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Virginia Nanotechnology Park Moves Forward
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 9, 2009
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Virginia's First Regional Industrial Facility this week set aside $20,000 towards the planned development of the Virginia Nanotechnology Park in Virginia's Pulaski County .
"[The] support gives a steering committee a green light to move forward with a preliminary m...
G8 squibs it on climate change
in Sox First, on July 9, 2009
On the face of it, the news , the decision of the G8 leading industrial countries to try and limit global warming to just 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels by 2050 is heartening. But look between the lines and you'll see it's nothing to get excited about. First, we don't know ...
Solar Vest is the Ugliest Good Idea I Have Ever Seen
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 1, 2009
Sometimes good ideas are not worth it, no matter how well it may work. Decapitating someone to cure a nose bleed is effective and efficient, but it is a bad idea. This Solar Vest from Chinavision might be one of those really bad good ideas.
Imagine a vest that could not only hold all of your g...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
So as expected, Bernard Madoff got the max : 150 years in the slammer for perpetrating his vile Ponzi Scheme. For his part, Madoff delivered a big apology to the victims. But interesting questions remain. Was there money laundering involved? And if so, wouldn't that make some of his vict...
Classic Car Auctions Going Cyberspace
in Classical Drives, on June 26, 2009
It had to happen eventually: Classic cars being auctioned on the Internet by professionals. And who better to do it than Canada's RM Auctions , widely regarded as the best in the business. "We're thinking outside the auction block," said Dan Spendick, Consignment Specialist, RM...
RFID in every cell phone by 2010?
in The RFID Weblog, on June 25, 2009
© Pink Sherbet Photography
This is what Hakan Djuphammar, VP of systems architecture at Ericsson predicts for the technology. Let me quote the exact words of Hakan:
A year from now basically every new phone that's sold will have [Near Field Communication]. It's a two-way, bio-direct...
Has Intel finally broken into the cell phone market?
in Wangtam, on June 24, 2009
• Has Intel finally broken into the cell phone market?
• Lenovo slims down new ThinkPad T400s
• NPD Finds Consumer Confusion about Netbooks Continues
• 米兰一法院推迟谷歌4名高管审判时间
• Bookmarklet to reformat text for reading and Clipping
• Pajamas Media
• Archivd: Simple research tools for teams
•...
Survival strategies for a deepening recession
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
The green shoots are turning into yellow weeds. The World Bank forecast for the global economy is a sobering read. According to the World Bank, the global economy will shrink by nearly 3 per cent this year, a situation created by plunging trade and business lending. And world trade will contr...
CCTV焦点访谈曝光谷歌中国大量宣传色情信息
in Wangtam, on June 19, 2009
• CCTV焦点访谈曝光谷歌中国大量宣传色情信息
• 央视连续曝光谷歌传播色情和低俗信息
• 百联OK卡可向支付宝充值
• 《网络导报》今日创刊 国内首份纸质网络盛宴
• Another Music Start-Up Sued: EMI Takes Grooveshark to Court
• Munster: 500,000 new iPhones this weekend
• Collecta: True Real-Time Social Search
• AMobileFuture.com - A Healthy Future For All
• vRe...
Securing pharma supply chain: Is now the right time?
in Supplychainer, on June 18, 2009
The shadow of economic downturn has decreased the attention and buzz around some previously hot topics: One of those areas is the subject of counterfeit drugs in pharmaceutical industry.
Supply and Demand Chain Executive has recently published a piece covering this area highlighting the fact...
How MySpace fell behind
in Sox First, on June 17, 2009
When Rupert Murdoch acquired MySpace four years ago for $580 million, there were questions whether the septuagenarian media baron would kill the Internet site's phenomenal popularity. Now, the latest figures suggest that might have happened. The latest figures, reported here , showing ComS...
