Nov 18, 2009
I found this article to be very interesting and relating to chapter 12 in that it talks about how Chinese companies can improve as they are taking there businesses globally.Chinese firms are in the hunt to use their cash to make acquisitions, as Industrial & Commercial Bank of China did with Standard Bank in South [...]
Nov 12, 2009
Five years ago, Mozilla made it clear that the browser wars weren’t over after all. In the 1990s, Netscape had lost its dominance in the browser market to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and the Netscape came up with a new internet browser called Mozilla which had sunk into obscurity. Even a federal antitrust suit accusing Microsoft [...]
Nov 5, 2009
I found this article very interesting. It’s a new way of looking at the world, this article talks about how far we’ve come in technological advances and how we can all share data easily. The first thing that probably goes through our minds when we hear the word “data” is pie charts and line graphs [...]
Oct 29, 2009
Are you bilingual? Would you like to learn another language along with helping someone learn your native tongue. Well, now you can with LiveMocha. LiveMocha you get to learn the language of your choice while helping others who want to speak your native tongue. Once you complete a structured lesson, you submit your own writing [...]
Oct 23, 2009
Today HP is announcing the rollout of a line of ultra-inexpensive PCs, both laptops and desktops, with extreme budgets in mind. These laptops are just as good as the new netbooks, but area full-size screen .The specs of this new laptop are the following; Consider first the Compaq CQ61z (pictured), a 15.6-inch laptop with an [...]
Oct 23, 2009
I found this article on cnn.com/tech. It talks about how GPS systems can help monitor staff, and how small business owners can profit from this. Because some small companies can’t afford expensive tracking systems. Resulting in managers having to spend hours on the phone trying to track the driver and the package down. FedEx alone [...]
Oct 23, 2009
So, when it’s your birthday on facebook, thanks to the facebook application it alerts all of your”friends” a week in advance so they can wish you a happy birthday on your wall. But the questions arisis wether or no this is safe. To display your birthday too all of your “friends”. But, unfortunately this is [...]
Oct 23, 2009
Google’s email service is having trouble again! In recent month’s Google’s email service has crashed and many were upset, it being such a big company a lot of people did not expect this to happen. “A problem with Google Contacts caused many Gmail users to experience slowness and degraded service for about an hour today,” [...]
Oct 23, 2009
A blogger who posted rumors about model Liskula Cohen said she was the real victim in the case and plans to sue Google for violating her privacy. Rosemary Port the one who initially spread the rumors in a blog as an anonymous poster on Google. A New York Supreme Court judge ordered Google to reveal [...]
Oct 23, 2009
President Obama announced Friday he is creating the post of cyber security coordinator to oversee “a new comprehensive approach to securing America’s digital infrastructure.” We can’t deal with the nation’s crisis without first feeling safe while conducting online activities “America’s economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cyber security,” Obama said. Obama promised [...]
Oct 23, 2009
Data mining is now helping discover new medications! Ross King, a computer scientist at Aberystwyth University created an extraordinary robot scientist. The robot, known as Adam, uses advanced artificial intelligence combined with data mining and techniques to analyze the results of experiments it conducts itself. This robot scientist can make informed guesses about how effective [...]
Oct 23, 2009
Nokia is newly entering the Mobile Money market. Last week, Nokia announced that it was launching Nokia Money, a new payment service powered by Obopay that allows you to send money to friends, family, buyers, and service companies simply by using an application on their phone. This should be in the market by 2010, with [...]
