The birth of a new app

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The Birth of the Notebook

The Birth of the Notebook 03/22/2005 04:59 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Chris Null has written a great article about the early history of portable PCs for Mobile PC magazine.

Inspired by the IBM 5100 and Xerox's Notetaker -- a 48-pound machine with a keyboard that folded over the display -- Osborne's eponymous computer was cobbled together from the cheapest parts he could find. The Osborne 1 hit the market at $1,795, with dual floppy drives and a 5-inch CRT. Flip the keyboard over the front, latch it on, and your 24.5-pound computer was ready to go wherever you needed it. Osborne had amazing success with the product, but it was fatally crushed by the birth of Compaq in 1983, which copied the Osborne carefully while adding one killer feature: IBM compatibility.

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UPDATE: Stefan says: "I actually worked on an Osborne in the early '80s. The college SF club had one. We used it to lay out the schedule and generate individually numbered tickets for our SF convention. I recall using the included BASIC to create a program that would generate a Superbowl betting grid.

"One of the big selling points for the Osborne was the software. The company pioneered the concept of bundling. In addition to the CP/M operating system, you got WordStar, a spreadsheet, a flat-file database program and so on. It even had a nice app for reading and writing PC-format disks.

"The computer itself was, frankly, a piece of shit. The monitor was 52 columns wide; when your typing reached the end of a line the display shifted left. It was terribly susceptible to static shock. You learned to save your work every few minutes in dry weather, because resets and lockups were a regular occurrence."

The Birth of the Semantic Web

The Birth of the Semantic Web 12/17/2004 06:37 PM

water birth

water birth 12/22/2003 03:04 PM
Water birth is an alternative to standard hospital labor where the woman gives birth in a pool of water. Many hospitals/birth centers now offer the option of a water birth, or the mother-to-be can choose from a wide variety of birthing pools for labor at home, usually assisted by a midwife/nurse with experience in waterbirth. There are many benefits of a gentle introduction to the world by being born in water, and the testimonials make it sound like a great option. Note: some links may be NSFW. [more inside]

Birth of the iPod

Birth of the iPod 07/21/2004 11:21 AM

£3.5m award for birth damage

£3.5m award for birth damage 01/23/2004 04:16 PM
An 11-year-old boy left disabled after complications during his birth is awarded £3.5m in damages.

Birth control by kiosk

Birth control by kiosk 08/16/2004 08:18 AM
globetechnology.com Aug 16 2004 12:42PM GMT

Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine

Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine 02/18/2004 02:25 AM
Search Engine Report Feb 18 2004 6:14AM GMT

Other News: Birth of the iPod

Other News: Birth of the iPod 07/21/2004 11:08 AM
Wired tells the story of the iPod's birth, interviewing key player Ben Knauss....

Inside Look at Birth of the IPod

Inside Look at Birth of the IPod 07/21/2004 06:13 AM
A former manager of the company tasked with making the hit device tells of the glitches that almost killed it, how Apple strained to keep it secret and how Steve Jobs molded it to his liking. By Leander Kahney.

birth of a stealth campaign

birth of a stealth campaign 07/19/2004 01:03 PM
a bra maker is using blogs to create buzz in advance of a new ad push

Woman Gives Birth Exactly 4 Years Apart
(AP)

Woman Gives Birth Exactly 4 Years Apart
(AP) 06/30/2004 09:25 AM
AP - Giving birth is like clockwork for Cheryl Stelljes. The Cohasset woman gave birth to a son, Adam, on Sunday at 10:12 p.m. That was four years to the minute after the birth of her daughter, Lindsay, on June 27, 2000.

Susie the Cow Gives Birth to Triplets
(AP)

Susie the Cow Gives Birth to Triplets
(AP) 06/09/2004 07:10 PM
AP - Her first year of breeding, Susie the cow gave birth to one calf. Her second year, she gave birth to twins. This year, her third year of breeding, Susie gave birth to triplets — something that occurs in less than 100,000 births, a veterinary specialist said.

