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BI on a Limited Budget
From The Eponymous Pickle

BI on a Limited Budget

A new TDWI report: BI on a Limited BudgetBI on a Limited Budget: Strategies for Doing More with LessThe current economic downturn has accentuated the need among...

Evolutionary Pressures
From Wild WebMink

Evolutionary Pressures


IPads in Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

IPads in Business

Some good examples in CW of IPads being used in business.

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Launcher from "Despicable Me"
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Launcher from "Despicable Me"

Don't squid me, bro.

About Emotionally Effective Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

About Emotionally Effective Advertising

Just received and of interest: About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising by Dan Hill D.V. Reading parts of it now, more to follow. I also see...

What Your Identity Has to Do With Learning
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

What Your Identity Has to Do With Learning

What happens if one of your identities conflicts with what you're trying to learn in school? For instance, what if you are a creationist Christian learning science...

Doomsday Shelters
From Schneier on Security

Doomsday Shelters

Selling fear: The Vivos network, which offers partial ownerships similar to a timeshare in underground shelter communities, is one of several ventures touting...

Unilever Tracks Omo Boxes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever Tracks Omo Boxes

Report in Adage that Unilver will be tracking a small sample of boxes of Omo detergent in Brazil using a GPS device. The Adage headline about 'stalking' is inflammatory...

Shopkick
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopkick

Another good example of bridging retail and mobile underway:Shopkick bridges the mobile and retail worlds.We are funded by Kleiner Perkins's "iFund" and are the...

Mobile Choices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Choices

Another example of the use of Mobile to engage in-store, note in particular the use of barcode scanning, which is becoming more common. I recently saw severalShopkick...

White House OSTP blog cites CCC again
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

White House OSTP blog cites CCC again

In a recent blog post “Reflections on the NNI

Smartphone and  Accessories Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartphone and Accessories Blog

A correspondent has set up a blog on new Smartphone developments and accessories.

Hacking ATMs
From Schneier on Security

Hacking ATMs

Hacking ATMs to spit out money, demonstrated at the Black Hat conference: The two systems he hacked on stage were made by Triton and Tranax. The Tranax hack was...

? Competitive Behaviour
From Wild WebMink

? Competitive Behaviour

Apple Ships More Mobile Phones Than Motorola For The Second Quarter In A Row More a statement of Motorola’s decline that Apple’s advance, but still a significant...

Genevieve Bell
From Putting People First

Genevieve Bell

In 2009, Dr. Genevieve Bell, an Australian-born anthropologist and ethnographer, who is an Intel Fellow and heads Intel’s newly created Interaction and Experience...

House Passes Bill to Improve Accessibility on the Web
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

House Passes Bill to Improve Accessibility on the Web

The House recently passed H.R. 3101, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act. Sponsored by Rep. Markey of Massachusetts, the bill seeks to...

New Seed Accelerator in Cincinnati
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Seed Accelerator in Cincinnati

New in the heart of the Midwest, by a former colleague, The Brandery:The Brandery opens it doors: New seed accelerator launches in Cincinnati by Dave KnoxToday...

Wal-Mart was Wrong to Just Tag Pallets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart was Wrong to Just Tag Pallets

I just wrote a guest column at one of my favorite retail blogs: Storefrontbacktalk. About how Wal-Mart first tested RFID tags extensively on cases and pallets...

From Computational Complexity

What is the complexity of these problems and metaproblems?

The following problem is from Doctor Eco's Cyberpuzzles. I have shortened and generalized it. We are going to put numbers into boxes. If x,y,z are in a box then...

Acceleration of Addiction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Acceleration of Addiction

Paul Graham on the acceleration of addiction via technology. Technology gives us more of what we want, so is it accellerating addiction? Pretty clear the answer...
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