Google is promoting their new browser Chrome on quite a lot of national homepages, from China to France to the US. In Germany, they temporarily advertised Chrome in the wrong place. Instead of a link below the search box mentioning the new browser, the red “New!” message was placed in the footer, the link text which led to Chrome reading “Advertising with Google”. I bet this made quite a few Germans scratch their head earlier today… (by now, it’s fixed). [Hat tip to Yinxue!]

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As presented in the previous posts, yet in the early 1990s, Moen Corporation, located in North Olmsted, Ohio, found itself in a challenging situation. The company was losing market share and not positioned well for the changes that were beginning to take place in the market. To transform the company in order for it to grow, newly installed CEO, Bruce Carbonari, implemented a range of reforming strategies which brought fruitful successes. However, the company did not have a reliable process for the identification of new products. They needed a way to determine a corporate strategy and accompanying product plan that would help them to meet the higher growth rate they desired. Two teams (i) Project Periscope Team and (ii) the Extended Periscope team have been formed in order to move a plumbing fixtures company to a new level of excitement and innovation in the industry. Besides, some more strategies are also utilized. (This post is excerpted from The power of strategy innovation : a new way of linking creativity and strategic planning to discover great business opportunities by Robert E. Johnston, Jr., and J. Douglas Bate.)

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FiReaNGeL writes “An international team has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers used radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a virtual telescope more than 2,800 miles across that is capable of seeing details more than 1,000 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope. The target of the observations was the source known as Sagittarius A* (”A-star”), long thought to mark the position of a black hole whose mass is 4 million times greater than the sun. Though Sagittarius A* was discovered 30 years ago, the new observations for the first time have an angular resolution, or ability to observe small details, that is matched to the size of the event horizon.”

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Boston-Power, Inc.’s (DEMO 07) first battery of its proprietary lithium-ion technology platform, Sonata ® , is now for sale and available for evaluation testing by computer makers and other electronics manaufacturers.

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Known till now for her Art in Manila membership, Adrianne Verhoeven here drops 14 letters and any hope of losing herself in the crowd. “Smoke Rings” trades hypnotic indie-pop tracks for downright entrancing–and deeply intimate–trip-hoppy diary entries.

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By: Albert SShure announced their budget SE102MPA sound isolating stereo headset. Listed at a cheap $99 (for Shure), these headphones feature the same passive noise isolating technology as their more expensive models. They were designed for the iphone/smartphones and include a Music Phone Adapter.Click here for their press release.

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Grundig has released another eco-friendly LCD TV. The Grundig Vision 6 LCD TV will be available in 26, 32, 37 and 42 inches. The LCD screen adopts an integrated DVB-T receiver and supports a resolution of 1336 x 768, contrast ratio of 10000:1(HD ready) and comes with Grundig’s proprietary Perfect Picture plus technology. Other cool […]

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With the upcoming $1.5 billion to $2 billion IPO of Yandex, certainly the biggest tech IPO we would have seen in a while, the Russian search giant got a fair amount of attention lately. The Times published an (somewhat boring) interview with the founder, the blogosphere commented en masse on this story. Some bloggers wondered […]

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While the idea of Commodore showing off some early prototype devices isn’t exactly the sort of thing that’d normally get many folks’ hopes up, the never-say-die company looks to have managed to impress the doubters at IFA, where it had a number of intriguing-looking concepts on hand in addition to that soon-to-be-released netbook we saw yesterday. That includes two Pocket PC devices — one with a sliding QWERTY keypad and one that opts for a folding design (pictured above) — as well as a much slicker-looking netbook than the one that is actually going to be released, naturally (check it out after the break). Of course, specs for any of those are virtually non-existent, although there’s apparently some talk that the Pocket PCs could sell for between €100 and €150 (or roughly $220 to $290) whenever they’re actually released. Be sure to hit up the gallery below for plenty more shots courtesy of Engadget Spanish.

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Hit the rack at 9 last night, too delirious to hold my eyes open, but drugged myself with a Restoril for extra insurance. Then Junior burst in with news of an unwanted phone call: “Loser!” he said. “It’s not even 9 and you’re in bed!” I pleaded that my circadian rhythms, whatever they are, were […]

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September is suddenly here, and I, for one, have been looking forward in my diary to see what key events are taking place that I should attend - and The Future of Web Apps Expo, in London, October 8-10, certainly looks like a must.The line-up of speakers includes Jason Calcanis, Kevin Rose, Kathy Sierra, Tim […]

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Dell’s Inspiron 910 / Mini Inspiron hasn’t exactly been asecret since we first heard about it back in April, but it sounds like this baby bump is about to go from open secret to bouncing bundle of joy — Dell just confirmed to InformationWeek that the netbook is scheduled to arrive later this week. That’s all we know right now — Dell reps called those earlier specs we’d heard “pretty much rumor and speculation” — but we’ll go out on a limb and say we wouldn’t expect anything less than an 8.9-inch screen and 1.6GHz Atom in there. Sorry if we killed the surprise, guys — but remember, you can still wow us with the price tag.

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Le Parlement europ�en d�bat de la r�forme des t�l�coms pr�sent�e le 13 novembre 2007 par la Commission. Ce texte succ�dera � la r�glementation de 2002 (premier paquet t�l�com). Selon les termes de la […]

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Apple has sent press invites hinting at an iPod-themed event to be held Sept. 9 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. And with an entire event devoted to the iconic media player, you can expect a few dramatic changes to the…

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This latest post is some sketching for a longer riff I’m eager to dig into. I love the fact that I can do sketch out loud thanks to American Express. Here’s the first few grafs: Over the past several posts I’ve been talking about the role of search, conversation,…

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