From the monthly archives: November 2008
Here’s somewhat of an odd decision, especially knowing how technically-minded many Japanese are. Nokia, the largest producer of wireless phones world-wide, is scheduled to stop producing phones (apart from a small luxury brand) for the Japanese marketplace.
The decision was doubtlessly made with many facts at hand. A few that were [...]
For me, there are few things that can match the excitment of winning an auction online — especially when I win a special item at a great bargain! A website that I have recently discovered for this purpose is Bidz.com, and I warn you, it’s addicting!
Bidz.com is a huge aution site which specializes [...]
There are ongoing rumours that Microsoft is getting ready to re-brand its Live Search service. The company has purchased the domain Kumo.com which could be the name of the re-branded site.
Kumo means ‘cloud’ or ‘spider’ in Japanese.
If true, this would be another attempt by Microsoft to reposition itself in the search [...]
IBM is launching an effort to deliver broadband Internet using power lines. The idea is to sign up electric co-ops that offer electricity to rural areas over the US.
The technology has existed for decades but broad scale application haven’t succeeded. The current goals are somewhat scaled back, combined with improved technology and [...]
If you are searching for a large scale CD or DVD duplication service there are various options available. Some say that quality is more important than quantity, but what about instances where you need both? A company named veassociates.com promises to provide both.
VE associates utilizes state of the art systems for replicating CD-Rom, [...]
Cultural history from over 2000 years in Europe is becoming digitzed on a large scale.
The Europeana.eu site is a part of the European Union online library project that is set to rival Google and aims to create a centralized resouce for accessing European history, art, movies, music and literature.
Items [...]
A new startup aims to affect the way the patenting and disputes process works in many industries. Currently, the patent office is overburdened and in some cases patents are granted although they represent dubious merit which often end up for the court system to resolve.
For instance, the Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion [...]
You might recall that a few days ago, I blogged about Clickbooth webinars. Clickbooth offers Internet publishers a variety of ways to display ads, such as static banners or rotators, email marketing, contextual pop-unders and other methods, with high payouts.
In this post, I will describe how Clickbooth maintains their relationship with their customers [...]
A new Google search system provides a more personal touch for users by allowing them to re-order results to their favorite sites so it’s remembered if they enter the same query in the future. The feature will be called SearchWiki.
This is the first time Google has allowed alteration of the order of [...]
Google’s version of Second LIfe, called Lively, is to be discontinued by year’s end.
Lively was launched in July without much promotion. In Lively, avatars are created and interact with each others. Users get to design and decorate their own room to show off to others, with up to 20 people occupying a [...]