Accelerating Relationships with Social Networking
in TJ's Weblog, on June 15, 2009
Business has always been at least partly about networking. More and more, it has come to be about social networking. I wrote recently about the need to focus your efforts in social networking. I came across this piece not long ago by Christopher Rollyson on how business relationships can, in h...
IBM's confusing cloud strategy
in The CIO Weblog, on June 15, 2009
On the first read-through of this New York Times' article on IBM's plans to entice the enterprise with cloud computing offerings, you might be pardoned for simply assuming that Big Blue has decided to do what so many other businesses have done lately, which is to simply take their lat...
Hispanic? Latino? A Choice of Words...
in Latina Viva, on June 11, 2009
Is there a semantic difference between the terms hispanic and Latino ? Do the words mean different things?
News coverage of Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court has raised some questions about the usage of words. Sotomayor refers to herself as Latina. Many people h...
Will the Volt save GM?
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
With Toyota unveiling its third generation Prius, it's time to ask whether GM's Volt will be able to match the competition. Or for that matter, save GM. We read in the report here that the car comes with a new four cylinder engine with more horsepower and special braking, which recap...
Snow Leopard makes 7 look expensive
in The CIO Weblog, on June 9, 2009
I would rate the Apple WWDC splash this year as "about average." In other words, not a lot of the unexpected, nothing really revolutionary, and not much in it for business users. The new iPhone looks nice, but the much touted speed and MMS enhancements are inapplicable or delayed on...
Age and the Australian Riesling
in Celebrate Wine, on June 7, 2009
Dr. Vino had an informative piece recently n Australia's Rieslings. They tend to get consumed young and, in his words, can be very refreshing at that age. But Australian Rieslings are almost always bottled with a screwcap instead of a cork. And there's some healthy skepticism around about ...
What next for GM?
in Sox First, on June 4, 2009
The big question now is how General Motors will emerge out of this bankruptcy? And what lies ahead for what was once the world's biggest car manufacturer? As Dennis Berman at The Wall Street Journal points out, the $65 billion in taxpayers' money is all part of the subterfuge. Instead...
Why Use Twitter?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on May 30, 2009
© Search Engine People Blog
Jeff Quipp over at Search Engine People came up recently with what I thought was a great list of reason to use Twitter . People ask me all the time; "Why in the world would I ever want to use Twitter? I can't see the benefit, and have better things to do ...
More housing woes
in Sox First, on May 29, 2009
There's been plenty of talk lately about the US housing market bottoming out and that it can only go up from there. But people are clutching at straws. A good example is the paltry 0.3% increase in home purchases in the US. "We'll take the improvement in the new-home market as a sig...
Conrad Black's landmark case
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
Conrad Black's appeal against his fraud conviction will have massive implications on the system, regardless of what the decision is. Black, as we know, was convicted two year ago of a a $6.1-million fraud and obstruction of justice related to his eight years as head of his company Hollinger ...
National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots
in TJ's Weblog, on May 25, 2009
Around the beginning of May I saw two different pieces of news on the NVCA that have hung around in my mind as I've read through other piece of economic news. The first piece, at Red Herring , simply outlined some suggestions the NVCA made at its annual meeting in Boston at the end of April...
Attend A “Photo Meet Up” And Connect With Other Digital Photographers
in Digital Shot, on May 23, 2009
Here's something for those of you who are looking for some socialization to accompany your pursuit of digital photography.
"Meet Ups" are exactly what the words say, a chance to "meet up" with other people who share a passion for your favorite activities and pastimes.
N...
Mauri Pioppo Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 21, 2009
Designer Fine Jewelry
Mauri Pioppo is on a path of creative success. Her first career was as a professional dancer, which led her to tour with such legends as Twyla Tharp, Nina Wiener and Lar Lubovitch. To keep up with the physical demands of dancing, Mauri sought the restorative help of yoga a...
Logan ProxTalker: RFID gives voice to disabled children
in The RFID Weblog, on May 21, 2009
How do you communicate with children suffering from multiple disabilities? Some would say it is a difficult task but not impossible.
