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Glass shapes that make us drink too much

Some people think that a glass is half empty while others see it as half full. But one thing is sure: some glasses are fuller than others. According to the British Medical Journal BMJ, researchers from Cornell University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown that short glasses are...

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Blog posts 2005-12-27

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Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA

Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...

Tags: Document, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-05-15

BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking

Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...

Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Does the Kindle have iPod-ish potential?

Amazon's Kindle may meaningfully contribute to the e-tailer's revenue in a couple of years, according to Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney. Mahaney's take--delivered in a research note outlining the bullish case for Amazon--takes a few leaps Techmeme. Mahaney has little data on the Kindle (just like the rest...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Insurance, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge

In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...

Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

The newspaper's last stand

Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...

Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?

As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Commercialising the Semantic Web

Following an earlier post on this blog, last month I found myself moderating a panel in the final session of one of the tracks at this year's World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. As I commented via Twitter at the end of the session, "Great...

Tags: Garlik, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost

Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lostStuff and nonsense>From day one, the purpose of Philly’s network is to increase digital inclusion and economic development. The measure of their success should be how lives and businesses are being helped in disadvantaged communities.The city to stick to...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless Philly, wireless, EarthLink Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

OK, Dell. Maybe your tech's greener, but what about green services?

Great timing on Dell's part. Wait until arch-rival or at least one of them Hewlett-Packard is busy chatting up the press about a minor (ha!) services acquisition, and then WAY up the ante when it comes to an energy-efficiency proclamation. Here's the thing: While other vendors, including...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Assuring Voice Quality on IP Telephony Rollouts

IP Telephony deployment changes dramatically when the job grows from "a few sites" to a full company-wide rollout across many locations. Achieving a high level of QoS for VoIP across the WAN and Internet often runs counter to the interests and needs of other network traffic on a converged infrastructure....

Tags: Deployment, QoS, Telephony, Performance, IP Telephony, IP, VOIP, Performance Management, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Webcasts 2008-05-14

Mobile Audio Convert ActiveX (exe)

Mobile Audio Convert ActiveX is a ready to use solution for developers who want to make wide popular mobile ringtone utility software. With Mobile Audio Convert ActiveX Control developers can easily design and build applications which create and extract ring tones from existing music. You can also convert music between...

Tags: Audio, Mobile, Extraction, ActiveX, Pianosoft, Mobile Audio Convert ActiveX, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Culpa Innata (exe)

The year is 2047. For the first time in history, countries with significant resources have united under one World Union. In this utopian society, "survival of the fittest" takes its next inevitable step. Only the elite are deemed worthy to live under the World Union banner - the smartest, healthiest,...

Tags: Murder, Strategy First Inc., Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front

Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked or was supposed to work on the backend. Now he,...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Ivan Krstić, Nicholas, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Sennheiser HD 600

When Steve Guttenberg reviewed the Sennheiser HD 650 headphones, he rightfully called them "fit for a king"--while noting that they retail for a correspondingly princely sum of $500. Thankfully, the HD 650s aren't the only model in Sennheiser's high-end audiophile line. The Sennheiser HD 600s can be bought at a...

Tags: Sennheiser, headphone

Product reviews 2008-05-13

Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?

Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?I think you're rightWhy else would the current stocks be dried up?Another Blow To Windows MobileI'm getting my next gen IPhone this fall and giving Windows Mobile the boot.I've had it with a second rate garbage OS....everyone I...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Keyboards, Handhelds, Cellular phones, job, Apple iPhone, WWDC, mobile, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?

Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?until Google finnally invest into there own OSthey should start a nice bsd that in time will be the next os x and then MS will fine that they are in real troubleRE: Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?made...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Olympus E-520 dSLR debuts

Cue "The Price is Right" music -- Olympus E-520 dSLR, come on down! In today's news, Olympus announced their E-520 this morning, the replacement for the E-510. Notable improvements in the new body include sensor-shift stabilization (including an updated system with a mode that...

Tags: Body, Olympus Corp., ISO, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Pricing, Quality, Business Operations, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops

Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptopsHow in the heck did you reach that conclusion?Somehow I missed how MS will "block" Linux on laptops from the writeup. I assume you're implying that XP is so desirable over Linux that charging less than $30 is a slam dunk. ...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Notebooks, Microsoft Corp., Linux, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-05-13