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Electronic Paper: Getting ready for mass production
We have introduced Plastic Logic electronic paper products last year in “another article” and just recently they have received a USD 100 Million cash injection from investors to build a factory for mass production in Dresden, Germany until the end of 2007. On the same day competitor and Phillips incubator Polymer Vision announced in a “press release” that it will become an independent company – a first step to raise new capital expected to be in the region of about USD 100 Million as well. In the same press release Polymer Vision said that it is planning to start volume production of its 5-inch monochrome rollable display during 2007 in cooperation with existing partners…
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Data Visualization: Web Trend Map 2007
Another trend map in the form of a tube map. Seemingly these “tube maps” are getting rather popular this year. This trend map from Information Architects Japan shows all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected…
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Video: Wardriving meets Mainstream
What was once considered an underground way to get free bandwidth – driving around with a computer in a car and trying to find unprotected or otherwise “open” wireless Internet access points aka “war driving” – is now more and more being covered by mainstream media. This time it’s BBC 3 with their…
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Web Browsers: Vulnerability comparison between IE and Firefox
The “Washington Post” has an interesting comparison of security vulnerabilities for the two most used web browsers – Internet Explorer and Firefox. The report states that during 2006 Internet Explorer was unsafe for 284 days while Firefox was unsafe for only 9 days. To calculate the unsafe periods the report uses statistics on how long it took…
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Data Visualization: Trend map for 2007 and beyond
The two web sites “Nowandnext.com” and “Future Exploration Network” have together created a map of major trends for 2007 and beyond. The map covers trends for society & culture, government & politics, work & business, media & communications, science & technology, food & drink, medicine & well-being, financial services, retail & leisure, and transport & automotive. More information and the full size map at the…
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Second Life: Finally some useful numbers and it’s 20,000 not 2 Millions
Linden Labs Second Life really had it the last days. First the press stops praying and hyping and gets a bit more critical – see this “Boing Boing” article to name just one – and then their whole system came to a halt yesterday and is now slowly coming back up again. But what we were really waiting for and couldn’t find was that someone puts that whole hype back in line – so we provide you the figures ourselves…
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…We think its time to get back to real life and see “Second Life” as what it is – just one of many online games with some success. On the charts with the Asian figures alone you would have problems to plot the numbers for Second Life as they are so much smaller than even those from games with medium success. And that’s after all the hype and massive increase in user numbers for Second Life…
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