IBM Researcher James Kaufman explains what it took. ...
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Likaholix is a new company, just launching today, started by two engineers who used to work at Google. What does it do? It lets you share things you like with other people. Sounds lame, right? But remember, I've clicked "like" 16,000 times in the past year over on friendfeed (you can see my like ...
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Symantec, this morning, is announcing its new 360 anti-virus and security software. It goes way beyond what Symantec has offered in past to protect your computers. Here you get the first look at the new service/software. ...
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009This video is mind blowing. Well, for Dharmendra S. Modha, manager of cognitive computing at the IBM Almaden Research Center, his job is mind developing. Er, coming up with a computing brain that mimics our own. This is a HUGE challenge and he talks about all the people and organizations that IBM ...
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009I visited IBM's Almaden Research Center (where the hard drive was invented) to see what the researchers there were working on. I met James Kaufman, who is a physicist who is creating an interoperable healthcare information system. It's quite remarkable and, if fully implemented, will let doctors ...
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009The lead designer, Bryan Bell, who works for Tapulous is a very talented interactive software designer. He's done all sorts of websites, blog designs, etc but one thing that he's probably best known for is the orange XML icon that denotes on many websites an RSS feed. He told me the story behind ...
