Google: Location a "Hugely Important" Signal

If Location's Not a Big Part of Your Strategy, It Will Be, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, By Chris Crum @ WebProNews

So what next?
I compared the ads that reflect a waterfall (one in North America, another in India)
See Google ads here [not so much matching], but here it is glaring. So also with Yahoo and then the MSN's Bing.

• Hogenakkal: Niagara Falls of India
• Niagara Falls Tourism Official Website Niagara Falls Ontario Canada
• Shivanasamudra [The two waterfalls are Gaganachukki and Bharachukki and together are also known as bluff. One of Bharachukki's sections resembles a 'U', just like the famous Niagara Falls]
• Nirmala Palaniappan's Photos - Sivanasamudra @ Facebook

BI shouldn’t look like BI on smart phones

By:  Kathleen Lau On: 03 Mar 2010 For: ComputerWorld Canada 

During the Toronto stop of a Canadian road show to unveil release 2 of business intelligence tool MicroStrategy version 9, one exec explained why classic BI is no good for smart phones. Customers Hudson’s Bay and St. Elizabeth Healthcare share experiences with the software.

“Most applications that project to mobile phones are nothing more than business intelligence pre-packaged,” said Mark LaRow, senior vice-president of products with the McLean, Virginia-based BI software vendor.

Classic BI reports like grids and graph reports don’t work for the smart phone’s form factor and, if anything, said LaRow, such reports shouldn’t look like BI when viewed on a smart phone.continue reading