Denver Zoo has another gorilla birth

Denver Zoo has another gorilla birth 06/02/2004 01:05 AM
AP via New Jersey Online Jun 2 2004 4:50AM GMT

Pick your birth month

Pick your birth month 08/17/2004 03:30 AM
Copy the text .. La Mancha .. source

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"The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad"

"The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad" 08/21/2004 02:53 AM

Ovarian Transplant: First Birth

Ovarian Transplant: First Birth 09/24/2004 06:02 AM
In a breakthrough that doctors say gives hope to many women who've become infertile after cancer treatments, a woman who received an ovarian tissue transplant gives birth to a healthy baby girl.

Compensation for birth errors boy

Compensation for birth errors boy 05/25/2004 10:13 AM
The mother of a seven-year-old boy wins compensation after mistakes made at his birth left him brain damaged.

The birth of a [sign] language

The birth of a [sign] language 09/18/2004 06:57 PM
Experts Study New Sign Language System A new system of sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua may hold clues about the evolution of languages. When the country's first school for the deaf was established in 1977, children were not taught sign language but developed a system of signs to communicate. Childhood learning may determine linguistic rules ...They found that older students used hand signals resembling the gestures employed by hearing people, mimicking the entire event physically. But younger pupils - who had interacted with other deaf children from an early age - used a more complex series of signs. They split the scene into component parts and arranged these sequentially to convey the incident. The constructions resemble the way words and sentences are built in verbal languages, using segments structured in a linear fashion. This indicates that way the younger children learnt the sign language helped reshape it according to these linguistic rules.
............... Fascinating... /Mr. Spock

The Birth of GNU, 20 Years Ago Today

The Birth of GNU, 20 Years Ago Today 01/07/2004 03:16 PM
Richard Stallman resigned from MIT 20 years ago today to launch the GNU Project. That was the free software effort that ultimately spawned the operating system known as Linux, building on a tradition that gave the world a host of other software, some of which is at the heart of the Internet and other things we take for granted today.

Birth of the Bluetooth Bots

Birth of the Bluetooth Bots 09/02/2004 06:44 AM
The Feature Sep 2 2004 9:49AM GMT

Warning of near-term birth 'risk'

Warning of near-term birth 'risk' 08/02/2004 08:48 PM
Babies born just slightly prematurely have more health problems than those born at full term, researchers say.

Separated at birth: The Times' WMD and
Wen Ho Lee mea culpas

Separated at birth: The Times' WMD and
Wen Ho Lee mea culpas 05/27/2004 10:52 AM

Ill. Druggists Must Dispense Birth
Control (AP)

Ill. Druggists Must Dispense Birth
Control (AP) 04/02/2005 06:47 AM
AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich approved an emergency rule Friday requiring pharmacies to fill birth control prescriptions quickly after a Chicago pharmacist refused to fill an order because of moral opposition to the drug.

Stitches don't stop preterm birth

Stitches don't stop preterm birth 06/03/2004 08:05 PM
A common surgical procedure used to try to stop women giving birth prematurely has little effect, research suggests.

Ore. Woman Gives Birth to 14 Pound Baby
(AP)

Ore. Woman Gives Birth to 14 Pound Baby
(AP) 02/05/2005 09:24 PM
AP - Jacob Aaron Ryon is the size of a healthy 3-month old. Only problem is, he's less than two weeks old. Jacob weighed 14 pounds and 1 ounce when he was born to Wendy Bullock, 24, on Jan. 21 at Pioneer Memorial Hospital. He measured 24 inches.

The Posting That Gave Birth To a Web
Site

The Posting That Gave Birth To a Web
Site 06/10/2004 04:34 PM

A long time ago, in the wee hours of the morning, I made a post to Gadgetopia entitled Fake Escrow Sites. It was a posting about how crooks use fake escrow sites to cheat people out of money. It was just one or two sentences, and it linked to a news article. I was a little disturbed at what I read, calling it "ugly stuff."

It's gotten great search e ngine placement, and, consequently, it gets an enormous amount of traffic every day and a ton of comments. The average entry on Gadgetopia has 0.83 comments — this one has 130+.

There's apparently a real need for people to know which escrow sites are good and which aren't. I like this posting a lot because — at the risk of sounding dramatic, it's really helping people. Here are excerpts from some of the comments.

I have someone trying to get me to go through this site as well, instead of via amazon. I'm very glad I haven't sent off anything yet [...]

