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Facebook has claimed to not be a media company in the past but this past year it seems its position has softened. That’s especially true as it’s discovered it needs media solutions, not engineering ones, to media problems such as ... [see the full post] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Editorial, Every Company is a Media Company Tags: every company is a media company, Facebook, Jason Lopez, Tom Foremski
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Silicon Minds: The book may be the most powerful technology ever invented. In the hands of a child the results are nothing short of miraculous. Dubose Montgomery, founder of Menlo Ventures in Silicon Valley, can attest to a journey that ... [see the full post] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Editorial, Silicon Minds, Technology Tags: Dubose Montgomery, Isaac Asimov, M.I.T., Menlo Ventures, Robert Heinlein, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Minds, Silicon Valley, Siri
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Silicon Minds: After graduating from Georgia Tech in the early 1950s, Earle Jones thought he would merely pursue a graduate degree. “Georgia Tech and Stanford had a close relationship three thousand miles apart,” he recalls. “I wanted to go to ... [see the full post] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Editorial, Silicon Minds, Technology Tags: Bank of America, Earle Jones, Georgia Tech, magnetic ink character recognition, Palo Alto, Silicon Minds, SRI, Stanford, Stanford Research Institute
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Silicon Minds: Alan Turing was born on June 23, 1912. Well before World War II he conceived of a machine which could compute and it was a machine that, although an abstraction, could solve problems. It was a monumental achievement ... [see the full post] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Editorial, Silicon Minds, Technology Tags: Alan Turing, Cambridge University Press, David Tranah, father of computer science, Gay Pride, Homosexuality, John Turing, Sara Turing, Silicon Minds, Turing Machine, Universal Machine
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Connected Social Media’s Kevin Edwards knows a thing or two about Apple technology. In this podcast Jason Lopez chats with Kevin about the highlights of the company’s newest announcements at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012.
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Categories: Apple Voices, Audio Podcast, Editorial, Tech Conferences and Events, Technology Tags: Apple, iOS 6, Kevin Edwards, Keynote, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, Mountain Lion, Phil Schiller, Tim Cook, Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC, WWDC 2012
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Inertia – Apple WWDC 2012: In the mid-90s, when the Wintel platform came to dominate the sweet spot of the business/consumer computer business, Apple at least had one loyal constituency: high end users. While Apple didn’t sell a lot of ... [see the full post] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Corporate, Editorial, Technology Tags: Apple, Connected Social Media, Inertia, Lou Borella, Mac Pro, vg3tv, we want a new macpro, World Wide Developer Conference, World Wide Developer Conference 2012, WWDC, WWDC 2012
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Silicon Minds: Open source continues to make gains despite the perception that its era has passed. Just recently, the NYSE Technologies announced it was using the open source software called Drupal to make collaboration tools and for content management, ... [see the full post] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Editorial, Silicon Minds Tags: Bruce Perens, Connected Social Media, Drupal, LibreOffice, Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, Silicon Minds
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Inertia – Interop 2012: What are some of the hot issues in IT? In this edition of Inertia, we took to the floor of Interop to talk with experts, IT pros and vendors. OpenFlow, which was an Interop Labs demo ... [see the full post] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Big Data, Cloud Computing, data centers, Editorial, Inertia: Technology News and Opinion, Tech Conferences and Events, Technology Tags: Blue Coat, Brian Sparks, business Internet access optimization, data center, Elfiq, Eric Simpson, Harry Petty, Inertia, interconnect, Interop, Interop 2012, Interop 2012 Las Vegas, Interop Network Operations Center, Interop NOC, Jean Pascal Hebert, link balancing, load balancing, Mellanox, Michael Wilde, Network Operations Center, NOC, OpenFlow, Sasi Murthy, SDN, social media, Splunk, Vello, Vello Systems
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Silicon Minds: The legend goes that Don Massaro, President of Shugart Associates in the 1970s, drew the 5.25 inch dimension of the minifloppy diskette on a napkin at lunch. “That’s not quite true,” says Don Massaro. “If you go look ... [see the full post] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Big Data, Editorial, Microsoft, Silicon Minds Tags: 5.25 inch drive, Alan Shugart, Alto, Alto computer, Apple, Connected Social Media, Don Massaro, Ethernet, IBM, iPad, Macintosh, Memorex, Minifloppy disk drive, Office of the Future, Palo Alto Research Center, PARC, Shugart, Shugart Associates, Silicon Minds, Steve Jobs, Xerox
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Inertia: Two-steps-forward-one-step-back has been an apt description for much of professional web-based media. As Joe Casale, CEO of Casale Media says, “I’ve heard it said there’s four steps to putting an ad on TV and like 90 steps for doing ... [see the full post] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Editorial, Inertia: Technology News and Opinion, Tech Conferences and Events Tags: ad tech, Adam Epstein, admarketplace, Andrea Fernandes, Casale Media, Dave Shapiro, Inertia: Technology News and Opinion, Joe Casale, Max Mead, Netseer, TC Media, Tube Mogul
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IT Security: Defending against intrusion was a hot topic at previous RSA conferences. But users are using their devices outside the network perimeter of their organizations, which exposes data like never before. In this podcast we asked several security experts ... [see the full post] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Big Data, Editorial, Inertia: Technology News and Opinion, Security, Tech Conferences and Events Tags: 2012 RSA Security Conference, Akamai, Amit Khosla, Cyber Risk Management, Dave Elliott, George Gerchow, Hewlett-Packard, Homeland Security, HP, HPE, Kaspersky Lab, Martha Gilbertson, Michael Sutton, Mike Smith, Moscone Center, RSA, RSA Security Conference, Symantec, Tim Armstrong, Trisha Travaline, VMware, Zscaler