Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
We are increasingly tied to data. Business has always been about the data, whether it is how to successfully grow crops, trade money, or even building cars; all businesses are really the business of knowing how to do something. The massive amounts of information that our corporations produce on a ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Microsoft Grabs Powerset
Microsoft is bolstering its search strategy by buying Powerset today. If you are not familiar with Powerset, you will be. Powerset searches the Wikipedia site, nothing amazing there, but they do it in a slightly different way.
When you use a search engine on the Internet today, you are ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
There are already a lot of iPhones on campuses nationwide, but this time they are being given free to incoming freshmen at Abilene Christian University, in Abilene Texas. Faculty will be given the iPhone and the school will pay for the data plan, while the students will have to ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
I was not sure we should even write another post on this potential deal, but I was giving a speech today in Florida and someone texted a question wanting my opinion onto the screen, so I take it people are still intrigued. I have had some time to read ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I have been under the weather this week, but I wanted to write a quick post about some interesting items. So let's dig in.
Toshiba has given in and stopped trying to compete against Sony's Blu-ray system in the high definition DVD market. Normally I think that competition is ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Widgets are a hot topic, we have covered them here on Technology Story (search: widget), and it seems like the momentum is only growing. I am excited about seeing the new J.J. Abrams movie Cloverfield, so I hit the site this morning and noticed right away that they are ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
So, I had a strange experience this week because I was in a meeting with a few bankers and I started talking about Second Life, and started to tell them about the banks that are opened there. Half of them had never heard of it, so I logged ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
And still more year end review... The world of advertising and marketing continued to mutate based on technology tools in 2007. Ten years ago, advertising was primarily dominated by newspapers, magazines, television and radio. Today, online advertising is growing at staggering rates because of the ability to more specifically target ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Holiday shopping online gets a year older…
Just a handful of years ago, there was not an option for purchasing Christmas goodies online. If you wanted to avoid the holiday rush at the local mall, you had to either outsource the shopping to a relative, or use a catalog. ...
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