Author: Chris
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Manufacturing Turing Machine
Really well written (because it is short and to the point) article that appears in the San Jose Mercury News today about the potential for manufacturing in the US to make a comeback. The central meme is that advances in technology have allowed for the manufacturing process to be abstracted to the point that…
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Second Mars?
One customer that presented this week at the Innovation Leadership forum was Jet Propoulsion Laboratories. They gave a great talk about what it takes to develop new ‘robots” (by their definition anything that moves without direct human intervention) that see some of the most extreme conditions immaginable with some of the most delicate scientific intruments…
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Live from the Innovation Leadership Summit
Yesterday was the kickoff our Americas Innovation Leadership Summit in sunny Scottsdale, AZ. I had intended to live blog during the morning sessions, but unfortunately had some connectivity problems, so I am catching up with yesterday’s speakers today and will post today’s tomorrow. The Innovation Leadership Summit is an annual event that we hold with…
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Taking a few days off
I’m heading to Scottsdale today with DeAnna to take a few days off. Probably just spend some time at the pool, go horseback riding and go out shopping and to some nice restaurants. Been traveling alot lately, so it will be good to have some slow time before the last big push of the quarter…
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I only have one question
When can I get one: Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation film It was a gadgetfest at the PSR today at Microsoft. At lunch they had the Surface out for everyone to play with. It was one of those demos that you just tell that the gadget is going to change everything, but have no idea how.…
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Maybe MS is on to Something by investing in Facebook
Making your competitor’s competitor stronger is always a good strategy Social Networking wars: Facebook v. Google – Oct. 16, 2007 What amazes me is the rapid cycle acceleration going on. MS was a leader for more than 20 years… Google has been in the spotlight for less than 8.
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Random thoughts from Microsoft PSR
.!. Daredevil dvd For a MS conference, there sure are lots of MacBooks here. And not all of them are running Parallels or BootCamp! PowerShell – I must not be enough of a geek to get excited about a new shell Software + Services is exactly the right message. And exchange is an example that fell into…
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Got my tablet back – now with Vista!
Well as you can probably tell, I got my tablet (TC 4400) working again. I forgot how much I like the inking experience. Went ahead and put Vista on it and so far ft’s great on the tablet.
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Scoble sticks up for older facebook users
My facebook experiment is about 6 weeks old. One of the first things did was join a few networks. Since my UGS email address was still active I was able to get into that network (which currently has about 120 members). I had also just received my siemens.com email address so I joined that network…