Maren, Microsoft’s Final Insult

Now don’t get me wrong. I like Microsoft and they can come up with some really good technology. But you just have to wonder about their marketing department sometimes.
Their latest Arabic effort, Maren, is arguably a nice tool (albeit not an original idea) that intelligently converts transliterated Arabic typed on an English keyboard into real [...]

Solve the world with carbon credits

I was watching a program on the Amazon (river not bookshop) the other day about a group of scientists measuring the carbon absorbed by the rain forest. Why? So that Brazil can trade the carbon absobed by its trees on the internatonal carbon credit market. On the surface - sounds great - save the trees [...]