The Zenith Angle

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Sterling does a public interview on The
Zenith Angle

Sterling does a public interview on The
Zenith Angle 08/23/2004 06:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: Bruce Sterling's doing a virtual public interview on the WELL this week about his new technothriller, The Zenith Angle. I really liked this -- the blurb I sent Bruce went "Sterling has his fingers on about a hundred different pulses in this book, which vibrates with fantastic in-jokes and insights from Bollywood to dot-bomb, from mil-spec gear-pigs to earnest cybercops. The story rockets along like a hijacked airliner heading straight at you, like a flash-worm compromising every unpatched Windows box on the net at once. I read it in one sitting, and I'll read it again before the month is out. Lots of books are called 'thrillers' but very few are this thrilling."

The thing that always intrigued me about technothrillers was that technicians are support staff rather than protagonists. I mean, who makes a worse enemy -- James Bond, with a "license to kill" -- or H. Ross Perot? Perot's a weedy-looking Wally Cox mainframe nerd, but he doesn't hesitate to hire ex=Special Forces types and conduct private black-bag operations in Iran.

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Zenith launches multimedia PC

Zenith launches multimedia PC 05/19/2004 04:15 PM
The Hindu May 19 2004 8:49PM GMT

Zenith launches Seven Laptops

Zenith launches Seven Laptops 08/19/2004 12:18 PM
TechTree Aug 19 2004 3:57PM GMT

Zenith Computers in WI FI 'hotspot'

Zenith Computers in WI FI 'hotspot' 12/26/2003 09:00 AM
News Today Dec 26 2003 7:41AM ET

Chaintech 9CJS ZENITH

Chaintech 9CJS ZENITH 01/23/2004 05:24 PM

Only buyers in Zenith Computer, stock up
10%

Only buyers in Zenith Computer, stock up
10% 05/06/2004 07:31 AM
Moneycontrol.com May 6 2004 11:01AM GMT

Zenith to launch new Intel chips

Zenith to launch new Intel chips 06/23/2004 03:50 PM
The Hindu Business Line Jun 23 2004 7:50PM GMT

Zenith Computers in exports thrust

Zenith Computers in exports thrust 12/24/2003 02:30 PM
Business Standard India Dec 24 2003 1:40PM ET

Xeni Flies Zero G #8: Dude, where's my
zenith?

Xeni Flies Zero G #8: Dude, where's my
zenith? 09/15/2004 12:12 AM
Xeni Jardin: Before I first blogged that I'd be heading up on tomorrow's west coast launch of the Zero-G adventure flights, I had no idea so many friends, acquaintances, and BoingBoing readers were already weightless oldtimers -- they'd had similar experiences on board NASA's "vomit comet," which is not offered as a commercial service to the public. Discovering this has been kind of cool. It's like learning that all of these people walking around in your life have some secret extraterrestrial superpower they'd never shared with you before. I feel like I'm about to be initiated into their clandestine little fez-wearing society or something. One of those veterans of freefall was Wired Magazine editor Adam Rogers, who says,

"I flew the Vomit Comet at Johnson Space Center a few years ago. I vomited. But it was supercool. Unsolicited advice: remember the Ender lesson. In a weightless environment, down is whichever way your feet are pointed at the time. Don't orient off the floor of the plane. That way lies upchuck."

And reader Kenny says,

"Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) wrote a good account of taking a ride on a vomit comet with Billy Gibbons (from ZZ Top)." Link to Learning to Fly, Strip, and Vomit on a 727

Previous "Xeni Flies Zero-G" posts: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Zenith launches new WiFi Laptops with
Intel

Zenith launches new WiFi Laptops with
Intel 08/22/2004 05:37 PM
TechTree Aug 22 2004 8:38PM GMT

XP SP2: the business angle

XP SP2: the business angle 09/19/2004 12:18 AM
Personal Computer World Sep 19 2004 5:14AM GMT

Sun: Everybody's got an angle

Sun: Everybody's got an angle 12/04/2003 03:35 PM
ZDNet Dec 4 2003 1:58PM ET

Working a new angle

Working a new angle 07/30/2004 01:53 AM
USA Today Jul 30 2004 6:02AM GMT

Zenith Signs License Deal With Sharp,
Mitsubishi

Zenith Signs License Deal With Sharp,
Mitsubishi 03/29/2005 09:03 AM
Hankooki Mar 29 2005 1:19PM GMT

Rambus tries a new licensing angle

Rambus tries a new licensing angle 05/10/2004 12:14 AM
ZDNet May 10 2004 4:22AM GMT

Keith and Angle Brackets

Keith and Angle Brackets 05/31/2004 02:05 PM
This, by Dave Walker, shows up fifteen messages or so into the comments on a Dive Winer piece, and I can’t link to it directly (nothing purple), but it’s way too good to pass up: When the world ends, the only things left will be cockroaches, rats, Keith Richards, and mangled text that has been escaped one-too-many or one-too-few times.

Red Hat alums try new Linux angle

Red Hat alums try new Linux angle 07/13/2004 08:22 PM
Entrepreneurs get Specifix with software to modify and manage the kind of Linux software offered by their old employer.

