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Pete Jakob IT discussions in business media always seem to cover the same topics: mid-tier businesses and tech; IT investment (too much? too little?); data storage (and the environment); information security; and whether good tech people can be good managers. more...
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IT is like the weather...
A gust of wind, a weather website, gathering clouds – we all check the weather in our own ways. Now two entrepreneurs from Milan, Julien Buratto and Davide Bongianni, have harnessed the power of texting to tell us whether or not to risk leaving out the laundry. According to Wired, the duo's new service "pairs a mathematical formula with forecasts from weather.com to arrive at a 'laundry index'" and they’ll text you with the results. Does it work? Does it matter? Goodness knows there are more than enough resources to find out what the day's going to be like. But according to Wired reporter Nicole Martinelli, it outperformed her best source – so maybe there’s a change in the weather after all. And with Laundry Indices for New York, Berlin and Tokyo, the UK can’t be far behind...

Posted: 18/09/2006 Comments: 0
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