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- Top US newspapers by subscriber count, April 2008
- USA Today, 2,284,219, up 0.3% The Wall Street Journal, 2,069,463, up 0.4% The New York Times, 1,077,256, down 3.9% Los Angeles Times, 773,884, down 5.1% New York Daily News, 703,137, down 2.1% New York Post, 702,488, down 3.1% The Washington Post, 673,180, down 3.6% Chicago Tribune, 541,663, down 4.4%...
- Tags: Tribune Co., AM
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- State ethics exam: University types are too fast
- State ethics exam: University types are too fastEven WorseGilbert Jimenez, the state deputy inspector general for investigations, incorrectly intimated to the Chicago Tribune on (1/4/07) that the people taking the test were full-timers with all the time in the world to slowly go through the material.The truth is everyone had...
- Tags: Business ethics, Tribune Co., ethics, State ethic
- Discussion threads 2007-02-06
- tribune co. partners with video start-up for user content
- Tribune Co. partners with video start-up for user contentBusiness Platforms for UGC and Social NetworkingYou will certainly see more companies providing UGC as well as community creation and social networking for business as time goes on. Products and services such as the Reality Digital Opus platform have been architected to...
- Tags: Business structures, Social networking, Corporate communications, UGC, video start-up, Tribune Co., video, partnership
- Discussion threads 2007-01-29
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- Second Life is the latest reason our kids are doomed
- I'm kidding of course, but U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) apparently isn't. According to the Chicago Tribune, Kirk sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting a consumer-alert warning about its dangers....Kirk said he knew of no cases in which children were targeted by...
- Tags: Second Life, Internet, Engineering, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Twitter: Blocked in Dubai over inconsistent values; Where's the next ban?
- The discussion about a UC Berkeley student that Twittered his arrest in Egypt and got help from the U.S. Embassy, the media and friends makes me wonder how long it will take to ban Twitter in the Arab world and elsewhere. Sound crazy? Perhaps not. Twitter is already banned in...
- Tags: Twitter, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- 9000 PCs in Swiss schools going Linux only
- 9000 computers in Swiss schools have been dual-booting Windows and and Ubuntu for some time now in anticipation of guidelines from the Switzerland's Department of Public Instruction, whose motto is "Long Live Free Software." The Tribune de Geneve featured a story on Friday about the elimination of dual boot...
- Tags: Ubuntu, PC, Computer, F/OSS, Linux, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Employees steal 332 iPhones
- From the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up department: SALEM — Two men employed to sell iPhones at the Apple Computer Store in the Mall at Rockingham Park went into business for themselves, stealing 332 of them before being caught by their bosses, police said. Police yesterday arrested Joshua Garrand,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Police, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- VR game to help burn patients
- The Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois will be one of the first hospitals in the U.S. to use a virtual reality game to help burn patients. By using SnowWorld, developed at the University of Washington, patients recovering from severe burns will enter a virtual 'polar landscape of gently falling...
- Tags: Game, Patient, Loyola University, University Of Washington, Snowball, SnowWorld, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- The worst PC myth of all
- The worst PC myth of allThe myth is that you know what you're talking about.You start off by defining "the best lie" and then you set about telling it.I've been working with personal computers since they were first invented, and have been working as a consultant to corporations using them...
- Tags: Desktops, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- News to know: OLPC lessons; 2008 in preview; Blu-ray on new MacBook Pro?
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Lessons Learned: Two weeks with the XO laptop. Gallery: The unboxing. Researcher: Sears' use of ComScore software falls short on privacy Robin Harris: Blu-ray option on new MacBook Pro Happy 2008: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple MacBook, Blu-ray, One Laptop Per Child Project, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- CompUSA vs. BestBuy
- Two company, two very different headlines: CompUSA latest retailer that's fading into oblivion - Chicago Tribune Best Buy's Profit Jumps 52%, Helped by Fewer Promotions - Wall Street Journal So, two chains selling pretty much the same stuff. One sees a huge jump...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Employee, Oblivion, CompUSA Inc., Retail, Branding, Sales Force Management, Productivity, Marketing, Sales, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Senate challenges Martin over media ownership
- FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin got a bruising on Capitol Hill today over his plan to loosen media ownership rules. The FCC is scheduled to vote Dec. 18 on a plan that would allow the same company to own a newspaper and a broadcast station in the 20 largest markets....
- Tags: FCC, U.S. Senate, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- AOL: Let's become an ad network before this really unravels
- AOL acquired Internet advertising firm Quigo Tuesday in its latest move to transform itself into an ad network. And given AOL's financial state the rejiggering is a good idea. In a statement AOL said it acquired Quigo, a company that provides keyword advertising along with text, display...
- Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Network, America Online Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- Hartford Life Insurance "misplaces" three backup tapes
- I don't often write about identity theft issues, but this just seems so disingenuous. According to Ohio's Tribune Chronicle: Hartford Life Insurance this week notified the Ohio Department of Insurance that it has misplaced three backup tapes that contain sensitive personal information of some Ohio consumers. The company is...
- Tags: Tape, Backup, Life Insurance, Identity Theft, Backups, Insurance, Financial Planning, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- GMOs down to the chromosome level
- If don't like the concept of 'Frankenfoods,' I have bad news for you. U.S. researchers have developed an artificial chromosome for corn plants. The Chicago Tribune reports that researchers can now make chromosomes to order. These artificial chromosomes are accepted as natural by the plants and passed through generations. As...
- Tags: Gene, University Of Chicago, Chromosome, Cell, Preuss, C/C++, Biotechnology, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-20
- French laws force Apple to offer unlocked iPhone
- The French government has achieved what an army of hackers have so far failed to do: Unlock the iPhone in such a way that Apple will relock or "brick" the phone. Apple has agreed to make an unlocked version of the phone for the French market in order to comply...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Government, Apple Inc., Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Wi-Fi, Wireless, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- The $100 billion every politician craves
- While doctors may fear electronic medical records EMRs, and patients may have concerns over privacy, politicians in both political parties are big supporters. Last week, for instance. Republican Sen. Richard Burr pounded the table for networked EMRs, demanding that the Veterans Administration and Department of Defense unify...
- Tags: Politician, Electronic Health Record, E-health, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- A nanosensor to predict asthma attacks
- Asthma is a common illness which affects at least 300 million people worldwide and which is responsible for about 200,000 deaths every year. But asthma attacks could be detected up to 3 weeks before they happen by testing regularly the breath of asthmatics. If the levels of nitric oxide increase,...
- Tags: Nanotube, Handheld, Sensor, Breath, University Of Pittsburgh, Attack, Asthma, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- IHT NewsReader (widget)
- IHT NewsReader is a news reader has been configured to show news from International Herald Tribune news paper. Currently this supports 3 feeds from IHT: front page, business, and technology. Features: Auto scroll; Manual scroll; Define time for auto scroll; and Define time for auto reload. This version is the...
- Tags: News, IHT NewsReader
- Software downloads 2007-08-01
- DailyMotion video hub turning heads in Hollywood
- DailyMotion video hub turning heads in HollywoodThe Writing Style Reminds Me of TechcrunchWhich may be the reason it's so interesting. I like the controversial tone. This line is great "...Daily Motion may be the most popular site you've never heard of".
- Tags: Corporate communications, video hub, Dailymotion, video
- Discussion threads 2007-07-27
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