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Filipinos turn to Web for typhoon help
News Philippine online community rides on blogs and social networking sites in bid to galvanize relief efforts and assistance for victims of Typhoon Kestana.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Philippines, Powerline, social networking, Facebook, food, Internet, blog, Joel D. Pinaroc
Turning smartphones into language translators
News More language translation tools becoming available in mobile app stores, enhancing mobility of business travelers in foreign countries, say handset makers.
Tags: Mobile applications, Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Tool, Optical Character Recognition, software tool, food, marketing
RFID has role protecting human health
Insight Alongside collaborative tools, radio frequency identification can help manage emergency efforts such as recall of contaminated food and notification of affected parties.
Tags: RFID, RFID Tag, GPS, Standards, tagging, performance, food, audit, supply chain, collaboration
What do we mean by 'outsourcing'?
Blogs Reading all the statistics that come out regarding outsourcing has made me wonder if there is any consistency in the usa...
GoodGuide gets into gastronomy with food ratings
News Ratings site has added food to its list of earth- and body-friendly products.
Tags: Web sites, Cookie, Food Item, Database, GoodGuide, food, job, founder, Earth, Web sites
Bill Gates' fix for India's ills: Technology
News Microsoft chairman says technology--from an electronic network for urban workers to a national ID card project--can help India overcome its challenges.
Tags: Software, Digital media, Bill Gates, India, Cell Phone, Government, Indian Institute of Technology, Software, Digital media, phone
Dell nurtures a virtual life for youngsters
News Dell unveils Nickelodeon-edition netbook, which may represent change in way next generation develops its social and decision-making skills.
Tags: Web 2.0, Children, Animation, social networking, food, virtual world, decision-making, network, Dell Computer Corp., Netbook
Microsoft hopes charity push will spur IE downloads
News The software maker will donate meals to a food bank for each person that downloads its new browser through a special Web site.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Microsoft Windows 7, Europe, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, San Francisco, food, Microsoft Windows, bank
Is growing food the next green-tech innovation?
News Nicholas Parker, founder and chairman of the Cleantech Group, says investors and entrepreneurs are underestimating the need for technology to solve environmental problems.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Innovation, biology, Nicholas Parker, Renewable Energy, venture capital, food, carbon dioxide, industry
Market competition and Chinese New Year
Blogs I wanted to write this only after the Chinese New Year season had passed. As far back as I can remember, during the run-...
Wireless in Singapore...NOT!
Blogs I was in Singapore recently for an overnight stay. While waiting for my meeting to start, I hung around at the airport. ...
Cars should be made greener, not cheaper
Blogs It was a long time coming, but the Tata Nano finally saw daylight this week when the US$2,230 car was officially launche...
Vnet to re-launch Apple's iStudio in Thailand
News To capture growing lifestyle retail market, Thailand's Vnet has taken a controlling stake in Copperwired and is set to re-launch an iStudio Apple shop the same size as that in San Francisco.
Tags: Smart phones, Sales strategy, Apple Inc., Training, Apple MacBook, Thailand, Singapore, Sales, ROI, Japan
Navigating, dieting your way to greener pastures
Blogs Drive by GPS, think green every day and eat grass. Odd as it may sound, these seem to be the messages that came out of E...
Are supercomputers just better liars?
Insight Supercomputers may be far more powerful than ordinary machines, but that does not make their predictions infallible, says expert.
Tags: Supercomputing, R&D, Models, computer, Consulting, Jones, supercomputer, high-performance computing, modeling, food
