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Energy Futures for Texas: Local and Global Perspectives, a symposium organized jointly by TCU and the University of Oxford that addressed controversial environmental issues and the necessity of the Texas and the U.S. to be more environmentally responsible, was held yesterday at the Fort Worth Hilton.
The daylong symposium was organized primarily by 14 environmental science graduate and undergraduate students- 12 of which attended a two-week lecture series at the University of Oxford that addressed climate change issues from a European perspective.
TCU senior Bethanne Edwards, one of the 12 students who traveled to the lecture series, said yesterday's symposium was intended to provoke conversation about energy usage and climate change on both the local and global level.
Oracle and Acxiom to Offer Industry's First Pre-Packaged ...
"With the Knowledge-Based MDM solution, Acxiom and Oracle are making a significant step towards providing an economically compelling pre-packaged third generation MDM solution," said Chief Research Officer for the CDI Institute Aaron Zornes. "With this announcement, enterprises can expect fast time-to-value with accurate customer data in an economical and real-time offering." MDM solutions provide the ability to consolidate and federate disparate systems and lines of business into one central data repository. Acxiom is the world's largest processor of consumer data and collects and manages more than a billion records a day for its customers, which include nine of the country's top ten credit-card issuers and most major retail banks, insurers and automakers. By integrating Acxiom's consumer data with Oracle's comprehensive MDM solutions, Oracle plans to provide customers with a pre-packaged, content-enriched customer information repository with unprecedented levels of data quality.
eBay and StumbleUpon Unite to Take on Multi-Billion Dollar Social ...
If Michael Arrington and Om Malik are to be believed, StumbleUpon has just been acquired by eBay, possibly for around $40 million to $45 million. Here's a look at what eBay stands to gain from this acquisition. With eBay's dominant position in the online shopping industry along with PayPal's unique position in the e-commerce (or online transaction facilitation) market and StumbleUpon's strengths when it comes to using collaborative filtering methodologies to determine opinion and distribute content, this buyout could effectively be used to create a unique service that could easily capture a dominating chunk of the social shopping market. Until a little over a year ago, online shopping was a lonely endeavor. But then came the rise of the social web, which led to the explosion of social networks, and ultimately to the development of social shopping services.
Odds are Christopher is first to be whacked
With such a dearth of criminal activity to report in New Jersey these days, it'll sure be good to have "The Sopranos" back. Honestly, haven't we had our fill of penny ante corruption and everyday indictments? Isn't it about time for something a little more substantial?
Such as, who gets whacked when the immensely popular HBO series resumes next week? Big Pussy, Richie Aprile, Ralphie, Adriana, Vito . . . who's next?
As it so happens, I find myself in possession of some interesting information pertaining to further family fun. Currently, Christopher is the solid 2-1 choice to be the next to go, according to BetUS.com, an online outfit that actually takes bets on this kind of stuff.
"People are bored with sports pools," says Reed Richards, a spokesman for the 10-year-old company.
Google Froogle Gets a Name Change
So long, "Google Froogle", and hello to your new name "Google Product Search". Hoping to boost its "Google Checkout" service Google has changed the name of "Google Froogle" to a more traditional name Google Product Search. The company launched "Froogle" in time for the 2002 Holiday rush but the name really never resonated with the search engines users. The company hopes the re branded product will help it gain better traction in the world of online shopping. "I don't think we understood the complications with rolling out another brand. While it was a cute and clever name, it had issues around copyright and trademark, as well as internationalisation… The pun (to be 'frugal') isn't obvious," Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search product and user experience, said this week. "Google Product Search", for the record, is a tool that you lets users find the best price for products searching online or at the store.
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