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SAP and Google Put Business Analytics on the Map

SAP business analytics and data visualizations will be connected to Google’s global mapping prowess in new capabilities announced Wednesday from a joint collaboration.

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Features in the partnership would enable SAP customers to visualize and analyze data sets based on geospatial boundaries found in Google’s Maps and Earth applications, according to a news release. In Read more…

Jul 27, 2011

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Finalists for Online Gadget Awards Revealed

The technology website T3 revealed the names of the products and individuals to be considered as finalists for its T3 Gadgets Awards 2011 on July 22. Users can now vote on who and what will ultimately win in the various award categories for the next two months, up until September 22.

The 19 categories cover the products themselves – televisions, digital cameras, smartphones, computers, the general “gadget category and more – as well as the top design, technology company and industry personality of the year. The site’s users cast over 350,000 votes to create the lists of nominees in each category.

Two of the major categories involve some of the most recognizable products and figures in the technology world. Read more…

Jul 25, 2011

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Post office ponders closing 3,600 retail outlets

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Postal Service is considering closing more than one in 10 of its retail outlets.

The financially troubled agency was announcing Tuesday that it will study more than 3,600 local offices, branches and stations for possible closing.

Currently the post office operates more than 31,000 retail outlets across the country, down from 38,000 a decade ago, but in recent years business has declined sharply as first-class mail moved to the Internet. I

Rule to Mandate Consumer-Friendly Health Insurance

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is nearly ready to issue a proposed rule requiring health insurers to develop standardized, consumer-friendly summaries of benefits and coverage under their health plan packages.

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The rule, mandated under the Affordable Care Act under Sec. 2715, would cover all benefit packages including those that individuals and small employers will be able to compare and purchase on Web-based state insurance exchanges.

New home construction nearly doubles in Sullivan County

New home construction in the Tri-Cities showed signs of life during the second quarter of this year, but starts are well below 2010 levels.

According to the Q2 Market Edge Residential Building Permit Trend Report, new home starts almost doubled in Sullivan and Greene counties, more than doubled in Scott County, Va., and almost doubled in Washington County, Va. But when you’re coming from the record-low numbers from the first quarter, those gains are little comfort to builders.

Market Edge President Dale Adkins summed up it this way: “We’re seeing signs of life in an otherwise bleak housing market.”

During the first half of last year, new home permits totaled 530. Thi

New Hard Drives Offer On-Board Encryption

A growing number of businesses and individuals are paying more attention to the security of their private information. Japanese electronics manufacturer Toshiba has introduced a new hard drive it believes offers a better solution than many traditional data security tools, according to ZDNet Asia.

Toshiba’s Self-Encrypting Drives use an authentication process embedded in the hard drive itself, which changes its encryption and activates every time the device is turned on. Read more…

Jul 22, 2011

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Tags: Hard, New Hard

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SAP and Google Put Business Analytics on the Map

Finalists for Online Gadget Awards Revealed

Post office ponders closing 3,600 retail outlets

Rule to Mandate Consumer-Friendly Health Insurance

New home construction nearly doubles in Sullivan County

New Hard Drives Offer On-Board Encryption

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