Honestly, though, with the amount of buzz about both Facebook and Twitter as the future of real-time information, I give the advantage to whichever one can make all this content less of a mess.
“The status update function is effectively becoming a publish function, and that publish function is text, photos, video, a variety of media,” [...]

Taylor said that even if the crowd stays below the 2 million mark, there could be delays and dropped calls at critical moments during the swearing in ceremony or along the parade route if hundreds of thousands of people send text messages at the exact same moment.
The last presidential inauguration I attended was back in [...]

For example, during my visit on Wednesday, Nvidia engineers demonstrated how a CUDA-enabled version of a program similar to QuickTime running on a desktop or laptop could dramatically speed up the processor of transcoding a movie or television show into a format suitable for the iPhone.
Nvidia's CUDA technology could make it easier to transcode [...]

The atmosphere was radically different during the day at Web 2.0 Expo, as talk of economic recession was unavoidable. TechWeb’s Jennifer Pahlka, one of the expo’s organizers, told attendees in a welcome address on Tuesday that she thanked them all for coming to the conference “in this time of budgets that are being scrutinized, and [...]

Social news site Digg is launching a new version of its comment system soon. The current iteration, which has received both ire and admiration from users, is changing for the better with several tweaks that will be the most noticeable for power users who troll the site for hours each day.
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Of the advancements, [...]

Practice Fusion includes practice management, scheduling, patient management (electronic medical records) and e-mail applications. The Web interface takes advantage of Flex 3, Adobe’s rich Internet application platform.
If you want more proof that software as a service and ad-supported business models are shaking things up, check out Practice Fusion. This week the small company announced [...]

Mittlesteadt, who became a judge 10 years ago, issued the unusual apology to fulfill the requirements of a settlement that wraps up a legal saga that began 12 years ago when Siebel Systems fired its top sales representative. Mittlesteadt, who represented the employee, filed a wrongful-termination and sex discrimination suit against Siebel and his company. [...]

And, for all the reasons already stated and a host of others–some of which are actually in the best interests of shareholders, like disruption to the company and its business, that sort of thing–boards are reluctant to terminate CEOs. In the rare event that they do, it’s no skin off their back if the CEO [...]

“With Uncrunch America, we hope to encourage Americans that have sidelined their cash to invest in a friend or family member,” Asheesh Advani CEO of Virgin Money, said in a statement. “Maybe they don’t feel comfortable in the market, but they can inject cash in the economy by lending to a loved one.”
Uncrunch’s focus is [...]

As an incentive, everyone who completes the survey will be able to download a video of live performance from this most recent tour (and I know what’s going through your little minds right now: “I’ll just grab this off a torrent site and not have to fill out the survey!!!” and guess what? You will [...]