Thanks to this site I've been saved from sending off a £6000+ diamond ring [...]

Like Nick Allan, I too have just been saved from what appears to be the same person in Moldova [...]

I too have been saved a ton of money by this site. I was almost duped for a Rolex Yachtmaster watch [...]

So, as you can see, this is a very good thing. Since it's SO good, we're happy to announce:

http://www.fakeescrowsites.com/< /a>

Nothin' but a big discussion board that will hopefully continue the great discussion and impact that the blog posting has had. It's an expirement really — if you throw up a simple collaboration platform to address a real need with a real audience, will it thrive? We're about to find out.

There's still some work to do in configuring the forum, but since this isn't a revenue-generating operation, I wanted to get it up and out there before other pressures took me away from it. It's a case of, "if you wait until you're ready, you'll never be ready."

In doing this, I had to work very hard to stifle over-analysis that would scare me out of it — namely, the potential for lawsuits. I wrote some very clear and frank policies for the site, and I'm simply going to brave the legal waters and hope for the best. I have faith that we'll do much more good than harm.

I have never used an escrow site. I've only used eBay once. But in seeing some of the stories in that news article, and some of the comments that were posted, I really think we have a chance to make an impact here.

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Woman Gives Birth at Atlanta Airport
(AP)

Woman Gives Birth at Atlanta Airport
(AP) 12/28/2004 05:07 PM
AP - A woman scheduled to fly to London gave birth to a baby girl Sunday in a restroom at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

High-Tech Birth: Do You Need a
C-Section?

High-Tech Birth: Do You Need a
C-Section? 04/17/2005 01:27 AM
MSNBC Apr 17 2005 5:50AM GMT

Pa. Woman Gives Birth to 2 Sets of Twins
(AP)

Pa. Woman Gives Birth to 2 Sets of Twins
(AP) 08/16/2004 08:41 AM
AP - A woman gave birth to two sets of identical twins — two boys and two girls — a rare occurrence even among quadruplets.

Birth and death certificates
computerised

Birth and death certificates
computerised 09/01/2004 08:37 PM
Daily Times Sep 2 2004 0:08AM GMT

Wired: Inside look at birth of the iPod

Wired: Inside look at birth of the iPod 07/21/2004 11:18 AM
Wired's Leander Kahney offers an inside look at the development of the original iPod through an interview with Ben Knauss, a former senior manager at PortalPlayer, the company Apple approached to help develop the device...

Woman Gives Birth After Tissue
Transplant (AP)

Woman Gives Birth After Tissue
Transplant (AP) 09/23/2004 07:26 PM
AP - The first baby conceived after an ovarian tissue transplant was born Thursday in Belgium in a procedure that could one day allow women to delay motherhood beyond menopause.

"The birth of the Boombox: 1976-1981"

"The birth of the Boombox: 1976-1981" 04/28/2004 03:02 AM

FDA Believes Mad Cow Was Infected in
Birth Herd

FDA Believes Mad Cow Was Infected in
Birth Herd 12/24/2003 04:55 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 24 2003 3:43PM ET

Big rise in multiple birth rate

Big rise in multiple birth rate 02/17/2004 06:01 AM
The proportion of multiple births has increased by 20% in the last decade, official figures for England and Wales show.

MC to computerise birth, death
registration

MC to computerise birth, death
registration 01/03/2004 05:38 PM
The Tribune Jan 3 2004 4:44PM ET

Jail Inmate Unexpectedly Gives Birth
(AP)

Jail Inmate Unexpectedly Gives Birth
(AP) 01/09/2004 09:55 PM
AP - The Snohomish County Jail got a new inmate unexpectedly — and very briefly — when a prisoner gave birth to a boy, authorities said.

eight years ago, the birth of
cost-per-click

eight years ago, the birth of
cost-per-click 04/28/2004 04:30 AM
and apparently $80 CPMs were common once upon a time

11-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth in Ukraine
(AP)

11-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth in Ukraine
(AP) 01/22/2004 08:42 AM
AP - Ukraine's youngest ever mother on record, an 11-year-old girl, has given birth to a healthy baby boy weighing 3.8 kilograms (8.4 pounds), a newspaper reported Thursday.
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