Amazon to sell dual-boot OLPC laptop in November Sep 5, 2008
Aspyr Media has announced its new SAT prep video game, , that has been co-developed with Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. futureU uses a combination of six games, split into math, reading, and writing categories to build students' knowledge of concepts and information they can expect to be tested on with the SATs. (Electronista)
Lacks Finesse Aug 30, 2008
Written and directed by David Kaplan ... Writer-director David Kaplan has taken a venerable Chinese version of the Cinderella story and set it in a massage parlor in New York's Chinatown ... Kaplan uses a modern, digital version ("interpolated rotoscoping") that's also been employed, and more impressively, by Richard Linklater for "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Hypnotic Allure Aug 29, 2008
The impressionistic dreaminess of "Year of the Fish," David Kaplan's lovely film set in New York's Chinatown, makes it one of the most unusual takes on the Cinderella tale ... Linklater "had a team of 35 or 40 animators and millions of dollars," Kaplan said by phone from his native New York ... Kaplan shot the movie with a Sony PD170, a fairly cheap digital video camera, and used few lights ("usually one, at the most two," Kaplan said), which allowed the bare-bones crew to move quickly. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Reduce a Gadget's Power Drain Aug 23, 2008
"It's not just a smart home, but a smart, energy-efficient home," says Jeremy Kaplan, executive editor of PC Magazine ... The photosensitive cells on solar-powered chargers soak up, at best, 15% of available sunlight, says Kaplan. (SmartMoney)
PG&E juices up for electric cars Aug 6, 2008
"Typically if you want a vehicle charged by 7 a.m., that gives us a 12-to-14-hour time window to schedule a few hours of electricity," said David Kaplan, chief technology officer and founder of V2Green. "If we schedule that to happen across many different vehicles at a time optimal for the grid, that has economic value for the utility.". (San Francisco Business Times, CA)
On-demand data integration ties HD Supply to customers Jul 31, 2008
Consultant Jeff Kaplan, managing director at THINKstrategies Inc. in Wellesley, Mass ... "Businesses look at the time, the skills, the resources and money it would take to do this stuff, as well as operational requirements and then ask themselves if they need to build their own solution," Kaplan said ... "Hubspan has not only figured out how to integrate applications on premise but also across multiple entities, so enterprises can transfer data across their multiple divisions or with partners in... (SearchCIO.com)
Website traders get rich quick Jul 31, 2008
Philip Kaplan, who captured attention with a website that rejoiced in the unravelling of the dotcom bubble, now helps sites secure online advertising through his company AdBrite. He says he has been encouraging site owners to "carve out a focused niche". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Flipping Web sites, selling the niche Jul 29, 2008
Philip Kaplan, who captured attention with a Web site that rejoiced in the unraveling of the dot-com bubble, now helps sites secure online advertising through his company AdBrite. He said in an interview that he has been encouraging site owners to "carve out a focused niche.". (International Herald Tribune)
SaaS CRM integration: Is it still a deal killer? Jul 4, 2008
With Web services, with APIs with the third-party tools, as well as the independent systems integration skills, these issues are very easily addressed Jeff Kaplan Managing director, THINKstrategies ... "It's probably their primary concern," said Jeff Kaplan, managing director of Wellesley, Mass ... "There's a subset of systems integrators born and bred for SaaS," THINKstrategies' Kaplan said. (SearchCRM.com)
11th Circuit Sides With National Geographic in Copyright Case Jul 2, 2008
That second appeal was reviewed by a new appellate panel, composed of Barkett, Senior Judge Kravitch and Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, sitting by designation from the Southern District of New York. That appellate panel rejected the 2001 opinion Birch had authored and, instead, found that National Geographic could reprint its magazines in whole on computer disks without running afoul of federal copyright laws. (Law.com)
Stocks are sharply lower on 1st day of 3rd quarter Jul 1, 2008
Trader Steven Kaplan watches the numbers as he works on the floor of the New. Slideshow. (Yahoo News)
