technology
TEDxNYED Examines Media and Technology in Education
When we talk about the digital media consumption of teens and young adults, from social media to the mobile web, we often wonder how the future of online media will evolve. Rarely, however, do we consider what it means for the future of education.
On Saturday, March 6, educators and technologists alike gathered for TEDxNYED, an all-day conference, examining the role of new media and technology in shaping the future of education.
Tech Coverage, Twitter and the Top 8 Business Pubs
I work for a start-up and like the folks at virtually every start-up we dream of being covered by one of the Big 8 business publications: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, The Economist, the Financial Times, and USA Today.
Xen Hypervisor Monitoring with Open Source Zenoss Core
Zenoss Core Dashboard
This week I am very excited because we released Zenoss Core 2.5.2 with a cool new feature, Xen hypervisor monitoring.
Breizh Entropy Congress. Rennes, France
Here is a message from some friends of Fabricatorz at the Breizh Entropy Congress in Rennes, France. They have an open call for papers/proposals/talks on subjects related to free and open technologies:
March 10th is the deadline to send us a few words on the projects or the subject that you would like to present at Breizh Entropy Congress (Rennes, France, April 15-17 2010). After your submission, we will contact you before March 20th to tell you if it is going to be part of the schedule. The schedule with the timetable will be published on March 25th.
Livestream of TEDxNYED this Saturday
The event I blogged about in December, TEDxNYED, is happening this Saturday, March 6, in New York City. TEDxNYED is “an all-day conference dedicated to examining the intersection of education, new media, and technology.” For those of you who can’t attend, the conference will be livestreamed from 10am EST to 6pm EST at http://tedxnyed.com.
We're Giving Away A Free Ticket To She's Geeky
Both Ian and Jenn have recently blogged about our sponsorship and planned attendance at the upcoming She's Geeky unconference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California January 29th and 30th (that's nex
Review Motorola 6210 for RoadRunner/EarthLink in RTP
On the advice of my brother I recently updated my cable modem from an old Motorola Surfboard Surfboard 4100 to a Motorola Surfboard 6210. The old modem was issued to me from Time Warner to access my Earthlink high speed internet account in Cary,NC near the Research Triangle Park (RTP).
Gartner: Top Technology Predictions for 2010 and Beyond
Ready for some more predictions? Gartner (news, site) got them. Looking at 2010 and beyond, the analysts put together a mighty list of trends and events that will shake the world of information technology.
Meet Up With The XX-Factor at She's Geeky Conference
This year will be the first time I have been able to attend the She's Geeky Regional Un-Conference, and Girl am I excited! She's Geeky brings together women from all walks of technology, including those working in non-technical fields within technology.
VMware,”Hey what ya’ building over there?”
How phishing scams show the need to evolve with technology
Just as we may talk about the dangers of future technologies when they are put to some negative uses we can talk about the internet as a present and still largely evolving technology and dangers its negative uses pose to other people.
Internet Explorer’s share plummets to just 65%; Chrome nearly matches Safari
There are some very interesting browser share statistics over at Ars today…
Between September and August, Internet Explorer dropped a significant 1.26 percentage points (from 66.97 percent to 65.71 percent) and Firefox moved up a sizeable 0.77 percentage points (from 22.98 percent to 23.75 percent). Safari increased 0.17 percentage points (from 4.07 percent to 4.24 percent) while Chrome once again moved further away from Opera: it gained a worthy 0.33 percentage points (from 2.84 percent to 3.17 percent).
A few bad apples…
It amazes me the extent “ambulance chasing” attorneys will go. Personally, I would love to see a defendant use the attorneys own ads in trial somehow… Perhaps the local bar associations should do peer reviews or something to weed out the bad apples.
Yesterday on my way to the Cavs game, I saw a truck that was essentially a big billboard for an attorney advertising just like “Pyle Law”…
A Jeopardy Supercomputer … running Linux
I guess when I first heard IBM had a supercomputer (called “Watson”) that was going to compete against humans at an open ended game like Jeopardy, I assumed it was running some very sophisticated, finely tuned, and powerful OS tailored to an IBM hardware platform. Turns out I was right - it’s running Linux.
It may also be accessing Web data stores like Wikipedia (which runs on Linux - Ubuntu I hear) over a router (possibly running Linux), protected by a firewall (likely running Linux). Starting to see a theme?
TomTom flexes Linux muscle in Microsoft’s face
Interesting news being covered at The Register
TomTom has belatedly joined a patent holding company, which champions the Linux ecosystem, in a clear message that the GPS maker won’t take its escalating legal with Microsoft lying down.
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The group, which has some big backers in the open source community, including IBM, Novell and Red Hat, was founded with the sole aim of acquiring patents relating to Linux and offering them royalty-free to Linux developers.
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