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Stefanie Olsen Year:August 9, 2006 4:47 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Who needs a robot on two legs when you can have one that rolls?
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, a well-known hub for breakthroughs in robotics, said Wednesday that theyve built a new type of mobile robot that can balance and move in any direction on a ball, instead of with mechanical legs or wheels.
The robot is named "Ballbot," and is designed to have some human characteristics. It weighs 95 pounds and is roughly the size of an average person, except that it balances on a single, urethane-coated metal sphere. Unlike typical mobile robots, like humanoids that move around on three or more wheels, Ballbot is less bulky and can navigate tight spaces.
"We wanted to create a robot that can maneuver easily and is tall enough to look you in the eye," Ralph Hollis, the cre...
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Jon Oltsik Year:August 9, 2006 4:15 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Part of covering security for the enterprise is tracking electronic fraud. In this case, SPAM, phishing, and pharming come to mind. These are definitely criminal activities but when it comes to similar nefarious activities on consumer-focused Internet sites, the lines are certainly foggy. This situation was recently reinforced with a personal experience.
Ive been in the market for a big screen TV for a while and recently decided to move forward with this purchase. As a member of the technology industry and a geek at heart, I thought I would go ahead and shop for the best price on-line and do the whole purchase in cyberspace. Given my profession, I am especially sensitive to the large number of scammers and fraud so I decided to do some research before pulling the trigger.
What I foun...
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Ina Fried Year:August 9, 2006 3:43 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Former Apple Computer general counsel Nancy Heinen has assembled a team of lawyers to represent her in the ongoing investigation into the Mac makers stock options practices, according to a report Wednesday in The Recorder, a San Francisco Bay Area legal newspaper.
According to the report, Heinen has hired high-profile defense attorney Cristina Arguedas, as well as Miles Ehrlich, a former head of the white-collar division at the U.S. Attorneys Office in San Francisco. Heinen abruptly left Apple in May.
Apple said last week that it will likely have to restate earnings following fresh discoveries of options-related irregularities and warned investors not to rely on earnings statements dating back to September 2002. In June, Apple said an internal investigation had "discovered irregulariti...
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Neha Tiwari Year:August 9, 2006 11:52 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
SAN JOSE, Calif.--The roughly 20 pigeons released Tuesday from the roof of the San Jose Museum of Art werent ordinary, sidewalk food-pecking birds. Each was strapped with a special backpack containing a GPS device, GSM unit with small antennas, temperature sensor, pollution sensor and more.
Beatriz da Costa, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, hopes to gather pollution data from the pigeons that fly up to 300 feet with her project called "PigeonBlog." The study is not scientific, nor does it claim to be. Two students who specialize in computer and engineering studies have assisted her in this project, which declares to be more of a "playful approach" in an effort to address a serious topic.
But it wasnt PETAs (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) idea of ...
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CNET News.com Staff Year:August 9, 2006 10:39 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Heres a good deal on this highly rated, relatively inexpensive DVD player. A Fat Wallet forum contributor points out that it has a USB port, "so that you can connect an external HDD to watch DivX movies."
What: Philips DVD Player with HDMI, DVP5960
How much: $59.99 after $20 mail-in rebate
Shipping: free
Where: Circuit City (via Fat Wallet)
When: Through Saturday.
Click here for product review.
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CNET News.com Staff Year:August 9, 2006 10:08 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
In a Newsmaker interview honoring the PCs 25th birthday, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett was ask to predict what the device will look like 25 years from now.
"Ten years ago, when we were thinking about what would the ideal laptop be today, nobody dared to think about something effectively not much bigger than a bunch of 8-1/2 x 11 sheets of paper stacked together, about a quarter of an inch thick, and having a full-color screen, weighing about a pound, all-day battery life, great graphics, etc.," he said.
"You know that was a dream 10 years ago (and) thats pretty much happened today. I can dream (that) 10 years from now well continue on those same lines. Maybe the dang thing will be flexible and youll roll it up; it wont be a solid metal-encased entity."
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Stephen Shankland Year:August 9, 2006 9:45 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Intel is expected this week to reveal new details on work involving open-source graphics drivers, according to sources familiar with the situation. Intel has mentioned graphics driver work but has been cagey about details. However, the move could alter the landscape for those using the Linux operating system.
Stand-alone graphics chip companies ATI and Nvidia release proprietary drivers that can be used with Linux, but many in the open-source world have ethical, legal and practical objections.
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Stefanie Olsen Year:August 9, 2006 9:25 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Electronic health records are considered a cure for the ills of the healthcare industry when it comes to a disconnected chain of paper files on all manor of patient records, such as allergies, prescriptions and family history. Even the Bush Administration has mandated the creation of a universal digital health record for all patients by 2014, despite critics fears about consumer privacy.
Now IBM is pushing along the process. The software giant said Wednesday it has contributed software to the open-source community backing efforts for digital records. It has donated code to the Eclipse Foundations Open Healthcare Framework (OHF) project, an initiative to build a standards-based platform for healthcare software, and which is backed by tech companies including IBM.
The donated software wi...
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Margaret Kane Year:August 9, 2006 6:29 AM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Niall Kennedy, who headed development of Microsofts syndication platforms, has decided to leave the software giant to form his own start-up.
It was only a few months ago that Microsoft had hired Kennedy away from blogging site Technorati and put him to work on the Windows Live initiative, developing syndication technology. Apparently, things werent happening fast enough for him.
"If we had the resources I truly believe we could have tackled the number of users Hotmail, Messenger, Spaces, or even Internet Explorer might supply, and then ask for more by opening up the platform to the world. I was able to borrow resources here and there, but there was no team being built around the platform in the foreseeable future," Kennedy wrote on his blog, explaining his reasons for leaving. ...
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Declan McCullagh Year:August 8, 2006 11:41 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Update: Nikon on Wednesday released details about its Nikon D80 DSLR camera. For pictures, see the gallery below.
Nikon is teasing curious onlookers with an online clock thats counting down the minutes until a new digital camera is announced.
The clock says to expect news of a 10.2 megapixel camera at 8 a.m. PT on Wednesday.
Nikon isnt offering any details right now, but the usual rumor sites are buzzing with speculation. Theres a report that the new digital single lens reflex (dSLR) camera will be the Nikon D80, and even some photos.
Depending on the details, the new camera could be a successor to the Nikon D70 (6.1 megapixels and no longer sold), the Nikon D50 (6.1 megapixels, about $600), or the Nikon D200 (10.2 megapixels and about $1,700).
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Declan McCullagh Year:August 8, 2006 10:59 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
AOL has just announced that it will give a free domain name to anyone who asks for one.
Theres a catch. You dont own the domain name; AOL does. What you can do is use is use that domain as your e-mail address and your home page starting in September. So can your friends, family, and members of the same club, organization, sports team, and so on.
Its an intriguing idea, and one thats likely to gain some attention from folks who always thought of buying a domain name and never quite got around to it. It also solves the problem of what to do with a domain name once you purchase it: instead of paying a hosting company a few dollars a month, AOL takes care of everything at no additional cost.
The service, by the way, is called AOL My eAddress. AOL says it supports .com or .net domains, up ...
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