7 posts and columns on Nobel Prize

Former VP and Apple Director Al Gore on Steve Jobs and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

in AsiaD on November 18, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

A man who needs no introduction.
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What Is Cisco Announcing This Morning to "Forever Change the Internet"? A Foursquare-Enabled Jet Pack?

in News on March 9, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Bright and early this morning at 8 am PT, BoomTown will be jacked into the matrix for an invitation-only media and analyst briefing to hear exactly what the heck Cisco has been yammering on about of late. Last month, the networking giant said in a mysterioso email that it would be making “a significant announcement that will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments.” Significant? Forever? It had better be good.

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Almost Famous: Leslie Fine of Crowdcast

in News on January 29, 2010 at 1:45 am PT

We Skyped with Leslie Fine, chief scientist at Crowdcast, an enterprise service that combines uber-geeky statistics and game theory from Caltech with games to help businesses predict their own future. We talked game theory, iPhone apps and her unfair advantage in the office pools.

No, They're Video 'Ad' Tools, Not Video 'ID' Tools

in News on October 9, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

No, They’re Video ‘Ad’ Tools, Not Video ‘ID’ Tools

in News on October 9, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

1,000 Songs in Your Pocket Fert and Grünberg Changed Everything

in News on October 9, 2007 at 10:31 am PT

Apple once said of its first iPod that “1,000 songs in your pocket changed everything.” And while that may be true, it wouldn’t have changed much without the pioneering work of Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg, who discovered GMR (giant magnetoresistance), a nanotechnology that makes it possible to read data that is densely packed onto [...]