Five Facts About Second Life the BBC Doesn't Un The BBC's recent magazine article, "What Happened to Second Life?", written by Lauren Hansen and edited by Jonathan Duffy, is so incandescently bad, to read it is to feel the entire institution's credibility undermined. After all, if the BBC can get one relatively simple technology story so patently, thoroughly wrong, you have to wonder: What other news items are they bunging up as badly? Some 800 words long, it boasts at least five significant errors which erode its thesis almost wholly: 1. The BBC Misreported Second Life's User Numbers "The number of people joining the site jumped from 450,000 to four million in 2007." Hansen offers no citation for these figures, and they're contrary to all known data. 2. "But just as quickly as it had flared, media interest ebbed away. While it's true media coverage of Second Life has fallen from its nosebleed peaks of 2007, it does not follow that media interest has "ebbed away". 3. 4. This is wrong in at least two ways. 5.
Q&A With IBM’s Jeff Jonas: The Responsible Innovator Today, Jeff Jonas charts the big vision for the IBM Entity Analytic Solutions group, but through his career he has charted a course across the information management and identity analytics landscape that this industry would be well served to follow. He will share his vision in a keynote address at the Billing & OSS World Conference & Expo in April in Las Vegas. Jeff Jonas is a distinguished engineer and chief scientist at IBM (IBM), but it only starts there. He also is a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. He’s a senior associate for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a contributor to leading think tanks, advocacy groups and policy research organizations on matters of privacy, technology and homeland security. These are his credentials, but his ideas are here on his blog where you may find yourself sharing what he calls his absolute fascination with this space. How did you become so fascinated with data analytics?
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Fighter jets escort plane after passenger becomes unruly - CNN.c Two F-15 fighter jets escorted a Boeing 767 with an allegedly unruly passenger back to Portland, Oregon, Wednesday. NEW: NORAD says decision made after receiving "indicators" of a problemHawaiian Airlines Flight 39 took off from Portland at 10:10 a.m. with 231 passengers 90 minutes into the flight, captain decided to turn around the Boeing 767, said airline officialFBI: Not releasing name of alleged unruly passenger because no charges yet Portland, Oregon (CNN) -- Two F-15 fighter jets escorted a passenger jet that had been headed for Hawaii back to Portland International Airport in Oregon after a passenger in coach became "uncooperative," an airline official said Wednesday. Hawaiian Airlines Flight 39 took off from Portland at 10:10 a.m. with 231 passengers and a crew of 10 when -- 90 minutes into the flight -- its captain decided to turn around the Boeing 767, said Keoni Wagner, the airline's vice president of public affairs. It landed at 1:16 p.m. without further incident, the TSA said.
Apple plans mystery "product transition" before Septem By Katie Marsal During his quarterly financial results call, Apple's chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer revealed that the company will make a key "product transition" that cuts back on its profit margins to help shut out rivals.A frequent point of discussion during the hour-long call, the mystery transition will drop Apple's gross margins from 34.8 percent in the spring quarter to just 31.5 percent in the July-to-September window in which the update takes place, ultimately settling at about 30 percent during Apple's fiscal 2009. Oppenheimer is deliberately short on details, not wanting to pre-announce the product or allude to its nature, but explains that cost will be a driving factor. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company often introduces products to the market with new technology at a high price, according to the executive, but often seeks to drive the price lower over time.
'Virtual graduation' for students A university is to hold a "virtual graduation ceremony" for students on a distance learning course. Edinburgh University will broadcast the ceremony at its McEwan Hall on to the Second Life web community. The move will ensure students on its E-Learning course who are unable to travel to Edinburgh do not miss out on the graduation celebrations. They will be able to download robes for their online avatars, and gather in a virtual bar after the ceremony. Second Life is an online 3D world where users can interact with each other through their avatars - graphic representations of themselves. The masters programme - aimed mainly at professionals working in higher and further education - has already broken new ground with Twitter tutorials, online learning and new forms of digitally-enabled assessment. Course leaders said the new idea for a graduation ceremony was a model that could work well for other distance learning programmes.
Software Leader Board: OSS Observer's Market Share Report Most of the market share leaders in the global telecom software market continued to grow revenue in 2007, according to the latest report from OSS Observer, an Analysys Mason company. And most are well-positioned to continue doing so despite economic concerns. OSS Observer’s Global Detailed Market Share Report for the telecom software market covers 22 different segments within the software space. While many of the leading vendors are ranked in several categories, the aggregate leaders were Amdocs, Ericsson and Oracle Corp. Market Share Year over Year Comparison Source: OSS Observer, an Analysys Mason company Barring some significant acquisitive activity on the part of its competitors, Amdocs’ 13 percent market share should hold up and keep it atop the market for the next couple of years, said Patrick Kelly, partner and co-founder at OSS Observer. Overall, the market generated $17.6 billion in 2007. Despite all that growth, Kelly said OSS Observer also is scaling back its projections.
I read a lot of threads about being lonely, sad or unhappy in ge U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the U.S. military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army. U.S. military rules specifically prohibit the proselytizing of any religion in Iraq or Afghanistan and were drawn up in order to prevent criticism that the U.S. was embarked on a religious "Crusade" in its war against al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents. Other references include citations from the books of Revelation, Matthew and John dealing with Jesus as "the light of the world." Trijicon confirmed to ABCNews.com that it adds the biblical codes to the sights sold to the U.S. military.