Laura Goodrich: Seeing Red Cars – Blog Business Success Radio
Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 30-06-2011
CitySoil Complementary to Green Roof
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 29-06-2011
CitySoil was born as a result of years of research by leading soil scientists and green roof professionals in collaboration with universities, research institutes and partner companies. The majority of CitySoil is inorganic component – extremely light weight, but wind resistant, that will not degrade or decompose over time with high porosity and permeability and ultimate balance of nutrition, water retention, aeration and drainage. This unique technology is patented by the company.
Kevin Davis: Slow Down, Sell Faster – Blog Business Success Radio
Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 28-06-2011
Functional Bathtub
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 28-06-2011
Another study points to advantages of printed textbooks
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 28-06-2011
Even as administrators and legislators push schools to dump printed books in favor of electronic ones, evidence mounts that paper books have important advantages as tools for learning. Last month, I reported on a study out of the University of Washington which showed that students find printed books more flexible than e-books in supporting a wide range of reading and learning styles. Now comes a major study from the University of California system showing that students continue to prefer printed books to e-books and that many undergraduates complain that they have trouble “learning, retaining, and concentrating” when reading from screens. The University of California Libraries began a large e-textbook pilot program in 2008. In late 2010, more than 2,500 students and faculty members were surveyed to assess the results of the program. Overall, 58% of the respondents said they used e-books for their academic work, with the percentage varying from 55% for undergraduates to 57% for faculty to 67% for graduate students. The respondents who used e-books were then asked whether they preferred e-books or printed books for their studies. Overall, 44% said they preferred printed books and 35% said they preferred e-books, with the remainder expressing no preference. The…
Transparent Marketing: The Brand Factory
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 27-06-2011
United States vs. Google (revisited)
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 26-06-2011
Summer is a good time to pick lazily at the archives. Here’s a post that originally appeared on Rough Type on October 12, 2006. Given last week’s news that the Federal Trade Commission has launched a formal anti-trust investigation of Google, it seems timely to repost it now. Every era of computing has its defining antitrust case. In 1969, at the height of the mainframe age’s go-go years, the Justice Department filed its United States vs. IBM lawsuit, claiming that Big Blue had an unfair monopoly over the computer industry. At the time, IBM held a 70 percent share of the mainframe market (including services and software as well as machines). In 1994, with the PC age in full flower, the Justice Department threatened Microsoft with an antitrust suit over the companys practice of bundling products into its ubiquitous Windows operating system. Three years later, when Microsoft tightened the integration of its Internet Explorer browser into Windows, the government acted, filing its United States vs. Microsoft suit. With Google this week taking over YouTube, it seems like an opportune time to look forward to the prospect – entirely speculative, of course – of what could be the defining antitrust case…
