by Minter Dial | Jul 22, 2009 | New Tech
Here’s a business opportunity for an enterprising individual: create a screen that can be read despite the sunshine. I was in Naples last week and, braving the 40C degree heat, I attempted to draw some money from an ATM (pictured below). With the...
by Minter Dial | Jun 25, 2009 | Environment, New Tech
Henrie Meiresonne, CEO of Fost Plus Belgium and newly appointed President of PRO Europe, gave a speech in Paris on June 22, 2009, regarding the efficiency and effectiveness of the Green Dot (“Grüne Punkt” or “point vert”) in France. Here are...
by Minter Dial | Jun 24, 2009 | New Tech
THE SEARCH MARKET GOES KOSHER This post is being published today, Wednesday, a day other than Saturday, on purpose. It is about yet another new search engine… In the wake of Wolfram Alpha and Bing, announcing Koogle (www.koogle.co.il), a cross between Google and...
by Minter Dial | Jun 16, 2009 | Entertainment, New Tech
Nature meets Music. Here is a wonderful example of creativity, where a Slovenian chorus has created a superlative, supranatural segue into a wonderfully uplifting song, entitled Africa. The choir is called Perpetuum Jazzile, “Slovenia’s only jazz choir,...
by Minter Dial | Jun 6, 2009 | New Tech
There is a pernicious email spam that has recently been created in which your friend’s email has been taken over. You are sent a mail from your friend and it looks very authentic. Because it has hacked your friend’s mail, it always get through the spam...
by Minter Dial | May 31, 2009 | Mobile, New Tech
In my car, with its digital radio station interface, I noticed that BFM Radio 96.4 (above), a French business radio station, is now getting into the RSS live streaming act. Toggling between different business indicators (the levels of the different stock market, FX...