E-Commerce Blog

Google and Yahoo are so well established in my daily Internet search routine that I wasn’t expecting to find anything new with a beta engine from a start-up search company. But ubExact had more than one pleasant surprise in how it lets users search. ubExact launched its beta on Sept. 2 after spending much of its first year designing the search platform and loading a database of information and vendor links keyed to Metro Service Areas around the nation. That process will continue for some time until the end of phase one.

Read the original here:
ubExact Gives Search a Little More Personality

After watching the first presidential debate, one person on that stage clearly showcased the leadership, focus and bipartisan attitude the U.S. needs to turn itself around. Unfortunately, Jim Lehrer isn’t actually running, so it didn’t help my own decision process much, and I remain decisively undecided at the moment. In watching the bailout last week, it became clear that tech is clearly at risk, and I was struck by the reality that were the U.S. a company, the CEO, CFO and chairman of the board (Speaker of the House) would likely have all been, and should have been, fired.

See original here:
Schwarzenegger for President?

Just in time for the 2008 holiday season, Sony unveiled a new addition to its line of e-book readers Thursday. The PRS-700, which features a six-inch touchscreen, will join the PRS-505 on store shelves in November. Weighing in at about 10 ounces and capable of storing about 350 average-length digital novels, the PRS-700 also includes an expandable memory slot for Sony’s Memory Stick Duo media and SD memory cards. With the added memory, the reader can hold thousands of books and documents, according to Sony.

See the rest here:
Sony Takes Swipe at Kindle With Touchscreen Reader

“No scripts, no teleprompter here, no real structure and no Britney Spears,” says anchor Heather Nauert on a Sept. 25 edition of Fox News Channel’s “Strategy Room.” Then again, who needs Spears when you’ve got five stunning examples of Fox’s now-famous efforts to recruit attractive females, all sitting around a table chatting with much energy about Congressional efforts to bail out the country’s economy. Another point that Fox’s new show has in common with the former teen pop star: It hopes to scale new heights of popularity thanks to the Internet.

View original post here:
Attention News Networks: The Web Is Not TV

The financial crisis currently consuming the U.S. has led tech industry leaders, such as Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, to speak out in favor of quick Congressional action. Tech stocks, as well as general stocks, have plummeted, and there is confusion over why this crisis is happening and spreading so fast. One explanation that makes a lot of sense draws on network and information theory. Network theory can help us understand the current market crisis, because it can aid in identifying and understanding cascading information network failures.

See more here:
Network Theory Can Explain US Credit Crunch