Maybe then I ll show up to work more. But animals are still the focus of quite a few start-up companies. Emerge Interactive has developed SmartCow, a software application that tags and monitors cows as they move from feedlot to consumer. Good luck in this wired, wired world.
Internet users are young and tech-savvy.
What s more, according to the Gartner Group research firm, the Internet is used equally by men and women, despite the Web s reputation as a bastion of male geeks. The tidal wave of information may be growing even faster than most people realize. Hal Varian, the dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California-Berkeley, says the Internet consists of 2.5 billion relatively accessible documents and is growing by 7.3 million pages a day. E-mail senders are even more prolific. The challenge is to learn to swim in that sea, rather than drown in it.