Entry #1 Layoffs, and Exoskeletons

Tech News
With the market looking like the approval rating of Stephane Dion what would be more appropriate way to start a tech blog with looming threats of layoffs in the tech industry.

With eBay announcing layoffs and romars of Yahoo firing 3000 people along with Google canceling their annual ski trip (boo hoo). Are we looking at another dot com bubble burst? All though it would be an exciting ride if there was I would say we might start seeing companies start to canalize each other as what might happen between Yahoo and AOL talking of merger.

So What does this mean to us? Well with the tech industry being one of the most lucrative industries in the global market and one of the last to be affected by the market down turn I can only speculate that a turn around is further off then most of us would hope.

Gadgets

So now that we are looking out the window wondering if the fall will hurt you can be reassured that you can make that jump with your newly rented super powers. Cyberdyne a Japanese based company has started renting strap on Exoskeleton legs. So my dreams of becoming as fat as the people in the Disney movie Wall-E is starting to become a reality. The suit straps to your waist and will increase your leg strength my 10 times so now you will not have a major heart attack climbing the stairs to your office when the elevator is out.

Internet

Google has just announced that it will be adding RSS feeds to is search results allowing you to save your results and monitor if new content is available. Currently you can only receive updates through email but those RSS junkies out there like myself having your Google alerts come to your reader will greatly free up your inbox allowing you time to reed those important email about a 20 some blond in New Jersey wanting to meet you online.

Now to put this in terms other than a Internet news junky could understand. The new RSS feature for Google allows you to perform a search on Google then save those results in an RSS feed. After that each time you go back and check that RSS feed any new results you have not seen before will be delivered to you. So for those people out there that do repeated searches for the same thing and rely on your memory or your web browser to remember the phrase you used, this is now no more with the Google RSS alerts.