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August 17, 2008 Hot Trends

Armed, Autonomous Robots "A Threat to Humanity"

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:40:47 PDT
(NaturalNews) An artificial intelligence professor has warned that the trend toward creating autonomous killer robots for battlefield use poses "a threat to humanity." Noel Sharkey of the University of Sheffield said that military leaders in several...

Film Review: Get Smart

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:52:28 PDT
Anti-gay Christian "family" group folds in wake of founder's affair A fundamentalist organisation run by a former police officer turned preacher has reportedly been disbanded. The Christian Congress for Traditional Values was instrumental in organising anti-gay demonstrations. opinionuk-newsworld-newspoliticslawhealthfinanceentertainment REVIEW: Jeremy Marks, ‘Exchanging the truth of God for a lie’ In ‘Exchanging the truth of God for a lie: One man’s spiritual journey to find the trut

Real-Time Local News for New Jersey Now Available

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:01 PDT
Jersey City, NJ (PRWEB) September 28, 2007 -- New Jersey is a busy state. In addition to being the nation's most densely populated state, it's the most active - there's more happening...

Honda Motor Scooter

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:21:12 PDT
http://www.hondamotorscooternews.com/Honda Motor Scooter news is a great place to find the latest and greatest information about scooter parts, safety, new features, and the latest honda scooter tips and tricks

Computer Games for Kids

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:53:23 PDT
Great new site with reviews, news, hints & discount computer and video games. Rent before you buy them.

ISO, IEC reject appeals, approve OOXML spec

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:01:45 PDT
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have given the green light to publish the Microsoft-backed Office Open XML (OOXML) specification after organization leaders rejected appeals from four countries to protest the vote that approved OOXML as a standard. The ISO and IEC technical boards approved the publication of ISO/IEC DIS 29500, the official name for the OOXML specification, the ISO said Friday. The spec is expected to b

Nursing Schools are Feeling the Pressure

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:12:51 PDT
News Flash: Severe Nursing Shortage! Insufficient supply for growing demand, simple as that.

Time for Agility to Truly Come of Age – Reflections on Agile 2008

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:50:17 PDT
I attended the Agile 2008 conference again this year. As usual, it was filled with great sessions and great people. It's clear that Agile is becoming more mainstream and there are more variations of it as well. Both good things. Scrum seems to still be the most popular method followed, Kanban is becoming known and Lean may have hit a plateau. But a few trends I noticed from last year were still present. These are: This conference is still almost as much about consultants as it is about customer

Air-Conditioned Furniture - Suzukaze Kuchofuku Seat Cushion (VIDEO)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:17:10 PDT
(TrendHunter.com) The Suzukaze Kuchofuku is a compact and economical cushion to keep your rear cool, created by makers of air-conditioned beds and clothes. The Suzukaze (which means cool breeze in Japanese) cushion is…

Mapping the ?Virtual Worlds?. Thematistico!

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:39:49 PDT
Thematic maps are lovely tools for showing data in an easy fashion - and you know us K Zero folks love pretty graphs. So, using Google Insight we can chuck in search strings and see the global geographical popularity of virtual world related phrases and names. But a single snapshot only tells a piece of the story, so a useful function of Google Insight is viewing data and trends over time. Let’s do that. Starting with the term “Virtual Worlds” the graphs below show the hotspots themat

US News Expands The Ranking Service

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:14:05 PDT
US News&World Report, an authoritative source for US university rankings has launched an auto ranking website in what seems to be an expansion move towards a general online ranking service.

My Forrester Groundswell Awards Submission

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:41:00 PDT
Charlene Li's and Josh Bernoff's book titled Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies is timely, immensely relevant and hugely engaging. Have you read it? Have you at least seen the Groundswell website which is chock full of details, excerpts, videos, a profile tool, and a blog? Definitely spend some time there considering the groundswell and its implications... I believe completely in the groundswell. I am part of it as are all of you reading, commenting, reviewing, s

Al Jazeera and the VJs

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:03:14 PDT
bisme allahi al rahman al rahim… We first met the folks from Al Jazeera at the DNA2008 conference in Brussels. In fact, their Tony Birtley won the prize for best breaking VJ story for his coverage of the Burma democracy riots. Sue Phillips, who we have known for years, (most recently as the head of Newsworld) is now moving to Doha to head up their English news channel. And now, Nina Sang, who started as a VJ for Current TV, then moved on to working as a VJ trainer for us is now also in


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