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Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in Three Years’ Time
Speaking at the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD, European Director of Google’s online sales John Herlihy said that Google is mostly oriented towards mobile devices, claiming they’ll become more important than desktop PCs. “In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs,” he said. True, with Android and Nexus One Google has ...
INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
ENVIRONMENT: Budgeting for green energy “Coal,” said the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, in his Budget speech, “is the mainstay of India's energy sector and 75 per cent of the power generation is currently coal based.” He then went on to make ...
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt: Preschool gender warrior
Tabloids foam over the famous tot's attire, showing just how eager we are to narrowly define sex roles
Google Index to Go Real Time
Google is developing a system that will enable web publishers of any size to automatically submit new content to Google for indexing within seconds of that content being published. Search industry analyst Danny Sullivan told us today that this could be \"the next chapter\" for Google. Last Fall we were told by Google's Brett Slatkin, lead developer on the PubSubHubbub (PuSH) real time syndication ...
Keith DeCandido on Licensed Comics
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another week of The No-Fly Zone . We've often talked about licensed comics and how they can attract new readers to the medium. But, they also come with a few drawbacks. Writing Star Trek comics means staying within boundaries established by the properties that own the whole franchise. Still...
Tasmanian support for big changes in tennis
Two of the state's most prominent tennis identities are concerned about the state of the game in Australia. ROB SHAW reports. TWO of the biggest names in Tasmanian tennis are among those pushing for major changes to restore the future of the sport in Australia.
Homer Glen looks to form own water agency
As higher water and sewer rates in Homer Glen appear increasingly inevitable, village officials are pushing forward with a plan to wrest control of their water and sewer service from Illinois American Water.
Helipad debate is simply a masked corporate internal issue for Atlantic Health
To the editor from Michael S. Dzikowski I am disturbed after reading Atlantic Health’s staff (and consultants’) less than candid, self-serving remarks as reported in the “Independent Press” (02/24/10) and related internet sites. We all know that these NIMBY project...
Botnets cause surge in February spam
Spam levels increase more than 5 percent in February over prior month, due in large part to greater activity from Grum and Rustock botnets, according to Symantec.
Gov’t, rebel panels meet anew on respective peace proposals
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- The panels of the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) would attempt in a meeting in Kuala Lumpur today to reconcile differences in comprehensive peace pact proposals as both sides remain at odds on pushing the peace agenda forward.
Speaking at the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD, European Director of Google’s online sales John Herlihy said that Google is mostly oriented towards mobile devices, claiming they’ll become more important than desktop PCs. “In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs,” he said. True, with Android and Nexus One Google has ...
INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
ENVIRONMENT: Budgeting for green energy “Coal,” said the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, in his Budget speech, “is the mainstay of India's energy sector and 75 per cent of the power generation is currently coal based.” He then went on to make ...
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt: Preschool gender warrior
Tabloids foam over the famous tot's attire, showing just how eager we are to narrowly define sex roles
Google Index to Go Real Time
Google is developing a system that will enable web publishers of any size to automatically submit new content to Google for indexing within seconds of that content being published. Search industry analyst Danny Sullivan told us today that this could be \"the next chapter\" for Google. Last Fall we were told by Google's Brett Slatkin, lead developer on the PubSubHubbub (PuSH) real time syndication ...
Keith DeCandido on Licensed Comics
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another week of The No-Fly Zone . We've often talked about licensed comics and how they can attract new readers to the medium. But, they also come with a few drawbacks. Writing Star Trek comics means staying within boundaries established by the properties that own the whole franchise. Still...
Tasmanian support for big changes in tennis
Two of the state's most prominent tennis identities are concerned about the state of the game in Australia. ROB SHAW reports. TWO of the biggest names in Tasmanian tennis are among those pushing for major changes to restore the future of the sport in Australia.
Homer Glen looks to form own water agency
As higher water and sewer rates in Homer Glen appear increasingly inevitable, village officials are pushing forward with a plan to wrest control of their water and sewer service from Illinois American Water.
Helipad debate is simply a masked corporate internal issue for Atlantic Health
To the editor from Michael S. Dzikowski I am disturbed after reading Atlantic Health’s staff (and consultants’) less than candid, self-serving remarks as reported in the “Independent Press” (02/24/10) and related internet sites. We all know that these NIMBY project...
Botnets cause surge in February spam
Spam levels increase more than 5 percent in February over prior month, due in large part to greater activity from Grum and Rustock botnets, according to Symantec.
Gov’t, rebel panels meet anew on respective peace proposals
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- The panels of the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) would attempt in a meeting in Kuala Lumpur today to reconcile differences in comprehensive peace pact proposals as both sides remain at odds on pushing the peace agenda forward.
