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According to PC Magazine’s John Dvorak there is no such thing as a disruptive technology. “The concept of disruptive technology goes to the top of my list as the biggest crock of the new millennium...There is no such thing as a disruptive...

"Longhorn's Avalon technology will rely heavily upon 3D graphics, not only in terms of performance, but also in terms of stability. Where 3D was once primarily the domain of gamers, game developers, and workstation gurus, 3D graphics is now the lynch...

"The 6 remote controls required for a simple home theater illustrate the problems caused by complexity and inconsistency in user interfaces ... ... The most obvious indicator of remote control complexity is the vast number of choices they offer: 239...

"To search for information, a user sends a question to his own referral agent, which broadcasts the query to all of the user's buddies' agents, said Zhang [researcher at University of Michigan]. A referral agent in the buddy's messenger searches its information...

Mark Baartse from Microsoft Australia has started his own blog at http://www.joykicksdarkness.com/blog/ . The blogging software Mark is using, Seabeach, is a blogging app developed using .NET 1.1, C# and SQL Server 2000...Mark is using InfoPath as...

Since joining Microsoft 2 years ago I haven't had the fortune of attending a Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer presentation (in the real-world at least). That changed for me on Thursday at MGB ...and I was not disappointed. BillG did a great job describing...

If you've got advice, let him know - he's asking for it .

More at ITFactgs.biz .

“The Blog From Atlanta” is not the title of a new scary movie, but the title of my first post since arriving in Atlanta (others are blogging this too ). I'm here to make my debut attendance at the Microsoft MGB event. Am writing this from...

From David Bisset's Flex-MX blog : "This flash presentation "Your Potential. Our Passion." from Microsoft is not only impressive for Microsoft, it's impressive period. A must-see."

I think he missed the point .

At Seattle PI "Now, without further ado, it's on to the next poll, newly posted in the upper right-hand corner of the Microsoft page . It asks a question that promises to be timely during the next few weeks: "What should Microsoft do with its $56 billion...

In an intriguing video interview (30 mins) at ZDNet , Vint Cerf discusses the future of communications, from IPv6, Spam (he suggest the public flogging of Spammers) and privacy, Tim Berners-Lee’s Semantic Web , to the role of ICANN, and of course...

From Future Now " This piece in The Economist points to a couple studies suggesting that adaptive cruise control, if widely deployed, could help deal with traffic jams... It's an interesting example of how giving technologies (or organisms) a very...

Wi-Fi on trains . Great. Now all I need is a large bag to carry 15 pre-charged batteries.

MSDN Webcasts Weblog . Good idea.

Screen meets face at the Facetop . (Via infogargoyle )

(via Geek News Central ) Fedex tracking via RSS ...sweet.

(Via adrants ) "TrendWatching has dubbed a new trend called Life Caching . Simply put, it's the collection of all things experiential (rather than material) enabled by the proliferation of digital products. From weblogs to Lifeblogs to digital cameras...

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