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Samsung Future Phones

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 21st, 2006

Mobile phones will undergo a dramatic transformation over the next few years, incorporating more powerful processors and more storage, as well as new technologies, a Samsung executive said Monday.
The addition, sensors will monitor a user’s health and offer a wider range of entertainment and online services, said Kang-Hun Lee, vice president of Samsung’s [...]

Microsoft’s Amazing Virtual Earth

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 6th, 2006

The Washington Post, Search Engine Watch and C/Net have gushing reviews of Microsoft’s new Virtual Earth (C/Net video), a competitor to Google Earth.
Microsoft’s 3D mapping product uses their Live Local service to integrate live 3D mapping inside Internet Explorer. A separate application is not required and results include photographs mapped to 3D buildings. [...]

Widgets Live

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 6th, 2006

Widgets Live (schedule) is the first GigaOM conference, in San Francisco. Michael Arrington says Widgets are popping up all over.
Widget platforms today work on websites (see Google Gadgets and WidgetBox) or the desktop (see Yahoo Widgets). Yourminis is the latest entry to the web-based widget desktop space currently lead by Netvibes, Pageflakes and Protopage.

SpringWidgets (above) [...]

Visualizing the Future

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 4th, 2006

Visualization 2006, the premier forum for visualization advances in science and engineering, wrapped up today in Baltimore. The schedule featured lots of Tutorials, Panels and Demos. Lifehacker put together a Top Ten (non-Google) Map Innovations.

SuperComputer06, the premier international conference on high performance computing, will convene next week in Tampa, Florida (overview, schedule, [...]

Motorola: It’s All About ME

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 31st, 2006

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.

Motorola announced today broader [...]

Municipal Wireless Flash Applications

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2006

Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that the multimedia Flash technology, which enhances graphics and enables rich video and animation on PCs, will be embedded in applications made for Verizon Wireless cell phones. Verizon is the first wireless carrier in North America to embed Flash Lite, the companies said.
“Flash Lite for Brew“, developed by Adobe and Qualcomm, [...]

The Semantic Web

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 15th, 2006

Hello Mr. Yukkamoto and welcome back to the GAP! - Minority Report
The web that binds us is becoming The Internet of Things (Bruce Sterling talk). Machine to machine communications enable sensor data, audio, pictures and video to be collected and analyzed — automatically. It’s becoming a practical and economic [...]

Remote Ocean Viewer

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2006

Oregon Health & Science University has received a $19 million National Science Foundation grant to form a new ocean research center for studying coastal margins with a high-tech center in Portland.
The NSF Science and Technology Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction, or CMOP, is one of four chosen for funding [...]

Web 2.0 Map

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 11th, 2006

Business 2.0 has a map of the best Web 2.0 sites from around the world. Here’s a link the actual list.

The only criteria is that their operations have to be mostly located outside the U.S.

The sites that made it are:
AllPeers (Czech Republic)
Bokee (China)
CoComment (Switzerland)
Cyworld (South Korea)
Dabble DB (Canada)
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Siggraph 2006

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 31st, 2006

As many as 25,000 people will gather in Boston over the next five days for the ACM’s annual SIGGRAPH conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques.
There will be live acts, including a performance by a robotic percussionist, a computer animation festival, and a fashion show along with Panels, Keynotes, Exhibitors and Emerging [...]