Disabled students at the New York Public Schools District in Queens have been able to start communicating effectively, thanks to Logan ProxTalker . Children wh...
Military joins climate change battle
in Sox First, on May 19, 2009
Talk about strange bedfellows. Environmentalists have now found a new and unexpected ally: the US military. The army, navy, air force and the marines have come out in support of the Green army with a bunch of retired generals and military types at the Center for Naval Analysis (CNA) putting out...
iPhone price reduction rumors missing the enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on May 18, 2009
BusinessWeek details some of the industry speculation taking place prior to the next major scheduled release of the iPhone operating system in June. According to the story, the carrier is considering lowering prices on data plans and/or offering more varied data plan options to cater to a wid...
2009 may not turn out to be as bad for RFID as you might think
in The RFID Weblog, on May 16, 2009
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The world economy is depressed and most of the sectors are in red and if you would ask any expert he would point out that immediate future doesn't look good either.
But if we consider the words of ABI Research then this might not hold true for the RFID sector . Even if we inclu...
Corporate social responsibility and recession
in Sox First, on May 15, 2009
With the recession, companies are cutting back on their corporate social responsibility budgets but it's not going away. As reported here , the big cuts are in corporate philanthropy but they are still focusing on areas like green supply chains. Why is that happening? A report in Slate, an...
Bad retail figures expose recovery myth
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
While there is still talk about green shoots, the data suggests something else. The US economy is still in serious decline and things are not really looking better. First, there are the reports of US companies winding back their inventories to cope with demand that's just vanished. While ...
New Search Tool Aims at Answering Tough Queries, but Not at Taking on Google
in Wangtam, on May 12, 2009
• New Search Tool Aims at Answering Tough Queries, but Not at Taking on Google
• Survey: one in five US households are cellphone only
• NBC Invests In Video Search Startup EveryZing And Signs Up As Its Biggest Customer
• 一季度金融业网络营销规模环比降11.8%
• 微软推出"定位钟"
• The New York Times, 31 ...
Selling to Procurement Organizations
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 10, 2009
© tomsaint11
I recently became interested in the issues that arise when selling to corporate procurement departments. A legal process outsourcing company that I'm associated with is cracking this nut, and the differences between the sales processes are night-and-day.
Like any good writer,...
Amazon 推出新款 9.7-inch 显示屏的 Kindle DX
in Wangtam, on May 7, 2009
如传言所预告，Amazon 今天推出了新款的 9.7 英寸大显示屏的 Kindle DX 电子阅读器 ，内置 PDF 阅读器，具有自动旋转功能，最多可存储 3500 本图书，售价仅为 489 美元。目前 Kindle 网店共有 27.5 万本图书，其中包括当下 112 部《纽约时报》畅销书中的 107 部，该类图书及新推出的图书以每本 9.99 美元的价格出售。
主要配置参数：
• Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines
• Lightweight: At 10.2 ounces, lighter than...
Omeka | Serious Web Publishing
in Wangtam, on May 6, 2009
• Omeka | Serious Web Publishing
• 商业周刊：金融危机使IT企业转变对iPhone立场
• 口袋互联网一周年：上网本下个路口在何方
• Google克星软件本月问世
• Wolfram Alpha and Google Face Off
• Ignore the Twitter Buyout Rumors: Here's the Facts in Five Beyoncé-Madonna-Approved Steps
• Google Contacts
• TweetGrid Monitors Multiple Twitt...
Google Likes To Steal Other's Thunder
in Wangtam, on May 3, 2009
• Google Likes To Steal Other's Thunder
• Quicken Online strikes back at upstarts with iPhone app
• SKOUT - Matches | location-based mobile dating
• Glearch: 3x the global search
• Malaria No More | Ending Malaria Deaths
• Private pensions and policy responses to the crisis
• Sony&#...
