ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even all that new. Instead, the list includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their (Read More)
Mashable!:
The key to our health may be the technology that supports it. So believes George Halvorson – Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente’s Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Join Mr. Halvorson live for an inspired talk and discussion regarding one of the biggest issues facing the United States at (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor:
Steven Pearlstein has done a great public service by calling attention to the undemocratic ways of the U.S. Senate ["Want real reform? Let's start with Congress," Economy & Business, Nov. 11]. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual cloud computing event in San Francisco. CEO Marc Benioff is delivering the keynote and we will be live-bogging the news below. Salesforce has had a banner year, reporting strong earnings yesterday for the third quarter, launching a new version of their fastest growing produ (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
...Bloomberg plans to cut BusinessWeek's staff by 100 or more positions, or roughly 25% of the total, as the financial-information firm cements this week its initial plans for the magazine, according to people familiar with the matter....Some of these people said another reshuffling is likely to occur this spring, when Bloo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
When you launch a make or break initiative like Windows Azure, you better get it right.Well, from our vantage point, Microsoft got it right. How? In front of a sea of developers at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft trotted out a group of geek all-stars who showed how they are using Azure to do some pretty co (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
After 18 months of negotiation, the Open Web Foundation, a group made up of 106 employees of Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, some small startups and their lawyers, today released a legal document template for licensing open web technology specifications. The result could be greatly accelerated time-to-market for new t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Most text excerpts that appear on search results pages aren't very useful. Imagine if instead your search engine showed a list of clear sentences summarizing the contents of each link on that search result page. That's what a new service called Factery Labs aims to provide for any service that utilizes the API it's launch (Read More)
USATODAY.com Travel - Top Stories:
In a tough economy business travelers must find new ways to economize. One area often overlooked is the cost of renting a car.
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Mashable!:
Twitter, for all of its greatness, would not have significantly altered the landscape of real-time online communication without the swell of developer interest around its API. The simpleness of the service was, no doubt, key to Twitter’s meteoric rise, but Twitter applications – desktop, web, mobile – drove home the utility (Read More)
New York Times:
The paper spent $150 million on high-speed presses — a statement of faith that print will still be big business for another decade or two.
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Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - In Congress:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an assortment of national business groups opposed to President Obama's health-care reform effort are collecting money to finance an economic study that could be used to portray the legislation as a job killer and threat to the nation's economy, according to an e-m...
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