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Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
The Web played a huge role in this year's presidential campaigns. On Election Day, Joe Trippi--a political consultant who deployed an Internet-centric strategy as Howard Dean's 2004 campaign manager during that year's elections--had this to say about Bara...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Internet access can make a train trip far more productive and enjoyable. But train-mounted satellite dishes that send and receive data can't be used on a lot of routes, as the standard hardware is too big to fit in some tunnels. Now researchers at the Uni...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Top 10 Resources for Green IT - Nathan Eddy, eWeek
Green technology is a hot commodity these days, but where can the small business owner go to find solutions that make sense Here are the top 10 online resources for midmarket companies looking to go gree...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
U.S. consumers who wait too long to request government coupons to subsidize converter boxes for the digital television transition in February may come up empty-handed, a regulator warns. Due to a last-minute rush of coupon requests, demand may exceed supp...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin still hopes to gain agency approval of his controversial proposal to impose a free wireless broadband mandate on the FCC's next spectrum auction. After objections from advocacy groups, Martin drops the idea of requiring the aucti...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
How fast does a fibre network need to be With retail, housing and even hi-tech grinding to a bit of a halt in recent months, most commentators would agree that 2009 is going to be a slow year.
But in the world of broadband things should be speeding up si...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
The downturn may leave many looking for new sources of cash. With the economic downturn affecting every corner of the globe, it is perhaps no surprise that it is likely to affect hi-tech criminals over the next 12 months. In contrast to many ordinary pe...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Avoiding the fallout from the global credit crisis has been nearly impossible. The world of technology is set to face a challenging year in 2009 but many in the industry say it will weather the storm better than the rest of the US. Here Maggie Shiels pre...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
In many countries outside the United States, the cell phone is technology's answer to the Swiss army knife, functioning as a wallet, personal computer and more. In developing countries, they're also playing a unique role: helping improve health care. Cel...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
On Christmas day, the US Patent & Trademark Office slipped a little present under our collective trees: an Apple patent application entitled "Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards." Originally filed on June 27, 2007, the application describes "Systems...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Microsoft has applied for a patent on metered, pay-as-you-go computing. U.S. patent application number 20080319910, published on Christmas Day, details Microsoft's vision of a situation where a "standard model" of PC is given away or heavily subsidized by...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Consumers are benefiting from competition between phone companies and cable operators when it comes to broadband pricing, but the same can't be said for pricing on TV services. A report published by market research firm Pike & Fischer earlier this month n...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
How bright is the future for green technologies in the coming year On the whole, the picture appears positive but still susceptible to swings in energy prices and political sentiment.
With an incoming administration that intends to spearhead a comprehens...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
What a year it's been for gadgets. We saw the second coming of the Jesus phone, the toppling of Canon as the premier DSLR maker and the first short wobbly steps of the Android OS. We also saw the fall of the economy, which may or may not have jump-started...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Film-style age ratings could be applied to websites to protect children from harmful and offensive material, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has said. Mr Burnham said the government was looking at a number of possible new internet safeguards. He said som...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
For General Electric (GE), innovation isn't just about developing better technologies; it's also about not wasting cash on the wrong ones.... The company's researchers have a surprising tool that could help: a method pioneered back in Stalin's Soviet Unio...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Microsoft announced another life extension for its supposedly retired Windows XP operating system, a sign that, despite almost two years on the market, Windows Vista is far from being preferred.... Under the new, four-month extension, PC makers must still...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Inside and out, the industry saw an entire new generation of PC components hit the market in 2008 -- and the PC will never be the same. Higher performance, more efficient, and in the case of the Antec Skeleton, next-generation designs. They all added up t...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Sales of under-$400 computers are expected to soar in the coming year - much to the delight of one tech giant and the dismay of just about everyone else. This Christmas, the titans of the personal-computer industry are finding big lumps of coal in their s...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 years ago.
Asus gave birth to a brand new industry in 2007, when it launched the first Asus Eee PC -- a cheap, ultra-mobile but full-function PC for use on the go. In 2008, manufacturers all throughout the industry saw the popularity of the netbook as a new platform...
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