SAN FRANCISCO — It has taken years, but Google seems to be cutting into Microsoft’s stronghold — businesses. Google’s software for businesses, Google Apps, consists of applications for document writing, collaboration, and text and video communications — all cloud-based, so that none of the software is on an office worker’s computer. Google has been promoting the idea for more than six years,...
IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: Dec. 26
Label: WorldNEWS The Tea Party might not be over, but it’s increasingly clear that the U.S. election last month significantly weakened the movement, which had nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury. Trip Gabriel reports.As Russia’s middle class becomes a force in commerce, G.M., Ford, Volkswagen and other automakers have been expanding, or plan to expand,...
Dec
25
News Analysis: Getting Polio Campaigns Back on Track
Label: LifestyleHow in the world did something as innocuous as the sugary pink polio vaccine turn into a flash point between Islamic militants and Western “crusaders,” flaring into a confrontation so ugly that teenage girls — whose only “offense” is that they are protecting children — are gunned down in the streets? Nine vaccine workers were killed in Pakistan last week in a terrorist campaign that brought...
IHT Rendezvous: Safety Agency Blasts Grinches Who Use 'Safety' to Spoil Christmas Fun
Label: WorldLONDON — Britain’s health and safety watchdog has come out with a timely indictment of petty officialdom for using the excuse of supposedly protecting the public in order to spoil everyone’s Christmas fun.The seasonal Grinches include the town officials who banned Santa from riding in a local yuletide parade because his reindeer sled was not fitted with a seat belt.Other killjoys have tried to outlaw...
Dec
24
All the World’s a Game, and Business Is a Player
Label: BusinessCongratulations. Reading the first paragraph of this article has earned you a badge. If this made-up award makes you feel good about yourself, then you are on your way to understanding gamification, a business trend — some would say fad — that aims to infuse otherwise mundane activities with the excitement and instant feedback of video games. Many businesses are using these game tricks...
The New Old Age Blog: Fudging the Facts, for Peace of Mind
Label: HealthLou, my beloved grandfather, lived almost 101 years and obsessively worried every single day of his adult life — probably because his adult life began before it should have. As a child in Russia, he watched helplessly as his mother and sister were killed during a vicious pogrom in their village.Lou (I called him Zadie) made his way to America, and immediately began imagining the worst about his fate,...
The New Old Age Blog: Fudging the Facts, for Peace of Mind
Label: LifestyleLou, my beloved grandfather, lived almost 101 years and obsessively worried every single day of his adult life — probably because his adult life began before it should have. As a child in Russia, he watched helplessly as his mother and sister were killed during a vicious pogrom in their village.Lou (I called him Zadie) made his way to America, and immediately began imagining the worst about his fate,...
All the World’s a Game, and Business Is a Player
Label: TechnologyCongratulations. Reading the first paragraph of this article has earned you a badge. If this made-up award makes you feel good about yourself, then you are on your way to understanding gamification, a business trend — some would say fad — that aims to infuse otherwise mundane activities with the excitement and instant feedback of video games. Many businesses are using these game tricks...
Envoy to Syria Brahimi Meets With President Assad
Label: WorldBEIRUT, Lebanon — The international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Monday and said he had presented “steps” to de-escalate the war, which he described as “still a reason for worry.” The New York TimesA Syrian warplane was reported to have conducted airstrikes that killed dozens of people in Hilfaya, according to antigovernment activists in the area....
Dec
23
Genetic Gamble : Drugs Aim to Make Several Types of Cancer Self-Destruct
Label: BusinessC.J. Gunther for The New York TimesDr. Donald Bergstrom is a cancer specialist at Sanofi, one of three companies working on a drug to restore a tendency of damaged cells to self-destruct. For the first time ever, three pharmaceutical companies are poised to test whether new drugs can work against a wide range of cancers independently of where they originated — breast, prostate, liver, lung. The drugs...
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