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  • ‘From P-books to E-books’ to iPad

    George Rebane Today Steve Jobs of Apple brought out the long-awaited iPad.  It is the gizmo that Apple hopes will become the way we will do most of our information gathering and online communications.  Well actually, the iPad does even more as you can read from their brag sheet here. I have been predicting the…

  • Avatars Lauren and Bogie, Together Again

    George Rebane In the early 1980s my firm in Los Angeles had just bought and installed the most advanced computer graphics system available.  It was the second one on the west coast (the other one belonged to a big aerospace company) and we used it to create multi-media images and videos for the then new…

  • Tech Scattershots – 5jan2010

    George Rebane dedicated ereaders not long for this world flexed muscles control computers for the masses Top ten scientific breakthroughs for 2009 Some major technology themes for 2010  The dedicated ereader’s demise is coming on schedule.  Ray Kurzweil, rich genius and tech inventor extraordinaire, is unveiling his platform independent Blio ebook software at the annual…

  • Medpedia – the New Medical Wiki

    George Rebane Today Oogalabs launched Medpedia.com, its new web medical information website.  Medpedia promises to be for accessing medical information what Wikipedia is for web-based information.  Medpedia is designed to be used by both lay people and medical professionals, with content provided and edited only by medical professionals.  So, if you got a boo-boo or…

  • A Curious and Interesting Device – WiFi Radio

    Wayne Watson [gjr – Wayne is an astronomer and a teacher.  I join with those who consider him a treasure of Nevada County.  He lives at 121.01 Deg. W, 39.26 Deg. N.] Some of you may have heard of a wi-fi or internet radio. Perhaps not. Store clerks in some of the major electronics stores…

  • Ruminations – 3dec2008

    George Rebane Gil Mathew, CEO of ERC, reports that the recently announced ’50 new engineering jobs’ will be confirmed in the new year.  He wrote me that “That was the count approximately 3 months ago from a collection of companies, Telestream, AJA, Thomson Grass Valley, NVision and Ensemble Design.  That number may have been reduced…

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