President Bush Discusses the Global War on Terror in Tipp City, Ohio
THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for coming. I'm honored you're here. Steve, thank you for the invitation. It's a real pleasure to be with you. What I thought I would do is share some thoughts with you about a couple of subjects, primarily Iraq, and then I'd like to answer some of your questions, on any topic you'd like to ask me about. (Read on Source)
Micro/sys Releases StackableUSB? 486/586 Computer with LCD/ Touchscreen Interface and Ethernet for E
This high-performance 486/586 CPU board is the newest addition to Micro/sys’ StackableUSB™ single board computers. The SBC1496 is a powerful RoHS compliant controller that operates from –40°C to +85°C and provides I/O expansion via StackableUSB™ peripherals. In addition to PC-compatible features, such as SVGA and dual serial ports, the new model also includes four USB 2.0 high-speed (480Mbits/s) ports, two USB 1.1 full-speed ports, and 100BASE-T Ethernet support. With up to 64MB of SDRAM, CompactFlash, and full AT-compatibility, high-performance control systems can be implemented on this stackable embedded form factor (PC/104-size) SBC. The SBC1496 can boot DOS, Linux, Windows CE, VxWorks, and other PC-compatible operating systems. (PRWeb May 2, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/RW1wdC1Ib3JyLVN1bW0tUHJvZi1NYWduLVplcm8=
When imagination soars into syndication
... seeking full scope design work, " includes a wide range of services, from graphics, Web design and corporate branding to interior decoration and interactive installations. They're having a launch at ...
Email Is Dead
"A communications tool is only as good as the number of people it can reach."
-David Gurle , executive VP, Reuters
LeapFrog Evaluates 'Synergies' with OLPC Project
Eugene Ciurana's focus at LeapFrog Enterprises is building infrastructure for the company's Web-enabled product initiatives, but his role also has allowed Ciurana to get involved with the One Laptop Per Child organization. The OLPC's XO laptop and the open-source Sugar interface that runs on the system have drawn the attention of many in the IT community, including me.
Maintaining journalistic integrity while handling human remains
Maintaining journalistic integrity while handling human remains--Police reporter Steve Lannen quickly found himself in a predicament as a woman pleaded with him to take a man's scalp to the coroner's office. The coroner had refused to come out and pick it up so she had taken it upon herself to wrap the remains in a plastic bag.
Out-of-body, change of mind?--Neuroscientists have learned how to create the illusion of an out-of-body experience in ordinary people. Will virtual reality applications be developed, and how will the experience of "leaving our bodies" affect the way we view the world?
Mark Radcliffe and the rule of open-source law--Mark Radcliffe is finally getting some of the attention he deserves. Is it too much? I don't think so, and here's why.
Schools battle cell phones--The digital generation gap shows up in the attempt for schools to ban cell phones outright. Teens and parents are pushing back against the attempts to take away the phones they have come to depend on so much.
October 8th vs. The Indians
Four-plus hours is way too long for a funeral. Hey, congrats to the Cleveland Indians and to their fans. The Tribe out-pitched, out-hit, and out-played the Yankees in this ALDS. They deserved to win this round of the playoffs. Now, if it's not too much trouble, Cleveland, will you please promise to play the Red Sox in the ALCS this tough as well? (Read on Source)
*Common Usability Terms, pt. V: Modes*
This is the fifth article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms [part I | part II | part III | part IV]. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, consistency, Fitts' Law, and more. The aim of this series is to explain these terms, learn something about their origins, and finally rate their importance in the field of usability and (graphical) user interface design. In part V, we focus on modes. Read more on this exclusive OSNews article...
Securase
When you try to open a NSF file and it gives error message : You are not authorized to access that ...
Link exchange in 2008
Exchanging links is decidedly unfashionable in SEO circles and yet it’s the first thing most new sites do when they launch so who’s right? The answer is that getting some decent incoming links from similar sites is a good thing, even if you have to exchange links to get them. (Read on Source)
Competition for the Wii
Study: more couch potatoes parked in front of PC to watch TV
Full TV shows watched online are growing in number, according to the Convergence Consulting Group, and may make up almost a quarter of all TV watched in 2010. Broadcasters are in no rush to move everything online yet, though, as there's still a lot of traditional TV ad revenue to be had.
Google Flies With Universal Search
There's no going back to ten blue links on a page of search results. People want more for their queries, says Google, and they want to give it to them.
Twitter's Business Model? Well, Ummmm...
When the earth shook in Los Angeles last week, the first reports didn't come from traditional media outlets, but from Twitter, the "micro-blogging" service where users can send short, instant status updates to their friends via e-mail and mobile phone. Ten minutes before the Associated Press reported news of the tremor, a Twitter user named Caroline (Vixy) posted a simple update: "Earthquake."
