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Tuesday, 9th January 2007

Briefs #2: Say Hello to the iPhone from Apple (Updated With Cisco Lawsuit News and Docs); Members of Yahoo Research, MSR, and Google Named ACM Fellows; New Search Engine Aimed a Boomers

+ Say Hello to the iPhone
A) iPod
B) Telephone
C) Internet Access
See Also: Sign-up to Learn More
See Also: Endgaget Overview
See Also: Apple Drops Computer from Its Name--Now Apple Inc.
See Also: The Apple iPhone Will Be Exclusively Available on the Cingular Network in the United States.

UPDATE 1/10: Cisco Files Trademark Infringement Suit Against Apple over the Name iPhone (via The Apple Blog)
See Also: Cisco News Release
See Also: Cisco News Release (1/9/07)
See Also: Full Text of Complaint Filed in United States District Court for the Northern District of California
See Also: Trademark Registration (#2293011)
See Also: Trademark Assignment Abstract of Title
See Also: Commentary from Mark Chandler, Cisco's SVP and General Counsel, on Apple's infringement of Cisco's iPhone trademark

+ cRANKy: New Web Engine Aimed at Seniors and Boomers (via Techweb)
Direct to cRANKY, "The First Age Relevant Search Engine"

+ Members of Google MS, Yahoo Named ACM Fellows
Here's a list of people from GYM named Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
++ Google: Peter Norvig and Alon Halevy.

++ Yahoo: Yahoo! Chief Data Officer, Dr. Usama Fayyad, Chosen as 2006 Fellow by Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)

++ Microsoft: Susan Dumais Named ACM Fellow
Albert Greenberg, James R Larus, and Harry Shum also from MSR were named ACM Fellows.

Also named an ACM Fellow is C. Lee Giles from Penn State University. We have mentioned Dr. Giles work many times on RS. Included in his many accomplishments is the development of CiteSeer and SmealSearch.
See Also: The Complete List of 2006 ACM Fellows, Congrats to All!

+ Some GlobeXplorer Aerial Imagery Coming to Microsoft Virtual Earth
GlobeXplorer data is used by several online services including the National Geographic Map Machine, Zillow, ESRI's ARCWeb Explorer, and Ask.com Maps.
See Also: GlobeXplorer Acquired by DigitalGlobe.

See Also: Rich 3D imagery added to Google Earth (via News.com)

See Also: Speaking of digital globes, have you tried SkylineGlobe yet? Fast Download and Free! This page from SkylineGlobe offers some comparisons with Google Earth. More features listed here including 3D Textured buildings in selected cities. (Screen cap)

Also, compare Google Earth With NASA's World Wind. Bottom Line? Use them all. One of our favorite Skyline features is an option to embed LIVE traffic cameras on top of the aerial imagery.


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