Introducing Truphone 3.0
in The VoIP Weblog, on April 30, 2009
Truphone this week released Truphone 3.0 , a significant upgrade to the company's free mobile VoIP app for the iPhone.
"Truphone leverages Wi-Fi networks to provide free voice calls - worldwide - to other Truphone users and to your Google Talk and Skype contacts," writes CN...
Indoor Air Pollution
in Allergies, on April 30, 2009
© michael gallacher When you hear the words "air pollution", do you think also in context of indoor air pollution? If you are less concerned about indoor air quality, you belong to the majority. Unfortunately, the fact is that the indoor levels of some pollutants may be two to five ...
Types of Content: Approaches to Creating Content that Can Drive Your Rankings
in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 29, 2009
How do you find time to create content? People ask that question like you could have a web page void of content and expect it to do well in most search engines.
Jeff Quipp had a piece last month that's been sitting on my back burner. It's about strategies for content creation. He mak...
Novelist Hammers Out Novel on Smartphone
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 29, 2009
© Teo
When it comes to smartphone typing, I am all thumbs, or maybe I am not thumb enough. Which ever the case, I can barely work my way around a competent email on my iPhone let alone type an entire document. I cannot imagine what sci-fi author Peter Brett went through. He knocked out ov...
本周新上线服务网站推荐
in WappBlog, on April 25, 2009
(1) AlternativeTo -在免费软件大涨势头，网络应用替代兴起的时代里，如何找到一款可以替代收费软件的优秀替代工具呢，请试一试AlternativeTo这个工具。 (2) Decaf - 可以创建抽象艺术的工具。你只需要输入一个关键词，选择背景颜色形状，Decaf可以自动生成抽象艺术的图片。 (3) FileInspect -可以用来查看你文件进程里的每个进程是做什么用的，直接可以帮助检测是否为木马或者病毒。 (4) I Need to Read This - 收藏栏的Bookmarklet，可以保存相关网页以方便以后在进行阅读。 (5) Zumbo...
Tips for Optimizing for Both Singular and Plural Key Words
in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 21, 2009
Search Engine Land had some tips not long ago for optimizing your your title when you have both singular and plural possibilities. Most SEOs will agree that the title element is your strongest on-page element, and optimizing the title is critical for rankings and traffic. However when the keywor...
chinaSMACK | Hot Internet Stories, Pictures, & Videos in China
in Wangtam, on April 20, 2009
• chinaSMACK | Hot Internet Stories, Pictures, & Videos in China
• Ashton Kutcher Hits 1 Million Twitter Followers
• Court jails Pirate Bay founders
• MySpace员工因窃取个人机密信息被捕
• Facebook opens up vote on new terms of service
• They're gone! After outcry, Time Warner uncaps the tubes
...
Will COBRA Bite Your Business?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 18, 2009
BusinessWeek pointed out last week that new Federal subsidies for COBRA are worrying some employers.
COBRA (the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) is a Reagan Era law that, "among other things, mandates an insurance program giving some employees the ability to continue health...
Google数据中心探秘
in Wangtam, on April 13, 2009
• Google数据中心探秘！巅峰科技一睹
• How Google Stole Control Over Content Distribution By Stealing Links
• Does Google Really Control The News?
• iPhone devotion blinds Silicon Valley app developers
• Family Connections - start a private, easy-to-use family website.
• Flittr, picture your words.
• ...
T-Mobile's April 21 Event: T-Mobile G2, or 3G Sidekick?
in The Wireless Weblog, on April 10, 2009
Much buzz online this week about T-Mobile 's planned 'private launch event' on April 21st for the introduction of... something.
"It's obvious that the US carrier will announce something during this event, and it's likely for that something to be the new Android-p...
Tibet Will Reopen to Foreign Tourists
in Global Mobility Report, on April 2, 2009
Tibet will reopen to tourists on April 5th, according to the Associated Press .
Tibet has been closed to foreign tourists for over a year now out of Chinese government concern over political unrest. The number of visas available will be limited, but exactly how many tourists will be let back in i...
