Technology Review: The list of technologies for 2006 that are worth keeping an eye on, which promise to impact business, medicine or even culture.
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NY Times: Lulu Enterprises which also runs a print-on-demand bookstore (www.lulu.com) are extending the same model to online video with Lulu.tv.
The Web site, which lets people upload and watch video clips, said last week that it would begin charging a $14.95 monthly fee for a “pro” account and putting 80 percent of that money into […]
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NY Times: Spam messages promoting pornography are 280 times as effective in getting recipients to click on them as messages advertising pharmacy drugs, which are the next most effective type of spam.
“Successful spam is about impulse purchases,” said Francis deSouza, a vice president at Symantec, which makes antivirus software. “Things like home mortgages have a […]
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Business Standard: Microsoft is planning to give BlackBerry a run for its money in India by supporting ‘push’ email in mobile devices like pocket-PCs and smartphones.
Busy executives who have a BlackBerry-enabled handset do not have to check their mobiles for email every now and then, since it’s automatically downloaded. Microsoft too, with its Windows Mobile […]
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NY Times : A brief survey on a flight in 2002, told Oren Etzioni, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington that others had paid less than he had for their tickets. Taking information about seat supply and demand and an algorithm to predict how the airlines’ algorithms were going […]
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A report by Morgan Stanley on the state, trends and opportunities in the global online and mobile space.
A couple of observations
~2B global mobile phones in use > ~1B Internet users in 2005
With $19B in global Mobile Internet premium services revenue comparable to Internet advertising revenue in 2005, the premium mobile market is as big as […]
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