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News release: “Outside, the global position system allows mobile phone users to pinpoint their location with surprising accuracy. But indoors, those who are lost are out of luck: GPS satellite signals cant penetrate roofs. Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science have determined one way of figuring out your location inside: by …
NYT: “Long regarded as a windowless ivory tower, the World Bank is opening its vast vault of information. True, the bank still lends roughly $170 billion annually. But it is increasingly competing for influence and power with Wall Street, national governments and smaller regional development banks, who have as much or more money to offer. …
Via Project On Government Oversight (POGO): “Taxpayers were massively overcharged in dozens of transactions between the Army and Boeing for helicopter spare parts, according to a full, unredacted Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) audit – that POGO is making public for the first time. The overcharges range from 33.3 percent to …
News release: “Google’s Chrome exceeded 20% of the worldwide internet browser market during the month of June for the first time, according to StatCounter, the free website analytics company. The firm’s research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that Chrome took 20.7% of the global market, up from 2.8% in June 2009. In the same period …
News release: “As developing countries emerged from the financial crisis in FY11 (July 1, 2010 June 30, 2011), the Bank Group provided an estimated 712 loans, grants, equity investments and guarantees to promote economic growth, fight poverty, and assist private enterprise. World Bank (IBRD and IDA) commitments for social protectionincluding safety net programs for …
