Monthly Archives: February 2009

Google Taking a Step Into Power Metering

Via the New York Times By MATTHEW WALD and MIGUEL HELFT Published: February 9, 2009 AN FRANCISCO — Google will announce its entry Tuesday into the small but growing business of “smart grid,” digital technologies that seek to both keep … Continue reading

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Call Skype From Any Phone Through OpenSky

Via Mashable VoIP company Gizmo5 has introduced a free (we’ll get to that bit later) Skype gateway called OpenSky. It enables any VoIP client, SIP or mobile phone to make calls to Skype users. The service works like this: you … Continue reading

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Twitter To Start Charging Companies For Having An Account?

Via Tech Crunch by Robin Wauters on February 10, 2009 Companies using Twitter for commercial purposes may soon start getting charged for that activity, according to an interview British trade magazine Marketing (part of BrandRepublic) held with co-founder Biz Stone. … Continue reading

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Open letter to Obama: Uncle Sam should go open source

Via ARS Technica By Ryan Paul | Last updated February 10, 2009 8:20 A group of software vendors has published an open letter to president Obama encouraging the new administration to adopt open source software in the government’s IT infrastructure. … Continue reading

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Is The Worst Behind Us? Online Ad Revenues Pick Up In The Fourth Quarter.

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on February 5, 2009 With Time Warner reporting earnings yesterday, we now have online advertising numbers for the fourth quarter from the four largest players: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL. Tallying up their online … Continue reading

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UK spends billions on high-tech IDs, forgets to buy card readers

Via Tech Crunch by Devin Coldewey on February 5, 2009 This has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve heard in a long time. The UK has spent £4.4 billion ($6.6bn US) on a controversial high-tech National Identity Card … Continue reading

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In Hudson River Landing, PR Pros Were Not First Responders

Via Media Shift by Mark Hannah, February 5, 2009 In times of crisis, communications professionals have an important — and increasingly complicated — role to play. We used to be the first to offer public responses to catastrophes, able to … Continue reading

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Facebook Joins OpenID Foundation; So What?

Via Mashable February 5, 2009 – 5:19 pm PDT – by Adam Ostrow Facebook announced this afternoon that it’s joining the OpenID Foundation – an interesting move considering that Facebook Connect, the company’s identity platform for third-party websites, has so … Continue reading

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Techrigy Hits 1 Billion Conversations–Think Google Alerts On Steroids

Via Tech Crunch by Jeff Widman on February 5, 2009 Last month, I e-mailed my entire family and suggested they setup Google Alerts on their name. When a week later someone created a malicious Facebook group slandering my sister (very … Continue reading

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