http://www.feedmotherearth.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:54:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many of Microsoft's recent changes have centered around improving specific types of searches, such as image search, celebrity tracking, and medical searches. The company is also focusing a good deal of energy on trying to build "search experiences" into its various Web products. "Live Search is on a fall/spring release cycle, ... http://www.feedmotherearth.com/index.php/2010/09/microsoft-to-show-new-search-tech-this-month/ The sagging phone business has caused Qwest Communications International to offer hundreds of employees a voluntary buyout as the company continues to tighten its belt. The cuts come as Qwest and other local phone companies are seeing thousands of customers abandon their old landlines for alternatives, like cell phones and ... http://www.feedmotherearth.com/index.php/2010/08/qwest-offers-buyout-to-workers/ And finally, many are wondering if Apple CEO Steve Jobs will use the September event--if it happens--to make his first public appearance since returning from medical leave earlier this year. Apple executive Phil Schiller has filled in for Jobs at these keynote-style events since January, but since Jobs has been ... http://www.feedmotherearth.com/index.php/2010/08/apple-planning-september-event/ Einstein was definitely intuitive, but what's that got to do with technology? Well, there are logical reasons for most of the runaway technology successes that come to mind, but a few make me wonder. So I'm sitting here trying to figure out how my wife knew something was going to ... http://www.feedmotherearth.com/index.php/2010/08/are-you-intuitive/ TI sells standalone applications processors like the 3440 to customers such as Nokia for use in high-end smartphones, but it is also talking up the potential for the 3440 as a chip for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). That's Intel's name for an evolving class of handheld computer that's ... http://www.feedmotherearth.com/index.php/2010/08/tis-new-omap-chip-not-just-for-phones/ The Big Apple's GreeNYC campaign features an emblem--an apple with a stalk and leaf--that has started to appear on city bus shelters, hybrid cabs, and even Whole Foods shopping bags, according to a story first reported by Wired. Just as we were enjoying a reprieve from Apple trademark cases, a new ... http://www.feedmotherearth.com/index.php/2010/08/apple-picking-on-nyc-green-living-trademark/ Shell and Iogen announce extended alliance to accelerate a next generation biofuelShell does appear to be serious about developing alternate sources of fuels. It ups its stake in Iogen to 50 percent. Critics Claim WEEE Failed to Deliver in First Year in U.K. - GreenerComputingThe electronic waste directive is meant to ... http://www.feedmotherearth.com/index.php/2010/08/green-news-harvest-floating-wind-turbines-in-ital/ "Self help" yields 31.8 million results. Porn has company at the bottom of the e-business food chain. First, the term doesn't even make sense. If you're buying any of the garbage marketed as "self help," then by definition you're not helping yourself. Maybe that's just a semantic point, but I've ... http://www.feedmotherearth.com/index.php/2010/08/the-dark-side-of-the-internet/ Unlocked, semi-legal iPhones have proliferated in China since Apple failed to make a deal with a Chinese carrier. Now that AT&T will offer an expensive solution for those wanting iPhones in the United States on different carriers, will the unlocked market be...unlocked? I'm going to e-mail one or two experts to ... http://www.feedmotherearth.com/index.php/2010/08/will-iphones-via-china-mobile-be-unlocked/ The result was that confidential negotiations with the government involving as much as $1 billion quickly became nonconfidential. The Times, doing what it does, got a big scoop. Still, that's some pretty big consequences for a feature that saves a few seconds' time. Sure, those seconds add up over time. But ... http://www.feedmotherearth.com/index.php/2010/08/the-high-cost-of-e-mail-autocomplete/