Pluto's Identity Crisis Hits Classrooms, Bookstores Jun 24, 2008
Liam's teacher Rachel Kaplan said, "I was really sad when Pluto was declassified as a planet, because I've studied astrology for a number of years.". Aileen Wilson said her 7-year-old son is interested in Pluto's label. (Fox News)
0835 BST kick-off: New Zealand v England Jun 21, 2008
Referee Jonathan Kaplan is about to get the game started. 0831: The anthems are a little understated. (BBC Sport)
Pluto's identity crisis hits classrooms and bookstores Jun 20, 2008
"It's the smallest planet," said Liam, a 4-year-old who is "about to be 5." Liam's teacher Rachel Kaplan said, "I was really sad when Pluto was declassified as a planet, because I've studied astrology for a number of years.". Aileen Wilson said her 7-year-old son is interested in Pluto's label. (USA Today -- Tech)
Queen's Bench to be Overhauled Jun 20, 2008
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Salesforce Rolls Out Big Summer '08 Update Jun 18, 2008
Jeff Kaplan, managing director of THINKstrategies, said the release is more evolutionary than revolutionary, but will still carry weight ... "Because Salesforce has been in the vanguard of the SaaS movement, whenever they rollout these iterative enhancements, they are worth paying attention to," Kaplan added. (eSecurityPlanet)
UPDATE 1-Microsoft seeks support against Google-Yahoo deal Jun 16, 2008
UPDATE 1-Microsoft seeks support against Google-Yahoo deal. Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:21am BST. (Reuters)
Getting SaaSy Jun 11, 2008
More than one-third of large and midsize companies worldwide use some kind of SaaS, and another third of companies are considering it, says Jeff Kaplan, the managing director of consulting firm Thinkstrategies Inc., which recently conducted a survey on the trend ... "That (cost) is certainly the bottom line for a lot of people," Kaplan says. (Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)
Consider NBC11 Your Election Central, Click Inside For Vote Totals Jun 5, 2008
Squaring off in November will be Rebecca Kaplan, a civil rights attorney who formerly served on the AC Transit District's board and Kerry Hamill, an Oakland school board member and BART manager. Kaplan won 39. (NBC 11, CA)
Polls Close Across State, Click Inside For Vote Totals Jun 4, 2008
Also running are Clinton Killian, an attorney who has long been involved in civic affairs and serves on the board of the AC Transit District; Rebecca Kaplan, a civil rights attorney who former served on AC Transit's board; retired software designer Charles Pine; and Frank Rose, a retired U.S. Postal Service contractor who formerly served as an aide to Chang. Ignacio De La Fuente, who was first elected to the Oakland City Council in 1992 and has served as its president for nine years, is being... (NBC 11, CA)
Spears 'not fit enough for court' May 31, 2008
The lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said Ms Spears had made progress in getting her personal life back together. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
FCC chief responds to technology industry views May 30, 2008
By Peter Kaplan Thu May 29, 11:03 PM ET. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday that the agency was moving to respond to industry concerns about making the Internet open and widely available. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
WiiWare: downloadable indie games come to the Nintendo Wii May 21, 2008
In February of 2006, former Nintendo of America marketing vice president Perrin Kaplan laid out Nintendo's forthcoming console generation with a strategy the company had dubbed "blue ocean." The , according to Nintendo, was an effort to create a gaming market where there previously wasn't one, with new methods, new approaches, and new platforms. This plan, which seemed so simple and almost laughable initially, has gone on to generate the company a , and the various aspects of that strategy... (Ars Technica)
K-Fed attorney: Intense interest has its benefits May 18, 2008
"If I had to hire an investigator or investigators to provide me with the intelligence about what's going on, where they are, how are they doing," said Mark Vincent Kaplan, "it would be north of half a million to a million dollars ... as opposed to buying People magazine for $3.95 on Thursday morning or going on TMZ." ... "In order for a high-profile case not to be high profile, everybody's got to want it not to be high profile," Kaplan said ... Kaplan says that's happening for reasons he can't... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Study says some file-sharing uploads hindered May 16, 2008
