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For anyone that has a job that involves using technology to communicate.
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Tuesday, November 04, 2003 |
The world's shortest focal distance, with a throwing distance of only 25 cm for a 60" screen
NEC WT600 is a projector that we are considering for public programming. The key advantage is being able to project onto a rearscreen projection screen and use it is high light situations, like daylight, museums and trade shows. This thing has a short throw of only 18 inches, so you don't need to take up much room at trade shows!!
for a review of this projector!
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Personal service-oriented architecture.
There's an important lesson here I hope desktop applications will learn, courtesy of the emerging paradigm of SOA (service-oriented architecture). In the realm of SOA, events are represented in an open XML format and flow through a transparent pipeline that's open to inspection and subject to intermediation...
Ironically, the graphical desktop popularized the event-driven model that's being writ large in the Web services network. Now we need to come full circle. Local event streams need to be open in the same ways as network event streams are and for the same reasons. [InfoWorld: Strategic Developer: October 31, 2003] When I mentioned Apple's Knowledge Navigator video in a blog posting recently, it attracted an unusual amount of attention. Clearly many people long for the kind of human/computer interaction so clearly imagined in that video. This week's InfoWorld column asks the question: How can today's technologies deliver some of the kinds of intelligent assistance that we crave? My conclusion was that the principles of service-oriented architecture can apply on the desktop as well as in the cloud. If local applications exchange XML messages with one another, as well as with the services cloud, then the same techniques of observation and intermediation can apply in both realms. ... [Jon's Radio]
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Anyone try Copernic's Summarizer? I used Copernic's stuff back before I really got into Google, but this new tool looks like it's been much improved. I'll put it on my "to try" list and see if it is good enough to get me to stop visiting Google's toolbar. [The Scobleizer Weblog]
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The Moka Media Center PC. New media-centric PC from Moka that bears a strong resemblance to Sony's line of Vaio W desktops, and has a 17-inch display, 5.1-channel digital surround sound outputs, a TV tuner, a DVD drive, an FM radio, and comes with a remote control. Now this might get confusing, but please just stay with us on this: the Moka Media Center PC doesn't run Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system, but it does have one useful feature that none of the official Media Centers PCs have -- you can watch DVDs or TV or listen to CDs or the radio on it without actually having to boot it up first. Read [Thanks, Greg]... [Gizmodo]
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OK, so the big IT news for today is that Novell is acquring german Linux powerhouse SUSE, and IBM is helping out by investing $50 mill in Novell.
Can you say new improved networking for Linux!!!With Novells influence re networking and Ximian's influence re Linux desktop ease of use and with SUSE business grade version of Linux, looks like Red Hat has a real competitor now!
And the pressure is on Microsoft from the new Novell,
go Provo, go Provo boys! Show us what you got!
Nov. 4, 2003: Day Linux Landscape Changed Forever
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