Notable headlines:
George Ou: Even SSL Gmail can get sidejacked
Robin Harris: The data center on your desktop
Janice Chen@PMA: Live from Las Vegas: Sony announces two more DSLRs under $900
David Morgenstern: Is Apple under attack from a whisper campaign? Jason O’Grady: Apple TV update delayed two weeks
Photos: Vista’s first year
Dan Farber@Demo: PCMobilizr: Access your PC from a […]
Rove Mobile introduced PCMobilizr, which lets users have complete access to the files and applications on their home and office PCs. With the PC becoming a peripheral to smartphones (especially those with bright, big screens), PCMobilizr makes a lot of sense. It provides have access to the screen of your desktop and control of the […]
Eyealike, which developed software for facial recognition and image detection, is tackling the video copyright infringement problem. Eyealike Copyright creates digital fingerprints, consisting of visual cues from motion, faces, histograms and colors. The fingerprints are based a set of key frames, which are algorithmically chosen, according to CTO Imad Zoghlami.
Videos from services such as YouTube […]
Demo 08 had its share of video-oriented applications, but two stood out because they deal with the non-creative side–managing deployment and analyzing the performance of video content.
Visible Measures introduced VisibleSuite, which measures the in-stream video viewing behavior of Web audiences. The hosted service captures viewer interactions, tracking play, pause, rewinds, forward and other functions such […]
iLeonardo (not to be confused with anything from Apple) is a social utility that connects people and their collections of information on the Web. It’s part shared bookmarking and social network, and part of the growing number of Web sites that are leveraging the wisdom of the community.
Introduced at Demo 08, iLeonardo collection repository is […]
Dell said Wednesday that it will close its 140 kiosks to focus on its direct sales and retail channel efforts.
The PC maker launched the kiosks in 2002 as a way for customers to play with Dell’s gear before placing an order. Given that Dell products are sprinkled throughout retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy these […]
Cozimo debuted a real-time, Web-based collaboration service for creative projects. “Cozimo combines real time image and video collaboration, notifications, a presenter mode to lead discussions and it’s wrapped into a content management system to organize projects online,” said Joshua Rosen, CEO of the company, during a demo of the product at Demo 08. It’s a […]
Delver introduced its socially connected search engine, which uses public profiles from social networks to improve the relevancy of search results. “People want trusted information from their friends,” Liad Agmon, CEO of Delver told me at Demo 08. “We aggregate your social graph.”
Delver prioritizes results based on a user’s network by indexing information from […]
At Demo 08, StackSafe introduced its Test Center, which it claims is the first virtualized staging and testing solution for IT operations. According to the company, 65 percent of companies software changes the major cause of downtime, noting that changes after often not tested prior to deployment to production environments. It’s the […]
Sterna Technologies was one of the few enterprise products to present at Demo 08. The company introduced its Business Positioning System (BPS), which is another name for Business Performance Management (BPM) or any other variety of acronym for dashboards the improve corporate performance.
Sterna’s technology goes deep. It’s an in-memory platform with its own language […]
Silobreaker offers a new twist on news aggregation and search navigation. The free service, which was introduced at Demo 08, offers several views of news, with more than 20,000 data sources (including news sites,blogs, and research institutions) poured into the index.
The company claims that it provides more context and relevance than existing news services such […]
In the new age of open social networks, Six Apart is doing its part to create a hub that embraces the world of feeds outside its own servers. The company is shipping Action Streams, a free plug-in for Movable Type 4.1 that lets users aggregate, control, and share their Web activities from 75 applications, […]
SAP said Wednesday it currently has 150 customers for its Business ByDesign software as a service offering and hopes to have 1,000 Web subscribers by the end of 2008.
The target was outlined in SAP CEO’s Henning Kagermann’s fourth quarter earnings presentation. Kagermann added that SAP will accelerate its investments in Business ByDesign and offer new […]
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: Vista and Windows Server 2008–an unbreakable couple? Microsoft seeks new Windows Media Center testers
Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2008 more broadly available
Larry Dignan: Yahoo lowers its outlook for 2008; Sees ‘headwinds’; Restructuring in Feb. Techmeme
eBay outlines fee overhaul; Is it smoke and mirrors?
Immunity launches exploit for ‘unlikely’ Windows worm hole
Ed […]
The iPhone is a popular gadget, there is no doubt about it. As with all popular gadgets, people tend to get a little overenthusiastic. This enthusiasm can take multiple forms—like waiting in line for days to get the product, dressing up like the gadget for Halloween, selling cheap knockoffs or completely ridiculous accessories, or even building their own from scratchThe 10 images featured after the jump illustrate this phenomenon as it relates to the iPhone, and the video above shows just how much the new fangled iPhone technology can piss off a strung out old hippie.
via http://gizmodo.com/349001/10-examples-of-the-iphone-making-people-crazy
