Back to the basics for Contra Costa firefighters (Contra Costa Times)
Six months after report on fire that killed two firefighters and two residents, Contra Costa fire district has made progress on recommended changes.
Whatever Happened to Silicon Valley Innovation? (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
Transmeta Corp. (NasdaqGM:TMTA - News) once embodied the Silicon Valley dream. Starting in 1995, the company raised more than $300 million in a nervy bid to reinvent the market for chips powering portable computers. Yet Transmeta struggled in recent years, and the grand hopes officially ended on Nov. 17, when the Santa Clara (Calif.) company agreed to be acquired by a little-known rival. In the ...
Breaking the Google habit (CNET)
People use the search champion out of habit, so competitors that want to displace Google need to feed customers a different way of thinking and behaving.
Aero-News: Quote of the Day (12.30.08) (The Aero-News Network)
"Although perceptions may be to the contrary, the fact is that eighty-five percent of the companies that utilize business aviation are small and mid-size. And the passengers on business aircraft are usually salespersons, engineers, technicians and other employees below the senior executive rank." Source: Ed Bolen, president of the National Business Aviation Association. In a carefully-worded ...
Search Engine Roundtable Is Five Years Old - December 2nd (Search Engine Roundtable)
I totally forgot to write a special article for this site's fifth birthday, which took place on December 2, 2008. We have been writing here for five years! We have written over 9,000 articles, and over 2,300 just this year alone. That makes for over 8 articles per work day this past year and just about seven articles per work day over the course of these past five years. I could not have ...
