KING5: A Washington State startup is looking to keep people healthy by zapping germs off computer keyboards, starting with local hospitals. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimate up to 99,000 people die each year from hospital-acquired infections. The makers of the Vioguard keyboard hope to cut that number by a quarter with their product, […]
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When you run a business, you need your computer to run smoothly. The more computers you have, the more daunting that task can become. While having a team to handle any problems that might arise would provide a quick solution, it might not be very cost effective for you. As more people stopped paying for
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Paid Content: In January, Apple announced it had launched over 15,000 applications on its iPhone. In two months, that number has already jumped to 25,000. VentureBeat used public information and findings from 148Apps to analyze pricing and popularity trends. – The most popular pricepoint is $0.99, not free. (Interesting!) Some 10,274 applications cost $0.99 versus
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Mental Floss: Can you imagine if, instead of “TiVo-ing” the latest episode of Lost, you were “Bongo-ing” it? “Bongo” and “Lasso” are just two of the 800 possible names the marketing folks kicked around before settling on TiVo. The final name was cobbled together from “TV” and the engineering acronym “I/O,” which stands for “input/output.”
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photo credit: geishaboy500 In a world of high technology and so many different forms of communicating, email and the phone should not be your only resource for getting in touch with clients, business colleagues and more. So what are your other choices for communication today? You can send messages via IM’S, twitter, text messages to
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photo credit: Mat Honan Would you like a way to get instant access to what’s being said, this minute, about your organization, people, products, competitors or brand? It’s a good tool for that. More and more businesses are beginning to jump on the bandwagon of twitter for their business. While other companies feel it is
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Associated Press: Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery store and there’s a slim – but growing – chance the ad is watching you too. Small cameras can now be embedded in the screen or hidden around it, tracking who looks at the screen and for how long.
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CNNMoney.com: Business ideas are everywhere, if you know where to look. Mitch Altman was inspired by a noisy TV in a Chinese restaurant in Palo Alto. Altman, a 52-year-old electrical engineer, was trying to catch up with old friends over noodles one evening , but the tube was too distracting. “It sucked our brains out,”
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BBC: A nine-year-old Malaysian boy in Singapore has written a painting application for the Apple iPhone. Lim Ding Wen created the finger painting program, known as Doodle Kids, for his two younger sisters aged three and five. The program allows iPhone owners to draw images on the handset’s touch screen using just their fingers. The
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BusinessWeek: Vontoo started out as a voice-messaging tool, blasting targeted lists of people with prerecorded pitches from the likes of Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick in the National Basketball Assn.’s 2007 draft, who “called” Portland Trailblazer season ticket holders to re-up for another year. But as times have grown tougher, the 25-employee company has
