iGoogle
Posted on June 30, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Site News | Leave a Comment
iGoogle has started rolling out its new look to a few users in June and will continue to do so in July, though we’re uncertain how fast and to how many.
But of course you don’t want to wait in line to see the changes after a lot of other folks, you want to check it […]
Who’s Next?
Posted on June 30, 2008 - Filed Under General, Tech News | Leave a Comment
Now that Bill is pretty much history, I wonder, who’s next?
Not the next to leave but the next to arrive. Who’s the next Bill Gates? Who’s in the process of coming up with something really great that will be the next big problem solver?
Gates’ ‘Retirement’
Posted on June 28, 2008 - Filed Under General, Microsoft | Leave a Comment
Not exactly retirement per se, but the big news in the tech world the last few weeks has most certainly been centered on Bill’s departure from the day-to-day operations at Microsoft.
He’s stepping out of that role into one drastically different in many ways, yet strangely familiar.
Migraine Zapper
Posted on June 28, 2008 - Filed Under General, Health | Leave a Comment
Around 30 million Americans suffer from migraines, with more than half requiring bed rest to get over an episode. That’s a lot of pain and a lot of lost work days. We were a migraine household as my wife suffered with them for over 25 years, finally finding improvement only with age. She was never […]
Read More..>>Jogli
Posted on June 26, 2008 - Filed Under General, Site News | Leave a Comment
There’s a new game in town and it’s called Jogli. It’s a music search engine that claims to offer immediate listening access to 500 million songs and 12 million albums.There’s so many permutations of video and music products online today, it’s hard to imagine how there’s room for another.
Read More..>>Election Agenda
Posted on June 25, 2008 - Filed Under General, Internet, Politics | Leave a Comment
There are plenty of platforms developing for discussion in this year’s election process in the US.
Being thrown into the fray for part of this discussion is this country’s lack of true commitment to broadband saturation.
Vitamin D and the Sunshine Ban
Posted on June 24, 2008 - Filed Under General, Health | Leave a Comment
One of my all-time favorite groups ;)…
You know how when you buy something you’ve rarely seen before that suddenly it seems to start popping up everywhere and everybody seems to have one?
It works the same in other areas too. After a diagnosis of low Vitamin D (7.1) a few months ago,
Paper Ads
Posted on June 23, 2008 - Filed Under Advertising, Economy | Leave a Comment
For newspapers, their news has quickly gone from bad to worse. This year is setting up to be their worst on record, with a huge drop in revenue, raising important questions about the survival of some papers and even that of their parent companies.
Ad revenue, the primary source of newspaper income, began sliding a couple […]
Yahoo Exodus
Posted on June 23, 2008 - Filed Under Merger News, Microsoft, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
An interesting undercurrent has been taking place at Yahoo, beginning even before Microsoft’s offer to buy was made and eventually rejected.
The numbers of executives leaving since January 2007 has grown to well over a hundred at last count. Executives, mind you.
Tattoo Reader
Posted on June 22, 2008 - Filed Under General, Politics, Tech News | Leave a Comment
With the prevalent problem of identity theft, there is an increasing need to find other ways to identify people. Normal identification such as drivers’ licenses, social security cards, etc. are easily lost or stolen not to mention being forged.
It’s not always easy, especially for the police, to identify their victims or suspects. They spend a […]