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• Wal-Mart's Radio-Tracked Inventory Hits Static - WSJ.com
  RFID at WalMart is still costly for suppliers and (apparently) hasn't paid of yet for WalMart
  (tags: walmart rfid retail)
• Yale on $0 a Day - WSJ.com
  "Following the lead of the MIT and other highly competitive schools, more institutions are posting online everything from lecture notes to sample tests, and even making audio and video files of actual lectures publicly available."
  (tags: education online open_access)
• One million OLPC laptop orders confirmed | InfoWorld | News | 2007-02-15 | By Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service
  "Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, a company representative said Thursday."
  (tags: $100_laptop)
• Oracle Releases New TimesTen In-Memory Database
  "Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release 7 is the first major version of the TimesTen database developed internally by Oracle since the company purchased TimesTen, a startup firm that specialized in data management, in 2005."
  (tags: oracle timesten inmemory_db)
• U.S. senator: It's time to ban Wikipedia in schools, libraries - Computerworld Blogs
  "Stevens introduced Senate bill 49...would require that any school or library that gets federal Internet subsidies would have to block access to interactive Web sites""...Stevens ...He's certainly a buffoon, but he's a dangerous one."
  (tags: senator_stevens netneutrality internet_legislation)
• Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
  "3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context | P = Personalization | VS = Vertical Search. This, I submit, is the formula for the future: Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)."
  (tags: web mitra context)
• EIU.com
  "How companies do business will often be more important in 2010 than what they do." Economist Business 2010 series from 2005, sponsored by SAP
  (tags: business_2010 economist sap)
• Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Business 2010 by Lyla Kuriyan
  "In Business 2010, companies will need to embrace IT as a strategic, competitive weapon to enable rapid innovation." "Even as new business models are adopted, the IT system should be adaptable to reflect these changes quickly."
  (tags: business_2010 innovation)
• The McKinsey Quarterly: What's on CIO agendas in 2007: A McKinsey Survey
  "Two trends in information technology will become increasingly important to CIOs in 2007: a migration to service-oriented architectures and the introduction of lean-manufacturing principles to data center operations."
  (tags: mckinsey soa)

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