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Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
What if the wisdom of Web could be yours, without having to read through it one page at a time That's what the military wants. DARPA has hired a company to develop a reading machine to reduce the gap between the ever increasing mountain of digitized text...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Chris Hoff (now a colleague at Cisco, but long a phenomenal blogger in his own right) described in a recent post a fascinating analogy for the inevitable adoption of cloud computing--the adoption of the Apple iPhone: The thing I love about my iPhone is th...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Microsoft is considering offering Windows 7 on a thumb drive to allow Netbook owners to more easily upgrade their machines, a source tells CNET News. The move, which is still under consideration, is one of several things Microsoft has looked at to try to...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
A publishing giant got into hot water after offering gift vouchers to anyone who would give their textbook a five-star review. It raises one of the key questions in online purchasing, how much can you trust the customer reviews you read In the US, it is ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
The sheer number of queries concerned Google. The internet suffered a number of slowdowns as people the world over rushed to verify accounts of Michael Jackson's death. Search giant Google confirmed to the BBC that when the news first broke it feared it...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
The iPhone, of course, is more than the sum of its parts, but the cost of individual components adds up--to $178.96, to be exact. A new analysis by iSuppli details the cost of the iPhone 3GS and the motley collection of chips inside. The entry-level (16...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Microsoft Security Essentials is aimed at home users. A trial version of Microsoft's free anti-virus software has been launched in the US, China, Brazil, and Israel. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) promises to provide people with basic protection agai...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Researchers are increasingly using cell phones to better understand users' behavior and social interactions. The data collected from a phone's GPS chip or accelerometer, for example, can reveal trends that are relevant to modeling the spread of disease, d...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Apple Inc. sold more than a million units of its latest iPhone model in the first three days, making it the most successful model yet.The iPhone 3G S went on sale Friday in the U.S. and seven other countries.When Apple Inc. launched the previous model las...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
They have been used to model climate change, forecast economic trends, and simulate the intricate complexities folding proteins. Now IBM has something new in store for high-performance computers: heating buildings. Thanks to a novel on-chip water-cooling ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
The open-source education software developed for the "$100 laptop" can now be loaded onto a $5 USB stick to run aging PCs and Macs with a new interface and custom educational software. "What we are doing is taking a bunch of old machines that barely run ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
A browser plug-in aims to make it far simpler to browse the Web with friends. Many online activities are deeply social: writing and reading blogs, visiting social-networking sites, sending instant messages and e-mails, and making Internet phone calls. Ho...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
What might Wolfram's system do that Google can't Say you wanted to know how much cholesterol and saturated fat lurked in a slab of your grandmother's cornbread. You'd transcribe its ingredients from her yellowed index card to an online query bar, and Alp...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
AT&T is upgrading its network and using 850MHz spectrum to beef up its 3G wireless network, which should help alleviate dropped calls and slow network connections for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S users. Apple said this week that it sold more than a million o...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
The number of hate and terrorist websites has increased by a third in the past year, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The Los Angeles-based Jewish human rights organisation put the figure at more than 8,000 in its 2008 report Hate 2.0. It said th...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Mobiles and the net are hugely popular among young Iranians As protests continue in Iran, details are emerging of the technology used to monitor its citizens. Iran is well known for filtering the net, but the government has moved to do the same for mobile...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Analysts say mobility and portability is the way of the future The world's largest chip maker has teamed up with the world's largest mobile phone maker to create what they say will be a "new exciting industry". Intel and Nokia said their "technology colla...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Less than half of African Americans have broadband. Some 63% of adult Americans now have broadband internet connections at home, according to the Pew Internet Project. The results surprised researchers, showing a 15% increase from a year earlier. Net ser...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Bloggers are having a real impact on opinions inside many Arabic nations, finds a broad look at the blogosphere in the Middle East. The study has given web researchers insight into the issues and forces that are shaping online conversation in the Middle E...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 years ago.
Google has been asked to explain why it is not making its Gmail e-mail service more secure.In an open letter to Google boss Eric Schmidt, security experts, lawyers, and privacy advocates ask why Gmail users are "needlessly" being put at risk. The 38 sign...
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.
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