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######## Article ###### The digital age has made it easier for us to not only take great photos but also to lose them, so this article describes how you can protect your pictures from loss and accidental erasure. When something

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### PC manufacturers are hoping that improved features of Windows #, which was recently launched by Microsoft, will lure more consumers to buy PCs. Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Toshiba America, and Acer are among PC

######## Article ###### Broadband providers feel that usage-based pricing needs to be instituted for Internet connections. With always-on broadband connections, many heavy web users enjoy Internet services for a flat rate. Some telecommunications and cable providers, including AT

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Windows has released an interim upgrade to its smartphone software, Windows Mobile #.#, that is a distinct improvement over the original Windows Mobile #, but still falls far short of the standard

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Sony is forging an ever-closer alliance with Google, as it looks to Google#;s open-source Android operating system and other open-source technologies to help put Sony back in play on

######## Article In an innovative venture, Meetesh Patel, chief executive of New Energy Technologies, is working with engineer Gerard Lynch to generate power from rumble strips. They believe that power can be generated at parking lots or toll plazas by

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### New services--like Google Wave, Twitter, and Facebook--that enable constant user interaction in innovative ways seem to mark the end of the email era. Google Wave allows users to share ideas in real

######## Article ###### Amazon.com first began the practice of posting customer reviews and ratings of its products online. Now, most online vendors allow customers to post product reviews--positive as well as negative. These vendors are working to find

######## Article For years there has been talk about interactive television advertising, in which viewers could click on their remote controls to interact with ads and (advertisers hope) buy products. In fact, says analyst Colin Dixon of digital media consultancy

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### A year since launched, Google#;s Android operating system for mobile phones is gaining momentum in the smartphone race, proving itself a worthy rival of the iPhone. The open source software OS has

######## Article ###### ###### Smartphone manufacturers Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple are competing with each other to offer medical applications through smartphones. Recently Palo Alto-based Stanford Hospital & Clinics commenced a trial in coordination with Epic Systems Corp., a

######## Article Energy firms in Germany are trying to reduce emissions from coal burning plants by storing carbon dioxide underground. The Swedish energy giant, Vattenfall AB, plans to store the gas inside saline aquifers below fields in eastern Germany, with

######## Article Google is creating custom ad campaigns for big ad spenders like Ford Motor Co. and Hewlett-Packard Co. Besides, Google has helped Quaker Oats--a PepsiCo unit--and J.C. Penny Co. to launch their ad campaigns on

######## Article Deal making and risk taking are returning to the tech industry, a sign that firms believe the worst of the Great Recession is behind them. In a three-week period, Jon A. Woodruff, head of technology mergers and

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Upgrading Windows has always been a rather fraught process, whether you are migrating to a new machine or installing a new version of Windows on your current machine. Unlike Apple#;s Migration Assistant

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Technology that was initially developed to provide accessibility for the disabled is being #;mainstreamed#; to provide a variety of popular consumer features. Apple#;s latest iPhone, for example, has a voice

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Google is taking a new approach in challenging Microsoft Internet Explorer#;s dominance of the browser market. It is positioning itself inside Internet Explorer, by offering its Chrome browser as an IE

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### Alex Betancourt of Publisher#;s Clearing House Online Network was surprised when he checked the website logs late last year and found a sharp increase in the number of visitors using mobile browsers. In

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### A rising number of exchange-traded fund investors (ETF investors) are seeking online resources that advise about ETFs. At present, ETFs account for only # percent of dollars invested in traditional mutual

######## Article While the fight over health care still dominates U.S. politics, another contentious issue is coming back to the fore: carbon curbs as a tool for combating global warming. While this debate features some familiar partisan splits, it

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### The police department of Rancho Cucamonga, California enhanced its status as one of the ## best places to live in the United States with a low crime rate when it recently gained efficiency

######## Article ###### Baidu is a powerful Internet service of global dimensions. Robin Li Yanhong, president of Baidu.com, has helped his search website--now considered as China#;s information gateway--to successfully survive Google#;s dominance in the Internet

######## Article After previously looking inward and focusing on cost cutting and infrastructure enhancements, some healthcare, government, and banking organizations are pushing the limits of web-enabled consumer relationships by delivering an enhanced web experience because business is increasingly being

######## Article San Francisco-based iPierian, a biopharmaceutical firm, has developed a new type of stem cell that could improve drug development process vastly. The new stem cells are created by inserting four genes-- through viruses--into skin cell genomes

######## Article ###### Multicore chips are becoming the new hardware standard, but will your software be able to use the additional power they provide? It used to be that if you upgraded your computer, you could expect your existing software

