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- Hollywood preps new copyright bills
- Declan McCullagh reports over at News.com that Hollywood is gearing up for another copyright expansion attack. Two major bills this time: No. 1 is the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act, sponsored by Leahy and Specter, the ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It...
- Tags: American Library Association, Hollywood, Intellectual Property, Piracy, Federal Government, Tv & Home Theater, Purchasing & Procurement, Research & Development, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Grant funds open-source challenge to Google library
- Grant funds open-source challenge to Google libraryALA Meeting SeattleThe American Library Association is in Seattle in January. Its a great venue for folks interested in this article. I find it most interesting that Wiki is used by the ALA in coordinating the conference. Wiki is a document management system where...
- Tags: Google Library, Ala, Wiki, open source, Google Inc., American Library Association
- Discussion threads 2006-12-20
- RFID, coming to a library near you
- RFID, coming to a library near youin a digital world of drmwhat will happen to libraries anyways?And who has access to the records?Well, good old Uncle Sam of course...Put that book down and walk away from the library...Great...be very careful what you check out.Make certain you are reading the RIGHT...
- Tags: American Library Association, RFID
- Discussion threads 2004-10-18
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- Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy
- It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....
- Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- 2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?
- Satellite TV has been gaining subscribers, relentlessly this decade. Particularly DirecTV, which had 3.8 million subscribers at the end of June 1998 and counted 17.2 million, at the end of this June, according to this compilation by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America. ...
- Tags: Cable Television, Broadcasting, Satellite, Brodsky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best luxe Mac accessories
- What do you get for that special person on your list already owns a Mac, iPod and a nice digital camera? Accessories! Here are my picks for the Best Luxe accessories ($200 and up) that are perfect for the Mac user with everything. Don't forget...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Accessory, Video, Blu-ray, Camera, FlipShare Software, 7xx-series, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- 'Semantic Web for Business' ultimately misses the mark
- Weighing in at 416 text-packed pages, Semantic Web for Business could have been the latest attempt to bridge the divide between the university hotbeds of Semantic Web research and a business community ripe for persuading of semantic technologies' multifarious benefits. In that, though, the volume proves ultimately unsatisfying and a...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Welcome to MegaTom
- Tom Raftery, analyst at Greenmonk and another Irregular pinged me this morning to let me know about a new community: MegaTom. Born out of an idea from Gavin Starks and Simon Wardley, MegaTom seeks to act as the hub around which people can discuss the many green issues facing our...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Tom, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Joost arrives for iPhone
- Back in April 2007 when I first wrote about Joost it was an invitation-only video streaming service from the wunderkind responsible for Skype and Kazaa. Back then it required you to download a proprietary client, then in October 2008 it morphed into a Web-based service. In its...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Joost, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Marketing, Internet, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- What a difference one atom makes
- A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting in the Nov. 26 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Yang Yang, a professor of materials science...
- Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Solar Cell, Polymer, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Will Detroit run out of road?
- In the next two weeks we'll see what chance there is for any of those on the waiting list to get their plug-in Chevy Volt, or whether there'll be a Chrysler 2010 model. On December 2, the automakers are to deliver their own plans for salvation to the Congress....
- Tags: Automobile Company, Bush Adminisitration, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Chill-Off project tests various recipes for real-world data center cooling
- It seems appropriate as I hunker down in my rather chilly office that I pen this post about the ongoing data center "Chill-Off" projects being run by the Association For Computer Operations Management AFCOM in Northern California. The intention of the Chill-Off demonstrations/tests is to monitor the effect of modular...
- Tags: Data Center, Blog, Data Centers, Blogging, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- SAP slapped with 'sell' rating; Pushback from customer base cited
- Societe Generale analyst Richard Nguyen hit SAP with a sell rating on Wednesday citing increased odds of a fourth quarter profit warning and signs that customers are pushing back on the software company's attempt to upsell them following a maintenance price increase. Nguyen's report--he downgraded SAP shares...
- Tags: SAP AG, Nguyen, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- US music sales to reach $9.2 bln by 2013
- Forrester Research estimates that music sales in the United States will decline to $9.2 bln in 2013, from $10.1 bln 2008. That compares with $14.6 bln in 1999, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. by AM
- Tags: Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, AM
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Breaking: SAP User Group fires CEO
- The American SAP User Group is understood to have fired Steve Strout, the organization's first full time CEO. Sources close to ASUG say that an email was sent by the ASUG board to all members suggesting that the board had become dis-satisfied with Strout's performance and want 'alternative leadership' who...
- Tags: SAP AG, Steve Strout, Corporate Governance, E-mail, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Bay Area: sunny upside
- The past decade has seen a surge in solar installations across the San Francisco Bay Area and the Silicon Valley leads the region. Top five counties in the region: 1. Santa Clara County [San Jose]: 2,462 solar installations 2. Alameda County...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Americans watch 142 hours of TV a month
- Nielsen Media Research found that an average American watches 142 hours of TV in a month. Last season the typical home had a television on for 8:18 each day. Americans aged 65 and up watch more than 196 hours per month. by AM
- Tags: Hour, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- From private jets to car pool? Detroit may be getting the message.
- Nothing definite will happen concerning the Detroit Big Three automakers before December 2nd. But the saga of the sagging auto sales and the wilting industrial giants in Michigan is rich with plot points and maneuvering. Here are just a few of the things happening or being said: ...
- Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, Airline Flight, Sales Strategy, Manufacturing, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- The case for Scala
- Programming languages are like screwdrivers for developers. One size does not fit all, so good programmers keep several in their tool belt. The problem is, new languages are coming out all the time and you've only got so much room on your belt and in your schedule to learn them....
- Tags: Function, Method, Functional Programming, Language, Scala, Seq, List, Scala System, HQ9+, env:Env, David J. Biesack, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- H2O + C = cool idea
- Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...
- Tags: Turbine, C, Air Conditioner, Fiber, Air Conditioning System, John Barrie, Muller, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
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