William Kamkwamba’s Streak of Genius
by Robin Caldwell
Tom Rielly, partnership director of TED (Technology, Education, Design) Conferences introduced BlackWeb20.com to this amazing young man, William Kamkwamba. William is barely 20 years old, a former school dropout from a small village in Malawi, Africa, and proof positive that technology knows few boundaries. Watch this video about William and note that his next endeavor has a little, ahem, something to do with Internet access.
Read MoreClear Cut Cool
by Sherri L. Smith
Nowadays, a phone has to be both stylish and functional. A cell could have all the latest and greatest tech, but will sit on the shelves collecting dust if it’s ugly. As more emphasis is placed on design, we as a mobile phone community have become shallow. As a result, cellphone companies have been falling [...]
Read MoreWeekly Money Trail- 08/01/2008
by urbantech
Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio.
This is Cisco’s first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software, for $100 million in cash. Cisco, which [...]
The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008
by urbantech
Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life
A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites.
http://www.alerts.com
Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008
by urbantech
Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM
Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in favor [...]
