admin @ June 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The city of Bozeman, with a population of 25,000 people in southwestern Montana, likely isn’t one you heard of recently. However, it’s in the news after a city job requirement has drawn heavy criticism over possible privacy issues.
An anonymous citizen who applied for a city job alerted local media that he or she had [...]
admin @ June 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
SSDs continue to debut with higher storage capacities, more performance, and lower price tags. As the technology matures, it will be easier for the average consumer to upgrade or switch to an SSD rather than a traditional HDD.
Super Talent has announced a new SSD called the MasterDrive SX that boasts a 128MB DRAM cache. [...]
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IBM, NEC Electronics, and Toshiba announced an extended a technology development agreement. The agreement covers the participation of the companies in the joint development of 28nm, high-k metal gate low-power chip technology. The development of the technology is intended to be used eventually in consumer electronic devices.
The push towards 28nm technology will not only [...]
admin @ June 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Apple today released its anticipated iPhone OS 3.0 update prior to the launch of the iPhone 3G S on Friday, June 19, with numerous updates and improvements compared to the previous iPhone OS.
The Cupertino-based company last week confirmed the looming iPhone 3.0 software update during the Worldwide Developers Conference.
There are around 100 new [...]
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NASA has been forced to delay its manned shuttle launch from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station (ISS) until July after a hydrogen leak was found during week for the second time.
NASA started fueling Endeavour’s fuel tank on Tuesday, delayed by several hours due to bad weather, and was excited to launch the [...]
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MySpace, the No. 2 social networking site on the internet, announced plans to cut up to 30 percent of its staff as the company tries to lower costs during turbulent times.
Roughly 30 percent, or about 425 people, will reportedly lose their jobs leaving about 1,000 employees working for the company.
“Simply put, our staffing [...]
admin @ June 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Currently the most viable treatments for cancer — chemotherapy and radiation — ravage patients’ bodies, nearly killing them in an effort to save their lives. However, for lack of a better treatment these remain the best options for those fighting cancer. Novel applications like targeted nanoparticles look promising in the long run, but they remain [...]
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Facebook saw its users register personalized web addresses at a rate of more than 550 per second after the company opened up vanity URL registration last week.
Within 15 minutes of public launch Saturday morning (12:01 AM EST), 500,000 Facebook users already grabbed their Facebook vanity URL. After an hour, more than 1 million personalized [...]
admin @ June 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Technology firms are notorious for some of the perks they offer to retain employees. Google is perhaps the most notorious giver of perks with gourmet lunches and swimming spas to keep its working masses happy.
Google has found more recently that its perks can’t keep some of its most important people from leaving. Microsoft is [...]
admin @ June 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Top manufacturers of personal computers in the U.S. — Hewlett-Packard Co, Dell Inc, and fourth-place Apple Inc. — are each claiming to have the “greenest” PCs on the market. The companies are crafting entire business plans around selling their “greenness” to consumers.
John Spooner, an analyst with Technology Business Research describes, “It’s really a green arms [...]