Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his sister has said.

Jody Allen, the chief executive of Mr Allen’s investment firm Vulcan Inc, told staff in a memo that her brother had begun chemotherapy.

Mr Allen, 56, founded Microsoft in 1975 with Bill Gates but left in 1983, when he was diagnosed with another form of cancer – Hodgkin’s disease.

Mr.Allen with Cancer

He survived that bout after receiving successful treatment.

“He received the diagnosis early this month and has begun chemotherapy,” Jody Allen wrote to staff.

“Doctors say he has diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a relatively common form of lymphoma.

“Paul is feeling OK and remains upbeat. He continues to work and he has no plans to change his role at Vulcan.”

She added that he was “optimistic he can beat this”.

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Paul Allen, o Co-fundador da Microsoft fez um diagnóstico que aponta que Paul Allen está com câncer que afeta as células brancas.

Essa não é a primeira vez que ele tem câncer, a mais de 25 anos, ele teve que sair da MS para ser diagnosticado com a doença Hodgkin, mas ele logo se recuperou

Bill Gates e sua família está rezando para que o executivo se recupere, Bill Gates e Pau Allen são bons amigos, disse no jornal

Ambos fundaram a Microsoft em 1975, naquela época, a Microsoft produzia interpretadores de linguagem Basic para computadores Atair 8800

O número de relatos desse tipo de doença duplicou nos últimos 25 anos, de acordo com o INCA

Tomara que ele melhore

Fonte – Info Online

Ο Πολ Αλεν τον φετινό Ιούλιο

Ο δισεκατομμυριούχος Πολ Αλεν, ο οποίος μαζί με τον Μπιλ Γκέιτς ίδρυσε τη Microsoft το 1975, υποβάλλεται σε θεραπεία για λέμφωμα, περισσότερο από 20 χρόνια αφότου αντιμετώπισε με επιτυχία διαφορετική μορφή καρκίνου των λεμφαδένων.

«Έλαβε τη διάγνωση νωρίτερα αυτό το μήνα και έχει αρχίσει χημειοθεραπεία» γράφει η Τζόντι Αλεν σε υπόμνημά της προς τους υπαλλήλους της Vulcan, της επενδυτικής εταιρείας του αδελφού της.

«Ο Πολ νιώθει εντάξει και διατηρεί την καλή του διάθεση. Συνεχίζει να εργάζεται και δεν έχει σχέδια να αλλάξει το ρόλο του στη Vulvcan, προσθέτει η Αλεν, διευθύνουσα σύμβουλος της εταιρείας.

O Αλεν πάσχει από διάχυτο λέμφωμα μεγάλων Β-κυττάρων, μια από τις πιο συνήθεις αλλά και πιο επιθετικές μορφές του μη-Χότζκιν λεμφώματος.

Ο Πολ Αλεν, 17ος πλουσιότερος άνθρωπος στον κόσμο σύμφωνα με την κατάταξη των Forbes για το Σεπτέμβριο του 2009, ίδρυσε τη Microsoft μαζί με τον Μπιλ Γκέιτς το 1975 και παρέμεινε αντιπρόεδρος έρευνας και ανάπτυξης νέων προϊόντων μέχρι το 1983.

Αποχώρησε τότε για να εστιαστεί στην υγεία του, καθώς είχε εμφανίσει λέμφωμα Χότζκιν, από το οποίο όμως θεραπεύτηκε πλήρως.

Μέσω της Vulcan, την οποία ίδρυσε λίγο αργότερα, επένδυσε σε εταιρείες όπως η AOL και η Dreamworks.

Αγόρασε επίσης την ομάδα ράγκμπι Seahawks του Σιάτλ, ίδρυσε το δικό του μουσικό συγκρότημα, δημιούργησε συλλογή με πάνω από 30 αεροπλάνα αντίκες, έδωσε πάνω από ένα δισ. δολάρια σε φιλανθρωπία και επένδυσε σε νέα τηλεσκόπια για το πρόγραμμα αναζήτησης εξωγήινων SETI.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and has begun treatment, a spokesman for his investment company said on Monday.

Employees of Vulcan Inc, which Allen formed in 1986 to manage his business dealings and philanthropic activity, were informed of Allen’s illness in a company e-mail on Monday.

