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$2.1mn NSF grant to Boston College's Urban Institute: The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $2.1 million grant to an group of Boston College faculty to develop an urban environmental science curriculum, text book and multimedia system for use in America's urban high schools, a press release from the college announces. Fifty high school...; Tags: urban ecosystem, Urban Ecology Institute; Blog posts 2006-10-31
Assessing the Benefits of Performance Management in Eastern Europe: Experience in Hungary, Albania, and Georgia: Implementing a performance measurement system anywhere in the world presents challenges. In Eastern Europe there are added difficulties, but these special challenges ultimately seem to produce additional possibilities instead of proving to be limitations. In fact, the authors' experience in the region leads to two main conclusions, both of which...; Tags: Urban Institute, Performance, Benefit, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies

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(Photos: Inside Brazil's slums): (Photos: Inside Brazil's slums)ProximityWhile North America tends to have affluent and poor areas of town, many countries don't work that way. You can walk along a canal of slums in S.E.Asia and hit the entrance to one of the wealthiest neighborhoods. They're not ten meters apart.Inclusão Digitalpost duplicadoInclusão DigitalParabéns pela...; Tags: Vertical industries, city name, slum, Paulo Perantunes, photograph; Discussion threads 2008-08-27
MeteoSwiss watches the skies in 3D: MeteoSwiss, the Switzerland's National Weather service, is using a new system to build 3D maps of Swiss skies. This LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging weather measurement system has been developed at the Lausanne-based Federal Institute of Technology EPFL. According to EPFL, this new system will be able to provide real-time...; Tags: 3D, Laser, MeteoSwiss, LIDAR, EPFL, Sales Force Management, Sales, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-27
Google journeys to the center of the earth (well not quite) with latest alternative energy foray: Apparently Google's philanthropic arm isn't content investing in just one source of alternative energy, which makes sense considering the geographic diversity of the planet we live on. The search and business applications giant last week said it will put up about $10.25 million toward energy technology called enhanced geothermal systems...; Tags: Alternative Energy, Google Inc., Geothermal Energy, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-08-25

Some serious research into gasoline-free transport: There's an institute in Davis, California, dedicated to studying what works and what doesn't work when it comes to people moving around. Headed by Dr. Dan Sperling the faculty and research staff have delved into all manner of transit modes, energy sources, etc. They don't have Washington lobbyists...; Tags: Vehicle, Plug-in, PHEV, Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-08-22
Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisoners: An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales. A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all prisoners in England...; Tags: Data Loss, Data, Worker, Spokesperson, Government Department, Government, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, security, UK, memory stick, Home Office; News items 2008-08-22
Convenience Store Chain Enhances Security, Boosts Mobility With New Operating System: Seven-Eleven Japan operates the largest chain of convenience stores in Japan. With its North American subsidiary 7-Eleven, the company operates or franchises approximately 32,300 stores worldwide. The Seven-Eleven Japan sales staff is highly mobile, often working outside of the main office. The company wanted to help these remote employees work...; Tags: Security, Japan, Operating System, Mobility, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Operating Systems, Sales, Marketing, Software; Case studies 2008-08-21
Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn?: Limelight Networks may have won a medal for its role behind the scenes to keep NBCOlympics.com humming, but the company is still dwarfed by its largest rival Akamai. The big question: Does Limelight have enough headroom to gain meaningful share from Akamai? Jason Perlow detailed how content...; Tags: Patent, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Jason, Company, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-08-18
Europe discussing the business of the Semantic Web at ESTC: I've written before about the importance of events that move us past introspection and academic debate, and bring the real benefits of semantic technologies to a wider business audience. As the Semantic Web Gang discussed recently, North America has had the excellent Semantic Technology Conference for several years, and this...; Tags: Europe, Conference, Semantic Web, Research & Development, Benefits, Internet, Business Operations, Human Resources, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-08-17
MSE rises like a phoenix from the beta ashes: MSE rises like a phoenix from the beta ashesMost students can't afford Microsoft's...products. So they turn to open source. This has MS worried. So they are doing whatever they can to keep the next generation of IT personnel using their products.My son graduated with a degree in computer science three...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-08-16
Top education search terms in June 2008: Rank Search Term Volume 1. Wikipedia 0.46% 2. dictionary 0.29% 3. fafsa 0.18% 4. yahoo answers 0.11% 5. dictionary.com 0.08% 6. funbrain 0.08% 7. university of phoenix 0.05% 8. spanish translation 0.04% ...; Tags: Education, Dictionary, Yahoo, Wiki, Online Communications, NB; Blog posts 2008-08-13
We need new sources of Vitamin D: We need new sources of Vitamin DWe need new sources of Vitamin DIf only more people would get out into the sun. I forget the actual amount but I think its like an hour of sunshine a day is good for you but I don't think they quite mean...; Tags: Osteoporosis, vitamin, Vitamin D; Discussion threads 2008-08-13
More small scale electric transport: A2B, courtesy Ultra Motors. This is the A2B, as in "gets you from A to B." It's Ultra Motors' electric bike aimed at the harried, gas-attacked urban commuter. There are other electric bikesd around, of course. Here's Ultra's own pitch...; Tags: A2B, Bike, Internet, Engineering, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-08-12
New Nissan technology deters drivers from danger: New Nissan technology deters drivers from dangerMarketing ManagerRESUMENAME : YashPal .R. NayakADDRESS : 38/103 Aanand nagar, shayamal karnavati ...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Kadi, COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE, computer, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.; Discussion threads 2008-08-10
Sensors to detect oral cancer in saliva: According to the American Cancer Society ACS, there will be about 35,000 new cases of oral cancer in the U.S. this year. The ACS also estimates that 'when oral cancer is identified in its early stages, patient survival rate is almost 90 percent, compared with 50 percent when the disease...; Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Team, Researcher, Protein, Sensor, Molecule, Cancer, Protein Sensor, Dr Wong, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-06
Time for Google to take out Sprint: Time for Google to take out SprintWhy change the name?The Sprint name stands for poor quality. Google has a reputation for high quality.I assume that, along with the name change, Google might institute policy changes which would decrease dissatisfaction with the brand, in order to protect its own good name.Sprint...; Tags: WiMAX, Product marketing, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Branding, Telecom & Utilities, Google Inc., Sprint Communications; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anything: It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anythingScientific vs. Data Processing: Did you just switch sides?Even in a research institute, most of the people will use boring finance and word processing applications that are well supported on all the major computing platforms. On the other hand, niches...; Tags: INTERNET, Desktops, Operating systems, nich, Sun Ray, mission critical, institute, PC, Sun Microsystems Inc., research institute; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?: A new proposal out of MIT (original home of the so-called $100 laptop from the OLPC) has gotten quite a bit of traction in the blogosphere and around the Web. A group of students, recalling their own early computing experiences in Apple II labs, is attempting to resurrect these...; Tags: Web, Apple II, $100 Laptop, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Laptop Computer, Computer, Productivity, Channel Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-08-05
MIT team working on $12 'Apple II' desktop: Developing nations, listen up: a computer is headed your way, and it costs less than two Value Meals at your nearest McDonald's. Today's Boston Herald has a great story about a new project underway at MIT to create a $12 computer, the same university that spawned the...; Tags: Desktop, Team, Apple II, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Apple Inc., Computer, Herald, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-08-05