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Are You Ready For Video On Demand?

There?s been lots of buzz in the Internet marketing community over Joost lately. Joost is that video on demand site I hadn?t heard of before last week and now suddenly everyone can?t stop talking about it. It seems they have a big announcement for us -- they?re almost ready to... (Read on Source)

Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia

A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications. (Read on Source)

Gates to Harvard grads: Pay it forward

World's richest Harvard alum tells grads to take on issue of human inequity and not be deterred by complexity.Photos: Gates goes back to school

Web Designing Ireland: QDOS Internet is the One Stop Destination for Every Web Service

In order to survive in the global online environment where so many brands are competing with each other, a website needs to be updated all the time. Every now and again, the webmaster finds its positi...

Study: U.S., Japan have best IT environments

(InfoWorld) - The U.S. and Japan have the top national environments for their IT industries to grow and flourish, including intellectual-property protections and IT infrastructure, according to a study released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) Wednesday.

The study, conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), ranked 64 nations on several factors, such as PC ownership, broadband adoption, government regulation, enrollment in higher education, IT employment, research and development spending, and cybercrime laws.

Using 25 weighted factors, the EIU ranked the U.S. first in IT competitiveness and Japan second. Also in the top five: South Korea, the U.K., and Australia.

India ranked 46th out of 64 countries included in the study, while China ranked 49th. Iran, Nigeria, and Azerbaijan were the bottom three on the list.

While several members of the U.S. Congress have voiced worries about U.S. competitiveness in recent months, the nation stacks up well in all six umbrella categories, said Denis McCauley, EIU's director of global technology research. The U.S. has a robust IT infrastructure and skilled workers, he said.

"Still, the U.S. is a magnet for talent overseas," he added.

But the U.S. faces several challenges, he added. The U.S. government lacks a national policy to increase broadband adoption, and attempts to allow increased immigration have stalled, McCauley said.

"There's no getting around the U.S. has great strengths," he said. "By the same token, I'd say there are some risks for the U.S., and one of the risks is being complacent. There's valid worry about slippage."

India and China rank relatively low in the study because of a lack of intellectual-property protections and because in per capita rankings, the two countries are low in areas such as PC ownership and research investment, McCauley said. IT infrastructure in the two countries is limited to urban areas, he added.

"They need to do a much better job of diffusing [IT] to more of the population," he said.

China and India's low labor costs gained the countries advantages, but in the future, they will face wage competition from such nations as Vietnam, Brazil, and Russia, McCauley added. Few countries have been able to overcome major legal and infrastructure weaknesses to jump start their IT industries, and China and India need to improve their other factors as their cost advantages erode, he said.

Countries most likely to move up in the rankings are "skills-rich" nations that can develop niche IT industries, the study said. In addition to Vietnam, Brazil and Russia, other likely movers include Malaysia, Estonia, Lithuania and Chile, the study said. Estonia ranked 25th, while Vietnam ranked 61st.

BSA commissioned the study to set a benchmark that governments could use to improve their IT competitiveness, said Robert Holleyman, the BSA's president and CEO.

"We find governments around the world that want to know what they can do to enhance their competitiveness," Holleyman said. "This will be a great survey to provide a government official not only in the U.S., but internationally."

Crowdsourcing Astronomy

One of the tenets of the so-called Web 2.0 is that it's about an "architecture of participation", allowing users (i.e., everyone) to contribute their knowledge and expertise -- or just enthusiasm -- to harness our "collective intelligence". That's why Wikipedia is about as good as the Britannica -- and why you can look up photos of pretty much ... (Read on Source)

iPhones, iPods to Hog Flash Chip Market

The popularity of flash memory-based products, particularly the iPhone and iPod music players, is sending waves through the market for the type of memory chips they use, and that is leading Dramexchange.com, a Taipei-based spot market for memory chips, to project a spike in prices over the next three months as pre-holiday production ramps up.

How Microsoft Bought China

Opinion: Microsoft's domination in China isn't due to any superiority of Windows. (DesktopLinux.com)

What's in a Free Software License?

iTWire: "'Open source' is a hot buzzword today. It's important to understand free software is still subject to a license just like conventional shrinkwrapped packages..."