“He’s feeling pretty good, he’s remaining very active at Vulcan and his other holdings and interests and he has no plans to cut back on any of that,” said Vulcan spokesman David Postman.

Postman said Allen’s diagnosis was recent and that treatment has already begun.

Allen, the 32nd richest person in the world according to Forbes magazine, co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Bill Gates and resigned as an executive in 1983. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 1983 but his cancer was successfully treated.

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a type of cancer that originates in the lymphatic system, which is the body’s disease-fighting network. It is a far more common disease than the related but distinct Hodgkin’s.

Ευχόμαστε στον Πολ Αλεν τα καλύτερα και τον περιμένουμε πάλι πίσω!

Via[in.gr,Reuters]

Paul Allen tiene 56 años

Me despierto esta mañana con una noticia un poco triste: Paul Allen, cofundador de Microsoft, fue diagnosticado con cáncer. Paul Allen dejó Microsoft hace ya buen rato, para dedicarse a actividades filantrópicas.

El tipo de cáncer con el que ha sido diagnosticado es un linfoma, que ya había superado en épocas pasadas, según nos cuentan en The Inquirer ES, hace poco cerca de 25 años. De modo que se siente optimista.

Paul Allen cofundó Microsoft junto con Bill Gates en los mediados de los 70, y estuvo trabajando allí hasta 1983, año en el que tuvo un Linfoma de Hodgkin.

En septiembre de este año, de acuerto con la revista Forbes, Allen ocupaba el puesto número 17 entre los estadounidenses más acaudalados.

Paul Allen recibió el diagnóstico este mes y ha entrado en quimioterapia.

Vía The Inquirer ES

Paul Allen, co-fundador da Microsof ao lado de Bill Gates, está com câncer. Segundo um comunicado de sua mulher, ele já havia passado por um problema difícil como esse, há 25 anos atrás: “Temos certeza que Paul vencerá mais essa batalha”, afirmou sua irmã.

Segundo ela está sendo muito difícil, para toda a família, lidar com a doença mais uma vez, mas a família tem esperança da recuperação de Paul.

Depois de deixar a Microsoft, Paul criou a Vulcan.

A separação de Paul e Bill Gates aconteceu depois de serem acusados de dominar o mercado do Software, mesmo assim, Paul Allen continua sendo um dos homens mais ricos do mundo.

Segundo a revista Forbes, Paul Allen está entre os 17 homens mais ricos do mundo, com cerca de 11 bilhões de dólares.

Paul Allen também é considerado mais excêntrico que Bill Gates, seu ex-sócio, ficou famoso ao ser o patrocinador de um projeto da NASA de tursmo espacial, sendo o primeiro turista a ir para o espaço.

Também ganhou notoriedade ao criticar Gates, afirmando que Gates não deveria ser considerado um bom exemplo, por ter conseguido ficar rico sem diploma universitário.

Em comum com Gates, Allen possui uma fundação, junto com sua família. Allen possui investimentos também no mundo esportivo.

by Jânio.

Microsoft, multinacional estadounidense fundada por el tan famoso Bill Gates y Paul Allen dedicada al desarrollo fabricación y licencia de software y equipos informáticos ha presentado la versión beta de Microsoft Office Online. Tan solo debes registrarte y usar un navegador que no sea Opera, ya que este no es compatible (comprobado por mí xD).

Tan solo basta con tener una cuenta del Live y registrarte para comenzar a usar la aplicación. Al ser una versión beta, no esperes que esté exenta de errores. Con esta aplicación podrás ver documentos desde casi cualquier equipo, compartirarchivos protegidos por contraseña (hasta 5 GB) sin perder el control, trabajar con otras personas sobre los mismosarchivos, abrir y guardar archivos de programas conocidos como Word, Excel y PowerPoint y muchas más cosas.

Para probarlos debéis ser usuarios de los navegadores Internet Explorer, Firefox o Safari. El resto de navegadores son incompatibles. Sin duda es un gran aplicación sobre todo para quienes comparten los mismos archivos y ya no tienen la necesidad de estar mandándoselos continuamente.

