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Here's an article on how Walmart is dealing with Amazon:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-wal-mart-is-worried-about-amazon.html
"The company has spent more than $300 million acquiring five tech firms since May and hired more than 300 engineers and code writers in the U.S. and India. Wal-Mart is also launching a program to allow the 20 percent of its customers without credit cards or bank accounts to make online purchases.
Wal-Mart’s acquisitions include Kosmix, a social-media firm, and iPhone app creator Small Society. The company hopes the newcomers can find a way to stop shoppers from engaging in scan and scram. That’s when would-be customers use their smartphones in stores to scan an item’s bar code and then buy it online from a rival merchant."
Job prospects for people with a B.S. in geology are outstanding right now. Either in the environmental side, or the water resources side (water quality or quantity), or in the mineral exploration side, you'll have many opportunities. A M.S. gives you a leg up, but even undergraduates who haven't completed their degrees are being recruited. Skills in GIS (ArcINFO and the like) are also valuable.
Slashdot Mirror
And other fun projects at the King of Random https://m.youtube.com/user/010...
There was the Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets calls for the Movie Line, and begins dispensing information himself.
Not exactly in your price range, but SmartThings is going down this path http://smartthings.com/
See the Virtual Cell Animation Collection at http://vcell.ndsu.nodak.edu/animations/
SuperDuper gives you a bootable clone - no need to reauthorize applications -- it's better for doing an entire system restore than TimeMachine. Actually, they complement each other. http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
Here's an article on how Walmart is dealing with Amazon: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-wal-mart-is-worried-about-amazon.html "The company has spent more than $300 million acquiring five tech firms since May and hired more than 300 engineers and code writers in the U.S. and India. Wal-Mart is also launching a program to allow the 20 percent of its customers without credit cards or bank accounts to make online purchases. Wal-Mart’s acquisitions include Kosmix, a social-media firm, and iPhone app creator Small Society. The company hopes the newcomers can find a way to stop shoppers from engaging in scan and scram. That’s when would-be customers use their smartphones in stores to scan an item’s bar code and then buy it online from a rival merchant."
Details, pray tell?
Job prospects for people with a B.S. in geology are outstanding right now. Either in the environmental side, or the water resources side (water quality or quantity), or in the mineral exploration side, you'll have many opportunities. A M.S. gives you a leg up, but even undergraduates who haven't completed their degrees are being recruited. Skills in GIS (ArcINFO and the like) are also valuable.