Call emergency services from the 19th floor of an office tower in with a medical emergency and it might be almost impossible for first responders to find you. Even if your phone can get a fix on a satellite able to help it determine a user's location ? a big if ? that satellite won't ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 23:55

Most telling ? and disquieting ? in the recent shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin is a call placed by self-proclaimed neighborhood captain George Zimmerman to police dispatch on a rainy February evening. Zimmerman, from his townhouse in a gated community in Sanford, Florida, noticed a 17 year old wearing a hoodie as he took ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 08:57

By Daryl Plummer Gartner, Inc. If your company is moving parts of its business to the cloud, you're probably realizing that it's not all that simple. Working with many cloud service providers means managing multiple relationships. In fact, if you're trying to save money or gain efficiency, you'll have more success if you have a ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 09:22

Tim Tebow is coming to New York, and not everyone's happy about it, nor should they be. Mark Sanchez, the Jets' incumbent starting quarterback, definitely shouldn't be; his job is a lot less safe than it was this morning. Cornerback Antonio Cromartie isn't; he knows this is the mother of all distractions for a team that doesn't need more. Some Jets fans are, but some aren't, and the latter have a pretty good argument: For a team whose problem is an inaccurate, inconsistent quarterback, Tebow is a pretty weird solution. You know who is happy, though? You know who is beyond ecstatic -- probably, at this moment, rolling on the floor in paralyzing mirth? That would be the top editors of the New York Post and the New York Daily News, and their bosses, owners Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:55

What a difference thirty years make. Since 1980, the three major news networks have managed to lose the interest of 29 million people, or just over 55% of the audience they once had. In 2010 alone, they lost 752,000 people to a variety of news sources, blogs and other forms of news found online and ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 23:55

In the world of robotics, generally speaking most innovation comes out of a university lab or the military. The CRIIF, Centre de Robitique Integree d-??le-en-France, is not a University research laboratory or the research wing of a Fortune 500 technology company. It's a non-profit robotics lab which essentially serves as an outsourced Research and Development ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 11:45

On March 14- 16 in Lyon, France, Innorobo, one of the world?s most prestigious Robotics events took place. This was the crossroads for Universities, independent laboratories and commercial entities like Toyota and to gather to talk about the next steps in robotic innovation, application and adoption. robotics firm, TopChair showcasing a new wheelchair that can ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 10:25

ORLANDO ? Sean Day[9] Plott has emerged as one of the most prominent voices in eSports today. The former StarCraft: Brood War pro gamer has parlayed his Masters degree in Interactive Media at the university of Southern California into a streaming empire with Day[9]TV. Plott serves as a StarCraft II commentator for Major League Gaming ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 17:55

Yet another SEC fraud case. Yet another phony audit report. Yet another bogus accounting firm. Is Wall Street nothing more than a string of Potemkin villages?

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 14:25

The Logistics firm DHL () has just completed and publicized five future scenarios called ?Delivering Tomorrow: Logistics 2050.? In the never-ending mountain of corporate waffle, surely this is the summit? Why spend time and resources on thinking about what might happen 38 years from now when even the 5-year-future is effectively unpredictable? In an exclusive ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 14:25