Super Yatchs of Technology CEO’s

June 24th, 2009 Study: CEOs not doing enough on social networks NEW YORK — A new study says top CEOs should do a better job managing their presence online, on social sites like Twitter and Facebook and even Wikipedia. Sharon Barclay, who runs the executive public-relations firm Blue Trumpet Group and the blog UberCEO, took Fortune's 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs and found what she calls a "miserable level of engagement" when it comes to social networks.

June 23rd, 2009 New mafia game hits up Twitter players for moneySAN FRANCISCO — Twitter Inc.'s founders still haven't decided how to cash in on their popular Internet messaging service — to the delight of a rapidly growing audience. But the deliberate approach may not prevent a gold rush among opportunistic outsiders.

August 10th, 2006 Seymour Cray, the father of the supercomputer, died recently aged 71, following a car crash. He was one of the most original computer designers the world has ever seen, and a true maverick.

June 22nd, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian scientists have developed a new method for transmitting data with light that may lead to the development of teleportation technology and super-fast quantum computers. According to a report in www.news.com.au, the research team, from the Australian National University, developed a new approach to generating quantum entanglement in beams of light using only two parts.

September 24th, 2009 Sony to launch new motion controller next springNEW YORK — Sony is planning a spring release of its new motion controller for the PlayStation 3 video game console. The controller, a prototype of which Sony unveiled in June, will work with the existing PlayStation Eye camera, which can track players' voices, faces and body motion.

August 27th, 2009 BP selects Tata as technology vendorNEW YORK — Tata Consultancy Services, a unit of India's Tata Group conglomerate, said Thursday it was selected as a strategic information technology vendor for BP PLC, one of the world's biggest oil and gas companies. Terms were not disclosed.

August 9th, 2006 I previously mentioned that I intended not to use any Java ORM frameworks. ORM frameworks I have seen so far have a steep learning curve and tend to shoe horn your architecture into their model.

July 30th, 2009 Nintendo profit tumbles as gaming hits dwindleTOKYO — Nintendo's quarterly profit tumbled 61 percent, hurt by a stronger yen and fewer blockbuster games for its popular Wii gaming console and DS handheld device. The Kyoto-based company said Thursday its April-June net profit fell to 42.3 billion yen ($445.2 million) from 107.3 billion yen a year earlier.

September 23rd, 2009 Nintendo cutting Wii price by $50 to $200NEW YORK — Nintendo on Sunday will cut the price of its popular Wii console by $50, in a bid to broaden its appeal among potential new customers as it prepares to release the Wii Fit-Plus and New Super Mario Bros. games. The Wii, whose game control senses motions without having relying solely on buttons and levers, is the top selling console worldwide.

July 3rd, 2005 More power to Java on mobile platform - J2ME. Looking forward to see some concrete results.

January 11th, 2006 According to Steve Jobs keynote address at Macworld, 14 million iPods were sold in the holiday quarter (compared to 4.5 million a year earlier); 8 million videos sold through iTunes since October 12, when videos were first offered. Apple's retail stores also had their first billion-dollar quarter! Jobs introduced a super cool new accessory for the iPod.

August 31st, 2009 Beatles, Stones, Super Mario: big autumn for gamesNEW YORK — With a little help from the Beatles, Super Mario and price cuts from Sony and Microsoft, the slumping video game industry is hoping for a sales resurrection this fall. The season gets a late-summer start Tuesday, with the release of "Guitar Hero 5," a game featuring music from the Rolling Stones, Nirvana and other popular bands.

March 4th, 2009 When you and we are talking so much about the need of green gadgets and how it can be achieved, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took the best platform to voice his concerns about global warming and how we should really focus on the green gadgets at the world's largest technology trade show in Hannover this week.

August 17th, 2009 UPS adds technology to speed up eBay shippingATLANTA — UPS Inc. said Monday it has launched a technology that allows sellers to import their eBay order information, export it and automatically update orders.

January 8th, 2007 Samsung Electronics announced today that it has created the first LCD panel that can produce independent images on each side (front and back) of a mobile LCD display. This will replace traditionally used dual display panels with one, thereby reducing overall thickness of mobile products by at least 1mm.