Hi,
A few articles I thought might be interesting and are related to our
pole of interests...
Serge
PS: a few days ago, someone said that the only language used on these
mailing lists is French. It may be that, of late, most people have
been writing in French, but most of us are able to use more than 2
languages and we tend to adapt to the language used by the person
asking a question (e.g. on the Help list).
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4. MICROSOFT-YAHOO MERGER ABOUT MORE THAN JUST BATTLING GOOGLE
Lost amid the shuffle in Microsoft's unprecedented
offer to acquire Yahoo is that the latter has been a
standard-bearer for many of the new technologies with which
the next generation of the Web is being developed. From RSS
to OpenID, Yahoo has found itself at the center of the Web
2.0 world. Read more at:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6034
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8. AUTOMATON: INTRODUCING AN OPEN-SOURCE PERSONAL ROBOT
A start-up called Willow Garage, in California, is working on
an open-source personal robot. According to Network World:
"One of its immediate goals is to build 10 robots and
make them available to university researchers as a common
platform that can be tinkered with and improved."
Willow Garage will also supply "an open-source code
base integrated from the best open-source robotics software
available," states the start-up's president and CEO
Steve Cousins. Read more and comment at:
http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/2008/03/07/california_startup_intr…
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9. THE RISK FACTOR: SECURITY RISKS WITH IMPLANTED DEVICES
Losing your heart may have a whole new meaning. In a
disturbing article in the Boston Globe, it appears that
there are large security gaps in implanted devices that
could possibly result in unauthorized commands to the
device, reprogramming settings and even telling the device
to deliver a high-voltage shock. Read more and comment at:
http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/2008/03/losing_your_heart_may_hav…
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Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO, 1991: "If people had understood how
patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented and
had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill
today... A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced
to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose."
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Serge Marelli, Luxembourg
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