Martin L.W. Hall: Technology

Analyst: Apple to lie down with Intel. This could be an interesting move -- or is it a ploy to get faster chips from IBM and Motorola.

Blog's the Word. I guess MSNBC is getting on the blogging bandwagon. from C|Net

Scientists build polio virus from scratch. Here is an insidious little thought. With about $50K and the right guy you could build some pretty nasty viruses. This could amp up bio-terrorism. Talk about a systemic problem. [Systems and Values]

Some comments from FuturePositive. Making Sense of our Current Predicament Scott Meredith writes: I still still still just don't get it. Yesterday for example, I was browsing the latest issue of Wired magazine. They had a full-bore cheerleading article about nano- technology. [Systems and Values]

Motivation Meter. I wonder if people would be interested in knowing what values there Blogs are driven by. I do a lot of work in analyzing documents to see what values and motivations exist. People are always amazed at how their values or those of their group are refelcted in their writing. [Systems and Values]

Content and Taxonomy. A good place to begin learning some of this stuff. Very applicable to my document analysis work.

Interesting article on blogging in Information Week. It is a little on the fluff side...but still informative.

One-on-one with Steve Jobs. Is MPEG-4 video technology the next big thing? Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs thinks so. In an interview, the CEO talks about licensing pacts and product delays. [CNET News.com: Personal Technology] [SV2002]

Hewlett Packard to Report Progress of Merger and Job Cuts. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ.N) on Tuesday is expected to report on the progress of job cuts and the success of its merger with Compaq Computer Corp. in its first financial forecasts for the combined company since announcing the deal. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]

OASIS Signs Off on New Web Specs. The XML interoperability consortium approves a Directory Services Markup Language, an ebXML Registry Service, and the ebXML Registry Information Model. [internetnews.com: Top News]

Google Opens Up Google LabsSeveral ideas that Goog .... Google Opens Up Google Labs
Several ideas that Google plays with in public, from keyboard shortcuts (Google getting into browser usability,) to term sets (get a list of related terms to the ones you listed.) [Web Voice: online business models and technical marketing - a blog by Olivier Travers]

VeriSign focuses on managed security services. PKI, SSL, DNS and other TLAs [The Register]