I used a slew of technology at the show but two products are worth special mention. The first is the Flip Mino HD video recorder which excelled in low-light conditions and allowed me to take rapid and high-quality videos of the show. Thanks Cisco for providing me with this device
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Tools I Used at ITEXPO East 2010
A humble thank you to my followers who came out in support of ITEXPO this past week in Miami. Thank you conferees who braved a tough economic climate and came to the show. I also want to extend appreciation to the speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and attendees at the show
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ITEXPO East 2010 Miami a Great Success Thanks to You
Posted by Harry Wingo, Policy Counsel This weekend, Google along with dozens of other D.C. organizations, attended the Winterhaven Homeless Veterans Stand Down at the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The annual event helps homeless Veterans get back on their feet with job clinics, medical aid, dental care, and housing assistance.
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Google Voice & Project CARE connect with DC’s homeless vets
Elysia is “an enthusiastic fashion-addicted chick writing about trends, inspiration, often changing wants, and anything else random popping into her mind,” and she blogs all about it at Fashion Fille , which is set to celebrate its two-year anniversary this July. I had the pleasure of speaking with Elysia about her blog and her take on fashion
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Ten Questions with Fashion Fille
Foreign students represent a huge revenue source for the big players in the market. For example, the UK and Australia have an international student market that is estimated to be worth €12 billion and countries like New Zealand receives around €1.5 billion per year
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Ireland drops the ball attracting International Students
Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone vendor, decided to bring its Ovi Map navigation software to all Nokia smartphone users for free. This is considered as an attempt to retrieve its loss in the smartphone market and a response to Google’s services
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Nokia Offers Free Navigation and Mapping Tools for its Smartphones
The Cricket MSGM8 is a candy bar messaging phone with a QWERTY keypad released for Cricket Communications. As a basic handset designed for starters, the MSGM8 has an easy-to-use interface, intuitive layout and one touch keys for opening messaging and email box, scheduler and MyHomeScreen for web access. It has a simple and straightforward slate form factor, measuring 4.2″ long by 2.3″ wide by 0.5″ thick and weighing 3.7 ounces.
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Cricket MSGM8 – the Affordable Texter-friendly Handset
Before checking out this post be sure to put on your propeller hat — Oh and by the way turn down the sound if you ever want a chance at getting a date this decade. GM Voices is a long-standing company recording voice prompts for companies. They are one of the most consistent companies I know in the telecom space — exhibiting at shows for about 15-20 years
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Asterisk Gets a Song
I just heard from a reliable source that Goldman Sachs bonuses have been switched from cash to stock. Recently the company announced this would be the case for those at the top of the organization but now my source tells me this will be the case for the whole company. With the massive government and public backlash against banks and the amount of their compensation, this seems like a very very smart move for Goldman.
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Breaking: Goldman Sachs Bonuses all Stock?
Dr. Robert Mentzer Jr., former dean of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, has joined San Diego State University’s BioScience Center as a research professor in the department of biology, according to a Jan.
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Robert Mentzer, former dean of WSU medical school, takes job in San Diego
Posted by Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change & Energy Initiatives, Google.org Along with other entrepreneurs, investors and industry stakeholders, we wrote a letter urging President Obama to craft a jobs package that includes the creation of a Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA). Swift enactment of CEDA will create jobs in 2010 and also position the U.S. as a global leader in the development and deployment of clean energy technologies for years to come
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Finance clean energy, Mr. President
Want to see one way to use the Web to teach? Berkman ’s Jonathan Zittrain and Stanford Law’s Elizabeth Stark are teaching a course called Difficult Problems in Cyberlaw . It looks like they have students creating wiki pages for the various topics being discussed.
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How to use the Web to teach: An example
ShoesForHaitNow.com has a simple goal: collect 100,000 pairs of shoes to send to the people of Haiti. BlogCatalog and BloggersUnite have offered their support to the Shoes For Haiti Now project. Not only will we be helping to promote the site, but we will also be collecting shoes at our BlogCatalog offices
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BlogCatalog Accepting Donations For ShoesforHaitiNow.com
This is weird, but all of a suddenly my MacBook Pro is running really hot and the fan keeps turning on. Not a big deal, but I’m used to it being quiet and smooth without ever even being aware of its temperature. Is there a power supply problem, as my Dad suggests, or is it something else going on
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Why is my MacBook Pro suddenly running hot?
If you stream any video on your site, this news could drastically increase your future costs. Here is an excellent article from Christopher Blizzard on HTML 5 video and H.264 which delves into the potential problems we could see on the web when a company demands to get paid for technologies which users may have thought were open.
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HTML 5 Plus H.264 not as Open as you Think
Not to be confused with our alert last Thursday , spammers seem ready to pounce on the press attention towards the recent out-of-band release of MS10-002 to scare users into downloading fake updates via email. We have been seeing messages pushing a Microsoft update via a link. The messages spoof the From: address which shows as Microsoft Office, and in an effort to further legitimize these messages and broaden their attack targets, the messages also contain Italian and French translations.