Blogs and news sites buzzed the next day about how Twitter had ushered in a new era of communication. Such proclamations would have most internet entrepreneurs seeing dollar signs. But not Biz Stone, who insists Twitter's mission is simply to provide a useful, robust service and let the dollars follow later.
"At this point, given that we have plenty of money in the bank, it makes a lot more sense not to distract ourselves with trying to put the finishing touches on a revenue plan," says the 34-year-old Stone, who founded Twitter with Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams in 2006.
Stone's hesitance to "monetize" Twitter echoes that of other major Web 2.0 companies, such as Facebook and YouTube, whose founders have said they'd build their audience first and find revenue streams later. But those giants have shown that converting eyeballs into money hasn't exactly been easy; Facebook has yet to start generating meaningful profit, and Google has said on a number of occasions that it has yet to find the right business model for monetizing YouTube's considerable traffic. Twitter, despite some plans Stone has up his sleeve, may very well find itself in the same position.
Today Twitter makes a negligible amount of revenue from users that send and receive messages as SMS texts, and overall loses an undisclosed amount of money.
But Twitter's user base has undeniably skyrocketed. The service has grown to more than 2 million per month, ten times more than April 2007, according to Compete.com. As of March 2008, 200,000 active Twitter users per week sent 3 million updates per day, according to numbers obtained by TechCrunch.
Indeed, the service's growth has caught the company by surprise, and outages are not uncommon. On the heels of all this growth, Twitter announced a new round of funding in June, raising a reported $20 million in financing from V.C.'s Spark Capital and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at a $100 million valuation.
But Stone is unconcerned about Twitter's current lack of profits or even revenues, saying too much focus on these things would be "a distraction" for Twitter. For one thing, the company is improving its infrastructure so the service doesn't keep getting overloaded.
"Unless we have a reliable service that works the way we think it should," Stone says, focusing on revenue "is really putting the cart before the horse."
Longer term, Stone, who previously worked on startups Xanga, Blogger.com, and Odeo, sees the company as a new paradigm for how people will find out about and respond to news in the future, with potential revenues to match. But one idea that Stone is considering simply capitalizes on the user behavior his network has helped to establish: real-time news.
"For over the last 200 years, you've seen big companies grow off the concept of real-time updates," he says. "If you look at media companies like Thomson Reuters or Bloomberg, or the stock exchange, people and businesses are dependent on real-time news coming in as it happens. Twitter is similar, except it's much broader than just one kind of news, like stock updates. So when you think of it that broadly as a utility, I think you can begin to imagine how big the potential is for Twitter as a commercial entity."
The most obvious solution to how Twitter can make money would be to serve advertising directly in a user's Twitter feed (or "timeline" as the company calls it), or elsewhere on the site. But Stone and his fellow execs are wary of alienating Twitter's hardcore user base, which has grown accustomed to an ad-free service.
"How would they respond to us putting ads on the site?" Stone says. "Are we going to end up pissing them off?"
Stone says the key to making advertising acceptable to the Twitter community is ensuring that users choose which commercial messages they are exposed to, a lesson Facebook failed to heed last year when it was forced to quickly abandon its disastrous Beacon marketing system. But as with other potential revenue models under consideration, Stone would not elaborate on how he'd use such an opt-in system on Twitter.
One of Twitter's most likely revenue streams is through advertisements in search results where messages could be tied to what users were searching on. Twitter recently purchased Summize, a search engine specifically designed to sift through Twitter messages, for a reported $15 million in cash and stock.
"There is a pretty obvious opportunity there," Stone says. "There is a level of intent that someone is showing when they come to a Twitter search and type in, say, 'iPhone.'"
Another possible revenue stream is corporations paying to use the service to stay in frequent contact with their customers. Several large companies, including Dell, Whole Foods, and JetBlue, have already set up corporate presences on Twitter to let customers know about special offers and even answer customer questions.
In Dell's case, the company says it's made "well over" $500,000 in sales from sending special offers from its Dell Outlet store to its Twitter group, which it began in June 2007. The group has almost 1,500 "followers" who receive its messages on a regular basis.
"This is where are our customers are going," says Bob Pearson, Dell's vice president for communities and conversations. "These folks are influencers, and they want to talk about the hottest or latest stuff going on."
Dell also answers individual user questions via its Twitter group, which is what companies like JetBlue (almost 3,500 followers) and Whole Foods (2,000-plus followers) primarily use Twitter for.
To a company like Dell, $500,000 is a relatively small amount, but it does hint at the potential windfall companies can reap from Twitter. "If you've got 1,000 people following you, something's happening," Pearson says. "The real potential is in the future when you've got 10,000 people following."
While Stone says charging corporate users for a Twitter presence is something he might consider doing, it's not at all clear that companies would be willing to pony up for it. When asked whether Dell would consider paying Twitter for, say, each user that signed up to receive its feed, Pearson says "probably not." Whole Foods and JetBlue both say it's too early to say whether they'd be willing to pay Twitter for its service.
