Staying awake is easy… 5 shots of espresso and 2 lines of cocaine is all you need. You’ll certainly be wide awake and wired, but you may also die from a heart attack a few hours later. In all seriousness, conquering drowsiness before it overwhelms your mind can be quite a challenge without the help [...]
Posted by Jeff Chin, Product Manager...and that's great news any way you say it. Language is one of the biggest challenges we have in making information universally accessible. As part of the machine translation team within Google Research, I'm happy to report we've been hard at work to overcome this challenge. We've recently added translation capabilities for 10 new languages to Google Transla...
Time once again for "Security Goes to the Movies," a leisurely look at the inevitable bleeding from the eyes that security folk experience when Hollywood takes liberties with tech, the laws of physics and other aspects of reality. Our shiny and metallic subject today is "Iron Man."
Surprise! Yahoo doesn’t agree with Carl Icahn’s assessment that “it is unconscionable that you have not allowed your shareholders to choose to accept an offer that represented a 72% premium over Yahoo’s closing price of $19.18 on the day before the initial Microsoft offer.” Those were the words used by Icahn in a letter [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "More Love Notes: Yahoo Responds to Icahn...
Remember the dot-com boom, when countless web workers were able to take a business plan written on a scrap of paper to potential investors and get funding? The investment community doesn’t play quite as fast and loose with business plans as it did back then, but if you have in mind an entrepeneurial effort on [...]
Confession time: This is a quick headset review by a guy who's never liked headsets much. McCracken's First Law of Eyeglass Wearing correctly posits that it's impossible to comfortably hook more than one device behind your ear at one time....
Like other web clipping tools, Google Reader now lets you save content from regular web pages. Earlier this sharing feature was limited to sites that syndicated content via RSS feeds.
Regular readers of AdesBlog know Alan Johnson very well by now. He is the regular contributor to this blog and author of some of the best articles in the blogosphere.
BloggingBoost.com is a new project by Alan offering free domain name and hosting for promising bloggers. Obviously this free service is for serious bloggers or “to-be-bloggers” [...]