Google Cloud Connect: killing Microsoft one step at a time

Google announced an amazingly convenient plugin/service - "Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office," which it says will bring collaborative multi-person editing to "the familiar Microsoft® Office experience."
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The Rise of Networked Individuals and their role in the life of entrepreneurs

Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie gave a keynote address to USASBE's annual conference in Hilton Head, S.C. His speech to entrepreneur educators is entitled, "The Rise of Networked Individuals and their role in the life of entrepreneurs."

He describes how American society has moved away from a social system anchored by small, tight-knit groups such as families, villages, and artisan employers to a new social operating system built around looser, less-structured social networks. Further, he discusses how the rapid adoption of the internet and mobile phones has pushed this social revolution forward. He describes the Pew Internet Project’s latest research about Americans’ use of technology and how it has given entrepreneurs new ways to act as economic agents in a new media ecosystem.

The Rise of Networked Individuals and Their Role in the Life of Entrepreneurs

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Jack PC - the computer in/on the wall

The Jack PC from Chip PC Technologies offers a neat and novel thin-client desktop computing solution where the computer doesn't just plug into the wall, it is the plug in the wall. Running on power provided by the ethernet cable that also connects it to the data center server, the computer-in-a-wall-socket supports wireless connectivity, has dual display capabilities and runs on the RISC processor architecture – which gives the solution the equivalent of 1.2GHz of x86 processing power.
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