I love out of the box thinking, and here is a person who took a complicated process and simplified it enough that I’d almost call it revolutionary. Michelle Khine arrived at the University of California’s brand-new Merced campus in 2006 eager. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, [...]
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Making good on his promise from last year, Trent Reznor, the iconoclast leader of Nine Inch Nails, has released the band’s latest CD on the Internet. Reznor is clearly experimenting not only with alternative distribution forms but with the music itself. “
As a regular user of wifi hotspots, and a subscriber of AT&T wifi I’m glad to see that they just expanded a lot. At Starbucks, T-Mobile is out and AT&T is in, at least when it comes to WiFi. AT&T and Starbucks announced their new partnership this morning, saying that the carrier plans to offer [...]
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Bookstore Customer: “Do people donate all these books to you?” Me: “Yes. We show up for work every morning and there are boxes of valuable books sitting at the front door.” Bookstore Customer: “Wow, really! I could open a book store?” Me: “Sure!” Bookstore Customer: “If I opened a store, how would people know where [...]
Rufus Pollock, a PhD candidate in economics at Cambridge University, has just released “Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright,” a brilliant new paper on the economically optimal term of copyright. He’s presenting it in Berlin this week, but it’s already online. Here’s the abstract: The optimal level for copyright has [...]
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Just as Google is making it even more obvious how their book scanning project is helping publishers by helping them sell more books, it appears that at least one publisher doesn’t seem to understand the difference between helping more people find your books and theft. Apparently the CEO of Macmillan Publishers decided to swipe two [...]
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Support Intelligence, a network security company in San Francisco, is running “30 Days of Bots,” a project that posts the names of big companies whose networks have been infected with spam-spewing bots.Since March 28, the list identified more than a dozen corporations, including 3M, Aflac, AIG, Bank of America, Conseco and Thomson Financial.Not all companies [...]
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We’ve been dealing with the pocket-emptying effects of rising gas prices, new electric rates, and an increase in cab fare, but how would you feel about breaking the bank all for…a pizza? Now you can find out thanks to Manhattan restauranteur Nino Selimaj, who has apparently brought from the heavens a real “pie in the [...]
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Consumers are bombarded with warnings about identity theft. Publicized threats range from mailbox thieves and lost laptops to the higher-tech methods of e-mail scams and corporate data invasions. Now, experts are warning that photocopiers could be a culprit as well. That’s because most digital copiers manufactured in the past five years have disk drives – [...]
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