In practical application, data processed by numerati from calendars, instant messaging, e-mail, cell phones, social networks, project records, resumes, and other sources could render a digital portrait of each worker. Machines could handily determine the optimal group for a specific project, taking into account budgetary, geographical, and other constraints.
“At work, perhaps more than anywhere else, [...]

SunRun owns the panels and provides maintenance. The company benefits from solar rebate incentives, which help finance the contracts.

SunRun, a company that offers solar-electricity financing, announced Tuesday that it has raised $12 million from Foundation Capital.

Solar electric panels have a hefty up-front cost–between $20,000 and $35,000– depending on the size, before rebates.

The San Francisco-based [...]

The 10-year deal would have placed Google ads on some Yahoo search results, and the companies would have shared resulting revenue. The deal would have let Yahoo show ads on pages where its own technology, called Panama, wasn’t able to provide results, the company said.

Google is letting Yahoo go it alone.

On copyright, the conventional thinking [...]

The Pentagon is no stranger to overpriced equipment and cost overruns, but it may never have seen a program quite like the U.S. Army’s long-running and hugely ambitious Future Combat Systems initiative.
“This new way of fighting can be achieved only if the data can be made available in near real-time at sensor processors, at the [...]

“We should be measured not where some think we should be, but on where we have come from and what we have accomplished,” Azmi said.

Zalmai Azmi

After 24 years working for the federal government, Azmi said he is resigning to spend more time with his family.

The biggest challenge for his successor, Azmi said, “will be [...]

Submissions will be accepted through January 31, and a jury will select semifinalists and then finalists. Seven winners, each one from a different global region, will be chosen by a public vote sometime in June. The winners will receive trips to New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles for screenings and meetings with film industry [...]

Updated April 21, 5:36 AM PDT to reflect the actual announcement by Skype.
The plan also allows unlimited domestic calls in the U.S., via Skype’s Internet-based phone service, to both landline phones and mobile phones.
Skype notes that calls to premium, nongeographic, and other special numbers are excluded. The company continues to offer Skype-to-Skype calls free [...]

A month ago at CTIA Wireless, the hatchling service was just being introduced. Now everyone is invited to try. From the Web site, enter the invite code, “cloud,” and your phone details to get started. Users will be able to test the application free of charge for about a month, Marolda says, before a pricing [...]

The service is currently in private beta, but made its public debut at Monday’s TechCrunch50 conference. On a side note: you need to provide OtherInbox your e-mail address when you sign-up. And we have 25 invites to give out–so go here to get yours while they last.
OtherInbox works by giving you a special address you [...]

“At this very table six months ago, I had the minister of communication and the minister of education,” Montoya said. “I told them that Computadores para Educar must change.”

Among the criticisms is the fact that it costs about $160 to refurbish a PC. That figure is lower, say, than in Africa, but higher than in [...]