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Sep
25th

Fri

Wired: Microchip in the eye seeks to restore lost vision

Cybernetic enhancement!

Reuters: Judges in Microsoft-i4i case question damages

Appeals hearing looks at $290m awarded by Texas court

Funny by @jasonfried http://bit.ly/2oPbr3 - ‘valuation’ really means Twitter must now find $1bn somewhere for backers to make profit.

Sep
24th

Thu

ZDNet: Intel teases 22 nanometer chips

“Moore’s law is alive” they say - but so tiny!

NYT: Kroes, Europe’s antitrust chief, hopeful of Microsoft deal

With two months left before she steps down, Neelie Kroes wants to settle things

Jeff Reifman: The Road to a Balanced Budget Leads to Microsoft

Is Microsoft a tax evader? Avoider? Or simply doing what it can?

Calling all Football Weekly fans (or Italian football connoisseurs): the legend that is James Richardson is now on Twitter. Hello @acjimbo !

The latest episode of the Guardian’s Tech Weekly is live, with Joi Ito (Creative Commons) and BBC4’s Electric Dreams: http://bit.ly/9LxL3

Who owns Flickr again? I forgot. OHRIGHT.

Sep
22nd

Tue

MediaPost Publications Q+A: Omniture CEO Josh James After Adobe 09/22/2009

Will we all have to quit and restart our browsers? (No..)

Looks like I’ll be visiting Blighty in mid-November. Will get my first glimpse of new Guardian Towers. Anyone fancy meeting up?

OK, scratch what I said about Tweetdeck last week. The version I’ve started using has a much better feel.

Looks like I have a quorum for London Bobfest 2009, to be held in mid-November. Must do a Brighton leg, too. And Suffolk.

Logic of @hwallop lifting @timjonze: “I did credit you, just very quietly. But I didn’t plagiarise. Oh, I did? Happens a lot, get over it.”

Sep
21st

Mon

HowTo: How to make your feed cloud-aware

Dave Winer explains how to make your RSS do a sort of Twitter thing in a real time web way.

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