Chris Tolles is CEO of Topix, an online local news aggregator. Tolles talks about the shortcomings that most news sources carry and gives fresh perspective on his target user base.
Four paradigmatic views that explain shortcomings of Knowledge Management Systems KMS in literature are identified: Organizational barriers, codification vs. personalization, importance of a clear working definition of knowledge and impossibility to manage knowledge or certain forms of it. Their validity is analyzed by comparing them to a case study in...
The idea that the periphery suffered de-industrialization during the first global century before 1914 has a long pedigree, and every country writes its own independent history of that shared event. While that literature is immense, it has three shortcomings that are serious enough to invite this new attack on an...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/239a43/china_viscose_fibr) has announced the addition of the "China Viscose Fibre Market Report, 2008-2009" report to their offering. Viscose fibre is made from lumber, bulrush, linter or cellolose via a chemical process. Viscose fibre consists of flament and short fibre. Flament is also...
A record of 40 years on the London literary scene summons the ghosts of once-famous, now forgotten players Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from literary life By Jeremy Lewis Harper Press Pounds 20 In Grub Street Irregular, Jeremy Lewis does a wonderful line in...
TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. -- The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq. Brian Hart...
Liposuction is a cosmetic procedure used to remove fat deposits from certain parts of the body. Before deciding to have this elective procedure, it's important to note that liposuction doesn't always meet a patient's expectations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. Here are possible shortcomings: You will...
FDA faces challenges managing its program to inspect foreign establishments that manufacture medical devices. GAO testified in January 2008 that two databases that provide FDA with information about foreign medical device establishments and the products they manufacture for the U.S. market contained inaccurate information about establishments subject to FDA inspection....
Few in higher education or athletics question the NCAA's intent in penalizing college sports teams for academic shortcomings. Its execution, however, is drawing fire. The watchdog Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics pointed this month to scores of teams that have escaped sanctions despite posting subpar academic progress rates...
Micronas MAPR-M audio IC solution for soundbars reduces cost and time-to-market and supports product differentiation FREIBURG, Germany, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Micronas (SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN), a leading supplier of innovative application-specific IC system solutions for consumer electronics, presents the MAP-M, a fully integrated single-chip audio solution...
New Discoverii Capability Strengthens Threat Assessment Capacity of Radar ATLANTA -- Advancements in capability and reductions in pricing have dramatically increased the incorporation of marine and ground-based radar systems into perimeter, coastal, and border security applications. While these radar systems can effectively detect and locate potential threats, such...
KENNY Clark, formerly Scotland's most senior referee, clearly has no intention of slipping quietly into the background having reached the statutory SFA retirement age of 47. Judging by his call yesterday to football authorities to punish managers more for attempting to undermine the authority of match officials,...
NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Carl C. Icahn announced today that his blog has finally gone public and the clock can stop ticking. He went on to state, "I believe corporate democracy in this country is for the most part a myth. The purpose of this...
I assume that upon the conclusion of these Finals, the NBA will cease to exist. How can it possibly survive? Should the growing fraternity of conspiracy mavens live true to its paranoia then these fans will unconditionally walk away from such scripted fraud, right? If you're...
TELEVISION PETER KOSMINSKY Once fired by the BBC, the revered director tells Ian Burrell why he tackles awkward issues he feels his old bosses now avoid Outside on the churchyard lawn, several dozen elderly Chinese residents of London's Soho are in the process...
THE WEEK IN POLITICS David Davis was the centre of attention at a Christmas party I attended a few years ago. He gave a no-holds barred analysis of the problems afflicting the Conservative Party, including the shortcomings of several of his senior "colleagues". On the way home,...
BRENHAM, Texas, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Ice cream lovers are facing a sad new fact of life in the grocery store. Some of the top-selling ice cream companies in the country have reduced the size of the classic "half-gallon" container. The first reduction was from the full 64-ounce half-gallon...
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- The entire military -- not just the newly reoriented Air Force -- must learn to accept criticism from outside its ranks, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. Speaking to about 500 airmen at this base just east of St. Louis, Gates...
Thomas Maufer to Present on SIP Reliability, Availability and IMS Forum Findings SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Mu Dynamics, a pioneer in helping network operators and their vendors eliminate downtime through proactive service assurance, will demo its breakthrough Denial of Service DoS Module for the Mu-4000 appliance next week at...
MOYERS ON DEMOCRACY, by Bill Moyers, Doubleday, 404 pages, $26.95 Bill Moyers, a Texan by birth, seems to have been born with unusual wisdom. He began his career in journalism but soon went into politics as press secretary and White House assistant to President...