Microsoft Office Live ya puede ser utilizado por los usuarios totalmente gratis, ya que Microsoft acaba de lanzar la versión beta de su suite de ofimática en versión online. Ofrece funcionalidades básicas de creación y edición de archivos de Word, Excel y PowerPoint con computación en la nube, tratando de luchar asó contra Google Docs o la suite ofimática online Zoho.

Roman Abramovich's 525 ft. 'Eclipse' ... "It is the biggest private yacht in existence and comes with a missile-detection system, two helipads, a luxury spa, swimming pool and a miniature submarine."

The subject of money is a complex one.  Don’t you agree that there is nothing quite like the subject of money, that evokes strong feelings and reactions in people? Except perhaps, sex and religion?  That is because, as Abraham-Hicks says;

“…it touches most of you in one way or another, hundreds or even thousands of times in every day, it is a large factor in your vibrational make up and in your personal point of attraction… Because such a high percentage of your thoughts in any given day reside around the topic of money and financial success, as soon as you are able to deliberately guide your thoughts, not only it is certain that your financial success must improve, but the evidence of that success will then prepare you for deliberate improvement in every aspect of your life experience…”

It may be hard for someone who struggles to pay the bills every month, to sympathize with someone at the opposite end of the spectrum who has his own painful issues with money.

But it is true; money is an emotional button, a contentious issue.  But I am not here to debate the pros and cons of dosh.  I just want to tell a different story about money, because the one that I have been telling hasn’t worked for me.

“…abundance cannot find us unless we offer a vibration of abundance… even in the absence of something we want, we must find a way of feeling the essence of it, or it cannot come… when you ask for the manifestation prior to the vibration, you ask the impossible.  When you are willing to offer the vibration before the manifestation, all things are possible…”

I have found a great tool to help me feel comfortable about money.  It is a book called The Official Filthy Rich Handbook by Christopher Tennant.

Before doing the filthy rich handbook therapy, I used to raise my eyebrows at the filthy rich excesses.

“One could end world hunger with what they spend on a birthday party,” I used to say.

Not anymore!  Two weeks of sitting on the toilet first thing in the morning with a latte macchiato in one hand, and the filthy rich handbook in the other, has worked like a charm.   I’ve had a change of heart.  I’ve come to see that the many ways these people can come up with, to spend their money, is brilliant.  No, I really mean it.  You want to try sitting there every day, as I do, with a checkbook in your hands panicking that you can’t think of a single thing to buy.  Seriously!  You see, in Ask and It Is Given, Abraham suggests the following exercise to help us pinpoint our energy: write yourself a check every day and spend it on the same day.  Starting with $1,000 on the first day, $2,000 on the second and so on.  It is also suggested that one should be as descriptive as possible on the memo.  I have to tell you, I am stumped.  When I finally figure out what to spend the money on, I sigh with relief.  Then I worry about thinking of something to buy the following day.

Pathetic, pathetic, PATHETIC!  Now do you see why I think the filthy rich are geniuses when it comes to spending money? Did you know that one of them bought a plot on the moon, for God’s sake!?

“How big is 525 feet,” I asked my son after reading that Roman Abramovich’s Yacht, Eclipse, is 525 feet long. “Is it as big as the QE2?”

“No, the QE2 is bigger,” he said.

“Well then, what’s all the fuss? It can’t be that big.”

“Yes but,” he explained.  ” A 525 ft yacht is big enough to block out the sun, and The QE2 carried thousands of people.”

I see the point, and it increases my admiration for the-larger-than-life-sense of self these people have!  Truth be told, they deserve some sort of public recognition.

Take Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich again, he paid $282 million for a house in London.  Do you know something? I’m rethinking my position about being on a Real Estate sabbatical.  In fact, if the likes of Abramovich, Rupert Murdoch, Bruce Kovner, Larry Ellison, Paul Allen and Bill Gates want to buy a house, I’ll be happy to make an exception for anyone of them, anytime.  Just fly, sail, drive on over in one of your custom built cars, and I’ll postpone writing a chapter until after I sell you a house.  I’ll even include you in one of the chapters.  Oh, please don’t be upset if you didn’t see your name on the list.  Anyone on Forbes 400 is welcome.

Feel better?  Good.