######## Article Stephen Gold, owner of Electra Plumbing and Construction, is a building contractor in San Francisco and a volunteer for Los Altos-based Wildlife Conservation Network. Gold works with researchers to ascertain the type of equipment wildlife researchers would

######## Article Power utility companies have a tough time predicting the availability of power from their wind- and sunlight-based energy sources, given the unpredictability of these natural sources of energy. Therefore, to provide continuous power, wind or solar energy

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### At NAB ####, a lot of discussion pertained to the innovative Blackmagic Design#;s Ultrascope, which is appropriate for a high-quality but inexpensive waveform monitor and vectorscope at a time

######## Article ###### ###### ###### In ####, Netflix was on the verge of introducing a device for streaming movies to TV sets when CEO Reed Hastings had second thoughts. He canceled the launch, and ended up spinning off the device

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### The vast proliferation of digital documents such as email has transformed the landscape of legal discovery, providing documents required in legal proceedings. Frequent headlines attest to firms being hit with big legal fees as

######## Article It was not long ago that only birds twittered, and no one had ever heard of Facebook. Companies like Facebook and Twitter have come out of nowhere to rule the popular culture by harnessing the power of viral

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### When it comes to great brand rivalries, the only one where we can always be sure where MacLife will come down is Mac versus PC. Their reviewer finds a much closer call in comparing

######## Article A team headed by Sara Pryor, chair and professor of the atmospheric science program at Indiana University, has studied the role of climatic changes in reducing wind speeds in the U.S. and adversely influencing the evolving wind

######## Article ###### Libraries, says the author, are not doing enough to build links that pull their collections together, or to make the interconnections visible to search engine crawlers. The key component of a well designed web is stable, readable

######## Article A bad romantic breakup has led to a court ruling that may leave websites much more exposed to legal action due to third party postings on their sites. The case, in Barnes v Yahoo!, arose when a vengeful

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Of the nine free security software programs tested by AV-Test.org, Avira#;s AntiVir Personal clinched the top spot. Excellent malware detection, scan speed, and disinfection capabilities

######## Article Detailed analysis of all online activity at its website has enabled Rail Europe, a North American distributor for train travel tickets of ## European railroads, to streamline its web operations. In July ####, Rail Europe employed the services

######## Article ###### ###### Firms in the life sciences industry have particularly demanding business processes, and are calling on business intelligence (BI) software and other tools to help them manage those processes. Life science firms must deal with enormous amounts

######## Article ###### ###### ###### Business & Legal Reports (BLR) is changing its name to Business & Legal Resources as the company, like many other organizations, is recognizing the value of its online business and making the necessary changes to strengthen it

######## Article The agricultural industry is considering biotechnology as a key enabler for the future. By ####, the industry will have to produce more food--almost double the amount it produces at present--to cater for the expanding population. Existing

######## Article Government websites can be one of the most useful sources for a wide variety of information, but users may be uneasy about the government snooping on their Internet usage. If you look up the FAQ on explosives at

######## Article ###### ###### Windows # from Microsoft is a mix of good features, some drawbacks, and areas where judgments of its certain features are reserved. Windows # OS is sprightly enough to run and perform well on all existing

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Twitter is taking over the world of online buzz. The author has a folder in Google Reader, labeled #;Buzz,#; that stores the feeds he uses to keep up with news

######## Article ###### More companies are beginning to see the power of viral marketing. For example, Michael Phelan, executive director of marketing at PlumChoice, says PlumChoice tried some innovative marketing ideas during a tradeshow, resulting in product queries that were

######## Article ###### ###### When the author bought a rural house it was ####, and broadband was not yet a consideration. Once it became an issue he was stuck, first with dialup and then with a clunky wireless modem that

######## Article ###### The International Report looks at several developments in Europe and a promising one in Africa. In August the European Commission (EC) put out a report looking back at the last five years of EU communications policy and

######## Article ###### As of ####, CosmoCom has provided University of Kentucky (UK) HealthCare, one of the biggest healthcare centers in the mid-South, with a cutting-edge art contact center system capable of supporting multiple call centers and healthcare

######## Article With the advent of the Internet, blogs, and social networks, we now live in a digital world in which news is reported as it occurs, and in turn, newspapers and magazines are failing at an increasing rate, but

######## Article ###### There is some degree of truth to the mantra #;form follows function#;--what something does will dictate how it looks--yet there is more to it when it pertains to industrial design (ID), which takes all aspects

######## Article ###### The pace of technological innovation is now so high that a library conference can have as its theme what library technology will be like a year from now. A year ago the talk was all about #;Web