I may have to get this

Nice bumper sticker . Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)

Mitt Romney Impresses

(Again, these are my impressions typing live, while Mitt is speaking) Mitt Romney gets a big reception tonight here at the Washington Briefing. Jay Sekulow introduces him. Jay gets a big reception. Jay's introduction revolves around Mitt Romney's marriage fight in Massachusetts. Mitt comes in to a grand anthem. The room goes nuts -- a bigger ... (Read on Source)

The Arizona Fall League

As always, the Marlins have a presence at the AFL. This post is mainly to let you know the importance of the AFL in evaluating young talent . In case you didn't know. Dan Jennings has scouted the Arizona Fall League for years, and there, on the league's official game program, was the reason why. The cover featured five young players who starred ... (Read on Source)

Bill Clinton: "Shame on you"

Did someone recently tell Bill Clinton to tone it down? I think he didn't listen. Today he threw a roundhouse right at the news media for being controversy-obsessed (uh, ya think?) and said Obama put out a "hit job" on him. Maybe this will cause media organizations to discuss whether they are, in fact, tools of spinners and controversy-mongers. But probably it will just cause another round of What's Bill Done Now stories.

Here's the rush transcript from CNN:

WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, FMR. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I never heard a word of public complaint when Mr. Obama said Hillary was not truthful, no character, was poll-driven. He had more pollsters than she did. When he put out a hit job on me at the same time he called her the senator from Punjab, I never said a word. And I don't care about it today. I'm not upset about it.

The only thing I pointed out was that there was substantially no difference in her record and his on Iraq, and that he had said in 2004 there was no difference between his position and President Bush. And he said that was somehow dishonest, but he never answers how it's not accurate. So this is crazy.

This rhetoric is getting a little carried away here. And let me remind you, my ultimate answer is this -- there are still two people around who marched with Martin Luther King and risked their lives, John Lewis and Reverend Andrew Young. They both said that Hillary was right and the people who attacked her were wrong, and that she did not play the race card, but they did.

So I don't have to defend myself from Dick Harpootlian. I will just refer you to John Lewis and Andrew Young. And let him go get in an argument with them about it. Let him go get in an argument with Dolores Huerta, one of the founders of Farm Workers, against what happened in Nevada. There is a fact here -- this is almost like once you accuse somebody of racism or bigotry, or something, the facts become irrelevant. There are facts here.

And the final thing I would like to say is, you're asking me about this, and you sat through this whole meeting. Not one single, solitary soul asked about any of this. And they never do.

They are feeding you this because they know this is what you want to cover. This is what you live for. [Ouch!]

But this hurts the people of South Carolina, because the people of South Carolina are coming to these meetings and asking questions about what they care about. And what they care about is not going to be in the news coverage tonight because you don't care about it.

What you care about is this. And the Obama people know that. So they just spin you up on this and you happily go along.

The people don't care about this. They never ask about it. And you are determined to take this election away from them. And that's not right. That is not right.

This election ought to belong to those people who are out here asking questions about their lives.

QUESTION: Do you think the Obama people are...

(CROSSTALK)

CLINTON: Well, you ask me questions based on Harpootlian calls me Lee Atwater. I spent all my life fighting those people. And he wasn't in Nevada. So he's having a fight not with me, but with Dolores Huerta, who founded the Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. He should ask her. She was there. He doesn't care what happened. He just knows he can call you a name and you guys will cover it.

They did not ask about this, and you don't care what your own people care about. They care about what happens to the American people. That's one thing John Edwards was right about in the debate.

QUESTION: But do you think the Obama people...

UNIDENTIFIED: Got to go. Appreciate it.

CLINTON: One more story. Shame on you.

UNIDENTIFIED: Thanks, guys.

CLINTON: Shame on you.

[Here's the Dana Milbank piece on B.C. And the readers weigh in with lots of measured, civil, polite discourse. Via Memeorandum, here's the Onion's take on B.C.'s bid for a third term: "No longer will I have to endure watching candidates like Hillary Clinton engaging in single-pump handshakes with voters, as I use every last ounce of restraint not to shout out, 'No! Warm double-clasp! Warm double-clasp!'" Clinton said. "America deserves someone who can do it right."]

