In a
recent article posted by Tech News World, it was reported that
Microsoft is in the beta stages with Vine, a social networking tool, but not in the Facebook department of social networking. Microsoft's Vine will only ...
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On one hand, you have the
Boston Globe reporting that
Apple's iPhone “may be poised to shake up the cell phone industry a second time” by introducing a model that could work on
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BusinessWeek
reported that state and federal officials are pushing forward in the effort to tax online sales. New York State passed a law requiring a sales tax last year on any product sold through the Internet by a retailer ...
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The scientists at
IBM are poised to announce that they are in the final stages of a computer program that can compete with human contestants on “
Jeopardy!” That’s right
Alex Trebek and ...
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The CW and Unilever's Dove are teaming up to produce a marketing campaign that is the first of its kind,
reported AdAge. There will be 90 second video clips of four women's stories during the last commercial break of ...
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Mix together fuel, oxygen, and a spark, and it’s bound to happen—you’re going to get a fire. Mix together the ubiquity of cell phone digital cameras, the seemingly-private but all-too-public realm of digital friends and networks of friends, the need ...
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Visible Measures, a start-up company that tracks video, has landed
MySpace as a client, reports
Erick Schonfeld of
TechCrunch.
Visible Measures will help MySpace, the internet’s second-highest rated video site, track customer engagement ...
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Everything is bigger in Texas, including its commitment to solar power. The
Wall Street Journal reports that the Texas state legislature is poised to approve a $500 million, five-year rebate program to subsidize solar power installations throughout the ...
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Last month,
we speculated that water’s increasing scarcity might lead to a scenario where someday, water might be traded as a commodity on a futures market, akin to oil. In California, such a scenario seems to be playing ...
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First quarter earnings reports from some of the software and online industry’s biggest players are in, and they’re painting an interesting story—a mixed story at that.
Microsoft,
EBay, and
Yahoo seem to be getting ...
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Have you ever Googled yourself to see what is out there about you? Or maybe someone you're dating to get some background info that maybe they're not telling you (dating 101)? Well now Google is allowing you to control what ...
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Hoping to cash in on a
$4.5 billion US stimulus package investment to propel smart-grid development, wireless carriers are aggressively jumping onto the utility bandwagon to juice up their earnings by using excess capacity on their cell phone ...
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Last week Google's
YouTube announced a deal with Hollywood studios, including Sony and MGM, which will allow them to post thousands of TV shows and hundreds of movies on the video website,
reported the New York Times. Currently ...
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Not too long ago, it seemed that personal health care records were something akin to closely-guarded state secrets—getting your hands on even your own information seemed to take an act of
Congress and a dispensation of form from ...
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Being diagnosed with an illness can often be an isolating experience, even if that illness is treatable. After all, when you’re sick, it often feels like no one else has ever been sick before except for you—like no one else ...
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Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. Build a better internal combustion engine, and you just may trigger a revolution in the automobile industry.
Engineers looking to improve the efficiency of the standard internal ...
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Monday, a group of broadcasters and electronics companies
announced they will be developing a free digital broadcasting service available to mobile devices, reported the New York Times. This service will be available through the broadcasters' push towards digitalizing their ...
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That’s right,
Adobe Flash.
Not content to be the dominant video and
rich internet application (RIA) engine on the web, Adobe wants to extend Flash’s reach directly to televisions screens. According to the
New York ... more
What a difference a month makes.
Back in mid-March, it seemed all but certain that
IBM was going to purchase
Sun Microsystems for a reported $6.5 billion in cash. The deal seemed to make sense for IBM; ...
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By now, you know the story. Despite the announcement of nearly $1.5 trillion in new government spending, the Dow remains skittish. And with the threat of bank nationalization looming over investors' heads, the financial sector may even sink the ...
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Ever feel overwhelmed with all the errands on your to-do list?
RUNmyERRAND.com can solve your problems. They call it "service networking", and it seems to be a combination of
Craigslist and
eBay, where people can post errands ...
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Internet service providers fighting with the
Federal Communications Commission. The feds grappling with the states. This is what you get when you wave a $7.2 billion dollar bill around—did you expect anything less? And the stakes involved are ...
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A recent
IDC survey indicates that more and more small- to mid-size businesses (SMBs) are using the internet to discover new information technology products and solutions, but word of mouth still remains king, reports
eWeek. The ...
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Megan Treacy of
EcoGeek reports that the city of Venice is planning to turn a nuisance—algae—into a renewable energy source.
Here’s how it’s going to work: the city will take two types of algae that clings to ships and ...
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Could the
Apple iTunes App Store be the paradigm that cures what ails the nation’s health care information technology malaise? According to Drs.
Kenneth D. Mandl and
Issac S. Kohane, writing in the March ...
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In a move that capitalizes on a current trend towards
utility computing,
Dell announced that it has rolled our a nationwide managed services program that actively monitors and manages information technology networks, prevents systems issues before ...
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Bowing to investor demands to unload the popular, though not very profitable
Skype internet phone service,
EBay announced plans to unload the Luxembourg-based company via an IPO, reports the
Wall Street Journal. EBay hopes ...
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You can’t open a newspaper these days without reading of the imminent demise of the newspaper industry itself. Just last week, in fact, the
New York Times Company announced that due to insolvency, it would shutter the venerable ...
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Digitizing your life just became more interesting with
Bebo’s Lifestory, a new feature that
Rafe Needleman, writing for CNet News, says “makes a fancy widget out of your life.”
Lifestory, one of the flashier new ...
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