Nolan K. Bushnell, the creator of the Pong video game and founder of the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain, is innovating again. He is about to open a restaurant where the servers will have novel attributes: triple redundancy and backup batteries... [NY TImes Registration Required]
Interestingly I had the same idea of going on in my mind about a year or so ago. Guess an idea is worth nothing unless you execute it ;)
An interesting flash tool that compares the search results of Google and Yahoo for a particular term...
The expanse of white space at the bottom of Google's main Web page, possibly the most valuable undeveloped real estate in cyberspace. Not anymore...
Couple of articles on Google Fusion:
1. NY Times
2. eWeek
An in-progress collection of AJAX patterns being collected and discovered by Michael Mahemoff
I.B.M. is increasingly betting that it can build a big business around open-source software. The latest step in that strategy is the purchase of Gluecode Software, an open-source start-up...
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In March, the Federal Communications Commission took a significant step toward breaking an industry deadlock over setting a single standard for a new wireless technology called ultrawideband, or UWB...
“While traditional radio technologies have transmitted and received analog signals only on specific frequencies, UWB uses inexpensive computing power to send short radio pulses across much of the radio spectrum. Because it does not use a single frequency, UWB offers several advantages, including the capacity to send high volumes of information quickly and the ability to share frequencies and resist interference. It's like breaking a truck's cargo into loads small enough to be carried on bicycles that can weave through a traffic jam.”
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Yahoo’s multiple business units, each containing decentralized user experience teams, have a natural tendency to design different solutions to similar problems. Left unchecked, these differences would weaken the Yahoo! brand and produce a less usable network of products. Designers and managers have discussed “standards” as a way to solve this problem but this standards content (often contained only in the memories of designers) has never existed in a commonly accessible format...
