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iPhone 2.2 update is out
Good news everyone (or for iPhone owners at least). Apple has released software update 2.2 for the iPhone.
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Ed Tech in a recession
At the beginning of this week, I wrote about why the OLPC makes less sense than ever during a recession. Little green netbooks, though, aren't the only things that will get hit as the global economy tanks even further. Next year, our district is looking at a best case of level funding and a worst case of 7 figure cuts in state and local aid. Level funding, as you can imagine, does not equal level servicing. Salaries, health care costs, fuel costs, etc., all go up, meaning that cuts need to happen somewhere. It's pretty hard to talk about adding computers in a school or providing additional technology support staff when you're talking about laying off teachers in the same...
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Verizon Wireless: Our employees breached Obama's cell phone records
Verizon Wireless said that "a number of employees" accessed President-Elect Barack Obama's cell phone records without authorization. That's not a great way to introduce yourself to an incoming president. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised. In a statement Verizon said (Techmeme): This week we learned that a number of Verizon Wireless employees have, without authorization, accessed and viewed President-Elect Barack Obama?s personal cell phone account. The account has been inactive for several months. The device on the account was a simple voice flip-phone, not a BlackBerry or other smartphone designed for e-mail or other data services. All employees who have accessed the account ? whether authorized or not ? have been put on immediate leave, with pay. As the circumstances of each...
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Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration
There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and director of research at nGenera Corporation, while Earl and Cash are academics at Oxford University and Harvard Business School respectively). In lots of large corporations, innovation and integration are unnatural acts. Silos block cross functional cooperation and resistance stifles new ideas and concepts. Cash, Earl, and Morison explore how some companies are overcoming these boundaries by proposing establishing two new types of cross-organizational teams: ? Distributed innovation groups (DIGs) foster innovation throughout the company. For example, they deploy intranet based forums and wikis to scout...
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Google launches personalized searches via SearchWiki; Scale, data equals fine experiment
Google has launched an effort it calls SearchWiki, which allows folks to customize searches and move results. An example: Say you disagree with a ranking of a result. You can move it up. You can also add notes to the result. And you can also remove results. The mark-ups will then carry forward when you search again. Keep in mind that the changes only apply when you are logged into your Google account, says the search giant. Here's a brief walkthrough. Say I do a search on Jamis road bikes and want to rate reviews. I can then move it up (Google gives me a quick pop-up how-to). Once I move it up it stays at the top of my...
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The future of... Ink [video]
Imagine a magazine that updates its articles whenever new information is available. A tablet that stores all the textbooks a university student will ever need. Or a supermarket shelf tag that automatically reflects price changes. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das shows us how electronic ink is turning the page on a new era for displays. [video=248126]
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News to know: Dell; Army bans USB drives; Salesforce; Microsoft
Here are today?s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging' Sam Diaz: Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising. Unsealed court filing: HP's Hurd had Vista concerns Ryan Naraine: Under worm attack, US Army bans USB drives Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Big Brains: John Shewchuk Jason O'Grady: Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Bargain Apples Nine ways that the Storm beats the iPhone (updated) Roland Piquepaille: A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroids Gallery: Amazing technology Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft: Free anti-malware for all (Windows users)! How Apple gained the upper hand on Microsoft Bits: Debating the Vices and Virtues of Google Ed Burnette: iPhone...
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From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
The history of Windows, from 3.11 to Vista, is one of ad hoc adaptation to market conditions and expectational change among customers. To a large extent it's been about playing catch up to Unix and the Mac - with fascinating devolutions along the way.
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Government's star witness undercuts prosecution in suicide case
Ashley Grills testifies that she, not Lori Drew, created MySpace profile for 'Josh.' Drew, she says, wanted to use the profile to 'humiliate' the girl who committed suicide.
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Explaining SOA failure to the boss: here are some real good excuses
'On the bright side, 70% of our initiatives fail anyway'
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