April 29th, 2009 07:59pm
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Bio: Jason Davies is vice president of sales and marketing at Petaluma-based Berkeley Integrated Audio Software, known as BIAS. The company develops audio editing software for Macs, and has a top application for the iPhone. The program, called iProRecorder, sells for $2.99. The success of the iProRecorder has BIAS wondering just how deep into the mobile application market they should get, as mentioned in my story here.
Web site: www.bias-inc.com
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April 29th, 2009 05:52pm
by Daily Geek
Public health officials are doing their best to curb panic during the
Swine Flu outbreak — this time. It wasn’t always that way. Check out these
videos where the US Public Health Service try to scare people into
getting vaccinated during a 1976 outbreak of swine flu. The London Telegraph wrote about the 1976 propoganda videos here.
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April 23rd, 2009 02:38pm
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Jeffrey Aguilera is the James Bond of the digital world. He has a license to kill, well, spam.
Ever since he founded Red Condor in Rohnert Park in 2002, he has been defending businesses from mastermind spammers. He infiltrates criminal minds and works to undermine their nefarious plans to clog the Internet with scams and viruses that double as emails.
Aguilera knows the Internet isn’t a safe place (he told the Press …
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April 15th, 2009 01:30pm
by Daily Geek
Bio: John Sullins is an assistant professor at Sonoma State University who specializes in roboethics – both the ethical quandaries facing robotic engineers and the moral dilemmas that robots will face as they become increasingly complex.
Web site: http://sonoma.academia.edu/JohnSullinsTwitter: http://twitter.com/JPSullins
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DailyGeek: As a roboethicist, what did you think of the re-made TV show Battlestar Galactica where robots turned against their human creators?Sullins: I saw it a little differently than most …
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April 6th, 2009 04:22pm
by Daily Geek
The “What Physicists Do” series at SSU is nearing its end.
But not to fret, there are still a few left.
Tonight at 4 p.m., Stanford physicist Jodi Cooley discusses
the darker side of the universe: Dark Matter.
North American scientists have been working to detect dark
matter, which is thought to be the largest source of mass in the Universe. They
conduct their heady experiments in a science dungeon buried nearly one-half a
mile under the …
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April 1st, 2009 04:09pm
by Daily Geek
April 1, 2009 – The online war between Apple and PC fanboys took an unexpected turn Tuesday.The young woman featured in a Microsoft Windows commercial snubbing Apple Macbooks for being too expensive announced Tuesday she had contracted the Conficker worm on her new PC. The Los Angeles-based actress, “Lauren,” stirred up a lot of online angst between Apple and PC fans when she starred in the Microsoft commercial deriding Apple …
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Covering all things geek, with an eye on Sonoma County and the rest of San Francisco’s North Bay. Nathan Halverson covers Internet technology, emerging technology and personal technology for The Press Democrat, a New York Times Company newspaper.