The Difference Between Spin And An Angle

The Difference Between Spin And An Angle 02/12/2004 02:44 AM
This week, Techdirt got a lot of attention for pointing out the extraordinarily different takes on a speech by former Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi from blogger s and a reporter from Reuters. If you read the different accounts, you would have sworn they were at entirely different speeches. Lots of websites picked up on that story and linked back to us - but now, former Reuters reporter Jeremy Wagstaff (who writes for Far Eastern Economic Review and WSJ.com - and on his own excellent blog) is taking me to task for calling the Reuters report "spin". He says there's a very important difference between "spin" and an "angle" and points out (absolutely correctly) that a journalist's job isn't necessarily to write up a summary of the entire speech, but to pick out the newsworthy point and write about that. He points to other press coverage of the same speech and notes that they all pick up on a different aspect of the speech. He also gives the standard reporter's excuse about deadlines and how things accidentally "creep into" stories where they don't belong. He points out (once again, correctly) that one of the nice things about blogs is that they give an alternate source for more info and context which the reporters don't do (it's not their job). These are all good points, and worth thinking about - but I still don't take back my original comments. While a reporter's job is to find out what's newsworthy and write about it, that does not mean taking something out of context - which is clearly what was done with that Reuters article. If you listen to the speech, Trippi spends the entire speech talking about what a revolutionary force the internet is when it comes to politics. Whether you believe that or not, if you read the Reuters report, you don't get that impression at all. You get the impression he blamed the internet. Giving people the impression of something that clearly was not being said is not an angle. It's spin (scroll down to spin) - and Reuters should be ashamed.

Web search finds local angle

Web search finds local angle 02/17/2003 09:09 AM
Web search technology companies including FAST Search & Transfer and Google are working with wireless phone companies to power mobile search that can benefit ...

Interview with iRobot CEO Colin Angle

Interview with iRobot CEO Colin Angle 05/09/2004 03:43 PM
BusinessWeek online has posted an intereview with iRobot CEO Colin Angle. Lots of talk about the Roomba and why it succeeded where so many other robot vaccuum cleaners have (and are) failing. The reason? Price. The Roomba sells for $200 while most competing robot vacuums are $1500+. Angle talks about the problems of convincing robot designers to consider component costs and manufacturing costs when designing a robot. There's also some discussion about the US falling behind in robots for elder-care and Angle offers some hints about household robots iRobot is working on that could "make housework a choice".

NetSuite Competes on Sarbox Angle
(NewsFactor)

NetSuite Competes on Sarbox Angle
(NewsFactor) 06/17/2004 03:01 PM
NewsFactor - On-demand enterprise application provider NetSuite has announced 30 new customers among the ranks of publicly traded companies.

Canon introduces wide-angle PowerShot
S60

Canon introduces wide-angle PowerShot
S60 05/10/2004 08:34 AM
Canon Inc. introduced on Monday the five-megapixel PowerShot S60 digital camera, which features a newly developed 28-100mm UA wide-angle 3.6x zoom lens. The 3.6x zoom lens goes from a wide-angle focal length of 28mm to a telephoto of 100mm (35mm film equivalent), according to Canon. Because the new lens is thinner than its predecessor, Canon was also able to make the PowerShot S60 thinner than previous models. The PowerShot S60 will be available in June for $499; an optional underwater housing will also be available for $240. Canon's Web site has not been updated with the new product.

Intel Pushes Consumer Electronics Angle

Intel Pushes Consumer Electronics Angle 12/05/2003 01:54 PM
Leaders from Intel have been talking a lot lately about wanting to embed Intel's Wi-Fi chips into consumer electronics other than computers: I'll be glad to see that happen. Intel hopes to have its 802.11a/b/g product shipping early next year. This writer wonders why anyone would want the throughput offered by 802.11g. People want to do exactly what Intel hopes they'll do once 802.11g chips are embedded inside TVs and stereos--stream audio and video....

It all starts here; The Sept. 11 angle
of Bush's campaign=The Hill.com=

It all starts here; The Sept. 11 angle
of Bush's campaign=The Hill.com= 09/02/2004 06:06 AM
Dick Morris: It All Starts Here: The Sept. 11 Angle Of Bush’s Campaign

thehill.com/morris/083104.aspx
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PC Mag review of Olympus' wide angle
digital camera

PC Mag review of Olympus' wide angle
digital camera 12/13/2003 03:02 PM
PC Magazine review of the new five megapixel Camedia C-5060 WZ from Olympus, which the company claims has the widest wide angle lens of any...

Per-Pixel Encrypted Monitors Protect
from Off-Angle Snoops

Per-Pixel Encrypted Monitors Protect
from Off-Angle Snoops 05/10/2004 08:47 AM
Technology Review mentions a new computer screen developed by University of Tokushima researchers in Japan that can only be viewed from directly in front of the screen, making the view from any other angle a random pattern of pixels (which I have simulated in the image to the right, using...

WWE/Yahoo Top 10; Stevie Richards
Update; Column Repost On Austin, Foley,
Evolution Angle

WWE/Yahoo Top 10; Stevie Richards
Update; Column Repost On Austin, Foley,
Evolution Angle 12/29/2003 05:35 PM
Wrestling-News Dec 29 2003 5:05PM ET
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