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Starbuck’s Instant Coffee
Starbuck’s is selling instant coffee soon. According to Adage’s podcast, it’s good. We’ll see!
http://www.seattlepi.com/business/404556_starbucks2.html
Mannhattan Bridge Orthodontists
http://www.manhattanbridgeortho.com/
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New Particle Collider to Shut for Repairs
The LHC was supposed to be built in Texas but it was stopped during an economic downturn. We did not build it. It’s a shame. I look at our current economic state and hope we do not make the same mistake. When banks fail, stocks tumble, and oil runs low, America’s bread and butter is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )TG Daily – Surprise, surprise: U.S. broadband is slow. Really slow.
Oh, this will never do. Matching broadband the speeds seen in other countries would be great for business. New media and communications innovations are all hampered by our snail paced broadband
How slow?
Average DL speeds
US : 2.3 Mb/s
Japan : 63 Mb/s
South Korea : 49.5 Mb/s
Finland : 21.7 Mb/s
France : 17.6 Mb/s
Canada : 7.3 [...]
TV Sports – With 2,200 Hours of Live Video, NBC Tries to Cover It All Online – NYTimes.com
That’s a lot of content to sell ads for. I wonder how the ads will be handled? Notice that NBC is saving the prime ad spots for television, ye of little faith.
But even with the abundance of live streams, one truism remains: prime time on NBC still rules. Those watching online will not see [...]
Defriending, the better part of Facebook valour
This is an interesting post and I think it speaks to the limits of social networking. I have contacts of former school colleagues, family and friends like everyone else. I have people on my friends list that I haven’t seen in so long that I wouldn’t recognize them if we ran into them on the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mars Water Discovered, "Tasted" by Lander — A First
Cool! Now, let send some people.
NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander quenched a longtime scientific thirst yesterday when it detected water in a soil sample—the first time liquid water has been touched or “tasted” on another planet.
The craft obtained water by heating an icy soil sample in its “bake and sniff” oven, called the Thermal [...]
PC World – Business Center: Ex-Googler, Husband Launch Cuil New Search Engine
Pretty neat engine with some cool bells and whistles. I searched popular terms “Ring Tones” and “Auto Insurance” and no ads came up, but I assume with some convenient white space on the right side, they are on the way. Company logos, and in some cases a preview of content, are displayed along with results, [...]
New York state passes video game labeling law | Technology | Reuters
Personally, I do not like violence in games, but I happen to believe in free speech. This law is unconstitutional and anti-business. Game companies are in no way trying to hide the content of their games. The games are very explicit about their content.
The worst part is the law is clearly unconstitutionally and will [...]
DailyTech – Breakthrough Allows LED Lighting to be Processed on Silicon at Great Savings
The Department of Energy offered a $20MM Bright Tomorrow prize for the creation of mass producible efficient lighting. It worked!
Note to the DoE: Great job! Do more of this stuff!
The new device is extremely promising as it may allow lighting to finally do primarily what it was intended — make light. Traditional [...]
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