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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Tech Interviews
Programming phone screen questions
kSquared at GameDev community forums posted a list of phone screen questions from Google, with some answers that he attempted. You’ll have to head to GameDev to read the answers, but here’s the list of questions to ponder More
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Job Boards vs. Social Networking Sites
I follow a number of recruiting blogs as well as many sourcers and recruiters on Twitter and I see a growing trend of job board bashing – typically comparing them (very) unfavorably to social networking sites and applications more
Job Boards vs Recruitment Agencies
The year was 1994. John Major and Bill Clinton were still in power, Brazil won the World Cup, Nelson Mandela became the first black President of South Africa, OJ Simpson may or may not have murdered his ex-wife and her lover and John Bobbitt was newly castrated.
And something happened that was momentous for the recruitment industry read more
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
NY Man Claims 84% of Facebook, Gets Order Blocking Assets
A Western New York man who claims he owns 84 percent of Facebook Inc., the world’s biggest social networking service, sued and won a state court order temporarily restricting Facebook from transferring assets.
Paul Ceglia, of Wellsville, New York, sued Facebook and its founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Elliot Zuckerberg in state court in New York’s Allegany County on June 30. In the suit, Ceglia claims that a contract he and Zuckerberg signed in April 2003 entitles Ceglia to ownership of most of the privately held company. read the rest here
Another reason to make sure you have a competent legal team
Poof! After Wireless, the Computer Mouse Turns Invisible
Is this really cool or what?In a magic trick that only geeks can pull off, researchers at MIT have found a method to let users click and scroll exactly the same way they would with a computer mouse, without the device actually being there.
Cup your palm, move it around on a table and a cursor on the screen hovers. Tap on the table like you would click a real mouse, and the computer responds. It’s one step beyond cordless. It’s an invisible mouse.
The project, called “Mouseless,” uses an infrared laser beam and camera to track the movements of the palm and fingers and translate them into computer commands.
“Like many other projects in the past, including the Nintendo Power Glove and the Fingerworks iGesture Pad, this attempts to see how we can use new technology to control old technology,” says Daniel Wigdor, a user experience architect for Microsoft who hasn’t worked directly on the project. “It’s just an intermediate step to where we want to be.”
Though new user interfaces such as touchscreens and voice recognition systems have become popular, the two-button mouse still reigns among computer users. Many technology experts think the precision pointing that a cursor offers is extremely difficult to replicate through technologies such as touch and speech.
Why is this guy smiling
No wonder RIAA boss Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol is smiling in the pic. According to IRS figures, in 2007 he was paid $1,485,000 for his services. But by 2008, the amount had rocketed — to $2,032,072, to be exact.
The wages of sin are high indeed.
RIAA is short for Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music’s (US, but controlled by a Canadian) misnamed Recording Industry Association of America.
“The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade organization that supports and promotes the creative and financial vitality of the major music companies”, it says blandly on its web page. “Its members are the music labels that comprise the most vibrant record industry in the world. RIAA® members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legitimate recorded music produced and sold in the United States.”
To all intents and purposes, it’s operated by the four gigantic record companies which through their thousands of directly and indirectly owned subsidiary labels, separately and collectively control the corporate music industry, and everything to do with it read it all here
Monday, July 12, 2010
TECHNOLOGY CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE FORTUNE 500 CORPORATE WEB SITES
This paper presents the findings of a technology content analysis of the Fortune 500 corporate
Web sites, which addressed three research questions: More
Web sites, which addressed three research questions: More
6 tips for hiring a technology pro
It's come to this: Unless your business embraces technology more fully, it won't grow. It may even die. More
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Managing the Tough Stuff in Human Resources
Employees are not always perfect. Sometimes, they mess up, fail to show up, miss deadlines and commitments, trample expectations, sport messy work areas, and behave inappropriately with coworkers. More
Recruiting & Human Resource Issues in China
Prospects for China’s economic growth continue to be bright since the country’s entry into the WTO. With greater opportunities to do business, read more
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Laptop makers push for a universal power supply
Its about time one thing I hate when repairing laptops is people sometimes forget the chord and as usual the only chord I don't have is the one for that particular laptop. You can read the whole story here
Software, Tablet PCs How-to: Install Flash on your jailbroken iPad
We just saw Flash 10.1 ported to the iPad demonstrated in video form by Comex, and now you can get in on the action too, as long as your iPad is jailbroken. It's called Frash, and while the plugin is still pretty early and doesn't do video playback yet, you can definitely play games and other animations right now, and we're told video support is forthcoming. Okay, so let's try this out, shall we? It's not point-and-click simple, but it's not that hard, either. Full instructions can be found here
Apple responds on iTunes fraud, vaguely confirms said fraud
Over the weekend we saw reports of what appeared to be fraud occurring in the iTunes system -- namely, a rogue developer had somehow managed to snag 42 of the top 50 sales positions in the App Store's "book" category with seemingly bogus content. It looked as if there was some correlation between those suspicious sales and word of an increase in iTunes account fraud, but Apple had been mum on the subject over the holiday weekend. We've finally gotten a response from the company, and the folks in Cupertino say that the developer in question -- a gentleman named Thuat Nguyen -- has been chucked out of the Store altogether. Additionally, while they don't explicitly say fraud occurred, they suggest you check with your bank and kill your card if any of your info was stolen... which seems to suggest that something funky happened to some users. Here it is from the horse's mouth: read the whole thing here
Today's solid-state drives: The value perspective
This is a very good article on the current value of solid state drives. While i see them as something that will be widely used to replace hard drives for now they are mostly used to carry around data (jump drives) or in devices that are compact like ipads, laptops or cell phones. anyway go read the whole thing over here
Star Wars' creator says laser too much like lightsaber
Update
(CNN) -- "Star Wars" creator George Lucas wants to force a laser company to stop making a new, high-powered product he says looks too much like the famous lightsaber from his classic sci-fi series.
Lucasfilm Ltd. has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Hong Kong-based Wicked Lasers, threatening legal action if it doesn't change its Pro Arctic Laser series or stop selling it altogether.
"It is apparent from the design of the Pro Arctic Laser that it was intended to resemble the hilts of our lightsaber swords, which are protected by copyright ... ," said the letter, dated last month and provided to CNN by Wicked Lasers.
The letter calls the company's newest laser "a highly dangerous product with the potential to cause blindness, burns and other damage to people and/or property."
Steve Liu, CEO of Wicked Lasers, said his 7-year-old company has been selling similar lasers for years and has never compared the product to the Jedi weapon wielded by Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and others in the "Star Wars" franchise.
"Most people feel it's kind of ridiculous ...," he said. "We would never use any comparison like that to 'Star Wars' or a lightsaber or anything like that."
He called the $199 gadget's design fairly typical for a handheld laser and said it isn't a copy of the lightsaber. read the rest here
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