Great aricle in todays’ Wheels’ section of the Times relating to how streamed music from the internet via Smart Phones and in car devices is beginning to cramp the space occupied till now by traditional radio. It always amazes me how these reviews do not include a mention of the A2DP capabilities of Smart Phones. … Continue reading
ReadyPing is a new mobile solution for restaurant owners which lets a host or hostess alert customers when their table is ready via a mobile notification. The system, a vast improvement over the restaurant pagers currently in use today, lets diners wander beyond the restaurant’s immediate vicinity – something that would be especially handy for … Continue reading
Not a day goes by without a gloomy report about the job market, such as Thursday’s warning by the Chicago outplacement firm, Challenger, Gray and Christmas, that college graduates will see fewer recruiters on campus and more competition in the field. via: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=36325
Open source vendor Zmanda joins the chase for Windows dollars with its product based on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service. Joining an increasing number of open source developers delivering products for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) servers, Zmanda this week rolled out a cloud-based backup and recovery product for Exchange and SQL Server. Appropriately named the Zmanda Cloud … Continue reading
Skip the lecture, download the podcast. That’s probably not what university professors tell their students, but perhaps they should. New psychological research conducted by Dani McKinney, a psychologist at the State University of New York in Fredonia, shows that students who only listened to podcasts of lectures achieved substantially higher exam results than those who … Continue reading
There’s calamity in Cloudland this morning as Gmail fell over rather majorly. Problems started at about 10.30 UK time affecting both individual and corporate Gmail accounts as well as some apps.
Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or Pandora fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose your (say) Google Docs data in another tab? OS X Leopard Dock with an icon for … Continue reading
The recession has companies worldwide scrambling to rein in technology costs with desperate vendors responding in turn, offering deep license discounts, providing low-cost financing and proclaiming ever more shrilly that their products in fact save customers money.
If you sell SaaS, security is the big concern you have to deal with. Get past that one and you’ll draw serious attention from potential customers. Stumble on the issue and you’re in deep doo-doo. That is ever truer when money is involved. Who wants a leak in their accounting data? When a big vendor … Continue reading
A new Web-based software tool geared to business incubators and developed by Catonsville-based Cybergroup Inc. is being put to work at the Chesapeake Innovation Center, the homeland security incubator in Annapolis home to more than a dozen high-tech startups. via Chesapeake Innovation Center puts Cybergroup software to use – Baltimore Business Journal:.
