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Law enforcement lobbies hard for ICANN changes
IDG News Service — U.S. and U.K. law enforcement officials are trying to marshal support for changes that would make it more difficult for criminals to register domain names under false details. Their aim is to get the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- the overseer of the Internet's addressing system -- to [...]
Louisiana Tech University researchers selected to present ‘outstanding’ paper at prestigious international conference
Written by Catherine Fraser - cfraser@latech.edu Ruston, LA - Professors Henry Cardenas and Sven Eklund, and Ph.D. candidate Kunal Kupwade-Patil of the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University will present their award-winning paper at the Second International Conference on Sustainable Construction and Materials [...]
Location Isn’t A War Between Two Sides, It’s A Gold Rush For Everyone
Editor’s note: This post was written by Joe Stump, the co-founder of SimpleGeo, a geolocation infrastructure company. While much of the focus in location these days is on the front-end side of things, SimpleGeo focuses on the backend, allowing startups to very easily get started with geolocation. We asked Stump to weigh-in with his thoughts [...]
Keeping Everything in the Family
Genoom is a social networking platform designed to build private family networks. View tour With Genoom, users can create their own family network and genealogical family tree to connect with relatives from around the world. From centralizing current family connections to discovering and sharing ancestral information, Genoom offers users [...]
Weak Laser Can Ignite Nanoparticles, With Exciting Possibilities
ScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2010) — University of Florida engineering researchers have found they can ignite certain nanoparticles using a low-power laser, a development they say opens the door to a wave of new technologies in health care, computing and automotive design. A paper about the research appears in this week's advance online [...]
5 Trends that will Shape the Future of Advertising
Many people doubt the future of the advertising model. However, while new strategies for supporting content financially such freemium and e-commerce partnerships are exciting, predictions of the demise of a half trillion dollar global industry are foolish, juvenile and utterly unsupported by the data. Advertising continues to prosper [...]
Business Advice From Van Halen
By: Dan Heath and Chip Heath Your source of data doesn't need to be high tech. In fact, it doesn't even need to be numerical. Consider Van Halen. (We have been waiting years for a chance to write that sentence.) In its 1980s heyday, the band became notorious for a clause in its touring contract that demanded a bowl of M&Ms backstage, [...]
A broadband catapult for America
3/15/2010 11:57:00 AM (Cross-posted from the Google Public Policy Blog) Power. Clean water. The Interstate highway system. It’s easy to forget that the advantages of modern American life result from basic infrastructure investments made by earlier generations. Tomorrow the FCC will release a national broadband strategy. The plan [...]