Now, jokes apart (who’s joking? Not me), money is a great thing. And I want to say a big thank you to Patty Stonesifer and the Bill and Melinda Gate’s foundation for their generous grant to help save babies from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.  Also to Jeffrey Lewis, Chief of Staff to Teresa Heinz and President and Chief Operating Officer for the Heinz Family Philanthropies for his support of First Candle national Kicks Count! campaign.  None would be possible without money.

And last but not least, thank you to my elder son who brought the Filthy Rich Handbook home, and left it lying around in the bathroom.

See you tomorrow

Your friend,

Success

Memo to Paul Allen: If you’re one of the richest men on the planet and CHOOSE to own a professional sports franchise, stop screwing your star players around over a couple thousand dollars.

According to the website Blazersedge.com, fans at the Portland Trail Blazers annual “Fan Fest” loudly cheered starting forward LaMarcus Aldridge during player introductions. They even chanted “Sign him! Sign him! Sign him!” to the delight of Aldridge and the squirming of Blazers GM Kevin Pritchard.

Portland fans are renowned for being among the most knowledgeable in sports. They are also among the most loyal. That simple Fan Fest was attended by more than 16,000 people.

Paul Allen has seen his personal fortune dwindle over the past several years. Once the second richest man in the world, Allen is now only #32 on the Forbes list of billionaires. Don’t feel too bad. Allen still has $10.2 billion in personal wealth. In fairness, Allen has been burned by paying NBA players high salaries in the past. His annual payroll once exceeded $100 million for a cast of underachieving criminals once referred to as the “Jail Blazers.” However, this collection of young players is NOT those guys. Led by Brandon Roy, Aldridge and Greg Oden, the Blazers went 54-28 last season and won the NBA’s Northwest Division. Just as importantly, there were zero character issues on that team and Roy and the rest have been  model citizens.

Still, once burned, twice shy and Allen took forever to get an extension for Roy done. Aldridge’s seemingly inevitable extension is taking even longer. Maybe this weekends fan reaction will speed up the signing.

LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE

By John Sener

[Note: This article was first posted as a comment to Lynn Zimmerman's "Twitter Could Drive You Cuckoo" (1 Oct. 2009).]

Studies like this, and the related reportage and unsupported speculation, are what could drive me cuckoo. More accurately, taking such reportage (and the related study behind it?) seriously is likely to be far less healthy for one’s brain and working memory than Twitter.

Look closely at what’s going on here. The cited articles make no mention of how Twitter was used in the study. So I spent (wasted?) 30 minutes or so looking for the actual study. Still haven’t found it. That’s your first clue: the assertion that Twitter is bad is mostly, perhaps entirely, an echo chamber.

A Google search did not yield the study; none of the articles I found have a link to it. I did find Dr. Alloway’s web site; that should have been promising — except that I couldn’t find a link to the study there either. I found a couple of references buried on her web site and through Google searches, but none which appear to be the related study either. Much more easy to find on her web site are links to all the media coverage she’s received and the talks she’s giving. That’s your second clue.

It appears from her web site that she’s doing some good research to establish the importance of working memory, among other areas. Bravo for that. She claims that it’s more valuable than IQ as a measure of intelligence (although the study I found measures the efficacy of working memory in terms of increased performance on IQ, literacy, and numeracy tests — hmmm). But even this appears to be a double-edged sword: she is also promoting “JUNGLE MEMORY, a brain-training program based on my research and promoted by Pearson Education, improved from a grade C to a B, and a B to an A after just 12 weeks! It is the only training program scientifically proven to raise grades.” So her web site is long on self-promotion and short on links to actual research.

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Clearly working memory as defined is an important skill. But why is it THE most important skill?

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But here’s the thing: What does all this have to do with Twitter being unhealthy for working memory? Where’s the evidence, the data? I found someone who suggested that the study did not actually test Twitter (can’t find that reference now). Dr. Alloway herself noted in a comment on her web site that the conclusions are “based on findings from a pilot study, more to follow once the study is complete.” Hmmm. Someone else on her web site asked four weeks ago for a link to the complete study; no response was posted. The reportage also suggests that Twitter was not actually tested, and that its detrimental effects are pure speculation on Dr. Alloway’s part. As reported in the Scotsman, “Paul Allen, editor of ComputerActive magazine, questioned the study and said technology like Twitter was ‘too new’ to make conclusions about. He said: “‘It sounds very spurious. I don’t see a correlation between the length of a message you send someone and the effect on memory. It could be a really interesting Twitter message.’” Exactly.

