Google answered BoomTown's blatantly begging plea to call, write or just say hi after I was inundated with news about Bing from Microsoft this week--emailing yesterday about a "search event" to be held Monday in Silicon Valley. It will be at the Computer History Museum, and the PR minion who wrote me noted "there'll be lots of news." News? Well, you don't have to ask me twice!
SAN JOSE, CA (MARKET WIRE) Bridge Capital Holdings (NASDAQ: BBNK), whose subsidiary is Bridge Bank, National Association, a full-service business bank headquartered in Silicon Valley, announced today its participation in the annual Emerging Technology Awards event presented by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. The event is being held on Thursday, December 3rd, at the Computer History Museum...
This year we’re pleased to once again be co-organizing Add-on-Con with our friend Robert from OneRiot. In its second year, the conference has matured nicely, a testament to the emerging browser add-on community. The one day, two track conference builds on the success of last year’s event. The developer track focuses on best-practices for IE, Firefox [...]
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PALO ALTO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Dyyno, the Web platform for instant sharing of visual information, today announced it has been named a finalist for the 2009 Emerging Technology Awards from the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. Dyyno was chosen as a finalist in the Social Networking category after a comprehensive evaluation of local companies and technologies by the publication's editors. The Business...
Today, a team of engineers will be recognized at the Computer History Museum for designing the first microprocessor in 1971, a 4-bit parallel CPU with 2,300 transistors. That project, from an infant Intel [3 years old], was a huge achievement and one can honestly say “it changed the world.” The Intel 4004 was the first general [...]
In his book Outliers , Malcolm Gladwell talks about the power of circumstance. He explains that Bill Gates and Bill Joy had unprecedented access to the earliest computers and, as a result, they built a couple of the most important computer companies in the history of computation. A quick look at the folks who graduated from law school with me at the dawn of the Internet age (it sounds so long ago...
PHOTO: A gang of veteran engineers breathes new life into the hulk of an old IBM 1401 mainframe computer originally built in the 1960s. The rebuild was done for the Computer History Museum in the Silicon Valley, 1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View, CA -- computerhistory.org . From article by Philip E. Ross, "Rebuilding the IBM 1401, A gang of veteran engineers breathes new life into the...
We have buildings all over Cork, empty. We have a recession. The hospitality industry is crippled. We need something that encourages tourism, makes use of some of that property and points the way to the future. Can I suggest a Cork Computer History Museum? What’s one of the biggest attractions in Silicon Valley? The Computer History Museum What’s [...]
One question that repeatedly comes up in any discussion of web single-sign on is “How do I get my desktop apps to play'”. Often, Enterprise Single Sign-on (ESSO) is the answer – deploying an agent to the client desktop to automatically populate the username/password popup for Outlook, or whatever desktop app you’re working with. This [...]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (MARKET WIRE) "MEDIA PREDICTS: 2010," produced by PRSA Silicon Valley in partnership with the Computer History Museum, is coming Wednesday, December 2. This annual sellout event features an evening with top business and technology journalists as they predict what will be hot in the coming year, and discuss the most notable technologies, trends and issues. The gala dinner...
My friends at OneRiot and Adaptive Blue are organizing the second annual Add-on-Con . It is being held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on Dec 11. If you are involved in a company that makes browser add-ons of any sort, this conference is for you. The conference is a full day of discussions about the browser and browser add-on market. The closing keynote is on the future of the web...
YouTube via ComputerHistory "[Recorded July 13 2009] Ray Kurzweil is a 21st century polymath. He is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, visionary and futurist. As a scientist and inventor he has pioneered work in optical character recognition (OCR), speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. As an entrepreneur, Kurzweil has founded businesses in the fields of...
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