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Tech tidbits
SmartShopper•Get it for: $99.99 at www.smartshopperusa.com. This voice-activated shopping organizer makes trips to the store more efficient, as it records, organizes and prints your list. SmartShopper magnetically adheres to most refrigerators or mounts on a wall. It uses voice-recognition software to save items or errands to the list. And when it's time to go shopping, simply press print and ...
The Oklahoman |
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Flu shot registration now available online
In an age where you can order groceries and rent movies online, why not flu shots with flu season approaching?
Northwest Herald |
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Auto Trader folds as market moves online
ACP Media has announced the end of the weekly magazine Auto Trader. The success of internet trading sites, especially the Fairfax owned TradeMe site, will now see ACP Media concentrate on its autotrader.co.nz website, which was set up seven years ago.
Stuff |
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FTC cracks down on bogus cancer cure sites
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has disclosed actions it has taken to fight against U.S. companies that promoted bogus online cancer cures. The law enforcement actions were taken last week as a result of a project started last year to identify websites making unsubstantiated cure claims, the agency said as reported by media reports Monday. There appeared online sites that asked for a price or ...
People's Daily |
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Celebrate the Macleay
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The Maclay Argus |
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Chrome conundrum
Any product launched by Google is bound to make headlines.
The Battalion |
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IBM Confirms Finjan's Report on Crimeware-as-a-Service
Finjan, a provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market, stated last week that a blog posting from IBM Internet Security Systems, in which the rapid ascendance of hacking-as-a-service is discussed, confirms an earlier report from Finjan on Crimeware-as-a-Service.
PublicTechnology.net |
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Report: Pacquiao set to return to US Tuesday; Roach 'uninformed' of RP trip
MANILA, Philippines - Manny Pacquiao will fly back to Los Angeles Tuesday morning to resume his training, an Internet report said.
GMA News |
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Reading, writing and recycling
To help curb the growing number of waste contributed by bottled water- and soda-drinkers at the schools, Madison County Recycling this year began providing bins for recycled plastic bottles and Highland Recycling agreed to pick up recycled plastic at schools. Plastic is an enormous source of waste along with the cardboard.
St. Clair County Journal |
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Online banking comes to Facebook
Lots of banks and credit unions covet young adults for the potential they offer as long-term customers, but it's hard to reach out to them from the traditional corner branch. That's why a unit of Fiserv Inc. has come up with a computer application that it says will reach young people where many of them hang out -- on the Internet social networking site Facebook. Fiserv's MyMoney program, ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Creative classroom
EAST SANDWICH — Take a look at Sandwich High's Web site and you'll find scrolling pictures, daily announcements and a link to highlights of the 2008 prom.
Cape Cod Times |
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New computer lab clicks with library patrons
Empty seats have been hard to come by so far in the new computer lab at the Prairie Commons Library.
North County Journal |
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CryptoLogic Provides Trading Update for Q3
CryptoLogic Limited(TSX: CXY)(NASDAQ: CRYP)(LSE: CRP), a leading software developer to the global Internet gaming market, today provided a trading update for the third quarter of 2008, in light of significant volatility in world financial markets.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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BT Selects 2Wire Intelligent Gateways to Connect First Homes to Super-Fast Broadband Network
2Wire, a provider of broadband solutions, today announced that BT has begun deploying 2Wire HomePortal® intelligent gateways to connect subscribers to BT's new super-fast, fiber-based broadband network.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Stratos Adds Onboard Anti-Virus Capabilities to its AmosConnect Maritime Email Service
AmosConnect Anti-Virus provides critical PC and network-wide protection
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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OSU football notebook: Hunter never looked back after win over Troy
Troy's Jarboe deemed ineligibleJosh Jarboe will not make his return to the state of Oklahoma this weekend. The Dothan (Ala.) Eagle reports the NCAA denied the appeal to get the freshman wide receiver eligible for this season. Jarboe transferred to Troy in August and started working out with the Trojans on Aug. 19, a couple of weeks after he was dismissed from OU. Jarboe was kicked off the team ...
The Oklahoman |
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: 'Cyber-Connecting' Bremerton's Westpark Community
A computer-education program at the low-income housing project, bolstered by a $150,000 federal grant, is helping more residents learn to manage their daily lives online.
The Kitsap Sun |
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2 hospital workers fired for taking patient photos
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Two employees at University of New Mexico Hospital have been fired for taking photos with cell phone cameras of patients receiving treatment and posting them to a social networking Web site.
Las Cruces Sun-News |
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Dell teases with 17-inch quad-core laptop sporting 16GB of memory
Filed under: Laptops This is going to be huge. Unfortunately, we're talking size not marketplace impact when Dell's 17-inch Precision "mobile workstation" rolls out this fall. This portable desktop replacement promises up to 1TB of storage configured in a dual-drive RAID configuration, quad-core processor, and 16GB of graphics memory (1GB for graphics) with enough oomph to power a pair ...
Engadget |
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Pigs, unlike Wall Street fat cats, know when to stop
A reader — an actual pig, in fact — sent the following email. Recently you, others in the media and several politicians referred to “pigs on Wall Street.” I write to question the appropriateness of the phrase because, well, I’m a pig. My name it Carl.
Lincoln Journal Star |
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SanDisk debuts CD replacement
SanDisk Corp, the world's No. 1 supplier of flash memory-based data storage cards, unveiled a new music format called “slotMusic” - a memory card smaller than a postage stamp, preloaded with MP3-format music.
Budapest Business Journal |
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Korea's KT to Launch Real-Time TV Service
South Korea-based fixed-line and broadband provider KT Corp has announced plans to invest $1.5bn in its IPTV business by 2012, according to a report by Reuters.
Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Sun Adds VMware VDI to Desktop Portfolio
Sun Microsystems has expanded its desktop virtualization partnership with VMware to add VMware Virtual Desktop Manager and VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to its desktop virtualization portfolio.
Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Novell and Wyse Develop Linux Thin Client
Novell has partnered with thin-client computing provider Wyse Technology to jointly develop a Linux operating system for desktop and mobile thin-client devices.
Computer Business Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Opportunity’s online
Photo: Class coordinator Lisa Montaño helps Yeshemabet Turner, 15, with an algebra lesson in the high school computer lab. Turner and a number of other students are taking part in the district’s new Education 2020 classes.
Santa Fe New Mexican |
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