Thu May 15, 2008 10:42pm BST. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A study released on Thursday reinforced allegations that Comcast is hindering some file-sharing services, such as BitTorrent, that distribute television shows and movies over its network. (Reuters)
Houston plugs into coworking cooperative concept May 15, 2008
Their business partners in the venture are Adam Brackman and Jeff Kaplan, both commercial real estate brokers with Houston-based Wulfe & Co.. A more loosely structured version of coworking, called Jelly, debuted in New York about a year ago and is now being organized in Houston by Internet social media consultant Erica O'Grady and Mark Schmulen, founder of an e-mail software service called NutshellMail. (Houston Business Journal, TX)
Spears given more access to sons May 7, 2008
The lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said Ms Spears had made progress in getting her personal life back together. Mr Federline has had full custody of their children since January, when Ms Spears entered a psychiatric hospital. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
5 vie for at-large Oakland City Council seat May 5, 2008
AC Transit District board member Rebecca Kaplan is making her second run for the at-large seat, saying her six years advocating on the transit board for things such as all-night bus service and greater use of solar energy and biofuels have prepared her for the council ... Kaplan, 37, said she would like to see the city assign officers on foot in every neighborhood as a means of economic revitalization ... "We can create a retail destination, but that requires having neighborhood police officers... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Demystifying eBay at Library May 2, 2008
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Washington Post profits tumble 39% May 2, 2008
The D.C.-based company (NYSE: WPO), which owns The Washington Post, Newsweek magazine and Kaplan education products, announced Friday that it earned $39. 3 million, or $4. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
U.S. FCC again criticizes Comcast Apr 23, 2008
April 22, 2008 at 3:27 PM EDT. WASHINGTON The top U.S. communications regulator said Tuesday that an investigation of how Comcast Corp manages its network had raised further concerns about tactics the company has used to restrict Internet users who share movies and other material. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
PROXY Governance supports Furniture Brands in proxy fight with Sun Capital Apr 23, 2008
Earlier this month, Sun Capital for election to Furniture Brands' board of directors: Alan Schwartz, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School; Ira Kaplan, former chief financial officer of Claire's Stores Inc.; and T. Scott King, managing director of. Shareholders will elect directors at the annual shareholders meeting on May 1. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
Nike spending billions for endorsements and sponsorships Apr 20, 2008
Daniel Kaplan is a writer for Street & Smith's Sportsbusiness Journal, an affiliate of Portland Business Journal. Related Industry News. (The Business Journal of Portland, OR)
Flip Video Maker Plans To Go Public Apr 19, 2008
Privately held Pure Digital plans to file for an initial public offering early next year, says Jonathan Kaplan, the company's chairman and CEO. Pure Digital's backers include Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, Morgan Stanley () and Walt Disney's () Steamboat Ventures. Pure Digital has sales in the "hundreds of millions" of dollars and is profitable, Kaplan says ... Pure Digital expects to sell more than 1 million Flip Video camcorders in its first year, Kaplan says. (Investors Business Daily)
FCC weighs dispute over network practices Apr 18, 2008
By Clare Baldwin and Peter Kaplan ... (Reporting by Peter Kaplan, editing by Richard Chang). (Scientific American)
Feeling crabby? Apr 7, 2008
Bill Kaplan ran the real life MIT blackjack team that won millions of dollars from casinos, although his character is replaced in the new movie 21 by a villainous fictionalized leader played by Kevin Spacey. Kaplan plans to write a book on how the lessons of blackjack can be applied to management. (USA Today -- Money)
Verizon reveals plans for acquired airwaves Apr 5, 2008
$7 online stock trades. Mobile provider to use spectrum for next gen of high-speed services. (MSNBC -- Technology)
