Links worth clicking
For the past several years, private equity funds have been having all the fun in the
M&A department. But strategic buyers could be about to reassert themselves,
as pressure grows on managements to do something constructive with the growing
piles of cash on their balance sheets. • Go to Article from Investment Dealers’ Digest
Prescribing Religion
Should physicians wade into the spiritual area during medical treatment?
Following Amazon’s release of S3 (an on-demand storage solution), Mechanical Turk (human tasks on demand) and the Alexa Web Search Platform
(rent your own search engine), I’ve been told that Sun has now released
grid computing on-demand for $1 per CPU-hour. The new service is
located at Network.com.
web focus special
of Nature magazine on the Future of Computing in Science. Amazingly,
all the articles are free access, including a commentary by Vernor
Vinge titled 2020 Computing: The creativity machine.”
