Since there can never be too many reminders for kids on how to stay safe online, here are seven from the Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan. She joined with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Microsoft, Best Buy and the Geek Squad, and an Illinois retail association to spread the word on safe […]
Queen embraces YouTube!
Britain’s 81-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, considered an icon of traditionalism, embraced modern technology yesterday, setting up her own special Royal Channel on YouTube. The queen will use the popular video-sharing website to send out her 50th annual televised Christmas message, which she first delivered live to the nation and its colonies on December 25, 1957. […]
Seymour Benzer, father of behavioral genetics, died on Nov 30, 2007.
Seymour Benzer, a founder of the field of modern genetics, died from a stroke on Friday, November 30, at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. He was 86. An emeritus professor at the California Institute of Technology, Benzer’s lasting impact on modern-day genetics can be seen in continuing work whose foundations he helped lay. Studies in gene […]
Internet Traffic Jam by 2010?
Internet usage could outstrip network capacity worldwide in a little more than two years, according to "The Internet Singularity, Delayed: Why Limits in Internet Capacity Will Stifle Innovation on the Web," a study conducted by Nemertes Research. This study — the first-ever to assess Internet infrastructure and model current/projected traffic patterns independent of one another […]
World’s top Management guru is Indian
The word Guru has its origins from India and now an Indian has been delared the world’s foremost management guru by Thinkers 50, an annual ranking of the top 50 management thought leaders in the world. C K Prahalad, professor at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M Ross School of Business,(No.3 last year) has trumped the likes […]
Can a $100 Laptop Save the World?
It was easy to spot the most popular kid at last week’s “Open Source Meets Business” conference in Nuremberg. Between presentations, in the halls, even at the lavish evening banquets, there he’d be, flitting around in a cherry fedora, showing off the coolest toy in town, if not the world. Jan Wildeboer is a Solution […]