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- Cal State will soon demand technological literacy
- California State Universities have writing and English language proficiency tests, and soon they will have a technological literacy test. Inside Higher Ed reports that many students, despite their comfort with all things Internet and iPod, may not have the necessary skills to operate successfully in the ever-changing information landscape. ...
- Tags: Cal State
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
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- NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship
- NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...
- Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Facebook gets serious about app quality
- Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings
- Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- NY gov signs game bill into law
- New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...
- Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-23
- Another student hacks another police website
- Oh the fun. Once again, another police website has been hacked by a student, showing that even the police aren't safe from all crimes. This is another link in the long chain of attacks over the years from egotistical teenagers trying to get a kick out of life without sticking...
- Tags: Web Site, Attack, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Video: Jobs health and other Apple chatter
- What started as a blog conversation weeks ago about the state of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health has turned into a groundswell of stories. Apple says Jobs' health is a private matter, but it's gone quite public with stories in the New York Times, BusinessWeek and Wall Street Journal. ...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Health Care, Apple Inc., Video, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- First paper-based transistors
- Portuguese researchers have created the first paper-based transistors. To be more precise, they've made the first field effect transistors FET with a paper interstrate layer. According to the research team, these new transistors offer the same level of performance as 'state-of-the-art oxide based thin film transistors TFTs produced on glass...
- Tags: Team, Transistor, TFT, Semiconductors, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Taxsoftware.com 2007 (msi)
- A complete U.S. Federal 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ income tax software with almost every federal and many state tax forms. You can prepare your entire U.S. tax return for free. There is no charge to prepare or print your tax return. There is a charge if you want to E-file...
- Tags: Taxsoftware, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- JTan Software Alarm Clock (zip)
- Alarm Clock is a simple alarm clock program designed for those that leave their computer running overnight or that may be traveling and are looking for an alternative to their solid state alarm clock. Alarm Clock features two alarms and a 15 minute snooze button. It also auto-sets according to...
- Tags: Computer, JTan Software, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- The running scandal of long-term care insurance
- The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It’s a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...
- Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Qik out of private beta
- Over the weekend, Qik came out of private beta. Jennifer Leggio has all the technical details, along with some insights in Robert Scoble's outburst about how kyte.tv would kill off Qik and Flixwagon. One claim the company makes over at VentureBeat is that they have gotten latency...
- Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Business Model, Beta, Qik, Jennifer Leggio, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Top states with IPTV interest: Hawaii, New Jersey, North Dakota
- Top states with IPTV interest: Hawaii, New Jersey, North Dakotapeoples are live in dakota...thats goodI live in New York. but I am originally from North Dakota and I am agreed with your comments. You have good information of this place. North Dakota is a evergreen state .there is a good...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, IP television
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- My mother and I chat a lot about different alternative energy options, mainly because she is lucky enough to live in Hawaii where solar hot water has been mandated for future construction. But one thing that has been ultra controversial on the Big Island has been wind power for the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- UPDATE: AT&T free WiFi access offer to iPhone owners is up again, NOT!
- We have seen the on and off saga of free WiFi at AT&T hotspots for a couple of months now and it looks like iPhone users may again have access to free WiFi at AT&T locations, such as Starbucks. There doesn't seem to be any time limit on access either,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Starbucks Corp., Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...
- Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Paragon Drive Backup Server Edition (msi)
- Setting the new industry standard in affordable backup solutions for SMBs. Why pay more? While the growth of a business is a positive sign of success, it also means more electronic data to protect and greater consequences if it’s lost. Our newest Drive Backup 9.0 Server Edition offers the highest...
- Tags: Paragon Software, Backup Server, Server, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-18
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