“How is this possible!?” you may ask yourself. Contrary to popular belief, Yahoo is actually the world’s most used search engine. Some of you may remember the engine with the cartoon butler, Ask Jeeves. You would search by typing a question and Jeeves would “serve” you some answers. The problem was, in many cases he didn’t serve substantially better results than the other search engines. Times have changed, Ask is back sans Jeeves. It comes with new features and you can still perform searches with natural language as opposed to using only keywords.

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Everywhere you turn, more and more technology is being integrated with existing devices. Everyone is trying to make the Swiss Army knife of portable gadgets. Are these types of tools really making life easier for the consumer? Roland Rust, Chair of the University of Maryland Smith School of Busuiness, recently published an article on the issue in the Harvard Business Review with Debora Thompson and Rebecca Hamilton. He brings his expertise of the service economy and service businesses to the discussion.

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Moodle is an open source learning platform with over 3 million users in over 100 countries. How can educators and parents take advantage of this new software? Mario discusses this some of the educational oppotunities with two of Moodle Rooms’ founders, Gina Russell Stevens and Sheila Gatling. Moodle rooms allows educators to provide additional learning outside of the classroom through online curriculum projects, assignments, and the ability to have one-on-one interactions between the educator, students, and parents.

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Dennis McCauley Editor, GamePolitics.com discusses the latest news on politicians sponsoring legislation against the video game industry. Several states over the past months have tried and failed to get legislation passed. We discuss why this is happening, why have politicians failed, the role of the 1st amendment and the role the industry and parents are playing. Specifically, we discuss the newly proposed Maryland video game legislation by  Republican Delegate Wade Kach, HB 54 and Democrat Justin Ross, HB 75.

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Jim Kucher is the Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Baltimore, Merrick School of Business. He was recently appointed to this academic post and brings to it a strong technology background, knowledge base and direct entrepreneurial experience. Jim brings experience as a managing partner of a city-based marketing and strategic advisory company for startup service firms and as the former President of Wickford Technologies –  a tech company that adapted Navy technology for Commercial use.  A couple of years ago, I was invited to see this technology in its beta stages and it was pretty amazing.

In part 1 of this 2-part series Jim discusses the upcoming "Distinguished Entrepreneur Awards" event happening April 19th that honors a local technology pioneer, Paul M. Silber, Ph.D., President and CEO of In Vitro Technologies. 

In part 2 of the series Jim and I discuss the relationship between entrepreneurship and technology innovation.

To register for the event: call 410-837-5060 or Click for more event information and registration

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General Wesley Clark’s cell phone records were recently bought by a blogger. If the former presidential candidate’s records were that easy to access, how easy would it be for anyone to find out who you have been calling? Keep in mind that this has nothing to do with the NSA, this information is readily available to anyone with enough money. Mario investigates this matter and his answers will surprise you.

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Google Under Attack

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David is one of those young professionals that captivates you right away with their impressive knowledge, background and experience. His website = http://www.edery.org/

We discussed video games and their impact on fitness and exercise. We also talked about his work on a  3 yr research program at MIT called Cyclescore ( http://www.cyclescore.com/ ).