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Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Google’s new Chrome operating system is a challenge to Microsoft in several ways. It will offer a free rival to Windows, which can add $25 to $100 to the price of a computer. But it also represents a conceptual slap at the elaborate array of features th...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Google made waves with its Chrome OS announcement, but the product won't even be ready until next year. In the meantime, we take a look at what kind of challenge Chrome can present to Windows. Stephen Shankland tells us that the Web is a big advantage for...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
The market is clearly racing toward a bottom when we start looking to Monty Python for business advice and the most lucid (if profane) analysis of Google's announced open-source operating system, Chrome OS, comes from Fake Steve Jobs. However fast we may ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Nothing better sums up the relationship between the Japanese and robotics than a giant robot model - 18 metres high and weighing 35 tonnes - that has taken pride of place in the centre of Tokyo. The robot is one from the Gundam TV series, which began in t...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Google's operating system aims to tempt people away from Windows. So at long last Google is making its move. Promising a lightweight but fast operating system - Chrome OS - the internet search company is poised to strike at the heart of Microsoft's softw...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
There is no doubt that for many, online games such as World of Warcraft (WoW) are an escape from family and friends. But for others, time-pressed, divided families, those divorced, living away from their loved ones, or simply with grown-up children, these...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
With broadband connections ten times faster than the US and 90% of the population owning mobile phones, it is not surprising that Japan has its own "Electronic Town". Called Akihabara, it is the centre of "otaku" or "geek" culture in Tokyo. In the distri...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Sony unveiled its first netbook on Tuesday, in tacit acknowledgment of the runaway success of the low-cost, pared-down mini-notebooks. But the Japanese company’s machine, the Vaio W — which comes with a standard 10-inch screen, an Intel Atom processo...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Starting a newspaper filled with material from blogs seemed audacious — as did the idea of starting any kind of newspaper in 2009. But Joshua Karp did just that in January. In the end, it didn’t work out. Joshua KarpMr. Karp, the founder of The Print...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Shortened URLs are great for character-conscious Tweeters, marketers who want to track Web site visitors, and even perhaps an opportunity for venture capitalists who are investing in companies such as Bit.ly. But they are also providing a boon to spammers...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Microsoft is dipping its toes into the hot new area of real-time search. The company said Wednesday that Bing, the search engine it unveiled a month ago, would begin including the latest output of popular Twitter users in its search results. “There has...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
As news of Michael Jackson’s death began to spread last Thursday, the crush of people flocking to the Web for information overloaded several Web sites and services, causing AOL’s instant messaging service, news sites, Twitter and Wikipedia to buckle u...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch, has been talking for a year about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing. Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to become a reality. The San Francisco Business Times report...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Twin obstacles of technical problems and privacy issues are holding back the overarching system created to protect the federal government's computers from cyberspies, according to The Wall Street Journal. "The latest complete version of the system, known...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Twitter's dramatic rise has helped ignite an industry to shorten Web addresses to fit within 140-character messages. With the technology, though, comes a new handful of challenges. Among the challenges are reliably connecting people to the Web sites they...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Chris thinks that the concept of free is where all business will head. Digital Planet has spoken to Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, about the release of his new book, Free: The Future of Radical Price. He told the World Service about t...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Pro-reformist supporters used mobile phones to spread their message. Reports from Iran say that SMS text messaging services have been unblocked for the first time since disputed presidential elections. However, Iranian news agencies say there are still te...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
A majority of public sector employees do not know about environmentally friendly IT targets set out in government's Greening ICT Strategy. The strategy calls for government IT to be carbon neutral by 2012, with office carbon emissions down 11.5% by 2011. ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
There is no doubt that free technologies, mainly open source software, are proving more popular both inside and outside the computer industry. Behind this growing acceptance is a non-commercial movement of independent developers that are putting together ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Firefox, the open-source Web browser, holds nearly a quarter of the market. Now a mobile version called Fennec is coming. Like Firefox, Fennec allows developers--of which there are about 8,000--to add functions such as bookmark-synchronizing tools and vid...
Spfldbloggers is a collection of blogs from the Springfield, Illinois area. Every ten minutes the site fetches RSS feeds from blogs in the blog roll and then stores a summary of blog posts.
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