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I don’t normally get into hyper geeky subjects on the Spark Minute, but the release of Samsung’s 256 GB solid state drive (SSD) or flash drive is a very big deal. Given the big jump in capacity, it’s going to significantly change computing to be lighter, faster, more reliable, and ...

Here’s a nice review of Sony’s new HD prosumer camera, the HVR-Z5U. This camera replaces the Z1U, which is what I used during my time at the Express-News. Here’s some things that twitch my ears: ERGONOMICS Sony did a lot of customer research when designing this camera, bringing eng...

Last Spring, our friend and colleague Dr. Ed Beardsworth undertook a new assignment as the Technology Director of the Hub Lab (in parallel with his continuing role at Jane Capital). Given the Hub Lab's mission, and Ed's role in the cleantech industry as the consummate technology scout since the mid ...

Hello Friends A while back, I posted to one of the three Livejournal bass communities with questions as to how best to achieve a satisfying dub tone. I finally crafted a tone I was really happy with and used it in a live setting. For technique and gear advice, I dug up some Bill Laswell interviews a...

The past two years have been exciting ones for mobility, with the dawn of netbooks, 4G communications and the first smartphones without keypads. The next two should be just as attention-grabbing, if not more so, as a slew of new technologies make workers more productive on the road. Last year, for t...

In this post -the fourth of a series (previous parts: part I, part II, and part III)- I wish to discuss a couple of attributes possessed by the “ghost” events unearthed by the CDF multi-muon analysis. A few months have passed since the publication of the CDF preprint describing that resu...

Rangers lost to Boston Bruins on Saturday night.  I just can't stop wishing for '94 all over again... As I travel around the world I am constantly asked by customers about our strategy for VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure). While the VDI market itself is relatively young (albeit growing very rap...

New round of posts related to Windows 7. Overall, things have been fairly quiet. Either most folks are still deep in their bat-caves working out the Beta version or have become bored with the fact that it seems to just work well, and moved on. Either way, it looks like a good thing for Microsoft. Re...

Posted by kdawson (84% noise) View Skip Mike sends along a couple of items of interest to those anxiously awaiting the era of production electric vehicles. First, there’s the upcoming Aero EV, which Shelby Supercars claims will charge in just 10 minutes and will be able to produce over 1,000 h...