Archive for March 22nd, 2010
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Niche: Clear View Screen Doors
An invisible screen door is a retractable screen door is a product that is attached to the exterior face or to the interior frame of a doorway. The screening material itself is attached to a roller tube which spins on a vertical axis within the assembly’s housing. The screen is also attached to a vertical [...]
Obsolete Occupations: Jobs of Yesterday
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The Mercury News reports that they’re swilling Google-tinis in Sarasota, Fla., and vowing to Google-ize the names of their firstborn children up in Duluth. Topeka has been temporarily re-christened Google, Kan. And mayors throughout the realm are vying for the search giant’s favor, from sucking up to it on Twitter to jumping into icy Lake [...]
Rose Associates, an 80-year-old real estate marketing and management company based in New York City. Rose has 200 employees and manages some 20,000 luxury apartment units. According to a story at Inc.com, Bob Scaglion, Rose’s senior managing director of residential marketing, uses Twitter’s search function for lead generation, which works well, because people often send [...]
How Cheap Could Computing Get…Free?
If you assume a desktop computer’s a big box full of chips, hard drives and other paraphernalia, it’s hard to see how to make it cheaper. Unless you go down the virtualization route: NComputing thinks the ultimate cost could be zero, reports Fast Company. Ncomputing makes powerful chips that make thin clients work: Essentially turning [...]
Sometimes, the most memorable moments happen during the daily clatter of life. Especially when they involve children. Those adorable half-asleep eyes in the early morning hours. A serious case of giggles at bath time. The excitement after scoring a soccer goal. Even a temper tantrum, in hindsight. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports many parents are preserving [...]
Pittsburgh-based Small Farm Central offers a service that helps farmers create websites for their farms, reports trendspotter Springwise. Small Farm Central’s core service provides farms with a website, email addresses, a domain name, photo upload capability, page creation, template customisation and more through an easy-to-use control panel. Additional features include phone support, mailing list handling, [...]
Independent Inventors Roundtable
David Kappos, director of the United States Patent and Trademark (USPTO) will host a roundtable for independent and small entity inventors on Monday, March 29. The event will be held at the Madison Auditorium on the Agency’s campus in Alexandria, Virginia. It will also be webcast live on www.uspto.gov. Director Kappos will make opening remarks [...]
Anne Roberts has fond memories of helping her grandfather tend his garden from when she was young but it never occurred to her that it could potentially become her career. That was until now, says Crain’s Chicago Business. While away from the workplace, she enrolled in the University of Illinois Extension program for master gardening, [...]
