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Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 5 days ago.
By Tracy Mitrano, Inside Higher Ed
The new case is an employee contract dispute that includes a difference over who owns a Twitter account. My guess is that there is more than meets the eye. The Twitter account issue may be standing in for other concerns ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 6 days ago.
by kfc, Technology Review
Google Earth provides a cornucopia of exotic images of our planet taken from above. For the most part, the focus of attention is on the land and the cities, roads and natural formations that it supports. Today, however, Fabrizio ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 6 days ago.
by kfc, Technology Review
Sudoku is a number puzzle consisting of a 9 x 9 grid in which some cells contain clues in the form of digits from 1 to 9. The solver’s jobs is to fill in the remaining cells so that each row, column and 3×3 box in the gri...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 weeks 6 days ago.
By: Brian T. Horowitz, Technology Review
Tablets will be a fixture in many doctors’ offices in 2012, research firm NPD Group reports. About 75 percent of small and midsize medical practices plan to buy tablets over the next year, according to a rece...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 weeks 12 hours ago.
By: Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
Microsoft’s Windows 8 will offer a new feature, Storage Spaces, designed to both protect data and organize physical drives for maximum use. In a Jan. 5 posting on the “Building Windows 8” blog, Rajeev Nagar, a grou...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 weeks 12 hours ago.
By: Chris Preimesberger, eWeek
Storage used to be considered a snoozer of an IT beat. You get data, you store data, and sometimes you back it up. Couldn’t be simpler. Right. Well, the storage beat is a bit more than that. Storage is the home base fo...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 weeks 12 hours ago.
By: Frank Ohlhorst, eWeek
A recent study of technology job want ads shows a 61 percent increase in demand nationwide for IT professionals with cloud computing experience. The study, which is based on ads posted by about 2,400 businesses, was performed by ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 weeks 1 day ago.
by the BBC
US bookseller Barnes & Nobel has said it is considering options for its Nook e-book division. The firm also said its losses for the year would be larger than expected due in part to the cost of investing in new e-readers. The company’...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 weeks 1 day ago.
by the BBC
Where in the past the consumer’s journey from awareness to conversion – buying something – was a fairly linear process such as watching a TV ad, nowadays it’s much more complicated than that. Understanding those differen...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 weeks 1 day ago.
by the BBC
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has resolved to take an online computer coding course. The mayor is joining more than 180,000 people currently taking part in Code Year, a campaign to encourage more people to program. “My New Year’s...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By: Darryl K. Taft, eWeek
Google has acquired another 217 patents from IBM, adding to the more than 2,000 patents the search giant got from Big Blue in 2011. Google has gobbled up another mess of IBM patents, this time for a variety of things including mo...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By Phil McKenna, Technology Review
Battery developer Eos Energy Storage claims to have solved key problems holding back a battery technology that could revolutionize grid energy storage. If the company is right, its zinc-air batteries will be able to stor...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
by David Zax, Technology Review
The poor point-and-shoot camera. People have been predicting its death for ages. As smartphone cameras get better and better, goes the logic, people see less and less reason to stick a separate camera in their pocket or bag...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By Genevieve Bell, BBC
Of course, we have just survived 2011 without such a cataclysmic event. And the closest we got to computers achieving self-awareness was Apple’s Siri. It doesn’t promise self-awareness per se, but does promise to listen ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
by the BBC
Google is rolling out one of its biggest home page changes to date. The revamp strips its front page of the black bar that currently runs horizontally along its top, and replaces it with a grey logo. When clicked or highlighted, it reveals seve...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By Rajini Vaidyanathan, BBC News
It’s estimated as many as 121 million Indians are logged onto the internet. It is a sizeable number, but still a relatively small proportion of the country’s 1.2 billion population. Predictions suggest the ways...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
by Lee Miller, Star-Ledger
Nancy Shenker, founder and CEO of the ON Switch, predicts that fewer people will invest in any one company or career. Due to continued economic uncertainty, distrust of big companies and a desire for a better work/life balance, ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By VICKI GOUGH, Chatham Daily News
John McGregor Secondary School in Chatham is wired for the 21st century. The school has gone completely wireless, said Ryan Swayze, the school’s computer site administrator. “We’re encouraging all our s...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By RENÉE C. LEE, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
The shabby building, sandwiched between overgrown shrubbery and trees from neighboring properties, is hard to spot, but that hasn’t kept people in need of a good typewriter repairman from finding the Universal Typ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 month ago.
By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
Amazon said it sold millions of Kindle Fire tablets in the holiday quarter, and it seems consumers who received them for Christmas are pleased with the slate, which was upgraded with some navigation improvements. Piper Jaffray ana...
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