Monday, June 01, 2009

Verizon: incompetent training or corporate indifference? MIT Siftables the coolest thing you'll see today

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Verizon: incompetent training or corporate indifference?

The news story sounded awful. A Verizon operator had refused to help police find a subscriber who was missing and likely in need of medical assistance because he was behind on his bill. One of many headlines said it all: "Verizon willing to let 62-year-old man die unless cops pay $20 of his overdue bill." I have no idea what actually happened, but what interests me is that it is entirely believable that someone working for Verizon would do something like this. Read full story

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MIT Siftables: The Coolest Thing You'll See Today
Check out this video on the MIT Siftables project, which is getting closer to commercialization. Each tiny block is an interactive computer with an OLED screen that can display graphics, sense movement and interact wirelessly with a computer and other Siftables.

5 'marketing opportunities' hospitals are missing
Doctors Twittering from the operating room is yesterday's news. "Brain Surgery Cam"? Now that one got my attention while reading the May 24 edition of The New York Times.

Videoconferencing hits the big time … for real
It feels like 1989 all over again. Wacky haircuts are back (I think I saw a mullet the other day). "Alternative rock" sounds a lot like what used to be called "new wave." Big shoulders are back. And we geeks are waxing rhapsodic about the wonders of videoconferencing.

Willful technological ignorance
Mark Gibbs is irked by a GE marketing program that willfully uses the wrong name for a technology it uses. He sees this as symptomatic of a trend of needless inaccuracy about technology that just keeps us slightly dumber than we ought to be.

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25 Gigs of Someone Else's Data
Keith and guest co-host Matt Hamblen from Computerworld talk about Microsoft's Bing, how they circumvent e-mail capping limits and why texting while driving is a really bad idea. (46:41)

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June 01, 2009

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