A Web 2.0 Obituary?
in TJ's Weblog, on April 2, 2009
© Madzik
So I admit I haven't been blogging for a loong time. Times have kept me busy and at some time I forgot that I SHOULD blog something.
Nevertheless I recent thought occurred to me and I found it a valuable lesson.
The Economist recently glamored over the Web 2.0 years and finished...
Corsair Officially Launches the Voyager Port
in On Storage, on April 2, 2009
Corsair this week introduced the Voyager Port , a USB flash drive docking station which supports push-button backup with the help of the included NovaBackup 10 backup and recovery software.
"With 64 GB pen drives now costing somewhat less than a second mortgage - and ever larger un...
April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I.
in Wangtam, on April 1, 2009
• April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I.
• 美国9大从未裁员企业
• 硅谷VC聚集地商业办公地产租金下滑
• internSHARE | Internship Reviews and Job Postings
• Delivr - Effortless sharing with a tricked-out, mobile-friendly URL.
• TicketDerby
• diffbot.c...
Rest in peace, GM
in Sox First, on April 1, 2009
And so General Motors will be eased into bankruptcy. The New York Times reports it will be a controlled bankruptcy, essentially splitting the company in two much like the "good" and "bad" bank model. That will see good assets like Chevrolet and Cadillac being sold to a new...
Clarifications on HP and Mark Hurd
in The CIO Weblog, on March 31, 2009
Perhaps predictably, my praise of HP's handling of the recession touched a raw nerve, particularly among HP (or former HP) employees.
Unfortunately this morning is also when our comments and editing system has decided to have a conniption (I'm looking at you, Amazon [just kidding... I b...
Free Bamboo Plants and Air Filters
in Daily Diabetic, on March 30, 2009
© mutednarayan
As you may know, people with diabetes suffer from diminished lung capacity. According to research published in the April 2008 issue of Diabetes Care - a journal published by the American Diabetes Association - the lungs of people with type 2 diabetes deteriorate more quickly tha...
Effortless Power in the Downswing
in Eagle Par Birdie, on March 24, 2009
Courtesy: BBC
I don't know why I have become so fascinated with the weight shift during the golf swing.
Perhaps it's because a proper weight shift was always a source of problems for me in my early years. Okay, it's plagued me for many years.
I think I have it licked now but I als...
Circus Dining Chair Giveaway winner
in WebKinzBlog, on March 22, 2009
First, thanks for the kind words. Hayley is healing up well. She is off crutches, back in school and her stitches came out today.
Circus Dining Chair- You'll go nuts for our nifty new chair, available only in the webkinzestore.com! We have a nifty new chair and there's excitement everyw...
Protecting Your Content
in The Search Engine Weblog, on March 10, 2009
Nothing destroys your traffic in quite the same irritating manner as having someone else copy your content and divert your traffic to their site. That makes copyright violation an SEO issue...
The Blog Herald had a piece last month on a content tracker called FairShare . FairShare creates a ...
Bank nationalisation on its way
in Sox First, on March 6, 2009
Whether you call it restructuring or nationalization, it's a play on words. The banks will have to be taken over to restore them back to health. As Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf says, "nationalisation" is just a synonym for restructuring. And when people say nationalisat...
Warnings from Buffett
in Sox First, on March 2, 2009
Some dire predictions from billionaire Warren Buffett. In his letter to shareholders , in Berkshire Hathaway's 2008 annual report Buffett says the economy will remain a shambles this year "and, for that matter, probably well beyond", although he does see better times down the tra...
How Capsaicin Interacts with Pain Receptors
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 27, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 7560169 New research published in PLoS Biology further expounds on capsaicin's role in chronic pain relief . According to a related report :
"The receptor acts like a gate to the neurons. When stimulated it opens, letting outside calcium enter...