######## Article ###### ###### Skilled amateur photographers now have an opportunity to make some money from their shots by selling them to so-called microstock photography websites. Professional photographers have long sold their work to stock photo agencies, which in

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### JVC has made its entrance into the significant niche of under-$##,### interchangeable-lens solid-state-media HD cameras with its innovative eGY-HM###. Instead of introducing yet another codec

######## Article ###### ###### ###### As the summer comes to a close, the year-long revival of the paid content argument shows no sign of letting up, but the problem of much of the thinking in the paid content discussion

######## Article ###### ###### ###### Users could dispense with existing TV broadcasts and go for Internet TV to save money. However, users need to make some investments to get an experience similar to that offered by cable or satellite TV

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### With its new ATI FirePro V-series, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) had created innovative ATI workstation graphics accelerators that produce enhanced performance at substantially lower costs. For many years, ATI was the first

######## Article ###### ###### ###### Social networking in forms such as in-person conferences and print media has been long established in the library world. Online social networking will not and should not replace these forms of connection building, but

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### On August #, ####, social network junkies--and some companies that depend on sites to interact with clients--grew increasingly impatient, uncertain, and frustrated as a huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacking

######## Article ###### Via a simple though not necessarily easy process, home-brew biodiesel will allow you to turn used fry-oil waste into high-quality diesel fuel. This author was tired of paying for ## gallons of regular diesel

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Apple has recently launched the latest versions of Logic Studio and Final Cut Studio. The company has moved the current versions of its audio- and video-editing software

######## Article The term #;Web #.##; for a host of interactive and user-drive technologies came into wide use around ####, and was quickly adopted in the public library world. By #### the ALA published a report on Web

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### News coverage of the launch of Bing, Microsoft#;s search engine competitor to Google, is playing out as a movie that we have seen before. Whenever a new search engine comes out, the story

######## Article ###### Natural language search comes to financial services thanks to MyRoar, a tool designed to allow financial specialists to search their databases with direct questions rather than mere keywords. Founder and CEO Kate McDonough, was a bond analyst

######## Article Customer service representatives (CSR) from the contact centers of Las Vegas-based online retail company Zappos.com use an unconventional metric known as #;The Wow Moment,#; which focuses on harder-to-measure consumer responses. Zappos.com goes beyond

######## Article ###### ###### Steve Perlman, head of OnLive, has never made a high-profile splash in Silicon Valley in spite of a career that has put him near the center of developments such as QuickTime and WebTV. But now

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### When pop star Michael Jackson died, so many people went onto Google and entered his name that Google mistook the surge for a malware attack and briefly blocked anyone searching for #;Michael Jackson.#; What

######## Article ###### Websites of the White House and the Federal Trade Commission were among the many U.S. government websites that were attacked by a botnet recently. Backed by over ###,### virus-infected computers, the botnet attempted to

######## Article Automated outbound messaging in the healthcare space is enabling medical professionals to enter the home in an entirely new and innovative manner. Via the magic of speech technology, you can now get a call on your cell phone

######## Article ###### ###### ###### This year#;s hot items include e-readers, and the new Kindle DX has a good many positive features. It has a larger screen, provides support for PDF files, handy for professionals who want to

######## Article ###### ###### A physician-owned group practice, Slocum-Dixon Medical Group (SDMG), has achieved an impressive ROI by incorporating speech recognition technology into its electronic medical records (EMR) system. Speech recognition technology allows physicians to dictate their patient

######## Article Panelists at the recently held UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit discussed the future of the news publishing industry. The summit was sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism and was held at Google#;s headquarters in Mountain View

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Webpages can disappear between the time you discover them and your next visit, so fortunately for this author, iCyte was created based on the desire to access otherwise evaporated websites. iCyte is

######## Article ###### Virtualization can be used to solve technical problems of growing enterprises whose computing needs change rapidly. Even startups with limited cash and IT infrastructure can benefit from adopting virtualization. Virtualization could improve load balancing, software testing, and

######## Article ###### ###### Enabling genuine atomic precision, nanotechnology--originally defined as the construction of things from the bottom with atomic precision, but which now means different things to different people--is the recipient of $#.# billion of the

######## Article ###### The rather cheesy late-night TV ads from magicJack may not be great confidence builders, but the lure of nearly free domestic long distance phone calls is strong, and magicJack turns out to have excellent functionality. It

######## Article ###### The fast innovation and advancement of gaming technology has allowed process simulation technologies to combine with virtual reality technologies to train workers to make better choices. In the information age, companies need to learn to reduce expenses

######## Article ###### ###### ###### As rich media content such as video becomes more prevalent, the need and demand for digital asset management (DAM) software technology is growing. DAM keeps track of rich content, and makes it readily available in

