Web/Tech

Facebook Beckons to Businesses, Who Beckon to Users By Clint BoultonFrom eWeek.com November 7, 2007 Nearly four years after launching, Facebook moved into its second stage of life on Nov. 6 with Facebook Ads, an online ad platform that lets...

Auckland scientists are trying to be the first in the world to develop computer models of individual humans that could achieve hundreds of things from saving lives to allowing people to "try on" clothes online. Some of the aims of...

Canadian researchers expect to accelerate the war on cancer by tapping into a global network of hundreds of thousands of people who volunteer their idle computer time to tackle some of the world’s most complex problems. The research team,...

The “NIH Pipeline to Partnerships (P2P)” a web based resource with virtual space helps NIH licensees and NIH SBIR/STTR awardees showcase their technologies and product development to an audience of potential strategic partners, investors,...

I had a previous post dealing with municipal wireless networks and associated problems.  Here is a related article: The city of Chicago is abandoning its plan to build a municipal WiFi network. Negotiations with the two providers who had...

I do not understand what Sermo.com really does or why it receives the amount of press it does.  Below is a recent story that appeared in Financial Times and reported by the Associated Press.  After sometime I was able to register...