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Tech Awards honor techy solutions for developing world

From one-time-use syringes to fire logs made from an invasive African plant, the 2008 Tech Awards honored five innovators with $50,000 for creating technology solutions for problems in developing countries. CNET's Kara Tsuboi learns more about these seemingly simple solutions that have potential to make a big impact.

Tags: Solution, Free Trade, Finance, News, kara tsuboi, the tech, tech awards, san jose convention center, developing countries, 3rd world, india, china, asia, building, syringe, schools

Videos 2008-11-13

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gBrowser 2.0b4 (Mac)

gBrowser is an image browser and organizer with no annoying databases or hidden libraries. What you see in the Finder is what you see in gBrowser - except gBrowser presents you with large, beautiful thumbnails and gives you the tools to easily view and organize your images. It includes thumbnail...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, gBrowser, Productivity, Construction, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-26

Death of the black box EULA

Nonsense. Just look at Psystar.They died by the EULA. The judge even brought that up.And open source software has an EULA of its own, telling you exactlly what you can and must do to be able to use the software.Any failure to follow the EULA/GPL allows the owner of the...

Tags: EULA, black box, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

News to know: Thanksgiving tech support; Apple; Silverlight; Facebook; Black Friday

Thanksgiving tech support, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple's non-smoking warranty, Dell and Black Friday deals are the headliners today. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Silverlight, Thanksgiving, Apple Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-25

vLog 3.59 (Windows)

Recording and reporting software defects for QA and tech-support. The vLog Visual Logger acts like a black box in an airplane. It records all user-actions on dialogs of specific applications, and monitors many other application and system's resources. It also adds log files and other data files (such as configuration...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, VapiSoft, Business Intelligence, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-11-25

"Turkey Day" tech support survival kit

Not bad, AdrianI agree about the Microsoft Security Essentials, as it is now my standard install. I typically find a nice performance improvement after removing whatever security suite they have and installing MSE.For scanners, I use Malwarebytes. It is small and easy to run, and finds and removes...

Tags: MSE, VIPRE, Defraggler

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

"Turkey Day" tech support survival kit

Accept it, if you read this blog then your "Tech IQ" will be way ahead of your average PC users (and I mean wayyyy ahead!). And I bet that you're surrounded by friends and family who just about know how to switch their PC on, and who have only got...

Tags: PC, Desktops, Blogging, Hardware, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-11-24

(Top 15 Black Friday tech deals)

RE: (Top 15 Black Friday tech deals)Mouse over the images - the tooltip gives the price and location for each item.Top 15 Black Friday tech deals???The products that were shown were good, but with out knowing what the prices are going to be how can we tell if it's...

Tags: Top 15 Black Friday, Top 15 Black Friday tech deal, tech deal

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Chrome OS will rise or fall on the safety dance

Scare tactics against Chrome OSI can see Microsoft really did the 'safety dance' with Windows it has been so successful...Chrome_OS is an entirely different modular approach plus they are using Open_Source with NO limitation of how high they can reach. I find it amazing anyone with a straight face say...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Chrome, Chrome OS, ChromeOS, security, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral

Well, the great thing is all the competition. I like to see Acer squeezing them both from below, and of course competing with each other. Of course also great to see all the pressure on MS to innovate and lower prices.Google Chrome_OS will be hard to beatWell, with Google_Chrome_OS it...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Windows 8, Microsoft Windows, XPS, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Intel encourages green tech at the university level

Joint competition by Intel and UC Berkeley uncovers green-tech university research and development. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Green Technology, Intel Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-24

Top 15 Black Friday tech deals

Every year, the Black Friday online circulars hit the Web, and lots of sites round up every Black Friday tech deal under the sun. But we've filtered only the best deals--here are our top picks. by CNET News.com

Tags: Channel Management, Marketing, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-11-24

Apple's Schiller defends app approval process; misses the point

Maybe so, but you miss it too.The point is Apple [b]doesn't care![/b] Apple has the Bad Cop/Good Cop thing down pat. Steve feeds his Napoleon complex and Phil trots out to make warm and fuzzy noises. Remember-Steve never wanted the app store, his plan was web apps only (unless he...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., NOW IT

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

TimesUpKidz 2009-11-20 (Windows)

TimesUpKidz makes it easy for parents to limit their kids' computer time. Parents can set daily and weekly limits, as well as block usage during specific hours of the day or night. Kids hear audible reminders like "5 minutes left" and can't use the computer when their time runs out....

Tags: Computer, Rain City Digital, TimesUpKidz, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-24

AOL ditches the triangle; previews new brand identity, logos

Those are some ugly logos, I do hope they go with something better and more appealing to the eye.RE: AOL ditches the triangle; previews new brand identity, logosWhy? What's wrong with their initial logo? It wouldbe something akin to Chevy putting a Ford logo on its' cars. ...

Tags: Branding, LSD, America Online Inc., new brand identity, brand identity, brand

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Light Peak: black hole

Light Peak is a high-speed optical I/O interconnect - starting at 10 Gbit/sec and scaling to 100 - whose parents are 3 of the biggest I/0 screwups in high tech: Sony, Apple and Intel. Can you spell doomed? by Robin Harris

Tags: Black Hole, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Admob: Droid and Android army make big browsing splash

I don't see how....Palm is going to survive in this market. The iPhone vs Android will be interesting to watch however.Android is still milles away from the iPhoneAfter looking at the few Android phones in the market, I can tell you that without a doubt, the Android is competition for...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Droid, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

East Anglia: one hacked U.S. scientist is hacked off

I say then be pro-active...If it is out of context, pro-actively publish EVERYTHING and PROVE they are out of context. If the hacked scientists DO NOT provide context, publish everything they say vindicates them, then we know the truth. If they simply fall behind the mantra of "it's...

Tags: global warming, East Anglia, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-11-22

A Chrome OS Video Tour

Fresh off the Interwebs, here's a Tech Broiler video tour of the latest build of Chrome OS. by Jason Perlow

Tags: Jason Perlow, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-22

East Anglia, the next chapter

Harry's world must be imploding;-)NY times reports:"The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument. [b]However, the documents will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the...

Tags: global warming, TripleII

Discussion threads 2009-11-21