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Category Archives: Technology
…until nearly all advertisements around the world are digital!
“There’s a chance to invest right now in China, India, Russia and Brazil, which will pay off big over the next five years… These economies are going to boom, and ads there are going to go directly to mobile and … Continue reading
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Online revenues?
Interesting times these! While the New York Times is poised to stop charging online users, Google is going to start charging. New York Times started charging for access in 2005 and has in 2007 decided to abandon the approach. Google … Continue reading
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Global Market place for Ideas
Business week article on the market place for ideas: “…Colgate-Palmolive… needed a more efficient method for getting its toothpaste into the tube—a seemingly straightforward problem. When its internal R&D team came up empty-handed, the company posted the specs on InnoCentive, … Continue reading
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Pluto’s gone!
Pluto’s gone! In one day, the ring of planets stuck on the ceiling of my kids’ room has become outdated. I need to reach up and yank out little Pluto. What’s the big deal, you might ask? It’s just another … Continue reading
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Bringing up a blog
I’ve spent the better part of this week wandering around in the alphabet-strewn, bits and bytes world of IT, software, hardware, all the stuff that techie geeks do sitting in front of a computer screen. It’s part of work, and … Continue reading
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Recommended Podcasts (Includes Podcast 101)
If you are already familiar with podcasting and know how to download and listen you could jump to part II — a list of some wonderful podcasts available for free download. Most of these twenty odd podcasts are in ‘Talk’, … Continue reading
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Internet censorship: Google, China and the rest of us!
Google’s submission to Chinese censorship rules is perhaps more significant than Yahoo, or Microsoft’s submission, mainly because Google has, over the years, become ubiquitous to search. More importantly, Google’s submission invites concern because many people see Google to be this … Continue reading
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Lessons from LINUX Asia for non-geeks!
Thirty slides and one hour into the ‘utter meaninglessness of life without Oracle’ presentation I began to wonder if I had been suckered into paying to hear sales pitches that I did not understand or care for. This was just … Continue reading
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World Summit of Information Societies – Report
The ICT4All (Information and Communication Technologies) exhibition that accompanied the World Summit of Information Societies in Tunis, Tunisia was, in real terms, for all. From 15-19 November, 2005, exhibitors of all shades displaying a range of technologies and solutions that … Continue reading
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Giving a shot to Google Docs
In trying to use a new word processing program, such as Google Docs, it is typical to resist a new order of icons. Fingers follow muscle memory, and the mind, focused on the task of composing that perfect sentence, is … Continue reading →