There’s a new Commander In Chief but where does he stand on technology and what can our industry expect from his administration in this space. Barack Obama was a frequent visitor to Silicon Valley for, among other things, campaign fundraising; but not since Al Gore invented the Web did we have someone in the White House that was more adept in high tech. He gets the issues, has been known to use a mobile device, and clearly used the Web and Social Media successfully in his bid for the Presidency - another first.
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The Business Case For Having More Women in Science & Engineering: There are a myriad of reasons – some obvious and some not so obvious – why there should have more women in science and engineering. Women are not any less smart; we’ve established that. If you are a proponent of the left brain right brain gender theory, women just think differently or approach things differently. And, herein lies the value. Women may approach a problem or challenge differently – not necessarily better – to arrive at a solution. And, this is certainly More»

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In what is nothing short of staggering, there are currently no women CEOs at the helm of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies. With VMWare’s CEO and Founder, Diane Greene, having been ousted from the company in the last week, the official count of female CEOs is down to mind-blowing ZERO! And even outside of CEO positions, the number of women in C-level and other top level positions is very low according to The Mercury News.
Previously, there were high-profile Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay until she stepped down and More»

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It is a well known fact that the number of young women gravitating to IT has been declining for some time. While this issue may be more complex than meets the eye and possibly unknown, there have been some potential reasons cited.
Science and engineering have traditionally been male dominated fields and hence, a possible reason for women shying away from it. By nature, people tend to gravitate more towards what is familiar to them, what they understand, and what/who is like them. If 80 percent of the field is men, then it is plausible that women will associate it with More»

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It is no secret that women have traditionally been under-represented in the science and engineering workforce. Yet, this field that has been growing and is considered a key component to the future development of the world. However, because this is a growing field, it is expected to foster more job opportunities. Information Technology (IT) skills are considered a new ‘basic’ skill and in the move towards the information age, more and more jobs will be created in this area. But will women be the beneficiaries of those jobs? In the past, they have not.
Where Are The Women In IT?
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The Gartner Group has suggested that the following ten technologies are those most likely to change the world in the next few years:

Multicore and hybrid processors
Virtualisation and fabric computing
Social networks and social software
Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms
Web mashups
User Interface
Ubiquitous computing
Contextual computing
Augmented reality
Semantics

Gartner Fellow David Cearley:
“Social software provides a platform that encourages participation and feedbackfrom employees and customers alike. The added value for businesses isbeing able to collect this feedback into a single point that reflects collectiveattitudes, which can help shape a business strategy.”
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The scourge of spam emailings gets older each day, older than many of the people now shaping the technology that has so far failed - in a fairly spectacular and dramatic fashion - to free most users from the overwhelming nightmare of too much email.
On May 3rd Spam will officially - well, sort of officially - reach it’s 30th year of age. As New Scientist reports it all started back in 1978:
Thirty years ago next week, Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of More»

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Venture capitalists are often contemplating the most intriguing questions in the technology community, and this post from Paul Graham is a wonderful essay speculating on how programmers react to their environment.
Graham is a VC involved with Y Combinator (not to be confused with Yahoo’s startup division). Y Combinator is a very interesting early funding structure for new companies that combines a modest level of financial support with a fairly good dose of team building and advice from experts. The financial support is usually $5000 + 5000 x the number of founders involved, so More»

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A study by the University of Utah has concluded that larger monitors lead to greater worker productivity. One finding was that workers using 24 inch monitors completed the test task 52% faster than those using 18 inch monitors.
So, if you’ve been longing for a bigger monitor now may be the time to buy. This study suggests that you’ll pay yourself or your company back via increased productivity in as little as a few days.
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Mad Money’s, Jim Cramer, was on the Today Show yesterday. As part of his predictions for 2008, the money man told host, Meredith Viera, that Google was a favorite of 2007 and that there would be a whole new generation of Google users this year. He didn’t expound on this but it seems like Jim is betting his money on another up year for the search giant. In the short segment, Cramer didn’t mention any other tech stocks. There was no ranting and raving involved :). (Image source: Time, CNBC/AP)
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