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Don’t update via email!
While smartphones with increasingly advanced capabilities continue to improve user experience, they also pose higher risks of mobile virus, spyware and other malware. With more companies developing security software and services to tackle this problem, the smartphone security market is set to boom in the next five years, according to ABI Research
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Rising Demand for Smartphone Security
With all the heavy texting, gaming and web browsing, it is not uncommon for iPhone owners to find their devices running out of juice just a few hours after charging. Luckily, there are always alternatives to keep your iPhone going. This stylish-looking external power pack is one of them.
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User Guide – Backup Battery for iPhone 3G / 3GS
For the last 10 years in the USA there has been a marked decline in the number of public schools opting to teach a foreign language. However, contrary to this trend, there has been a rush in recent years by schools to offer Chinese – and the Chinese government has been helping out too, paying up to 50% of Chinese teachers salaries. In this economic environment, it seems schools are finding this prospect too good to refuse! In one school in Ohio, the Chinese language program was introduced in 2007 with 20 students – and now has over 80
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Teaching Foreign Languages Fade……. Except Chinese!
Consumers from all over the world are quickly embracing mobile technologies for shopping, as over half (51 percent) of consumers across 11 countries reported using their cell phones as product research tools and bargain finders during the 2009 holiday shopping season, according to a new study released by Motorola . In-store activities performed by holiday shoppers on handsets include price comparison, reading product reviews, finding product information, and seeking coupons and discounts online. Although last year’s figures are not available for comparison, Motorola said the number of people using their smartphones for shopping has surged this year
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More Consumers Use Cell Phones for Shopping
One in nine cross-border minutes was a free Skype-to-Skype call last year. That’s $12.9 billion in international calls Skype gave its users for free assuming Skype’s customers would pay a world average market price of roughly $0.24 per minute.
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Skype gave away $12.9 billion in free international calls in 2009
The average asking price for Detroit-area small businesses for sale in the fourth quarter of 2009 was up, as was the revenue the businesses were reporting, according to data collected by online listing service BizBuySell.com.
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Sales of small businesses down: Asking price, revenue up; median sale price slides
In four to six months, Detroit could have the broad-brush outlines of a land use plan that encompasses the principles of shrinking the city by consolidating investment in key neighborhoods — if Detroit Mayor Dave Bing accepts an offer from a…
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Foundations, city at brink of plan to shrink Detroit
Apple is holding a media event this week where the company is widely expected to launch its first tablet computer . But a new tablet may not be the only new product from Apple this week, as many people expect the company to launch new iPhone software and perhaps even new iPhone hardware at the event
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Apple Announcing New iPhone Software, Hardware This Week?
As I have the previous three years ( 2008 , 2007 , 2006 ), this is the post where I try to pull together some of the most interesting blog posts from my blog in 2009. These are not necessarily fantastic posts, but should give readers that are new to the blog a place to start to get a feel for what this blog is all about.
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The Best (?) of The Fischbowl 2009
In many cases, the rates charged on international calls to mobile phones are substantially higher than the rate charged for the same call to a land-line. Therefore, when making international calls, callers should take care and read the fine print so they fully understand the rate charged for making a call to the type of phone they plan to call or they may receive an unpleasant surprise.
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Rates on International Calls to Mobile Phones
During the first week of 2010, Google began a “soft launch” of its new Android phone – the Nexus One. This light (130 gram) phone is the Internet search giant’s latest admission to the competitive smartphone market, which already has big hitters like Apple’s iPhone and the Blackberry series providing strong competition.
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Get Your Favorite “Smart App” On With the Nexus One Smart Phone
Posted by Vincent Paquet, Senior Product Manager, Google Voice (cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) It’s sometimes easy to take the little things in life for granted: a haircut, a shower, shoes or even a phone number. Sometimes life doesn’t turn out the way we planned, and those little luxuries become much harder to come by. Project CARE is a program to provide free Google Voice phone numbers and voicemail accounts to homeless individuals.
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Bringing Project CARE to veterans in Washington, D.C.
The Motorola Brute i680 , which combines an ultra-rugged design with noise cancellation and the best-in-class push-to-talk (PTT) capabilities, is now available to Sprint customers. Meeting Military Specification 810F for high temperatures, humidity, blowing rain, solar radiation, dust, shock and more, the Brute is built for people who need to work outside or in harsh environments
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Motorola Brute i680 – Designed for Communications in Extreme Conditions
Apple revolutionary vision and the iPhone may have met their match with Google’s Nexus One. While Steve Wozniak is not giving up his iPhone he was impressed with the Nexus One he received from Google executive Andy Rubin. Just how do the two phones compare with each other?
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Will Google’s Nexus One usurp the iPhone Market?