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Apple App Store to be bigger than Wal-mart?

OMG. Where do you "journalists" get these stupid comparisions? Wallmart? Since when does the App Store sell furniture, mobile phones, electronics, computers, body care etc. ? What the F ? It sells mobile applications for a mobile platform, what does this have to do with wallmart?Why not compare it to...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Desktops, Wireless and Mobility, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Apple Inc., rice, metaphor

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Big Bite (Mobile)

Rice is a Basset Hound with a pure French origin. It has a charming figure, big nose and long ears trailing on the floor. Its melancholy expression in its eyes moves all persons. Its master also treats it with warm heart and loves it very much. However, with full confidence,...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Battery, Key, MMMOOO Mobile, Rice, Games, Engineering, Telecom & Utilities, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-30

Managing research instruments on the Web

Telescopes, supercomputers or microscopes can cost millions of dollars. The research institutions which bought them often try to share the costs with other laboratories. And they're also tempted to use Internet to allow remote control of their expensive systems. But Internet traffic is not reliable enough to control a multi-million-dollar...

Tags: Software, Web, Microscope, Researcher, Network, Window, Ohio State University, RICE, Calyam, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-11

Artificial cartilage just five years away

Artificial cartilage just five years awayNo limits on the use of human stem cellsThere are no limits on the use of human stem cells. There is only a limit on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research that could promote the propagation of embryos for the purposes of research destructive...

Tags: stem-cell, disc, Rice

Discussion threads 2007-09-11

Man drops BlackBerry in toilet, loses date's number, uses rice to retrieve it

Man drops BlackBerry in toilet, loses date's number, uses rice to retrieve itWWW.ITKONG.COMtake a look at this sitei think it's awsomewww.itkong.comRE: Man drops BlackBerry in toilet, loses date's number, uses rice to retrieve itI hope he didn't eat the rice.

Tags: Handhelds, rice, toilet, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2007-06-19

USDA approves rice producing human proteins

This is not the first time that a food crop designed to produce future drugs is approved by the United States Department of Agriculture USDA, but it's one of the first food crops containing genes that produce human proteins according to Nature. The USDA justified its decision by saying that...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Health &, Medicine, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2007-05-21

Rice goes open source

Rice goes open sourceWhat words fit? Pathetic? Sad? Sympathy?Man, you reach any further for a straw and your gonna fall.just an observationThe author can write a blog on any topic including OSS and not many posts by readers. Mention the word Microsoft or write anything involving Microsoft...

Tags: Rice, open source

Discussion threads 2006-07-13

Rice goes open source

I happen to be a loyal alumnus of Rice University, class of '77.So it was with more than a little pride that I opened up my News.Com folder today and saw the following: Rice Swaps Print for Digital Press. The University is reviving its old academic imprint through an open...

Tags: Rice University

Blog posts 2006-07-13

Open source science

Open source scienceIts just amazingthat the world's headlong dash to destruction can be thwarted by so few brilliant people. A million of P.T. Barnum's people have the same influence on the future as a single scientist. Makes me proud of my own natural science degree - I can hold off...

Tags: open source movement, biology, open source, Rice, chemist, Closed-Source, knowledge

Discussion threads 2005-10-31

JohnKerry.com not quite finished yet

Now, with the election over, you'd think that things over at the JohnKerry.com Web site might have quieted down. Well, not quite. Not only is Kerry using his online presence to keep people informed of what he's doing in Congress, Kerry is looking for signatures on a petition...

Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Kerry

Blog posts 2005-01-20

Audible serves up Rice testimony free

Audible serves up Rice testimony freeLet me save you the trouble - transcriptInvestigator: "You had a memo Aug 6th asking you to organise the pizzas for the meeting, what actions did you & the president take on that".Rice: "The memo didn't say where the pizza shop was, if we'd had...

Tags: Audible Inc., Rice, Investigator

Discussion threads 2004-04-09

Additional Resources

The emergency room myth busted

ok Dana 1 troll 0 This is a real sucker punch that i never saw coming ....Dana you are getting nastier by each post what next chomsky on the reading list :)thx for they excellent link well its hurt Racism at the heart of healhcare reform opposition.Who are more likely...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, emergency room myth, Odds Ratio

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Miaohong for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Miaohong for iPhone is a model book with rice character grids for iPhone and iPod Touch, allows you to learn writing Chinese characters on iPhone or iPod touch with your finger. Miaohong for iPhone includes more than 3700 common simplified Chinese characters in Pinyin order, you can select character in...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Mobile, Toolbar, Apple iPod Touch, Lazy Apps, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-16

Don't cry for me Joe Lieberman

the patriots are rising against the socialist billThe Obamacare is gasping for air while the liberals are preparing to be booted out of the congress in 2010.The real Americans have risen again and upheld the values of the founding fathers against dangerous foreign socialist ideeas.End Socialism Now!Enough with the Commissar's...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Obamacare, patriot, socialist, socialism, reconciliation, Joe Lieberman

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Microsoft partners to allow Eclipse interop on Win7, WinServer 2008 R2, Azure

Eclipse should decline the 'plug ins'M$ only ries to extend and extinguish here folks!Self interests always......Isn't that what most things revolve around? I'm sure that if Linux had a chance to extend and draw to its platform by working with Microsoft it would, unless they are too stupid to...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Eclipse, Linux, Mircosoft, Azure, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Insurer research arm pushes comparative effectiveness

cougarster comHey guys, do you like dating with a cougar? Or are you a cougar yourself? Okay, no matter you are looking for a NSA, FWB or serious relationship. You'll want to check this out:**== Cougarster.com ==**It's where cougars and younger men can meet(Cougar is the slang for...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, troll, Dana

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

For ZDNet readers, tripods are casual accessories

small tripodsI'd like to see a bit more about small table-top tri-pods. I haven't seen much out there I'd carry around. Bean bags might be good and some have fashioned their own at home with rice as the filler, but they require some surface area to work. I...

Tags: camera

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Recycling in China?

Not much apparently. Perhaps we could ship a few billion of those blue recycling bins that are now so prevalent around America. Landfills are so 1980. China has such low labor costs sorting trahs for recycling could even be done by hand. Bet they don't even...

Tags: China, Recycling, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-11

Google plays a hand of Ogre with Apple

'Ogre' is an interesting - if obscure - analogy. But I would suggest that you'd to better to stick with plain old chess.In my view, the AT&T/iPhone team have a better position, if only by virtue of their early start in the market. But, as a belated entry, Android is...

Tags: Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Ogre, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Scientists replicate the physics of a stellar jet in laboratory

Astronomers will tell you that among the most beautiful structures observed in the Universe are the intricate jets of matter speeding away from accreting stars, such as young proto-stars and stellar mass black holes. But they have a hard time explaining it. A pair of professors the University of Rochester...

Tags: Jet, Magnetic Field, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-09-30