4:51 PM
India just began the world's most ambitious biometric project--they want to assign a unique 12-digit ID to all of their 1.2 billion people, with fingerprints and iris scans for all of their residents:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/india-embarks-ambitious-biometric-project-12-billion-ids
Scientists have developed a technique to quickly create safe alternatives for stem cells, a major advance towards developing a less controversial approach for treating a variety of medical problems:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/30/AR2010093003211.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics
The surge in smartphone adoption in the US has resulted in 94.5% of the IP addresses already being used, with the rest of the IP addresses the US has expected to be gone by the summer. This is amazing when you consider that the US owns more than 90% of the public IP addresses in the world. This will force the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 to get more IP addresses available, which will be costly for businesses:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/utility_ondemand/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227500983
Interesting (but not surprising) that mobile search peaks at night and desktop search peaks in the morning (during the workday). They have also found that mobile search is higher during weekends and desktop search is higher during times when people are normally at work:
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-mobile-search-peaks-at-night-desktop-search-peaks-in-the-morning-2010-9
ABC news report about how Facebook and Skype are discussing combining their services and a deal is expected to be announced within the next few weeks:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/techbytes-facebook-skype-talks-team/story?id=11763753
Fortune absolutely tore into Yahoo's CEO in this commentary. They quote one large shareholder who blames the CEO for driving away executives and other employees with her abrasive and dismissive behavior. The article also states that she does not understand how to run an internet company:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/30/game-over-carol-bartz/?section=magazines_fortune
RIM publicly discussed how they may dump their BlackBerry OS for QNX. QNX's software is used to control music and media features in Porsche sports cars and in control systems for nuclear power plants and Army tanks. QNX may allow applications to be ported from Android to RIM devices since they share the same programming standard--that would be important for RIM since the BlackBerry platform has very few apps:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-29/rim-considers-using-its-tablet-operating-system-in-blackberry-devices.html
The CEO and chairman of Time Warner finally ended years of denial from their company and said that their merger with AOL was the single biggest mistake in corporate history:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=46737&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/india-embarks-ambitious-biometric-project-12-billion-ids
Scientists have developed a technique to quickly create safe alternatives for stem cells, a major advance towards developing a less controversial approach for treating a variety of medical problems:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/30/AR2010093003211.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics
The surge in smartphone adoption in the US has resulted in 94.5% of the IP addresses already being used, with the rest of the IP addresses the US has expected to be gone by the summer. This is amazing when you consider that the US owns more than 90% of the public IP addresses in the world. This will force the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 to get more IP addresses available, which will be costly for businesses:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/utility_ondemand/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227500983
Interesting (but not surprising) that mobile search peaks at night and desktop search peaks in the morning (during the workday). They have also found that mobile search is higher during weekends and desktop search is higher during times when people are normally at work:
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-mobile-search-peaks-at-night-desktop-search-peaks-in-the-morning-2010-9
ABC news report about how Facebook and Skype are discussing combining their services and a deal is expected to be announced within the next few weeks:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/techbytes-facebook-skype-talks-team/story?id=11763753
Fortune absolutely tore into Yahoo's CEO in this commentary. They quote one large shareholder who blames the CEO for driving away executives and other employees with her abrasive and dismissive behavior. The article also states that she does not understand how to run an internet company:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/30/game-over-carol-bartz/?section=magazines_fortune
RIM publicly discussed how they may dump their BlackBerry OS for QNX. QNX's software is used to control music and media features in Porsche sports cars and in control systems for nuclear power plants and Army tanks. QNX may allow applications to be ported from Android to RIM devices since they share the same programming standard--that would be important for RIM since the BlackBerry platform has very few apps:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-29/rim-considers-using-its-tablet-operating-system-in-blackberry-devices.html
The CEO and chairman of Time Warner finally ended years of denial from their company and said that their merger with AOL was the single biggest mistake in corporate history:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=46737&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10