News Robots Battle Over Wine The collision of the wine websites CellarTracker and Snooth raises some interesting questions over data ownership. Snooth was accused of copying information from CellarTracker's user reviews, using an automated robot script crawling the site. While most commenters were outraged, it's not clear that there's any legal case against Snooth, even if… Hack Pete Warden View comments
Cloud Providers Weekly Poll: Has Amazon Hit a Home Run with Elastic Beanstalk? Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk launched last week. The platform-as-a-service (PaaS) points to the increasing popularity of platform services. Elastic Beanstalk supports Java. It will include support for additional languages and application environments in the future. Alex Williams View comments
E-Learning Google Partners with Yad Vashem to Digitize the Shoah Today, Yad Vashem and Google have begun an ambitious project to digitize the Holocaust museum's extensive collection of materials. Starting today, a user can directly access over 130,000 full-resolution photographs from Yad Vashem's photo collection via the Google search page. Google has implemented experimental optical character recognition… Curt Hopkins View comments
News Looking for a Ride to SXSW? Get on the Startup Bus Why hop a plane to SXSW this year when you can get on a bus? Okay, let's rephrase that - why hop a plane when you can get on a bus with 20-something other folks, drive across country, and try to formulate a viable startup idea along the way? At least that's the idea behind the Startup Bus, the brainchild of Elias Bizannes, which is now in its… Mike Melanson View comments
Apple iPhone App Lets Soldiers Map Their Battlefields There was nothing whatsoever metaphorical in that headline. This isn't an app that lets a soldier make on-the-go journal entries, write poems about his or her feelings or check vitals ala a mood ring. Tactical Nav is an app that lets a soldier map and plot waypoints on a battlefield, take photos and share coordinates with fellow soldiers and units… Curt Hopkins View comments