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New Autonomous Audi Can Get Reckless Driving Tickets Without You

Chris Dannen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:05:43 -0400

With geo-aware brains and no driver, this modified Audi TT-S experimental vehicle is built to drift around corners and then regain control of itself. It could be the forerunner of future handling systems that could allow drivers to avoid accidents.

Oracle Considering a Sun Netbook, No Joke

Kit Eaton — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:33:21 -0400

Oracle surprised many people by buying Sun Microsystems a few months ago. But that's nothing compared to the statement made by its CEO yesterday: Is Oracle-Sun going to sell a netbook?

Biomimicry: Color-Changing Cuttlefish Inspire Green TV Screens

Ariel Schwartz — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:35:11 -0400

Cuttlefish are camouflage experts that can change skin color in under a second to hide from predators, or prey on others. They're inspiring more than just awe from scientists. Now researchers at MIT are working on electronic screens and ink that use less than one hundredth the energy of traditional screens--all modeled on the color-changing abilities of cuttlefish.

Opening Clouds

Guy Smith — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:21:35 -0400

Where is your cloud and how do you manage it?

I toss that question at an occasional CIO and get borderline lucid
answers. Most don’t yet use clouds but lust after them. Others leverage
public clouds for non-privileged and mission-uncritical work. A scant
few have cobbled together their own private clouds (p-clouds).

P-clouds and rentable clouds are as similar to Sherman tanks and kangaroos.

Blue Sunrise

Guy Smith — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:40:29 -0400

I openly speculated last January about who might buy Sun Microsystems
since investors were trading shares for Sun’s cash value and little
more. This morning Internet cables were buzzing over IBM’s alleged
discussions to buy Sun for about double the current share price.

Sun Slump

Guy Smith — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:17:51 -0400

Are ponytails about to go out of vogue at Sun?

Despite impressions, I don’t actually enjoy thumping Sun and its current management. I’m not nearly mean spirited enough to take pleasure in such meaningless potshots. But Sun’s varied strategies (if I may misuse the word) have never made sense and never mapped well to long-term trends. And some Sun decisions — like changing their stock symbol to “java” - are just plain dumb.

The Network IS the Innovation Lab

Francisco Dao — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:31:08 -0400