Burger King Franchisee Cuts Turnover in Half with JobApp Network

Team Schostak Family Restaurants, a Burger King franchisee with 59 Burger King Restaurants and several other concepts, including Del Taco, has expanded its roll-out of the JobApp Network hiring solution. The decision to renew and expand its agreement with JobApp Network was based on the results of a highly successful initial roll-out in February 2008. (PRWeb Aug 5, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1179314.htm

Finally, a plan to clean up the coal plant

T he Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is off to a promising start under its new director, Dick Pedersen. Just two months after he took the helm, the agency unveiled a proposal to tackle an air-quality issue that's been hanging around for decades in Oregon. Pedersen and his regulators want Portland General Electric to spend more than $ ... (Read on Source)

The Importance of Validating Your HTML!

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our Full RSS feed to get a daily digest of news around search engine industry. With a pool of technologies, like frames, Flash, etc. giving search engine crawlers a tough time already in their quest to decipher and then subsequently rank web pages, you may think ? why make their job tougher as it ... (Read on Source)

Bluetooth will be missing from Google Android

Fifty go forward for Champagne Stakes

Michael Stoute?s Zacinto, a leading fancy for next season?s 2000 Guineas, is still in line for a crack at the Urban-i Champagne Stakes at Doncaster next month.

Feds indict 2 men in separate child porno cases

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A federal grand jury has returned indictments against two Alabama men for receiving and distributing child pornography....

Science Blogs can Advance the Academic Process

The blogosphere, which is that part of the internet occupied by blogs, is experiencing explosive growth. According to Technorati, one of the major blog tracking services on the internet, the number of new blogs created increased from 75,000 to 175,000 per day from April 2007 to April 2008. Currently, there are at least an estimated 112 million ... (Read on Source)

Fog returns to delay Belfry start

India's Jeev Milkha Singh heads back to the clubhouse after just one shot, as more fog halts the third day of the British Masters. (Read on Source)

Twits and Such for 2008-09-25

October should be a good month for iPhone apps, Facebook is going full-featured and WordPress is getting landscape mode and comments # Hunger pangs far from vicious today. # finally getting my water retention under control after weeks, needed more water. Must have been drinking too much alkie-hall # Heading home early. Lack of overtime’s ... (Read on Source)

Library to offer free computer classes

... Microsoft Windows" will be held Oct. 9. Students will learn the basic functions of Microsoft Windows XP operating system, including how to use files and folders. "Beginning Microsoft Word" will be ...

Alleged Hackers Charged With Highway Robbery, Literally

How do you run a successful trucking company without ever driving a truck? Step one: hack the Department of Transportation.

Typhoons in Taiwan drive carbon storage

Geologic processes are sometimes dominated by slow and steady events, sometimes by the fast and the furious. In Taiwan, river flooding during a short but intense typhoon may be responsible for more carbon burial then the rest of the year combined. Read More... (Read on Source)

United States: Drug Warning Claims 'Impliedly Preempted' But Asks High Court To Hold Off

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. solicitor general on Dec. 21 told the U.S. Supreme Court that failure-to-warn claims involving a drug are barred by implied preemption, but he urged the court not to take up the case until it issues preemption rulings in separate drug and device cases that are pending (Wyeth v. Diana Levine, No. 06-1249, U.S. Sup.). Full story on lexis.com

FDA Warns Against Use Of ED Supplements

ROCKVILLE, Md. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers to avoid a number of Chinese dietary supplements being marketed for erectile dysfunction (ED) because they contain undeclared active ingredients that are otherwise found in prescription ED drugs. Full story on lexis.com

Pre-Gaming for PubCon & A Little About Me

Hello, my name is Chris Phillips and this is my first post on Search Marketing Gurus. I work at Razorfish (Philadelphia Office) as an SEO Analyst (Click on my name to read more about me). (Read on Source)

BDI Denied Leave To File Summary Judgment Motion

NEW YORK - In his Nov. 2 status order, ephedra multidistrict litigation Judge Jed S. Rakoff confirmed a ruling by MDL Special Master James Niss, denying a defendant leave to file additional motions for summary judgment (In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, 04 M.D. 1598; Russell Wilburn v. N.V.E., Inc., No. 06 Civ. 13046, S.D. N.Y.; See September 2007, Page 6). Full story on lexis.com

Lost in Transition

The National Journal and Government Executive have created a new web site, Lost in Transition, for "Helping you navigate the Presidential Handover." Categories currently covered include: Appointments, Earlybird, Events, Insider Interview, Paper Trail, and The Short List. (Read on Source)

 

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