iSuppli acquires PV, MEMS market research firm Apr 2, 2008
"All segments of the photovoltaic market are growing rapidly," said Lloyd Kaplan, chief operating officer at iSuppli, in a statement. "To compete, companies must make and manage major investments in technology, capacity and systems.". (EETimes)
Utilities jump on board to plan for plug-in cars Mar 31, 2008
"People are saying, '(Plug-ins) are more immediate than I expected,' " says David Kaplan, chief technology officer and founder of V2Green, a Seattle company with smart-charging technology ... "More wind power is produced at night," Kaplan says, and smart-charging software can tell the power grid to charge the car during the windiest hours. (USA Today -- Autos)
Nurses offer input on shortage of workers Mar 28, 2008
Jan Price, program coordinator for practical nursing at Kaplan University, said anywhere from a third to half of the students who enter nursing programs do not finish. The reasons can vary from the difficult coursework to the realization that nursing was not what students wanted. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Google unveils "white space" airwaves plans Mar 25, 2008
By Peter Kaplan and Eric Auchard Mar 24, 2008 Font Size. WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc on Monday unveiled plans for a new generation of wireless devices to operate on soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves, and sought to alleviate fears that this might interfere with TV broadcasts or wireless microphones. (ABC News -- Wire)
Book Review: Robert Kaplan on 'The Ghost War' Mar 22, 2008
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Verizon, AT&T win big at U.S. airwave auction Mar 21, 2008
com: Verizon, AT&T win big at U.S. airwave auction. Verizon, AT&T win big at U.S. airwave auction. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Big wireless auction ends, winners still secret Mar 19, 2008
By Peter Kaplan Mar 18, 2008 Font Size. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. government auction of wireless airwaves ended on Tuesday raising a record $19. (ABC News -- Wire)
Who won big wireless auction? Mar 19, 2008
Big wireless auction ends - Wireless- msnbc. $7 online stock trades. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Auction of wireless airwaves seen nearing end Mar 7, 2008
$7 online stock trades. Bidding of government's 700 megahertz airwaves could end within days. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Maggie Rubey Lynch Promoted to Senior Vice President, Worldwide Recruitment & Executive Search, Time Warner Inc. Mar 6, 2008
in 1998, Rubey Lynch was a Principal in the Los Angeles-based retained executive search firm of Gary Kaplan & Associates. She began her career at Dillards Department Stores in Texas, where she became the youngest store manager in company history. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Big Tech Companies Eyeing Acquisitions As Valuations Drop Mar 2, 2008
"Say you have a company that nine months ago was (valued) at five times revenue," said Steve Kaplan, a professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. "Today, it's trading at three, four times revenue.". (Investors Business Daily)
Small changes save big power Feb 24, 2008
Deborah Kaplan, executive director of Zerofootprint ... "A small company with 500 computer users would save $4,700 annually because of this setting," said Kaplan. (Edmonton Journal)
Andrews shows off new math lab program Feb 20, 2008
Paulette Van der Kloot, Tim Blake and JFYNetWorks Executive Director Gary Kaplan observe a student working with Plato software ... This is MCAS prep but it s not just MCAS, said Gary Kaplan, executive director of JFY Networks, the company which set up the program ... Kaplan said the program allows students to work at their own pace and teachers to easily track their progress. (Medford Transcript, MA)
Do you want to have sex with robots? Feb 14, 2008
I don't think we will have convincing human-like robots within that time frame, said Frederic Kaplan, a researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, Switzerland. People are still going to feel like losers -- Kaplan, who pushed the envelope of robot intelligence in programming the brain of Sony's eerily adorable robot dog Aibo, also wonders whether we even want robots made in our own image. (India Times, India)
UPDATE: Hardwired for love: Are robots the sex partners of the future? Feb 13, 2008
