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- The big lesson the tsunami can teach us about VoIP
- The big lesson the tsunami can teach us about VoIPPhuket - TsunamiI was there in Phuket on the day of the tsunami, VOIP did help me when the traditional telephony network aswell as the cellphone network became congested and failed during the first couple of days right after the tsunami.Here...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Cellular phones, tsunami, Phuket, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Locating an earthquake in 5 minutes
- When a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia's West Java on August 8, 2007, it took exactly 4 minutes and 38 seconds to be detected, located and sized by the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System GITEWS currently under construction in Indonesia. Even more remarkable, the location of the earthquake was found after...
- Tags: Tsunami, Sensor, Indonesia, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Tsunami separates Overstock.com, Red Cross
- Tsunami separates Overstock.com, Red CrossSo is it really for charity or for profits?I'm torn between deciding. Many companies have formed donation sponsorships for charities; However, are they truly for helping victims or just for raising sales? (I'm still deciding).Not to mention the Red Cross. I...
- Tags: Red Cross, quick publicity, tsunami, cheap quick publicity, evacuation effort, tsunami victim, Overstock.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-01-07
- The big lesson the tsunami can teach us about VoIP
- At the time this post was last updated,the estimated death toll from the South Asian tsunami exceeded 120,000. First things, first. If you want to give money for food, medical care and other basic necessities, here's some info on how to do so. And if you want to donate wireless...
- Tags: tsunami, SEASIDE
- Blog posts 2004-12-28
- USGS: Warnings could have saved thousands
- USGS: Warnings could have saved thousandsStop chatting, give exact events and timesThis article gives too much chatting and too less information: it doesn't even give the exact times when earthquake broke (according to http://www.iris.edu/cgi-bin/wilberII_EnO_page4.pl?evname=20041226_005850.7.spyder it was Sun 26 Dec 00:58:50.7 UT), or when tsunami hit beaches: 1h (sorry, I didn't...
- Tags: tsunami
- Discussion threads 2004-12-27
- Portal Solution Accelerates Global Relief Agency's Response to Asian Tsunami
- As the official overseas relief and development agency of the United States Catholic community, Catholic Relief Services-U.S. Catholic Community Bishops (CRS-USCCB) provides humanitarian assistance in over 100 countries. In fiscal year 2004, almost half of the U.S. $573 million CRS operating budget was used for emergency relief. CRS responded quickly...
- Tags: Agency, Tsunami, Microsoft Corp., Relief, Portal Solution, Portals, Web Technology, Public Relations, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications
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- The kids are all right with Linux
- The kids are all right with LinuxThe kids are all right with Linux...well maybe.Let's see. You say "The new system should be more rugged than the old, the terminals are cheaper to replace, and the central system is physically inaccessible, so there will be less mischief. Before any kid can...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'
- An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast – Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...
- Tags: Web, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world
- Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs worldPost Jobs Apple..'Apple' the brand should survive Jobs or any other visionary - as long as they Innovate and think ahead of their times. That's what you expect out of the brand Apple.RE: Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs worldIts a question i ponder often, as...
- Tags: Apple Inc., post-Jobs, Steve Jobs, post-Jobs world, Pondering
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Is the new Flip Mino camcorder worth $30 more than the bestselling Flip Ultra?
- [Updated: June 4, 2008 @ 5:01 pm] The super-popular Flip Ultra's incredible success has inspired plenty of competition trying to ride the cheapo-camcorder tsunami that the Flip set off. So less than a year after the Flip Ultra's September 2007 release comes Pure Digital's latest Flip, the Flip Mino....
- Tags: Battery, Camcorder, MySpace, Engineering, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Big earthquakes trigger tremors worldwide
- U.S. researchers who have studied 15 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7 since 1990 have found that at least 12 of them triggered smaller quakes thousands of miles away. Their study shows that large earthquakes routinely spark jolts worldwide, 'including on the opposite side of the planet and in areas...
- Tags: Researcher, Wave, University Of Utah, Velasco, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Latest Flock Beta delivers Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail support
- Having launched in late 2005 amidst a tsunami of web 2.0 hype, it was always going to be difficult for social web browser Flock to keep up with expectations. But after getting through what seemed like an unhealthy period of stagnation, update by update the software is really starting to...
- Tags: Digg, America Online Inc., Twitter, E-mail, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Internet, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Call for military to operate botnet
- Call for military to operate botnetI'd volunteer my PCs to help.If they did this above-board, with a SETI screen saver style app we could install deliberately, I'd bet they could have 50 million machines ready to help with this in a matter of weeks.RE: Call for military to operate botnetI'd...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), SECURITY, NETWORKING, Internet Service Provider, attack, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Microsoft earnings post-mortem: The cash cows quiver
- Microsoft earnings post-mortem: The cash cows quiverHa ha haHa ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, HA-HA HA HA HA, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, troll
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Indonesia blocks access to YouTube over anti-Koran film
- Indonesia blocks access to YouTube over anti-Koran filmjust read the KoranYou don't need a film to tell you that it promotes violence, just read it:) Several good violent lines have been posted out of sections of the Koran, it's their holy book after all, kill all the infidels! :)censor IndonesiaOh...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Word processors, Koran, anti-Koran, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- EPA and Gaia Man may agree on one thing: forget about global warming
- The Environmental Protection Agency was ordered one year ago by the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a ruling on whether greenhouse gas emissions are dangerous to public health and welfare. That was a year ago. So twelve months later the E.P.,A. has finally decided to act by not...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Lovelock, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Ever been Oprah'd?
- One of the measures of success for a tech website or blog is getting TechCrunched, Dugg or 'slashdotted' — the sudden surge of visitors that comes as a result of being highlighted by one of these big-traffic sites, often crashing the target site (it happened to one of...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Oprah Winfrey, Web Site, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-29
- Mac users - Secure or smug?
- The accepted wisdom is that Mac users are immune to most of the security afflictions which plague those mere mortals that are still using Windows. But is all this set to change? Is a wave of Mac-homing malware getting ready to flood the Internet? I ask because...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Kaspersky Lab, Security Company, Wisdom, Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Ocean power: catching a wave but ahead of the curve
- Wave power may eventually become a factor in providing electrical energy, but it isn't going to happen before we've all switched to flourescent or LED lighting. And it may not happen before we are paying $150 for a barrel of crude oil. Recently the US approved...
- Tags: Investment, Engineering, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'
- Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'It is not quite so black and whiteI believe in Capitalism, but it is in the interest of companies not to abuse their employees, and to try and provide a good environment for them. This does not mean providing foreign aid, but just...
- Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, capitalism, creative capitalism, Charity Comes
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
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