But in the meantime, the blogosphere has already run wild, and sooner or later you’ll be hearing someone tell you how science has shown that Twitter is bad for your brain. Just like another British scientist ran amok earlier this year with unsubstantiated speculation about how social networking sites were harming children’s brains.

Fortunately, the British have also provided us with several fine words for dealing with such situations: Balderdash. Poppycock. Twaddle.

To me, the worst part about this is that it totally obscures a deeper, more important question. As Dr. Alloway says on her web site, “Cutting-edge research has shown that working memory—the ability to store and manipulate information—is the most important learning skill a child can have. Working memory is the foundation of good grades and a successful life beyond the classroom. Without it, students would fail at every task, and with it they can dramatically improve their classroom performance.”

Clearly working memory as defined is an important skill. But why is it THE most important skill? It makes sense to say that if you believe that classroom performance as currently defined (store and manipulate information as per the teacher’s requirements) is in fact most important. But if you believe that there are more important skills, and that getting good grades is at least as much about social conditioning as it is about learning, then you would be asking a different set of questions. Ones, sadly, which we are not going to hear in this media blitz of misinformation…

Photo: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The collective net worth of the super rich on Forbes’s annual list of the 400 wealthiest Americans fell by $300 billion over the past 12 months, and the tech sector spilled its share of the red ink.

Microsoft’s Bill Gates lost the most — at least on paper. His net worth dropped from $57 to $50 billion, not enough, however, to keep him from topping the list for the 16th year in a row. Two current and former Microsofties were close behind: Paul Allen (No. 17) lost $4.5 billion and Steve Ballmer (No. 14) gave up $1.7 billion.

Other notable losers were Michael Dell (No. 13), down $2.8 billion, and SAS’s James Goodnight (No. 33), off $1.9 billion.

In this company, the $600 million that Apple CEO Steve Jobs lost on paper doesn’t seem so bad. In fact, on the strength of the $5.1 billion he still has, he moved 18 spots up the Forbes 400 list, from No. 61 to No. 43.

Below: The 12 richest tech moguls and their change in net worth. One actually got richer. Can you guess who?

• No. 1. Bill Gates, Microsoft (MSFT): $50 billion, down $7 billion
• No. 3 Larry Ellison, Oracle (ORCL): $27 billion, no change
• No. 11 Sergey Brin, Google (GOOG): $15.3 billion, down $600 million
• No. 11 Larry Page, Google: $15.3 billion, down $500 million
• No. 13 Michael Dell, Dell (DELL): $14.5 billion, down $2.8 billion
• No. 14 Steve Ballmer, Microsoft: $13.3 billion, down $1.7 billion
• No. 17 Paul Allen, Microsoft: $11.5 billion, down $4.5 billion
• No. 28 Jeff Bezos, Amazon (AMZN): $8.8 billion, up $100 million
• No. 33 James Goodnight, SAS Institute: $6.8 billion, down $1.9 billion
• No. 40 Pierre Omidyar, eBay (EBAY): $5.5 billion, down $800 million
• No. 40 Eric Schmidt, Google: $5.5 billion, down $400 million
• No. 43 Steve Jobs, Apple, Pixar (AAPL): $5.1 billion, down $600 million

En 1977, el sistema operativo más popular era el CP/M (Control Program for Microprocessors), explotado por la Digital Research INC propiedad de su creador, un joven y brillante programador llamado Gary Kildall.

En 1980, el entonces principal fabricante mundial de hardware, IBM, contacta con la directora comercial de la Digital Research y esposa de Kindall, Dorothy, con la intención de adquirir la licencia de uso del CP/M para su nuevo modelo de microprocesador. Ni Dorothy ni Kildall aceptan las draconianas condiciones de IBM para explotar el CP/M.

Ante ese revés, el gigante azul recurre a una pequeña empresa de Seattle, Microsoft, y sus fundadores, Paul Allen y Bill Gates, ven la oportunidad de sus vidas. Adquieren , por 50,000 dólares, a la Seattle Computer Products un clon del CP/M denominado QDOS que venden a IBM bajo el nombre comercial de MS-DOS.