######## Article ###### ###### ###### Google#;s Wave remains in beta, but a large beta, with an additional ###,### people being invited to participate in the test pool. The author is a bit jealous of them. According to Wave

######## Article ###### Recently, San Francisco city dispatched the first letter through Zumbox, a secure email service. The Zumbox secure mail service enables senders to contact recipients online by using their street address, which email does not do. If the

######## Article ###### ###### ###### Enterprise CIOs largely stayed on the sidelines of the last big Microsoft Windows upgrade, from Windows XP to Vista, and few of them regretted it. As the author bluntly notes, #;No one ever got fired

######## Article ###### ###### ###### GlobalCIO column author Bob Evans has a business proposal for Steve Jobs of Apple, and even has the inevitable name for it, the iCloud. In Evans#; vision the iCloud is #;an enterprise mobility cloud service

######## Article ###### In a marketplace crowded with gadgets, consumer electronics firms have to struggle to get noticed. Minor improvements to existing products don#;t draw attention; it takes something new and dramatic to create excitement. Panasonic, which ranks ##th

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### In their three-year competition for music lovers#; ears, Microsoft#;s Zune has been left in the dust by the Apple iPod. The Zune is attractively designed and favorably priced, and has a fairly

######## Article Poor countries have benefited significantly from mobile phones, and a second round is now on the horizon. In ####, Mary Wokhwale was one of the first ## women in Uganda to become #;village phone#; operators, and the great

######## Article Providing mobile services in a developing country differs significantly from doing so in the developed world, so network operators are reducing costs in innovative ways to increase access to new users. For starters, increasing access is difficult because

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Innovative new uses for mobile phones could propel another wave of development--for example, by providing agricultural, market, and health information, as well as mobile banking--especially in rural areas previously

######## Article Now that mobile-phone access is becoming universal in scope, the next task is to do the same for the Internet. Hamadoun Toure, secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union--a body established in #### to regulate international

######## Article ###### Mobile phones were initially considered a plaything of the wealthy, but numerous things have come together to not only make mobile phones more accessible to poorer people, particularly via rapid growth over the past few years, but

######## Article Yahoo! has recently announced a $### million campaign, which would portray the company as an online spot where personally relevant content would be available for users. The company also plans to project it as a place where advertisers

######## Article Dell#;s plan to acquire information technology services provider Perot Systems Corp. for $#.# billion is its attempt to catch up with its major rivals. The acquisition deal--the biggest ever deal ever struck by Dell--is

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### High-powered netbooks are beginning to be used as corporate computing devices. Lightweight netbooks with very light OSes and restricted disk space and RAM are more akin to smartphones. Netbooks with more

######## Article Previously, conventional wisdom said that investors should steer clear of technology companies that did too many mergers and acquisitions, but over the last decade, shareholder value has been increased as a result of the acquisitiveness of a group

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### The Dell Latitude E####, a light and thin notebook, can meet general-purpose computing requirements of traveling business people. The notebook is a good system for midrange users

######## Article Cisco Systems has acquired Tidal Software, a company that provides server scheduling and monitoring programs, and Pure Digital, a flip camcorder maker. These acquisitions have spurred activities in the technology merger and acquisition (M&A) business. Cisco, rather

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### Google is using the profits earned in its classified web ads business to develop remarkable new services like the Google Voice. Google Voice, just like Google Earth and Gmail, offers useful features at no

######## Article ###### ###### ###### When Oracle CEO Larry Ellison introduced the latest version of the firm#;s high end Exadata database and storage appliance, it had a conspicuous label reading #;Oracle-Sun.#; The joint effort shows that Oracle and

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### After having its buggy software exploited by hackers in recent years, Microsoft has made significant strides in protecting its systems against attacks, and now the company is moving to the next level by

######## Article Earl Lewis, CE of Flir Systems, is enthusiastic about future opportunities for mass-marketing infrared (IR) cameras. Flir Systems is a leader in the infrared camera market. Lewis is positive that the price of infrared cameras will greatly

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### Ratification of the IEEE ###.##n Wi-Fi networking standard is expected to further boost the challenge posed by WLAN to Ethernet. The new standard has resulted from a complete rewrite of the ####

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### The new office productivity suite OpenGoo is designed to offer online collaboration benefits like that offered by Google Apps. OpenGoo#;s source code has been distributed through an open source license and could be

######## Article ###### ###### The Internet Information Services (IIS) web server comes with new products developed by Microsoft. IIS was a security nightmare nine years back when it was exploited regularly by dangerous viruses and worms. However, starting with version