Buick Folder Brings Back the Days When Station Wagons Were Admired and Loved
in Classical Drives, on February 27, 2009
These days few automakers are willing to use the term "station wagon" to describe their vehicles, at least not in the North American market. Instead they go by meaningless words like "crossover," many of which are actually tall wagons. It seems there's a stigma involved, a...
WagerLog: Track Your Gambling Stats
in Wangtam, on February 26, 2009
• WagerLog: Track Your Gambling Stats
• The unrecognizable Internet of 1996.
• Connected Life Head Marco Boerries to Leave Yahoo
• Hulu 成名后的尴尬：与 CBS 等合作伙伴撕破脸皮
• Gmail phishing attack hits on heels of outage
• New in Labs: Browser title bar tweaks
• Easy-CV.com | my online resume
• Flo...
The Bernanke-Obama dance
in Sox First, on February 25, 2009
Write it down, store it away and let's take a look at it next year. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says the US recession could end in 2009 and recover in 2010. That, of course, is assuming that the White House's latest bail-out will unblock lending to households and businesses. ...
Mark Cuban's Open Source Funding: Can Your Business Plan Break Even in 60 Days?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on February 15, 2009
Entrepreneur Mark Cuban wants to fund your business plan. IN the words of Seth Godin , he's calling your bluff: Post a business plan that meets certain criteria and he'll consider funding it, right here, right now. There's a short list of 13 requirements. You can find those at Blog M...
Geithner's vague debut
in Sox First, on February 11, 2009
Markets slumped when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled his rescue plan and for good reason too. The fundamental problem is that there just isn't enough detail. The plan is to to purchase toxic mortgage assets through some sort of vague public-partnership, but no-one yet knows exac...
An Olympic Sham
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 8, 2009
I received an email today from the folks at Mastro Communications in New Jersey.
They represent one of the companies that's underwriting a website where golfers can "vote" to have golf added to the roster of sports in the 2016 Olympic Games.
This June, the International Gol...
Stimulus Hype: Will the Stimulus Work? (Part I)
in Bizinformer, on February 7, 2009
In recent weeks I have spent a considerable amount of mental energy trying to decide what to think of the stimulus battle. It's not an easy subject to unravel.
I've found a handful of interesting and informative articles that have helped shape my opinion of what should happen. But first, th...
SocialWhoIs: All About The Social Web
in Wangtam, on February 5, 2009
• SocialWhoIs: All About The Social Web
• Kabooza - protecting and sharing your memories
• BeTheBetterMan.com
• MuTwee - Making Music Tweatable!
• Leximo - Free Online World Dictionary - Share your words with the world
• Google & The Big Ideas
• AT&T Seeks Verizon Wireless Asset...
Is That an "Honest" Wine You're Drinking?
in Celebrate Wine, on February 4, 2009
The art of describing a wine's taste is just that: art.
Oh sure, there are some words we use that have fairly well understood, concrete meanings. And, yes, large groups of us tend to agree that a particular Shiraz is fruity, or that some Chardonnay has nuances of coconut or fig. Is it sweet or...
Israeli President Shimon Peres & Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Engage In Battle Of Words
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 31, 2009
The start of a discussion about the situation in The Gaza Strip quickly turned into an out and out shouting match between Israeli President Shimon Peres & Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The heated argument took place at the World Economic Forum in Davos and resulted in Er...
Words Of Wisdom From World Famous Photographers
in Digital Shot, on January 30, 2009
Taking advice from experts in any given field is always advisable; but the best advice will always come from those experts who are the best in their field.
Since photography is a trial and error process, advice on the mechanics of the craft, while always welcome, isn't as valuable as the k...
H. Stern DVF Talisman Collection
in The Jewelry Weblog, on January 28, 2009
Diane von Furstenberg for H. Stern Jewelry
Just in time for spring 2009's ethnic trend , Diane Von Furstenberg has once again teamed up with H. Stern to create the Talisman Collection, which uses ancient symbols that are important to the legendary designer and her philosophies - a heart fo...
