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Segway adds a social element to its gliders

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Companies around the world – in an effort to create communities of users around their products – are picking up social networking approaches at a fast pace.

Earlier this month Segway has started to create a network and communications around their self-balancing scooters, allowing users to communicate, create groups, find like minded people around the world or just in their local area, discuss the latest news and share their experiences.

Like Nike and other consumer good companies, Segway with its “Segway Social” network is hoping to attract future buyers by providing them…

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Video: Linux running 165 applications simultaneously

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A few weeks ago stories were going around and people were proudly showing images of a Mac that was running 150 applications at the same time.

Then someone created “a video” showing MS Vista running about a 100 apps with just 30% processor load. The computer used was one bit of a heavy iron, nevertheless still impressive.

Here’s a video of a Linux machine that runs 165 applications simultaneously and is still smoothly cruising

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Time: Animated Amiga Tribute

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We always had a good smile for Commodore users those days with their cassette players but then we had access to a massive multi-processor Silicon Graphics to play some “special kind” of Flight Simulator.

Anyway this animation is really nice and good fun to watch. Like the music too.

Well done. Now get those…

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Learning: Computer Science unplugged

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From Binary Numbers via Steiner Trees and Finite State Automata to the Turing Test – teaching people computer science without computers.

That’s what “Computer Science Unplugged” does. They use a series of activities to explain basic concepts of…

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Mobile Phones: Putting the numbers to scale

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Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia, provided some insides at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California this Monday. Comparing the volume of Apple’s iPhone shipped to Nokia’s shipments of phones he said:



“…Since the launch of iPhone in June, Apple has shipped 5 million to 6 million of the devices, paling in comparison to Nokia’s device shipments…We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday…”

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MS Multi-Touch Surface coming to an AT&T shop near you

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Telecom giant AT&T is the first company worldwide that will use Microsoft Surface™ touch and device recognition technology in retail shops.

Starting from April 17 the multi-touch screens will be available in selected shops – to be more precise – shops in New York, Atlanta, San Antonio and San Francisco will be the first to get the devices. AT&T is planning to expand the deployment to more of its 2,200 shops throughout 2008…

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