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- Flower robots for your home
- Flower robots are not new and some have already been developed in the U.S. Now, South Korean researchers have created a robotic plant which acts like real ones. This robot has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions. It is about 1.30 meter tall and 40 centimeters in diameter. The robotic...
- Tags: Researcher, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille, Function, Stem
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
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- Copyright associations want enforcement for free
- The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...
- Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Sony's new digital photo frame includes built-in photo printer
- Despite the millions of digital photos that are shot every day, the days of snapshot prints that you can pass around to your friends and family are dwindling. Sony Electronics is trying to stem the tide with its new S-Frame DPP-F700 digital photo frame with a built-in printer. by...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Digital Photograph, Photograph, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Printers, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Intel's Otellini: Strong second half; recovery coming in 2010
- Intel CEO Paul Otellini took the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit today and kicked off the conversation with some good economic news: "We found bottom," he said, and it was discovered earlier than anyone might have thought. "It's been a strong second half and it's not...
- Tags: U.S., Patent, Recovery, Paul Otellini, Intel Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Microsoft to fix Bing spam bug
- MS hauls in exploits ...Nothing but bad things stem from using anythingrelated to this company.Write news stories on all the bugs I'll fix toadyplease!You will fix toady?Oh is that like Toadstool from the Super Mario Bros. game?RE: Microsoft to fix Bing spam bug No problem, Microsoft is aware and will...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., spam bug, Bing
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Analysts interested in Intel's 2010, not just Q4
- The big buzz word in technology these days is efficiency. And even the quarterly earnings conference calls aren't immune from some change. Intel today altered the process a bit today when it issued its CFO's summary of the company's third quarter financials PDF ahead of the call, leaving more time...
- Tags: Analyst, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Sales, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials - a potent Silicon Valley workforce
- work-force plentiful, but will execs recruit, relo, pay?The USA is swimming in a vast STEM work-force that is going under-employed.Every month, well-known STEM firms receive tens of thousands of resumes from capable STEM workers, and employment agencies and body shops are receiving nearly 100K per month.The question is whether and...
- Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, Millennials, Boomers, Generation X, workforce
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Oracle tries to stop Sun's bleeding: Is it too late?
- Oracle has officially came out of the corner to stem the defections from Sun Microsystems' customers. The message: Oracle is serious about hardware and is looking forward to swinging back at IBM. As pointed out by Matt Asay, Oracle has launched a full court press to convince...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- (Microsoft trains Best Buy Linux assassins)
- despair?Are MS in despair?..Linux has better hardware support than windows.They forgot wine too. This disgusts me. The day Gates comes near me and holds out his hand expecting me to shake it is the day I rip it off.Keep in mindThat the users that these best buy employees will be...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Best Buy Co. Inc., wine, Microsoft Corp., Best Buy Linux, Best Buy Linux assassin, assassin
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Using social media to turn all staff into customer service reps
- There is a strong trend among corporations to use social media to turn nearly every one of their employees into customer service reps and evangelists. Best Buy is an excellent example. It is using Twitter to answer technical queries and it even specifies a minimum of 250...
- Tags: Job, Customer Service, Intuit Inc., Twitter Inc., Social Media, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Hadron Collider's mysterious disappearing magnets
- It's beginning to seem that the Large Hadron Collider may never be able to produce the gargantuan amount of energy that caused many to fear it would create a world-ending black hole. The Times reports that the collider's magnets have been massively under performing....
- Tags: Electron, Magnet, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- FTC: Our probe of Google-Apple boards continues
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple's board but that won't be enough to curtail a probe by the Federal Trade Commission. In a terse statement, FTC bureau of competition director Richard Feinstein said: “We have been investigating the Google/Apple interlocking directorates issue for some...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Board, Apple Inc., FTC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- News to know: Microsoft; Apple; Google; Hack attacks
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search) Microsoft denies holding up Win 7 tools...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows 7, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS, Keyboards, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Peripherals, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Schmidt's departure does nothing to stem scrutiny of Apple
- A few months back, when it was announced that the Federal Trade Commission was looking into Google CEO Eric Schmidt's role on Apple's board, Schmidt said Google "doesn't see Apple as a primary competitior." Apparently Apple sees it differently. According to the this statement from Steve: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Board, Apple Inc., Schmidt, Corporate Governance, Federal Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Dynamic Risk Classification for Anti-Money Laundering: SAS Anti-Money Laundering Enables Financial Institutions to Meet Expanded Requirements for Due Diligence
- Financial institutions are finding it necessary to strengthen their Anti-Money Laundering AML platforms to stem the tide of illicit financial transactions and meet new regulatory mandates. For enterprises with moderate to high risk exposures, this calls for a rigorous automated system based on dynamic risk assessment. Financial institutions need a...
- Tags: Financial, Financial Company, SAS Institute, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books
- Amazon uses 1984 to free e-booksDangerous gambleThey'll get harmonization. But likely to the US level through ACTARE: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books"In this case the monopoly is copyright, which extends practically to infinity in the U.S., thanks to the Walt Disney Co., but is held to a reasonable length...
- Tags: Corporate communications, E-books, probation, e-book, video, Amazon.com Inc., monitor, software
- Discussion threads 2009-07-19
- How To make Money in Your Sleep 1.0 (Windows)
- This work has been carefully selected to fit in with the theme of our ongoing work to help people from all walks of life regardless of age, creed or nationality to achieve what they want in their lives, I trust that you enjoy and prosper from studying this book. 95%...
- Tags: Mind, CommsIQ, Microsoft Windows, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-07-16
- And Windows 7's killer feature is ...
- And Windows 7's killer feature is ...Invitation to Ed Bott:What is the killer feature, according to you?(note: has to be a feature for regular Joe Blow - not something that only admins get wet dreams about)RE: And Windows 7's killer feature is ...My bet for businesses would be XP mode....
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, killer feature, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- At what stage of life is the open source industry?
- At what stage of life is the open source industry?First, you must define "open source".My point is many think open source is the GPL and Linux, in my opinion that is not true and "open source" is what we passed around in the local computer clubs two or three decades...
- Tags: open source, stage-of-life, open-source industry
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Why does 'complex event processing' have to be so complex?
- I've always felt that "complex event processing" is a term that scares people away. Perhaps there needs to be a softer way to describe what this thing is -- perhaps just plain old "event processing" will do? Or perhaps "sense and respond, times 100,000"? You don't need...
- Tags: Event, Financial Services, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
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