Technology Today

• Google Earth to license new satellite imagery

  Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the ...

  Tags: Imagery, Network Technology, Garett Rogers, Networking, Satellite, Google Earth, Google Inc.

  Aug 29, 2008 9:18 PM PDT

• ROFLthing 2008

  Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang ...

  Tags: Management, Andrew Mager, Chuck Norris, Strategy, Internet, Humor, Rickroll

  Aug 29, 2008 6:49 PM PDT

• Google-Yahoo to Washington: We're moving forward.

  I've been watching this battle for a couple of years now - this arm-wrestling match between the Washington suits and the Silicon Valley geeks to see which has more power. ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Law, Vertical Industries, Government, Eric Schmidt, Washington, Sam Diaz, Software, Enterprise Software, Business Operations

  Aug 29, 2008 3:21 PM PDT

• Windows Mobile magazine ends, but iPhone Life launches on September 9th

  While I get the majority of my news and content online, I still do subscribe to a few magazines including MacWorld, Laptop, and Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine. I am ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Pocket PC, Smartphone, Handhelds, Matthew Miller, Hardware, Magazine, Consumer Electronics, Apple iPhone, Mobile

  Aug 29, 2008 3:18 PM PDT

• JavaScript 2.0: Why Give Programmers Crutches?

  [Guest Comment from Shane Steinert-Threlkeld] A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed ...

  Tags: Programmer, Scripting Languages, Web Development, JavaScript, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Software/Web Development, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, JavaScript 2.0

  Aug 29, 2008 1:56 PM PDT

• India search market in June 2008

  Searches, mln. Searchers, 000 Searches Per Searcher Visits Per Searcher Searches Per Visit Worldwide 74,217 802,267 92.5 23.6 3.9 India 1,242 23,416 53.1 14.7 3.6 Source: comScore SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: ...

  Tags: NB, India, ComScore Networks Inc.

  Aug 29, 2008 1:27 PM PDT

• Cool Tools - What is your Twitter grade?

  HubSpot has launched what it is calling the Twitter Grader, which seems to be the now-defunct Tweeterboard reincarnate -- yet with a proposed business purpose. The grader allows Twitter users ...

  Tags: HubSpot, Jennifer Leggio, Twitter, Public Relations, Marketing Research, Tool, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Productivity

  Aug 29, 2008 12:21 PM PDT

• See the heart beat in real time from outside

  The Acuson SC2000 ultrasound lets a doctor watch your heart beat, in real-time, from outside your chest. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Chest, Dana Blankenhorn, Telecom & Utilities, Siemens Medical, Heart

  Aug 29, 2008 12:12 PM PDT

• Top search engines in July 2008

  Core Search Entity Jun-08 Jul-08 Growth, MTM Total Core Search 100.0% 100.0% NA Google Sites 61.5% 61.9% 0.4 Yahoo! Sites 20.9% 20.5% -0.4 Microsoft Sites 9.2% 8.9% -0.3 Ask Network ...

  Tags: NB, Site, Search Engine, Search

  Aug 29, 2008 12:09 PM PDT

• Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy

  No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while ...

  Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev

  Aug 29, 2008 12:07 PM PDT

• Green Plug snags heavy hitter for board

  Who says green tech isn't rocket science? Starting Sept. 1, green tech start-up Green Plug, which is pushing for the concept of a universal power converter, has appointed former White ...

  Tags: Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Heather Clancy, Green Technology, White House, Board, Business Operations

  Aug 29, 2008 12:03 PM PDT

• Top social networking sites in Japan in June 2008

  June 2007 June 2008 % Change Total Internet 53,716 56,220 5 MIXI.JP 12,367 12,738 3 MYSPACE.COM 1,137 1,245 10 Orkut N/A 638 N/A FACEBOOK.COM 172 538 213 Gree 531 455 ...

  Tags: NB, Network, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Internet, Social Networking

  Aug 29, 2008 12:00 PM PDT

• Top Web sites in Germany in June 2008

  Property June 2007 June 2008 % Change Total German Internet Audience 32,857 34,986 6% Online Gaming 9,609 10,502 9% Zylom 1,977 2,492 26% Spill Group 1,521 1,542 1% Gameforge Sites ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Web Site, Channel Management, NB, Web, Web Site Development, Marketing, Games, Web Technology, Internet

  Aug 29, 2008 11:59 AM PDT

• The biggest health tech story of our time

  It's the sort of work politicians have been doing for decades, only with much greater depth, because the database is deeper, and with a purely scientific motivation. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: E-health, Vertical Industries, Dana Blankenhorn, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Storage, Human Resources, Healthcare, Health Care

  Aug 29, 2008 11:53 AM PDT

• Historical e-commerce growth rates, June 2007 to June 2008

  Month YTY growth Jun-07 25% Jul-07 22% Aug-07 28% Sep-07 19% Oct-07 19% Nov-07 20% Dec-07 18% Jan-08 12% Feb-08 14% Mar-08 9% Apr-08 15% May-08...

  Tags: NB, Web Technology, E-business, Internet, E-business/E-Commerce

  Aug 29, 2008 11:43 AM PDT

• Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism

  I was not a fan of Opera Software's antitrust sabre-rattling a few months back over Microsoft's lack of standards compliancy with its browser. But Opera's latest complaints about Internet Explorer ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Opera Software, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Mary Jo Foley

  Aug 29, 2008 11:22 AM PDT

• Empower your people

  It's the beginning of the year and I'm going out of my mind. Even though we've added my position of "Technology Director" and I don't have to teach anymore, we're ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Workforce Management, SiS, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson, E-mail

  Aug 29, 2008 11:13 AM PDT

• Weekend Gadget Guidance: Speed up Vista installation via thumb drive

  It's Labor Day weekend. Have you given your computer a fresh Windows install for the holiday? (If you're the kind of guy or gal who's into periodically wiping your hard ...

  Tags: Flash Memory, Andrew Nusca, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, USB Flash Drive, Software, Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows

  Aug 29, 2008 10:41 AM PDT

• Israeli caviar coming to supermarkets?

  Even if you don't often buy real caviar because of its high price, you know that the worldwide production of this gourmet treat has been drastically reduced in recent years ...

  Tags: Fish, Management, Kilogram, Web Site Development, Roland Piquepaille, Team Management, Web Technology, Internet, Israel

  Aug 29, 2008 10:36 AM PDT

• iPhone tethering rumored

  When I travel I carry a second phone alongside my iPhone – for one reason. Tethering. I need to be able to get online wherever I am and Wi-Fi isn't ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Phone, Cellular Phones, Apple Inc., Telecom & Utilities, Wireless LANs, Apple iPhone, Wireless, Consumer Electronics

  Aug 29, 2008 10:36 AM PDT

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