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Recession sends Americans to the Internet

by Erik on July 16, 2009

in Internet,Recession

It’s not just family and friends that Americans are turning to for advice and support to cope with the prolonged recession; many have found a counselor in the Internet. More than two-thirds of American adults — or 88 percent of U.S. Internet users — went online for help with recession-induced personal economic issues and to [...]

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Google Chrome OS: Be A Part of the Cloud

by Erik on July 11, 2009

in Cloud Computing,Competition,Google,Green Tech,SaaS,Technology

Cloud computing could become mainstream with Google’s annoucement this week to release the Chrome operating system for NetBook PCs. I believe the cloud is the platform of the future, and Google is uniquely poised with their already popular office suite, Google Docs, and their other Google Apps which do just about everything owners of netbooks [...]

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Teenage Entrepreneurs, Building Their Own Job Engine

by Erik on July 6, 2009

in Economy,Entrepreneurship,Jobs,Recession,Unemployment

Unemployment for 16- to 19-year-olds is at its highest rate since 1992 — at 22.7 percent in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is causing some teenagers to rethink their notion of work and to embrace entrepreneurship. “This is a generation raised to believe they can do anything, and the first to [...]

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Clean Energy and the Future

by Erik on July 6, 2009

in Alternative Energy,Asia,Economy,Green Tech,IBM,Sustainability,Technology

photo credit: Ennor (computer problems) Thomas Friedman is an interesting man. For one, his book on globalization: The World Is Flat was mandatory reading at Lehigh in an intro course to Information Systems, and caused a great deal of debate on the topic during many a class session. But, his current op-ed in the New [...]

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