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Friday, November 20, 2009

IBM Reveals the Biggest Artificial Brain of All Time

Douglas Fox

Scientists at IBM’s Almaden research center have built the biggest artificial brain ever–a cell-by-cell simulation of the human visual cortex: 1.6 billion virtual neurons connected by 9 trillion synapses.

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Norwest Venture Partners Goes Big

Pui-Wing Tam

Norwest Venture Partners on Wednesday announced that it had closed a new venture-capital fund sized at $1.2 billion. That’s nearly double the size of the Silicon Valley venture firm’s last fund in 2006, which closed at $650 million.

The new fund is unusual in this day and age amid a tough fundraising environment brought on by the recession.

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Why It Matters That Pierre Omidyar Is Doing a News Start-Up

Dan Gillmor

Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, is launching a for-profit news startup in Hawaii, where he and his family live.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Silicon Sweatshops

Jonathan Adams and Kathleen E. McLaughlin

Hourly wages below a dollar.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

China Needn’t Surpass U.S., Intel CTO Says

Don Clark

China’s factories have long churned out high tech products. A big question facing Silicon Valley–underscored in a survey released Monday by Intel and Newsweek–is how big a role the country will play in dreaming up those gadgets.

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The War for the Web

Tim O'Reilly

On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always.

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The Intel-AMD Settlement: A Play-by-Play

Arik Hesseldahl

It took a mediator–and a trip to Maui–to break the biggest logjam in landmark settlement talks between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.

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Friday, November 13, 2009

Would Someone Please Explain to News Corp. How Google Works?

Danny Sullivan

Yet another News Corporation executive is talking about Google, and yet again, I feel like they have no concept about how Google interacts with their web pages.

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

VC-Backed Companies Could Be Next On H-P’s Shopping List

Scott Denne

When Hewlett-Packard Co. announced the $2.7 billion purchase of 3Com Corp., it let the world know that H-P intends to compete fully with Cisco Systems Inc. in the corporate data center.

With its strength in Ethernet, 3Com gives HP a major piece of the pie, but it still needs a few more slices if it wants to be a one-stop-shop for data centers.

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Cisco vs. HP: 3Com Acquisition Ups the Ante

Larry Dignan

Cisco and HP have been duking it over their visions for the next generation data center architecture and the battle is just getting interesting.

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

A View of Atherton From Real-Estate Agents

Pui-Wing Tam

Atherton, Calif., is the mansion Mecca for many of Silicon Valley’s tech multi-millionaires. And so far in 2009, even though home sales and median property sale prices in the town have slowed from a year ago, The Wall Street Journal found that there hasn’t been as little activity as some techie buyers might think.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Take on Silicon Valley Wannabes

Jessica E. Vascellaro

Eric Schmidt is brimming with Bay Area pride.

In the 33 years that the Google CEO has lived in the Bay Area, Schmidt says he has watched a long list of regions try–and fail–to create technology capitals of Silicon Valley’s scale.

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Goodbye Microsoft, the Next Chapter

Don Dodge

Microsoft announced more layoffs today, and I was one of them.

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The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote “Think Different”

Leander Kahney

Meet Ken Segall–the man who dreamed up the name “iMac” and wrote the famous Think Different campaign.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Slump Sinks Visa Program

Miriam Jordan

A coveted visa program that feeds skilled workers to top-tier U.S. technology companies and universities is on track to leave thousands of spots unfilled for the first time since 2003, a sign of how the weak economy has eroded employment even among highly trained professionals.

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