Jefferson Awards: David Sevick, reaching out through recycling
April 15, 2012 2:53 pm By Amanda King / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Without knowing where the money would come from, Dave Sevick and his team of volunteers refurbished 105 computers last year to be donated to the Beverly Jewel Wall Lovelace Children's Program, a child-care support service located at 17 housing sites around Pittsburgh.The computers provided teaching tools [...]
Link Coworking Provides a Well Designed Coworking Space in Austin
Last night I wrote about a hybrid work space for startups located in Austin called Tech Ranch. Part of my blog post included some information about my desire to create the Austin Tech Meetup and that we are looking for a space for the meetup to start from. The potential event space list includes Tech [...]
Consumer Electronics Glass Innovation to Transform Industry
It’s hard to think of glass as an area of rapid technology evolution. But it’s one of the central technologies that will bring us incredible innovations over the next couple of years.A combination of new technology, plus a strong desire on the part of major companies to transform glass, will affect nearly every category of [...]
Engineers ponder easier fix to dangerous Internet problem
IT engineers are studying what may be an easier way to fix a long-existing weakness in the Internet’s routing system that has the potential to cause major service outages and allow hackers to spy on data.The problem involves the routers used by every organization and company that owns a block of IP addresses. Those routers [...]
Google Claims Latest Chrome is Speedier
Google last week patched nine vulnerabilities in Chrome and boosted the speed and reach of the browser’s hardware acceleration with the launch of version 18.According to the company, Chrome 18 enables accelerated Canvas 2D on Windows and Mac machines with compatible graphics processor units (GPUs), and expands support for the WebGL 3D standard to older [...]
Hardware review: Sony PlayStation Vita
the Sony Playstation Vita. When Sony launched the PlayStation Portable back in 2005, Sony had defined what portable gaming was about. But that was before Apple launched the iPhone and the iPad and Google started powering smartphones and tablets with its Android operating system. These smartphones have transformed the plain old mobile phone into an [...]
Minister says more missing hard drives recovered
The Canadian Press Date: Wednesday Mar. 28, 2012 3:39 PM CST Health Minister Don McMorris says efforts are being made to track down eHealth Saskatchewan computers that were mistakenly given away. The agency which oversees electronic health records said Tuesday that 44 computers meant for recycling or reuse were picked up by a refurbishing company [...]
Netflix Tech Support Site Uses Silverlight as Problem Poster Child
Streaming video and DVD rental site Netflix has launched a new support site for its service, providing an official place for users to find information about technical problems. Funny enough, the official blog post uses glitches with Microsoft’s Silverlight app framework as a poster child for issues that its users might be looking for answers [...]
OCR made more user friendly
SLOANRANGER OCR stands for optical character recognition, and means convert a picture of text into real, computer style text that you can edit, change and save. you can capture a page of a newspaper or a book or a magazine easily enough with a scanner, but all you have is a photo. If you want [...]
Press release distribution, media and news distribution: PRWire
PRWire is a publishing platform enabling companies to extend the reach and impact of their media releases and announcements. As well as providing a web-based platform for media and journalists to track and view media releases, PRWire is optimised for search engine placement and RSS syndication. PRWire.com.au is operated by MediaConnect Australia, the pioneer and [...]
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