"One of the beauties of Twitter is that anyone can go on, and it doesn't cost anything," says Pearson. "There are other ways that Twitter can monetize its site, through advertising or other means. They don't have to be charging business customers to be part of it. But that's for them to think through."
Olympics Marketing Battle Cry: Viral, Social, Digital
Marketing around the Olympics used to be like a 100-meter cakewalk. You'd pay a gazillion dollars to the International Olympic Committee, then pay a gazillion more to brag like heck about it on TV and in print ads. That was then. This is now: Add on a multi-pronged digital ad strategy that feeds on megabuzz.
Editorial: City must fight suit by Web designer
... she also says, prompted people to issue death threats against her and damaged her Web design business. She wants punitive damages against the city as well the $250,000 for her ...
Panasonic to Challenge Nikon With HD Video on Still Camera
Panasonic is developing a version of its Lumix G1 digital still camera with the ability to record high-definition video with...
US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets"
Hugh Pickens writes "Time Magazine reports on a $4 million US Army contract to begin developing 'thought helmets' to harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops that the Army hopes will 'lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alone.' The Army's initial goal is to capture brain waves with software that ... (Read on Source)
Will Android's Low-Cost G1 Mean a Price War?
A lower price tag and cheaper plans are aimed at helping T-Mobile nab more market share -- but are wider industry implications ahead?
Encouraging family time within a company's culture
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Encouraging family time within a company's culture--One of the primary reasons I love my company is that it is so flexible about family arrangements.
Is Clear worth anything at all?--Peter Glaskowsky updates his previous post about the Clear Registered Traveler program with some information even Clear doesn't seem to have--the TSA is no longer running background checks on applicants.
Former Intel clone supplier seeks buyer--Transmeta, formerly a supplier of Intel-compatible chips, says it is looking for a buyer.
State attorneys general push online child safety snake oil--Attorneys general from a number of states give their support to a collection of weak and ineffective age verification technologies, all of which aim to protect children on the Internet.
10 essential tasks to keep Leopard purring
While Mac OS X Leopard isn't prone to crashes, freezes, drive corruption or inexplicable performance losses, keeping up with a few key maintenance tasks can prevent problems and keep it running at its best. We outline the tasks and tools you'll need to keep the cat purring.
EU nations agree to fight online child porn (AP)
AP - European Union nations agreed Friday to better coordinate efforts to curb child pornography and other illegal content on the Internet.
AT&T Completes Next-Generation IP/MPLS Backbone Network, World's Largest Deployment of 40-Gigabit Co
... reliability for all types of traffic, including the direct benefit for customers of AT&Ts Virtual Private Network and private line services. The backbone is designed and managed for maximum resiliency in ...
The Funny Pages | Sunday Serial: The Girl in the Green Raincoat: Chapter 7: The Surprises of Love
Last week: Don Epstein told the police that his wife faked her own disappearance in order to abscond with a good chunk of his money. Tess considered this possibility, then rejected it.
Windows 7: Should Linux Fans Keep An Open Mind?
The VAR Guy abandoned Windows for Ubuntu Linux in mid-2007 because he was fed up with poor Microsoft product quality. But the blogger and open source advocate will be willing to give Windows 7 a try when it finally arrives. Here's why.
New Jersey Based Event Promotion Social Network -- EventOrb.com Launches German Language Version of
In a bid to expand its event promotion and search portal to a worldwide audience, EventOrb.com has launched a full featured German language version of their website, barely four months after their beta launch (PRWeb Nov 12, 2008)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1596714.htm
Clippers get Zach Randolph from Knicks for Mobley, Thomas - Los Angeles Times
 Bleacher Report | Clippers get Zach Randolph from Knicks for Mobley, Thomas Los Angeles Times - New York's Zach Randolph, left, grabs rebound in front of Boston's Brian Scalabrine during a game on Tuesday. Randolph was traded to the Clippers on Friday. Clippers deal Thomas, Mobley to Knicks for Randolph, Collins Knicks trade top 2 scorers |
Thanksgiving in Space: Irradiated Turkey, Freeze-Dried Stuffing
The smoked turkey resembles sliced deli meat but stiffer, the candied yams are bland inside, the green beans taste like they've been microwaved to death and the corn bread stuffing has a broth-heavy, institutional flavor. Grandma's home cooking, it's not. Then again, Grandma's Thanksgiving dinners were never irradiated, freeze-dried, vacuum-packed into plastic pouches and then launched into space.
Sitemaps: Benefits of and Tips on Designing a Sitemap
Have you ever wondered how a search engine works? It must be fascinating figuring out how this search tool could direct you to several websites that are relevant to your keywords. Or, have you experie...
Practice As Well As Sleep May Help Birds Learn New Songs
The reorganization of neural activity during sleep helps young songbirds to develop the vocal skills they display while awake. Practice, or auditory feedback, may also play a role in learning.
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