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What Can IT Do To Stimulate the Job Market?

Sep 27, 2010

Last week I revisited some concerns about cloud computing putting IT staff out of work. This week I want to look at the broader issue of technology displacing workers - and whether IT can do anything about it. On his blog, Gartner VP and fellow...

Saying Hello via IP Geolocation API

Sep 27, 2010

Have you ever wanted to determine geographical information about an IP address? There are a growing number of services to accomplish this goal that are a mix of on-demand and offline bulk database services. Let's take a look at the Quova API using...

Apple Updates Ping, Makes New Social Network More Useful

Sep 27, 2010

When Apple launched Ping, its new music-focused social network found within iTunes 10, the response was decidedly lukewarm. The effort felt incomplete, as if its social features had been rushed out the door before the service was fully built. Ping...

Apple Updates Ping, Makes Its New Social Network More Useful

Sep 27, 2010

When Apple launched Ping, its new music-focused social network found within iTunes 10, the response was decidedly lukewarm. The effort felt incomplete, as if these social features had been rushed out the door before the service was fully built. Ping...

How GetGlue Taps Into Our Emotions

Sep 27, 2010

Sometimes a successful web product takes a while to find its niche. Occasionally it morphs into a different product altogether, along the way. Both things have happened to GetGlue, the service where users "check in" to watching TV shows,...

Blog - First Observation of Hawking Radiation

Sep 27, 2010

Hawking predicted it in 1974. Now physicists say they've seen it for the first time

Genetic "Light Switches" Control Muscle Movement

Sep 27, 2010

The technique will improve research on neuromuscular disorders and could one day help paralyzed patients. Using light-sensitive proteins from a single-celled alga and a tiny LED "cuff" placed on a nerve, researchers have triggered the leg muscles of...

Measuring Atomic Memory with Nano Precision

Sep 27, 2010

Researchers at IBM now know how long a single atom can "remember" its state. The events that take place inside of atoms occur at speeds that are normally much too fast to capture. Now researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center have developed a...

A Cleaner Printout, With Some Extra Ads

Sep 27, 2010

HP's printers could soon tidy up Web pages for printing, while also inserting adverts. A printer that automatically reformats pages to reduce clutter could save on ink and make printouts easier to read. But would you accept a few additional ads on...

Twilio CEO Offers Tips for Pricing Your SaaS

Sep 26, 2010

Determining the pricing structure for a product can be challenging, and it's an area in which a lot of companies stumble, particularly when they find they have set the price too low. At StartupDay 2010 yesterday in Seattle, Twilio co-founder and...