" A kinky sci-fi fantasy? Love and lust in the 23rd century? Not at all, says David Levy, a PhD in gender studies and artificial intelligence and author of "Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relations". By mid-century, predicts the 62-year-old expert, getting it on with an electronic femme-fatale or a superstud sexbot will become an accepted part of the human landscape. "Think of it: great sex on tap, 24/7," he said. People may even fall in love with their hard-wired sex slaves, he... (The Drudge Report)
Robots - partners of the future? Feb 12, 2008
"I don't think we will have convincing 'human-like' robots" within that time frame," said Frederic Kaplan, a researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, Switzerland. Kaplan, who pushed the envelope of robot intelligence in programming the brain of Sony's eerily adorable robot dog Aibo, also wonders whether we even want robots made in our own image. "Human-machine interactions will be interesting in their own right, not as 'simulation' of human relations," he said. But Levy is... (iAfrica.com)
UM fundraising drive brings in $1.4 billion Feb 9, 2008
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Contempt charges seeked against MySpace phishing defendants Feb 3, 2008
Dan Kaplan Feb 1 2008 10:20. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is asking a U.S. District Court judge to hold two alleged MySpace phishers in contempt of court after the pair were found to be violating a prior agreement with the agency. (Secure Computing)
Bidding reaches $18.55 bln in US wireless auction Feb 2, 2008
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Spectrum bid triggers open-access provision Feb 1, 2008
January 31, 2008 at 12:47 PM EST. WASHINGTON A bidder Thursday offered $4. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Bids top minimum set in U.S. auction of key airwaves Feb 1, 2008
Since the minimum bid was topped, the winner of the airwaves will have to abide by open-access conditions, which were sought by Google Inc. (Reporting by Peter Kaplan; Editing by Maureen Bavdek). Copyright 2008 Reuters. (EETimes)
Wireless auction concerns rise as some airwaves languish Jan 30, 2008
After 12 rounds of bidding over four days, the FCC still has received only one bid for a portion of the 700-megahertz airwaves known as the "D" block on Tuesday. REUTERS/Steve Marcus. (Scientific American)
Top bids $2.4 bln as wireless auction opens Jan 25, 2008
By Peter Kaplan Jan 24, 2008 Font Size. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top bidders put up a total of more than $2. (ABC News -- Wire)
On-demand CRM and SaaS takes hold in midmarket Jan 25, 2008
"CRM is kind of a standalone listing of who your customers are, but in an ideal situation it should be linked to sales activity and that sales activity should be tied to those financial systems," said Jeff Kaplan, managing director of Wellesley, Mass ... Kaplan said the options are all over the map because there are so many different deployments of CRM. ... "Many people, whether it's a traditional CRM system or an on-demand variety like Salesforce.com, don't realize until they begin to do that... (Search SAP)
Hacker Group Declares War On Scientology Jan 25, 2008
Two Kaplan University Criminal Justice faculty members lend their expertise at a CSI forensic science exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. ADVERTISEMENT. (KCRA 3, CA)
Initial spectrum bids around $2.4-billion Jan 25, 2008
com: Initial spectrum bids around $2. Initial spectrum bids around $2. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Shaping up GNC Jan 25, 2008
Almost a decade ago, then-Rite Aid executive Beth J. Kaplan came to the Sixth Avenue offices of General Nutrition Centers to make a deal to juice up hundreds of drugstores with vitamin-packed GNC departments ... Ms. Kaplan, 49, is a survivor, too ... Ms. Kaplan and her new boss, Chairman Joe Fortunato, sat down to talk about their plans for the health supplements chain, which has been getting back in shape for the past couple of years and was sold last year to a new set of private equity owners.... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
What will you do with your tax-rebate check? Jan 25, 2008
Jason R. Kaplan, president and CEO of a chauffeured-transportation firm called the Driver Provider, said the ability to depreciate expenses faster could encourage him to buy more vehicles and, in turn, add employees. "As a small-business owner, it makes it easier to take risks," he said. (AZCentral -- News)
