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Reinvent Your Desktop With Intuitive 3D Desktop

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:30:22 +0000

Intuitive 3D Desktop | Image Source : Bumptop.com BumpTop™ is a fun, intuitive 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive. Like a real desk, but better. Now with awesome mouse and multi-touch gestures! Your desktop, your way Your desktop doesn’t have to be a boring graveyard for lost and forgotten files anymore! Transform it with BumpTop.

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Using Technology to Battle Pandemics in a Digital World

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:40:39 +0000

Battle Pandemics in a Digital World | Image Source : Superstock.com People concerned about contracting the H1N1 virus, or any other potential illness now have some new tools to help them keep tracking of pandemics and stay healthy. In the age when digital devices rule, consumers and health organizations can now stay up to date on the latest flu-related information with a few taps of a button, thanks to the increasing number of iPhone apps, social networks and informative Web sites dedicated to the cause. Users can now share information and track other health threats instantaneously.

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Barbie Finds New Career in Information Technology

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:15:15 +0000

Barbie Computer Engineer | Image Source : Escapistmagazine.com Barbie is no longer the less-than-intelligent blonde she once was, now earning her keep as a professional geek. Barbie has had over 100 careers since 1959, taking on the work of firefighter to astronaut, and Mattel has just revealed her latest. Barbie’s 126th career will be computer engineer, establishing her as an official nerd.

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Global Warming: Survival Of The Fittest

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:15:43 +0000

Global Greenhouse Gas | Image : Networlddirectory.com Part of a forest will be enclosed, heated up and pumped with CO2 to see who wins and loses if the planet heats up. Global warming has found a willing victim: a small patch of spruce forest in the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota

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What Baby Boomers Want From Technology

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:24:35 +0000

Baby Boomers | Image Source : Smallbiztrends.com In 2011, approximately 30% of the U.S. population will be over the age of 50. Yet, in 2010, they are expected to outspend younger adults by $1 trillion

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Business Cards Go Digital

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:10:53 +0000

Digital Business Card | Image Source : mobilewhack.com By Elizabeth Woyke Dave Stevens is a consummate networker. As program and events manager for the Chamber of Commerce in Mountain View, Calif., he attends several events a week, collecting stacks of business cards. When he returns to his office, however, he pitches the cards, opting instead to add his new contacts on the corporate social networking site LinkedIn.

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Google Agrees: IE6 Must Die

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:55:18 +0000

IE6 Must Die | Image Source : Frugalinfotech.com The war against IE6 continues. Effective March 1, 2010, Google will begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 in Google Docs and Google Sites. Google has just announced the news that it’s joining the long list of companies that will no longer support IE6

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Google Founders to Sell 10 Million of Their Google Shares

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:09:21 +0000

Larry Page and Sergey Brin | Image Source : Mashable.com Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two billionaire co-founders of Google, will each sell 5 million of their Google shares over the next five years, according to an SEC filing. Since Page and Brin are significant shareholders and executives for the technology giant, they are required to report their transaction plans for their piece of the company they founded over a decade ago

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The First Tweet From Space and Other Twitter Firsts

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:50:29 +0000

First Tweet From Space | Image Source : Pcworld.com Tweeting is no longer only an earthly phenomenon. A NASA astronaut made Twitter history on Friday by sending the first tweet from outer space. The first tweet from space happened thanks to a software upgrade rolled out by NASA this week. The upgrade gave Space Station astronauts direct personal access to the Web — something never before possible — using what NASA calls “the ultimate wireless connection.” Previously, tweets from astronauts had to be e-mailed down to Earth, then later posted to Twitter by ground-based workers.

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Microsoft Acts To Ward Off Attacks

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:06:54 +0000

Software giant issues patch to prevent attacks like the one that hit Google in China. Google China | Image Source : Media.macworld.co.uk Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released a patch to protect Internet Explorer users from attacks like “Operation Aurora” which targeted Google Inc.