In what was heralded as a watershed moment in the movement for greater and more meaningful web access for those with disabilities, last April, Staples, the world’s largest office supply company,
entered into an agreement with several ... more
If Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s
crystal ball is good enough to predict the future five years out, here’s what we could be looking at, news delivery-wise, a scant half-decade from now.
Cue the wavy lines....
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Web 2.0, a term coined by Darcy DiNucci in her 1999 article “
Fragmented Future,” describes the then-nascent rumblings of an internet disconnected from screenfuls of text and graphics loaded into a browser into an interconnected transport mechanism ...
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“WTF” scream-asks a sub-head on the cover of
Esquire magazine’s December 2009 issue, and while you may think the question is being posed about actor
Robert Downey Jr.’s somewhat déclassé spread-eagled pose on the cover, ...
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October 2009 is shaping up to be a company-defining month for
Microsoft. On October 22, Microsoft is poised to launch
Windows 7, the latest version of its ubiquitous Windows operating system. Plenty of ink and ...
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A rumor first reported by
Silicon Valley Insider last week appears to be true: personal finance and small business bellwether
Intuit is buying
Mint, a provider of free, online personal finance planning and budgeting ...
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Should foreign companies that sell technology to Iran
be barred from receiving federal contracts in the United States? According to two US Senators, the answer is a resounding yes.
Hot on the heels of several news reports ...
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Bloggers from the medical, technology, and patient advocacy spheres are banding together to spearhead an initiative designed to let people—and medical care providers—know that patients have an “inalienable” right not only to access their medical records in electronic format, ...
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Communication technology in the digital age is a double-edged sword. By building a communications network, you also intrinsically provide the technological means to use that network for all sorts of nefarious purposes, many of which do not conform, exactly, ...
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Long ago, it used to be that a company’s technology assets were locked up in the datacenter, and its business assets were in the hands of its business people, and never the twain should meet. “A white collar professional,” ...
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Companies looking to solidify a robust presence on the web with a site that makes use of databases, integration with back end systems, workflow and approval rules, analytics, and more can now do it all on the cloud with ...
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The current state of the economy has led many companies to re-examine budgets and how resources are being allocated. As many have experienced, this has meant layoffs, company restructuring, and policy changes. During down times in the economy we also ...
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Bing a Better Way to Search from MicrosoftPerhaps the best thing we can say about
Bing,
Microsoft’s new foray into the search arena, is that it might just be . . . well, pretty good. ...
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Apple’s iPhone and
Research in Motion’s Blackberry smart phones may make up only a small percentage of the mobile devices sold worldwide this year, but that doesn’t mean they’re not powerhouses ...
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AT&T may be lobbying hard to extend its deal with
Apple to sell the
iPhone exclusively on its network in the United States, but the
Wall Street Journal is saying that AT&T ...
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Scribd is a YouTube-like environment for users to upload and share text documents, anything from research papers and books to recipes and sheet music. Until now that was the extent of Scribd's purpose - to upload and share documents.
Monday, ...
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Imagine a company that had a record of every dime you ever spent and every dime you planned to spend. You think companies would pay a pretty penny for that sort of data?
Mint.com does, and according to ...
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Back in February we published an article about
using cell phones like credit cards, which was a project headed by MasterCard expected to take flight in the next couple years. Well, a project similar in nature is happening sooner ...
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Back in the stone age, it used to be that when you got sick, you called up a doctor and he came over to your house and paid you a visit. No forms, no office visits, no fuss—the doctor came, ...
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Based on recent hires and strategic acquisitions,
Apple is quietly building a capability to design and build its own chips, reports the
Wall Street Journal. The move indicate that perhaps Apple is investigating the idea of ...
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Forget the
Leatherman, or the
entrenching tool: the new all-in-one device gaining a strong foothold in the kit bag of the American soldier is
Apple’s iPod Touch, and to a lesser degree, ...
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That’s what mathematician, author, and entrepreneur
Stephen Wolfram aims to find out with a new web-based search engine called Wolfram Alpha (
www.wolframalpha.com), due for beta release later this month. Based on the belief that anything that ...
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Beginning May 17, you will be able to bring your wireless network with you wherever you go (within the U.S) with the MiFi, as reported in the
New York Times. This is a device
Verizon and
Novatel ...
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Is more than doubling the screen real estate of a garden-variety
Kindle worth less than doubling its asking price at $489? That’s what the online marketing geniuses at
Amazon are hoping, as they introduce the new ...
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Citing an unnamed source who’s “plugged into the Valley’s deal scene and has been recruited by
Apple for a senior position,”
Owen Thomas of Valleywag is speculating that Apple is close to sealing a deal for ...
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Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader is curdling the blood of some newspaper and magazine publishers who feel the device offers a poor substitute for the look and feel of turning pages, lacks the ability to handle on-page advertising, and ...
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Amazon is said to be releasing the new Kindle on Wednesday which was made to be more appealing to text book publishers and universities,
reported the Wall Street Journal. The primary upgrades to the new electronic book reader ...
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A pox on the person or persons who first thought it amusing to concoct what has come to be known as a
computer virus: a tiny bit of malicious code that enters into your computer unknown, where it ...
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