News first broke on this camera a few months ago. I’m really anxious to see what it does when in the hands of a “real Joe” photographer. Certainly the interactive images look great. The entry level model is $399 which, to me, isn’t unreasonable. Can’t say I care much for the design of the camera though - looks like a piece of lab equipment.
Lytro camera lets you focus after shooting, now available for pre-order
The fields are ripe for a major Stuxnet derived disruption. Stuxnet itself had a very narrow target and one that many people felt was justified. Son of Stuxnet will almost surely be considered more costly when it is finally unleashed. The details are a bit technical but well worth the read. Kudos to Symantec for putting out their findings so quickly.
New Stuxnet Variants Are Found in Europe.
Jim Rhoades sussed out a great list of commands Siri recognizes for dictation. Very handy! Kudos to Jim for putting this together and sharing it with us.
My faves are the new multitouch gestures and Wifi sync :)
iOS 5 For iPad: 5 Killer Features - - Mobile OS - Informationweek.
Perfect use of Don Julio
So RSA wants to blame a nation-state with no revelation of evidence to support that and also says even though they know the two groups responsible don’t know what nation-state was involved? I can hear the credibility ship sinking…
RSA Pins SecurID Attacks On Nation State - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek.
Ars Technica has a post up on the new (free) “Find my Friends” app for iOS 5 - and it is very well done as is their norm. And it shows once again how Apple is taking user privacy much more seriously than Google.
I have been unwilling to use Google’s Latitude but the level of control in Apple’s app is enough to make me comfortable. Will I use it? I’m not so sure about that simply because I don’t see a benefit from doing so. Even with “local” friends close usually means 30 minutes or more apart. I’ll probably try it out for awhile as an experiment.
Very cool news from my friends at Citrix and Cisco:
Cisco Systems Wednesday announced new technology to deliver high-definition video and voice through a virtual desktop infrastructure which sends the signals from one endpoint to the other, bypassing the data center and reducing the high CPU processing and bandwidth that makes for subpar video. Cisco is also entering into a “strategic alliance” with virtual desktop provider Citrix to tightly integrate the Cisco technology, called Virtual Experience Infrastructure VXI with the Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop platform.
via Cisco, Citrix Do Video Via Virtual Desktop - - Storage Virtualization - Informationweek.
I immediately expressed privacy concerns about the Kindle Fire’s Silk browser technology. You can read some more on Gigaom (link below). Since the general population seems to ignore privacy concerns (until something bad happens) I rather doubt this will slow the sales of Fire.
A smile without the eyes?
A man and his ride
Tesla on sale at the Santana Row mall
Chillaxin with Snapseed preprocessing
Chillaxin
Mommy’s Sippy Cup :) Halloween Style
Very interesting discussion of how Facebook develops apps for the proliferating mobile platforms. A smart approach.
How Facebook Mobile Was Designed to Write Once, Run Everywhere.
They’re coming to take me away
As I mentioned earlier today, Marc Andreessen made some negative remarks about Oracle’s risk from the growth of Cloud and open stack adoption. Now Barb Darrow over on Giga Om is piling on with a reminder of Ellison’s (2 year old) deprecating remarks about the Cloud.
Oracle needs some cloud computing mojo — Tech News and Analysis.
First it was Disney with it’s Cars-themed iPad game called Appmates and now TUAW has reported Lego has come out with “Life of George”. The iPad gives you a design to build. Once down you take a photo with the iPad and the game grades your build based on the photo. In total there are a 120 different models for you to build based on the 144 included Legos. I think my daughter will love this one. Hit the link below for more details and a press release.
Nice write-up discussing the different success factors needed when working at a startup versus working in a large corporation. I think the points are spot-on. One key difference Eran omitted, in my opinion, is the pace of movement.
Tips for moving from the corporate world to a startup | VentureBeat.
Speaking at a Cloud conference Marc Andreessen takes a shot at Oracle essentially saying ramping adoption of Cloud tech will erode Oracle’s software business. Keep in mind Marc is on Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors. I certainly agree advances in open stacks and Cloud are eroding Oracle’s main software product lines’ edge in technology. I don’t see Oracle’s business blowing up because of this trend but I would agree there will be a steady erosion. Look for more Oracle price increases…
The price and specs mentioned on Amazon Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7” Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi are indeed impressive. The price came in a bit lower than I expected. A real verdict will have to wait for detailed hands-on reviews but as I mentioned in this prior post I believe the Fire will be the second highly successful tablet. In fact it should outsell iPads unless Apple comes up with a lower priced model soon. I definitely see this as a candidate tablet for my kids. It’s bound to be on a ton of Christmas lists…
TUAW is reporting that Disney will soon launch a set of physical toys that interact directly with iPads. Apparently this will be something of a scroller game where the landscape will scroll by and the child (in all of us?) interacts by moving a car over the surface of the iPad.
While the description provided doesn’t seem very compelling I’m very interested in learning more about the technology used in the cars. I’m a big believer in the growth of physical interaction with computing devices. In spite of this incarnation seeming a bit lame I think we will soon see some exciting innovations. And that 32-bit Arduino will likely be in the middle of things…
At the New York Make Faire this month the Arduino team, led by Massimo Banzi, made some exciting announcements. The first was the release candidate for the IDE/sketch system. Yes it has finally reached Arduino 1.0rc stage and you can get it here if you want an early look. As you’ll see from the announcement video linked below this should go final in the next month or two.
The biggest excitement comes from the new hardware they’ve introduced. Here are a few highlights along with a photo of the spec sheet.
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