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Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Gloves that are wired with sensors can provide useful information about a user's motions, and they offer a novel way to interact with computers beyond the keyboard and mouse. At the end of May, AnthroTronix, a company based in Silver Spring, MD, released ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Q. I’m trying to decide between a Palm Pre and an Apple iPhone 3GS. I now use an antiquated Treo 650, which contains all of my life. Will all my contacts, calendar info and memos in the Treo transfer to either phone
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Bonnie Smalley has Internet bragging rights: She has been blocked by Twitter for hand-typing too many tweets in an hour. They thought she was a computer program made to spew spam.Some of the most serious networkers use Seesmic Desktop to collect Tweets an...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
From a reviewer’s perspective, the Amazon Kindle is one of the weirdest, most polarizing gadgets ever to come down the pike. I mean, people who love it, love it. People who don’t get it, *really* don’t get it. If you weren’t thrilled by the regul...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
As I type this, Firefox 3.5 is blazing past 5.6 million downloads, having been released just a day and a half ago. While such uptake for Mozilla's upgraded browser is impressive, the bigger story is how Firefox 3.5 is upgrading the Web with its extensive ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Last December we showed you how Google refined its search results for iPhone and Android. The change loaded pages faster and fit the results to the screen width for searches generated from Google.com (plus for the specialized Google widget on Android and ...
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.
Cisco could add Microsoft Office-like applications to its growing arsenal of online collaboration products. That's according Doug Dennerline, senior VP and manager of networking company's Web services. Dennerline said Tuesday during an online news confere...
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An ambitious new research project aims to revolutionize education by showing that well-implemented technology initiatives can save states money after an initial investment. Project RED (for Revolutionizing EDucation) will examine the outcomes of education...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
In a move that could help keep higher-education campus networks safe, Microsoft Corp. released a beta test of a free computer security program on June 23 and is on track to launch a finished product in the fall. The program, Microsoft Security Essentials,...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
The issue of cyber security is of "great concern" to the US, the nation's homeland security secretary has said. Janet Napolitano told the BBC that protecting against virtual attacks was something the US was "moving forward on with great alacrity". Speak...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Did your Internet connection seem slow Thursday afternoon It likely wasn’t your computer, it was the surge of interest in Michael Jackson’s hospitalization and death. Akamai said that traffic to news Web sites spiked around 6 p.m. Eastern, clocking i...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
The winners don’t get a million-dollar Netflix Prize, but, hey, it’s dinner with a billionaire. From our colleagues at City Room: In an effort to improve government transparency and accountability and stimulate development of the digital media industr...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
The Iranian protesters sneak their cell phones onto the streets and hit record, frantically trying to evade being caught or beaten. The shaky, grainy images are e-mailed to friends. Then they are uploaded to blogs, YouTube or social networking sites -- of...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
China postponed a plan to require personal computer makers to supply Internet-filtering software Tuesday, retreating in the face of protests by Washington and Web surfers hours before it was due to take effect. Manufacturers would have been required to in...
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European researchers have developed a robot capable of moving autonomously using humanlike visual processing. The robot is helping the researchers explore how the brain responds to its environment while the body is in motion. What they discover could lead...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
I'd be a fool to include my Social Security number in this article: doing so would leave me vulnerable to all manner of credit fraud, scams, and even criminal arrest. All of this would surely happen because a few bad people would read the article, write d...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
There are many ways to slice and dice data to better understand what it means. Software like Microsoft's Excel offers a simple way to create charts and graphs, while more complex applications, such as IBM's Many Eyes, provide more interesting ways to visu...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Sites that rely on user-created content can unwittingly be employed to attack their own users via JavaScript and other common forms of Web code. This security issue, known as cross-site scripting (XSS), can, for example, allow an attacker to access a vict...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Once you've highlighted anything from a single letter to entire multipage New Yorker articles, the add-on opens a small options box where your cursor is. Through the extension options, you can configure how long that box appears for, or turn it off. If yo...
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.
If you are from the Springfield area, have a blog, and want to be included go to the Sign Up page.
If you are from the Springfield area, have a blog, and want to be included go to the Sign Up page.
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