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News items, Blog posts relating to Web Technology Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:03:35 +0100 Our website is nothing fancy. No dropdown menus, no Flash, just information. I ginned it up this summer as a way to get information out to parents and staff and keep moving spiffing it up down on my very long to do list. I don't think the...
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:20:57 +0100 Andre Mendes, CIO of the Special Olympics, describes the website where friends and family can go see footage and information on any participant in the games. Results are posted constantly, so viewers can stay up to date. by Administrator
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:58:06 +0100 In the wake of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, it didn't take long before pro-Hamas supporters organized themselves and started to defacing thousands of pro-Israeli web sites in order to use them as vehicles for propaganda -- Israel is meanwhile hijacking TV signals. For the...
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:43:50 +0100 Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 6.17% 2. mail.yahoo.com 4.7% 3. www.myspace.com 3.91% 4. www.yahoo.com 3.78% 5. mail.live.com 1.94% 6. www.ebay.com 1.56% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.49% 8. www.facebook.com 1.24% 9. www.msn.com 1.17% ...
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:46:18 +0100 You all know that agricultural crop production relies on fertilizers, such as composted waste materials. But I bet you wouldn't have thought to add human hair to animal manure to produce better and greener fertilizers. Yet, a study done by Mississippi State University researchers has shown that human hair, 'combined...
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:12:30 +0100 A new assessment from NOAA indicates that while human activity and greenhouse gases may be altering the earth climate, to be able to predict future regional climate we will need to understand the oceans better. Said a NOAA scientist: "Improving predictions of regional sea-surface temperatures will be...
Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:33:09 +0100 After seeing my buddy Rafe's OLED display on the new Samsung I7710 S60 device I pulled the trigger on a new Nokia N85 when the North American versions became available last week. I found a decent deal at Newegg and trust them so I placed my order and to my...
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:32:03 +0100 Google has no doubt revolutionised how we use the Internet. We don't bother typing anything into the address bar anymore, and many of us don't use their favourites/bookmarks as much as they should do. Nowadays, we load up our browser and search for everything we need. Because Google UK is...
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:01:56 +0100 According to Microsoft, a release candidate of Internet Explorer 8 is just around the corner, and with it comes an urgent call to web designers to get their act together and tweak their sites so they'll render properly under the new browser. Back in August, I began...
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:13:10 +0100 No Functionality Cutbacks for 2009 unlike client spending Lately, I've written a lot about several PSA professional services automation and PPM project portfolio management vendors. While I've discussed a number of vendors like OpenAir, CA Clarity, QuickArrow and Oracle nee Primavera nee Evolve, I haven't discussed one...
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:39:03 +0100 Open source has swept away most gatekeepers in the software sphere, so that even Microsoft must dance to its tune. Enter the worlds of content and mobility, however, and gatekeepers still hold sway. Watching open source batter against these fortresses will be one of the great stories of 2009. by...
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:24:55 +0100 Apple tonight issued a press release announcing that this January will be the company's last year participating in Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. The other surprise in the release is that Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing â not Steve Jobs...
Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:51:37 +0100 A petition, right from the heart of the University of Kent where I currently study, is attempting to persuade the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, away from new immigration laws targeting international students entering UK universities. Whilst the topic itself is a controversial one;...
Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:30:19 +0100 The Internet is slowly becoming a rubbish tip for junk, useless information, knitting patterns and videos of blind Scottish men being hit in the nuts with a baseball. Because nothing on the web really ever disappears, we can see into the looking glass of the past. Over the last few...
Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:29:13 +0100 University of Delaware UD scientists and engineers are currently working at South Pole under very harsh conditions. This research team is one of the many other ones working on the construction of IceCube, the world's largest neutrino telescope in the Antarctic ice, far beneath the continent's snow-covered surface. When it...
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:41:07 +0100 One of Yahoo's most valuable properties is its web mail service, which has more members and gets more traffic than mail services provided by Google, MSN and AOL. Yahoo Mail was once part of the portal, another offering along side things like photo services, stock portfolios, alerts and other services...
Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:58:41 +0100 This program has been in private beta for a while now -- but just recently it was opened up for everyone to use. Friend Connect is an extremely simple way to make any website you have a bit more social -- people that "join" your site (which I...
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:35:19 +0100 Struggling to marry your company's environmental concerns with the right IT management philosophies? The Business Performance Management Forum BPM Forum and Rackable Systems have started a new "thought leadership" program, Think Eco-Logical, to help companies share ideas and data that can serve as the foundation for industry best practices. ...
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:03:28 +0100 The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect, a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.Techmeme Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social networking site. Now, using Facebook Connect, members can share information about...
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:02:52 +0100 Microsoft has hired former Yahoo executive Qi Lu to run its online services business. Lu will start on January 5 and report directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, according to a CNET report. The company also announced that Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of Aquantive and a...
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