El éxito del MS-DOS, basado en las ideas de Kindall, inició el reinado de Microsoft. Pero supuso el principio del fin de la Digital Research como el mayor productor mundial de software para microcomputadoras.

En 1994, a los 52 años de edad y en extrañas circunstancias, Gary Kindall murió olvidado. Quienes lo conocieron afirman que nunca superó el haber sido, el hombre que pudo ser Bill Gates.

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Sugerencia del Chef: Apple abrió la ventana (II).

Tidbit of the day: Global PC shipments rose 1% in the quarter to 67.2 million units, compared to 66.5% in the first quarter, iSuppli said. While the sequential growth is not enough to generate growth for the entire year, it marks the start of continued sequential growth in the third and fourth quarters. Hewlett-Packard remained the top PC vendor in terms of shipments for the 12th consecutive quarter. Dell was No. 2 and Acer was No. 3. (InformationWeek)

Headlines
-WSJ: With Deal, Intuit Adds to Offerings
-WSJ: Silverlight Is Still Racing Flash
-NY Times: Insurers Fight Speech-Impairment Remedy
-NY Times: Security Pros Are Focused on the Wrong Threats
-BusinessWeek: Next: An Internet Revolution in Higher Education
-Forbes: The Death Of Business Intelligence
-SF Chronicle: Variety of startups at TechCrunch50 conference
-SJ Mercury: Google news feature mimics print sources, lets people browse stories
-Seattle Times: Paul Allen-backed Gist opens public beta
-TechFlash: Zune HD to get Twitter, Facebook as Microsoft abandons ’squirting’
-InformationWeek: InformationWeek 500: A Year Of Relentless Innovation
-InformationWeek: Oracle, Sun To Announce Joint Hardware Product
-eWeek: Clearwire Launches WiMax Silicon Valley Network
-Computerworld: Open-source software may unify the medical-records realm

With Deal, Intuit Adds to Offerings
Wall Street Journal
By Jay Miller
September 15, 2009

Intuit Inc. agreed to buy personal-finance site Mint.com for $170 million, adding to the tax and financial-management company’s offerings in the burgeoning business of providing software as a service.

Silverlight Is Still Racing Flash
Wall Street Journal
By Nick Wingfield
September 15, 2009

Microsoft Corp. has closed the technological gap with Adobe Systems Inc. in a battle over software for adding video and animation to Web sites. But Microsoft’s efforts to win customers in the market are moving much slower.

Insurers Fight Speech-Impairment Remedy
New York Times
By Ashlee Vance
September 14, 2009

Kara Lynn has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, orA.L.S., which has attacked the muscles around her mouth and throat, removing her ability to speak. A couple of years ago, she spent more than $8,000 to buy a computer, approved by Medicare, that turns typed words into speech that her family, friends and doctors can hear.

Security Pros Are Focused on the Wrong Threats
New York Times
Blog by Riva Richmond
September 15, 2009

Corporate information technology departments are prioritizing the wrong threats to their computer systems, focusing on old problems and leaving their companies open to a raft of new cyberattacks targeting sensitive customer and corporate information.

Next: An Internet Revolution in Higher Education
BusinessWeek
By Kevin Maney
September 14, 2009

Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems (JAVA), met me for breakfast at an unassuming little restaurant in a strip mall tucked into the woods a few minutes’ drive from his house. We discussed one of his recent passions: applying technology’s open-source model to education. Sun was an early proponent of open source, giving the concept a huge boost when it opened up its Java software. And McNealy funded and helped promote a project called Curriki to create open-source textbooks that will ultimately be free, via the Internet.

The Death Of Business Intelligence
Forbes
By Dan Woods
September 15, 2009

During the presidential election, CNN anchor John King danced around the newsroom in front of gigantic multi-touch screens, tapping states and moving information around with his hands. He showed a way of analyzing information that is applicable to almost every business.

Variety of startups at TechCrunch50 conference
San Francisco Chronicle
By James Temple
September 15, 2009

A Penn and Teller card trick app for your iPhone. Plush, robotic toys that tell your children stories when prompted online. A device that allows you to play your video game console on a remote laptop.

