Price fixing on travel sites
I love searching online for travel deals. But what if the biggest travel sites have become so powerful they can force hotels never to sell their inventory to competitors at a lower cost? Then online…
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Humans in Jeopardy!?
Watson’s easy victory against the best humanoid Jeopardy! players in the world has prompted completely opposing visions of the future. One version is Terminator around the corner: self-aware machines enslaving the human race even sooner…
Want a great sabbatical? Portugal!
My fond memories of three months in the Azores made it to this online article (from ioline.pt) about foreign academics coming to Portugal for their sabbaticals. Fire up the Google Translate, unless your Portuguese is…
Congrats USF: Top 10 in Fulbright Scholars 2009-10
Nice job, Dons! We made the list of Top 10 universities nationwide for Fulbright Scholars in 2009-10. The occasion provided USF with another excuse to post a stunning JP Allen photo on the newly designed…
A little love for Kraków over at SiliconValleyWatcher
Tom Foremski at SiliconValleyWatcher did a nice writeup on our Kraków, Poland presentation. Hopefully, the momentum will continue to build for Kraków as a technology hub in Central and Eastern Europe. As always, the Kraków…
JP called a “computer whiz” for the first time in years
Everyone with a computer science degree gets hit up for free tech support. Now, thanks to a column in the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times, my knowledge of tech help for neophytes is finally given its due….
No slowdown for the U.S. tech industry
The rest of the economy may be going to hell, but American tech companies are still going strong. Last week’s article in Network World featured some of my thoughts on why tech is holding up,…
The iPhone pricing debacle
Last night, our local ABC 7 news featured my startling insights into the recent iPhone pricing uproar. When Apple dropped the price of an iPhone from $599 to $399 after only two months, even Apple’s…