Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Cellfire Inc wins an award for their Cellfire 3.0 mobile solution. The Cellfire 3.0 software is a couponing solution for mobile phones.
"We are honored to have the innovation and hard work of our engineering and product teams recognized by the CTIA," said Brent Dusing, CEO of Cellfire. ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Dexter the robot that will work on the space station has now been assembled. Dexter is ready to do manual labor on the space station.
The robot, which is properly called the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator, will in future do much of the external work on the space station.
Dextre will ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Executives at Google seem to think the company is immune to an economic slowdown. Eric Schmidt said during a press conference that Google is uniquely positioned to avoid the troubles plaguing many other firms.
"It's too early to say if there's (already) been any specific impact but if there were ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Robert Soloway was a heavy duty email spammer and now he faces up to 26 years in prison for his efforts. It's tough to feel sorry for the guy, who once bragged: "I've been sued for hundreds of millions of dollars and have had my business running for over ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Blockbuster has forced change. The local Blockbuster minutes from our house is closing their doors forever.
We saw it coming. The large "anchor" store in their location left a couple of years ago and a PAKMAIL business next door left in January.
So we were left to decide what to ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Renault has begun production of electric cars as part of an Israeli-backed initiative to find effective alternative energy sources. The project is aimed at weaning Israel from dependency on foreign oil.
Renault-Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said the cars, with a range of about 100 km in city driving and ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
In a sign of continued standards warfare, Toshiba today announced they're cutting prices of the HD-DVD players by as much as 40%, as many movie studios have already embraced Sony's Blu-Ray format.
Toshiba America Consumer Products said it cut prices of its HD DVD players effective January 13 to boost market ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
MySpace has long been under attack for not doing enough to protect the millions of teenagers who visit the site. But now the company has reached agreement with 49 state's attorney generals on principles to keep teens safe.
"This is an industry-wide challenge and we must all work together to ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Technology is always changing and sometimes it even gets outdated. The next technology on the chopping block is analog television and it's demise is approaching fast - in only 13 months all TV's will be required to be digital ready. TV's without a digital converter box or without cable service ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Newly announced KODAK AutoMagic Self-Burning CD-Rs are interesting. They are made with the new user in mind. So for someone who is not comfortable managing music or burning CDs, the product is worth a look.
"This is great news for all the people who want to store images, music ...
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