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A bountiful year for open source
It is now just over 12 years since seven people sat down in a conference room in Silicon Valley to fix what they saw as the marketing problem with the words “free software.” Most people thought that the word “free” meant only that no one had to pay. It seemed they didn’t have an attention span long enough to try to grok what Richard Stallman was saying when he kept repeating, “‘free,’ as in speech.”
After considering dozens of combinations, Christine Peterson hit upon “open source,” and the phrase has grown to represent a section of the software marketplace big enough to merit its own end-of-the-year roundup. Full Story here
Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free
To whom it may concern:
I have always loved humor and laughter. As a young engineer I got an impulse to start a Dial-a-Joke in the San Jose/San Francisco area. I was aware of such humor services in other countries, such as Australia. This idea came from my belief in laughter. I could scarcely believe that I was the first person to create such a simple service in my region. Why was I the first? This was 1972 and it was illegal in the U.S. to use your own telephone. It was illegal in the U.S. to use your own answering machine. Hence it also virtually impossible to buy or own such devices. We had a monopoly phone system in our country then.
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10 Best jQuery Plugins of 2010
The year 2010 was really awesome for geeks and technology loving persons as there were many new arrivals HTML5 came which became one of the best alternative to Flash and lightweight option for web designers.All the fields were grown and got new additions for better features and functionality.Numerous plugins were added during the whole year in jQuery one of the best framework of JavaScript.Plugins of each use arrived few got updated for better and new features.Here we list 10 best jQuery plugins of 2010 check them out here.
The Top 10 Questions Tech Entrepreneurs Ask
LawPivot is an online market for legal services. It’s a way for companies to confidentially obtain crowdsourced answers to their questions from lawyers and to also find lawyers to retain. Two lawyers with tech experience, Jay Mandal (formerly the lead mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Apple) and Nitin Gupta (formerly an intellectual property litigation lawyer at Townsend and Townsend and Crew) are the co-founders. In this post, I asked Nitin to answer the most common questions of high-tech entrepreneurs. Read more on this story here.
How Google’s New eBookstore Might Save Indie Booksellers
Advances in digital bookselling have usually pushed independent bookstores further and further out of the literary game. But Google’s new store is dealing them back in. Here’s how.
If you stroll on over to your corner bookstore this week and ask the person behind the counter about Google’s new ebookstore, which launches today, you probably won’t be greeted with the kind of teeth-gnashing that has accompanied other digital developments, like Amazon’s online bookstore or the advent of proprietary e-readers. Instead, you might actually be greeted with some excitement and delight. That’s because Google is taking a different approach to selling e-books than Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Rather than create a closed system that leaves others out in the cold, Google is actually partnering with independent bookstores to sell its wares–and share the profits. More on this story here.
The Highest Paying Work-from-home Jobs
Technology is continuously opening up new opportunities for people who want to work from the comfort of their own home. Remote workers or Telecommuters as some others call them are finding and landing profitable jobs though it may not come as easy as it was, there are however some great options listed for each aspiring workers benefit. Read more on this link.
Microsoft: Half of mobile searches have a local intent
BizReport : Mobile Marketing : November 15, 2010
by Helen Leggatt
You’re ambling around town when suddenly you crave Chinese dumplings. You whip out your phone and after a couple of local searches you’re well on your way to getting your fix.
A similar scenario plays out day after day as mobile users refer to their devices for local information – information that will help them navigate their immediate environment and solve their real-time needs and wants.
It’s not surprising, then, to read of recent data from Microsoft that shows over half (53%) of mobile searches on Bing have a local intent.
Hence the development of ads that, quite literally, guide consumers from “search to store”. Such ads, including Google’s Expandable Map ads, appear both on the mobile web and in apps and, when clicked, provide the user with directions to a store.
“Mobile user demand for information that can be acted on in the real world, in real-time is, well, very real,” writes Search Engine Land’s Greg Sterling, who uncovered the data in a recent chat with Bing’s Director of Search, Stefan Weitz.
“That’s what this Microsoft stat reflects. If that’s not an argument for mobile advertising in general and mobile search in particular, I don’t know what is.”
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- Mind the Gap: Encouraging women to study engineering February 2, 2012Women make up more than half the global population, but hold fewer than a third of the world’s engineering jobs. In the U.S., female students comprise fewer than 15 percent of all Advanced Placement computer science test takers. Even in high-tech Israel, few girls choose computer science. Not only is this a loss to companies like Google and everyone who bene […]
- Playbook for tackling the Super Bowl with Google February 1, 2012While thousands of lucky fans will brave the crowds at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind. to fill the coveted seats at this Sunday’s Super Bowl, many more in the U.S. will enjoy the game from home—in front of the TV, with mobile phones and tablets at the ready. As the New York Giants and New England Patriots prepare for kickoff, here are several way […]
- 2012 global award winners RISE to the top January 30, 2012Our business at Google is rooted in STEM and CS, so we’re passionate about supporting organizations that are expanding access to these fields, especially for students who might not have the opportunity otherwise. The annual Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE) program supports organizations running innovative STEM (science, technology, engineering […]