Several kind readers gave us the heads-up yesterday about a fundraising email that the Walz campaign sent out. Like Kristin Gillibrand before him, Tim Walz has been hit by robocalls to his constituents asking him to support retroactive immunity for telecoms. The appeal began: A group calling themselves “Frontiers of Freedom” [...]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute inventors took gold, silver and bronze awards in the recent CTT Innovation Conference in Boston, the Troy school announced Tuesday. Eben Bayer ‘07 and Gavin McIntyre’07 won the $15,000 gold prize for their environmentally friendly organic insulation made from waste agricultural materials, water and mushrooms. Design, Innovation, and Society [...]
Alex Charlton, Director, Essential Research and Beth Uyenco, Director of Research, Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions argue, in this exclusive blog article, that luxury consumers are ready for marketing 2.0 and explores how luxury brands can establish a credible presence online. “For consumer brands the internet has become a given; a pillar of [...]
In the film comedy “Fun With Dick and Jane,” Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni (and earlier George Segal and Jane Fonda) played young marrieds who become stickup artists to survive in a punishing economy. Could this same helplessness be enveloping our great city? Reading police suggest in a Page One [...]
GTX Corp., a leader in Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking and location-transmitting technology platforms, offers patented, interchangeable GPS satellite tracking and location reporting technology. This hardware can be easily embedded into footwear, clothes, backpacks and life preservers. Footwear was GTX Corp’s first application but the company’s Personalized Location Services (PLS), or technology, [...]
Fredrick Marckini, chief global search officer of Isobar, will be giving the opening keynote speech at SES Toronto on Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Fredrick also gave the opening keynote at SES London back in February. While he was in London, I interviewed him about his keynote speech on search engine marketing trends and [...]
Delegation won fight on aviation fees Posted4 hours and 21 minutes ago The Senate went into this week’s debate on revamping the air traffic control system having negotiated away the worrisome prospect of fees on general aviation’s airport use. Kansas Sens. Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback and Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, deserve praise [...]
Tuesday, April 29, didn’t seem like a good day for throwing anyone under the bus. The bus probably wasn’t moving. The Washington Post explains why: In every state, the average price of diesel fuel was more than $4 a gallon. Diesel fuel cost $4.35 a gallon in the District, $4.30 [...]
This is not what you’d normally expect to see in a press release from a U.S. government scientist: The first real steps towards building a microscopic device that can construct nano machines have been taken by US researchers. Writing in [a] peer-reviewed publication, researchers describe an early prototype for a nanoassembler. In his [...]
GTX Corp., a leader in Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking and location-transmitting technology platforms, has developed miniaturized GPS satellite tracking and location-transmitting technology devices for integration into branded licensee consumer products. Since 2002, GTX Corp has been developing, patenting and integrating miniaturized GPS tracking and cellular location-transmitting technologies into a wide variety of [...]
