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Blockbuster Goes Online With TiVo, Apple to Save Its Business

Remember Blockbuster? You know, you'd rent a movie and then when you had to return it, you dropped it in that funny mail slot outside the store? It just announced, at long last some would say, that it's partnering with TiVo to bring ...READ»

Technology: A380 Encounters Turbulence

Is the Airbus A380 a plane in search of a mission? According to a report in The Straits Times, if not for the recession, traffic controllers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) might have to turn away the A380 because it ...READ»

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Offset Your Carbon Footprint With A Cocktail

TRU Organic Spirits is putting the friendly back in environmentally friendly. Not only are its lemon- and vanilla-infused vodkas and their aromatic gin completely certified USDA organic, but the Monrovia, California-based ...READ»

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How Y Combinator Schools Tech Startups

Jessica Livingston along with Trevor Blackwell (center), Paul Graham, and Robert Morris, cofounded Y Combinator, which trains early-stage tech startups for a "semester" to help them navigate companyhood.READ»

Satellite Internet by HughesNet

HughesNet Satellite Internet Service Satellite Internet is 21st century technology that brings High Speed Internet access to anyone nationwide. Using satellites orbiting the Earth, Hughes is able to transmit and receive internet ...READ»

Protecting Your Online Identity

Your personal information is online and getting more accessible every day. So how can you manage your online reputation and privacy in this cyber world where walls don't exist? Here are five ways in which Internet users can ensure ...READ»

Interivew w/ UFC Commentator Eddie Bravo

Eddie Bravo: Formless Wisdom Pt. 1 By: Adisa Banjoko Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. ...READ»

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New software technology that gives you billboard quality exposure to your clients Every Day for less than $1/day

I'm a fairly new real estate agent in Brookline, MA and like most new agents I want to establish great long-term relationships with my clients and remind my friends and acquintances that I'm in real estate business should they ...READ»

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Africa Technology and Investment Digest 9

Subscribe to Appfrica via E-mail | Appfrica.org The Next 2 Billion: The China/Africa Connection Explored The combined populations of China and the fifty-three countries that make up Africa account for well over 2 billion people or ...READ»

Work/Life: Guestroom of the Future?

"The hotel guestroom of the future" was was showcased at this year's HITEC (Hospitality International Technology Exposition & Conference), an exposition that reveals the latest hi-tech hotel trends. What might it ...READ»

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I want to know examples of free business web sites that helped grow your business?

  I have always been told that the INTERNET leveled the playing field for small business owners. Many Business web sites provide free innovative marketing techniques (wg. Google Alert, I want Sandy.com) in hopes that you ...READ»

Top Vertical Search Engines

Reporters and venture capitalists often ask me to name some of the top vertical search engines. Because I believe strongly that search will become a dynamic industry of very search specific sites and concepts, I decided to compile a ...READ»

IT and The Weather Channel

I have come to realize that having Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel broadcasting from your hometown is not necessarily a good thing.  If you live in Florida and it’s during hurricane season, it’s a really bad thing.  I live ...READ»

Technology and Our Children

The question was raised here in Ireland not too long ago about whether parents would consider implementing a GPS tracking device for their children.  This concern followed the abduction of British born Madeline McCann while on ...READ»

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Tips for Home Office Technology

  When it comes to technology, every home-based business owner can feel a little bit alone from time to time. There’s no help-desk or IT staff to call when your PC, Internet connection, or other devices are on the blink. It’s ...READ»

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LinkedIn Meets iTunes

A few months ago I did a piece for FastCompany.com called LinkedIn Meets eBay, about a web startup that allowed salespeople to sell each other their contacts. If the sales world already had its eBay, it now has its iTunes: a place ...READ»

Got Politics?

It’s the election season and we are inundated with headlines on the players, policies, perceptions, peccadilloes and politics. For my clients who sell to the public sector we have a recurring conversation that is focused on ...READ»

Response to: The Incubator: A Concept That Has Passed its Time

While this story has some merit is also carries with it a number of fallacies.  Having had the opportunity to create a program for a 141,000 sq ft mixed-use facility I have had the opportunity to review and visit programs not only ...READ»

Translating Government Gobbledegook

Many times we have left a meeting and discovered everyone on the team interpreted the meeting differently.  It’s as if we all went to a different meeting.   Communicating and understanding effectively is difficult in the best ...READ»

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History Worth Remembering - The New York Internet Industry Speech Brainstorm

This is worth the time for anyone interested in NYC's Digital Media Industry Posted by: Shreyas Pandit August: 7, 2008 to NextNY NYC-based venture capitalist Fred Wilson is crowd-sourcing the talk he will give at the Web 2.0 ...READ»