Google news feature mimics print sources, lets people browse stories
San Jose Mercury
By Steve Johnson
September 14, 2009

Google on Monday unveiled an experimental feature designed to let people scan news on its Web site as quickly as someone flipping through stories in a newspaper or magazine.

Paul Allen-backed Gist opens public beta
Seattle Times
Blog by Brier Dudley
September 15, 2009

Gist today is opening up its impressive “relationship management” Web service to the public during a free test period. The 15-person Seattle startup was spun out of Paul Allen’s personal investment group in May 2008 and began testing its service September 2008. It raised $6.75 million this past May and has more than 10,000 people using the private beta release.

Zune HD to get Twitter, Facebook as Microsoft abandons ’squirting’
TechFlash
By Todd Bishop
September 15, 2009

One of Microsoft’s big bets when it decided to challenge Apple’s iPod in 2006 was a feature known as Zune-to-Zune wireless sharing — or “squirting,” as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dubbed it. People could use the built-in Wi-Fi to send a full song to another Zune device nearby, for as many as three playbacks.

InformationWeek 500: A Year Of Relentless Innovation
InformationWeek
By Chris Murphy
September 15, 2009

It’s the first half of 2009, and unemployment’s rising to a 26-year high of 9.5%. Sound like the perfect time to launch an aggressive technology-driven product?
It was for Progressive Insurance, which kicked off its “Name Your Price” Web sitetool, letting customers build their own insurance policies, starting with what they think they can afford. It was for Coca-Cola, which tested a prototype fountain drink dispenser IT developed over two years with the company’s R&D team, letting consumers mix a variety of new flavors while aligning Coke with a select group of fast-food restaurants to analyze buying data and manage inventories better.

Oracle, Sun To Announce Joint Hardware Product
InformationWeek
By Charles Babcock
September 15, 2009

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is expected to announce a piece of hardware coming out under Oracle’s Exadata brand at a joint press conference with Sun Microsystems Tuesday. The joint press conference is unusual in that Oracle is still at a preliminary stage of acquiring Sun. Companies usually avoid talking about how they will change their product lines or the nature of future products until mergers are completed.

Clearwire Launches WiMax Silicon Valley Network
eWeek
By Roy Mark
September 15, 2009

Clearwire introduced Sept. 15 the launch of the company’s largest 4G WiMAX application test environment in the Silicon Valley. Thedeveloper network, which is a precursor to commercial service planned for the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010, will cover more than 20 square miles in Santa Clara, Mountain View and parts of downtown Palo Alto.

Open-source software may unify the medical-records realm
Computerworld
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
September 15, 2009

Open-source medical software has been around for over 30 years. Unless you are in healthcare IT, however, chances are you’ve never even heard of it. But that’s poised to change.

Your pregame fix on Sunday’s can officially be satisfied 1 hour earlier this year because both Vikings Weekly and Vikings GamePlan have moved to Sunday mornings in 2009. Weekly will air at 10:00 a.m. on Sundays and GamePlan will air immediately after, at 10:30 a.m.

Weekly and GamePlan will be broadcast on KMSP FOX 9 and also simultaneously on FSNorth, leading into the FOX national pregame broadcast. Both shows and both show hosts – Ann Carroll (Weekly) and Paul Allen (GamePlan) have been nominated for Upper Midwest Emmy Awards – which will be handed out on Saturday, September 26th.

Jared Allen has a new segment on Vikings Weekly called “Jaredwalking,” in which the boisterous DE interacts with people while out and about around town. GamePlan also has a new segment in which fans can submit questions to vikings.com and then  Vikings Head Coach Brad Childress will answer a selected question in the program.

GamePlan also features a new segment that looks back on the 1969 NFL Championship season – a different topic from that season will be featured each week. Segments back again this year from last season’s broadcast include Film Study with Childress, where Allen and the coach review film of the upcoming opponent exclusive from inside Childress’ office.

Esta mañana al ir al trabajo me he quedado sorprendido al ver atracado en el puerto de Málaga un barco que llamaba la atención. Cual ha sido mi sorpresa al ver que se trataba del yate Octopus de Paul Allen, uno de los fundadores de Microsoft con Bill Gates.
He tenido que pararme y hacerle un par de fotos, que no son gran cosa pero sirven para documentar esta visita.
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Málaga Hoy – llega el lujoso yate del socio de Bill Gates