deals, Robotics, oceanography Wade Roush wrote: Greg told you last month about Bedford, MA-based iRobot’s collaboration with the University of Washington to turn its Seaglider undersea robot into a commercial product. Not to be outdone, Cambridge, MA-based Bluefin Robotics announced this week that it has received its first commercial contract for a similar autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), the Spray Glider. And it looks like Bluefin, iRobot, and a third local company—Falmouth, MA-based Web
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This was the perfect comic for this week. After last week’s Wall-E comic, Ray certainly didn’t mind the simpler look to this week’s comic. We had originally tried to go with an E3 Predictions comic like last year, but realized that we were a week late on that (plus we didn’t have any great ideas, so it would have felt forced). Apparently some people don’t know what a Roomba is, so sorry for assuming that! Also, Ray has just informed me that he’ll be going full-time at his job next week, so thin
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I have been talking about virtualization security for quite a while. My last speech in EMEA, Belgium 2008 specifically, at the Open Source Virtualization Conference, I mentioned this, see this picture and think about it. Think about it as a security expert, think about it as a CIO, think about it as a company lawyer and think about it as an employee! Just give yourself a moment, look at this picture: Now tell me what you see in it? Well lets ponder about it once again. My Real-Time consultat
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20%/yr) has followed, and now the company is trading for less than expected 2008 revenue! ($286 million stock value at all time low vs. $295 million-$305 million sales). That’s all despite the fact that the company is poised to see substantial growth in the military market with the emergence of the SUGV in the next two years and continues to see strong worldwide g
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Metal Storm, the company partnering with iRobot on selling armed robot warriors, is being delisted from the NASDAQ. The company’s CEO discusses the prospects for the firm at this link. (thx, microcapfun) Tags: iRobot, Metal Storm
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Roundup, Life Sciences, Legal Rebecca Zacks wrote: Perhaps nostalgic for his days poring through the documents in the iRobot case, Bob uncovered what could wind up being a doozy of a patent dispute—this time involving gene chips rather than battle bots. Here’s that, and the rest of the week’s life sciences news. —MIT and E8 Pharmaceuticals—a startup founded by MIT and Harvard professors—filed a patent-infringement suit against Santa Clara, CA-based Affymetrix (NASDAQ: AFFX). Bob got the detail
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Murray maintains unbeaten record Anglo Celt, Ireland - 35 minutes ago The Murray/Fagan clash could go on as a support to the John Duddy v Verro Philips World title clash at the Belfast Oddessy Arena in October. …

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ErgoSoft RIP runs first Gandi Aquajet in Europe Fibre2fashion.com, India - 5 hours ago The water based dispersion ink printer Gandi Jeti 3324 Aquajet lately has been awarded by the European Digital Press Association as best product in the …

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