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  • HP Wireless TV Connect streams 1080p video, hits Intel WiDi where it hurts Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 11:07PMWe have to say it's a bit odd for HP to be announcing its own wireless streaming peripheral -- it seems like something more up IOGEAR or Belkin's alley -- but the $199 Wireless TV Connect is exactly what we've been waiting for in some respects. Sure, the box that you have to connect to your laptop via HDMI and USB for power is a bit on the large side, but it's capable of streaming 1080p content ...
  • HP unleashes Envy 17 3D, HP Envy 14 Beats edition and specially-cooled Pavilion dm3 Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 11:07PMWe know, it feels like it was just a few months ago that the new Envy 14 and 17 hit the market, but HP isn't quite finished tinkering with its aluminum laptops. First up is the new Envy 14 Beats edition, which just like the previous Envy 15 Beats has a totally different black and red design than the rest of the Envy line along with a a pretty awesome red backlit keyboard. Apart from the ...
  • Clearwire's CLEAR 4G Takes the Checkered Flag in Daytona Beach Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 11:01PMDAYTONA BEACH, Fla.----Clearwire Corporation , a leading provider of wireless broadband services and operator of the largest 4G network in the country, today announced the availability of CLEAR® 4G, take-it-with-you internet service for businesses and consumers in Daytona Beach.
  • 'You build that trust and progress does happen' Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:07PMYellow ribbons were tied around tree trunks and dozens of U.S. flags lined the driveway and front yard to welcome Army Sgt. Andrew Raupp home to LaGrange Park Sunday, following a second tour of duty in Iraq.
  • Teacher to explore use of laptops Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:01PMNowra High School science teacher Cathy Munro (left) received a $15,000 teaching scholarship from NSW Premier Kristina Keneally.
  • Ithaca police urge precautions following string of Collegetown burglaries Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:03PMITHACA -- Ithaca police are investigating a series of burglaries in August. About 18 residences, mostly in the Collegetown area, were burglarized last month, said Deputy Ithaca Police Chief John Barber. Laptops and iPods were stolen in many of the incidents, he added.
  • Judge: Montco school district must pay $260K in laptop case Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:22AMPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge says a Montgomery County school district embroiled in a laptop spying scandal must pay a family's lawyer about $260,000.
  • Judge: Pa. district must pay $260K in spying case Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:01AMA federal judge says a suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a laptop spying scandal must pay a family's lawyer about $260,000. Philadelphia - United States - School district - Lawyer - Education
  • NASA Funds Development of Nanoscale Materials for High Energy Density Lithium-Ion Batteries Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:56AMNanoEngineers at the University of California, San Diego are designing new types of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries that could be used in a variety of NASA space exploration projects - and in a wide range of transportation and consumer applications. NEI Corporation and UC San Diego recently won a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer contract from NASA to develop and implement high energy ...
  • Judge: Pa. district must pay $260K in spying case Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:53AM(AP) -- A federal judge says a suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a laptop spying scandal must pay a family's lawyer about $260,000.
  • Gas Utility Upgrades to GIS for Outages, Compliance Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:50AMREDLANDS, Calif. -- Jefferson-Cocke County Utility District is taking advantage of Esri's Small Utility Enterprise License Agreement program to improve outage response and better meet regulatory requirements with the use of geographic information system technology.
  • Two men detained for impersonating Johor royale on Facebook Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:24AMTuesday, August 31st, 2010 13:33:00 KLUANG: The police have detained two men to assist investigations into a case of an individual impersonating the Tunku Mahkota Johor, Tunku Ismail Idris Sultan Ibrahim , in a Facebook website. Johor police chief Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said the two men, aged 31 and 33, were detained about 1.30am today at a house in Taman Seri Majidee, Johor Baru. Two ...
  • Research and Markets: This Comprehensive Global Industry Guide on Haircare is an Essential Resource for Top-Level Data ... Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:20AMDUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/403595/computer_hardware) has announced the addition of the "Computer Hardware in Japan" report to their offering. The Computer Hardware in Japan industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Computer Hardware industry. It includes data on ...
  • Research and Markets: This Computer Hardware in the United States Industry Profile is an Essential Resource for Top ... Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:16AMDUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b9275b/computer_hardware) has announced the addition of the "Computer Hardware in the United States" report to their offering. The Computer Hardware in the United States industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Computer Hardware ...
  • Joy and tears greet US Army troops back from Iraq Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 8:42AMMothers cried and children squealed with delight as a company of US troops arrived back from Iraq on Saturday, after a year-long tour marked by desert heat and monotony.
  • Rose City Middle School to receive federal funds Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 6:49AMRose City Middle School will be receiving roughly $2.2 million in federal funds to be used for school improvement over a three-year period.
  • The New Brand Ambassadors Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 3:30AMSAN FRANCISCO Remember when citizen journalism was a novel idea? Now, average people armed with video cameras, laptops and mobile phones routinely cover everything from flood and fires to violence on the streets of Myanmar.
  • 877,000 more 1M'sia netbooks for students Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:54AMPekan: The Government will acquire 877,000 more units of the 1Malaysia netbooks under its next distribution phase for students from needy families nationwide soon.
  • State becomes center for lamp industry, from small to large companies Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:26AMFrom designing circuit boards and lenses to manufacturing streetlamps and replacements for fluorescent tubes, Michigan companies are well on their way to creating a strong and growing LED lighting industry.
  • James Brooke was there on Aug 31! Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 12:47AMI AGREE with the honourable Minister for Information, Communication and Culture, and his suggestion that we should all write about villages. This proposal, made in Johor a fortnight ago, was a good enough cue for me to write about my own village. If anything, it’s for the benefit of my grandchildren wishing to know where [...]
  • Officials hope cameras add safety element Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 12:39AMVideo surveillance has become almost commonplace in many parts of the world -- and often is generally accepted as a benign enhancement of public and private safety. So why would an advanced multimillion-dollar video surveillance network be necessary for a 3.3-square-mile city like South Daytona, where many of the city's businesses, public buildings and parks already are equipped with cameras?
  • District test scores beat state average Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 12:47AMLittleton Public Schools outscored the state average on the Colorado Student Assessment Program in all 27 areas tested, but compared to last year, scores declined in more than half the areas tested.
  • Federal Judge Sanctions Tech Company Over Handling of E-Discovery Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 12:38AMA judge has sanctioned a leader in flash drive technology for mishandling e-discovery in what the judge called a "David and Goliath-like" struggle. The judge ruled he would instruct the jury to draw a negative inference from the fact that SanDisk, which has a market capitalization of $8.7 billion, had lost hard drives from laptops issued to two ex-employees, the plaintiffs. The judge noted that ...
  • Britain's final splurge Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 12:28AMWHY WE'RE STILL SPENDING..
  • Swapping pay TV for the Internet? Good luck Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 12:12AMIt is a fantasy shared by many Americans: dropping cable television and its fat monthly bills and turning instead to the wide-open frontier of Internet video.
  • Tollway reduces car perk, reviewing transponders and phones Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 12:01AMTollway officials are cutting back on company cars issued to employees as they review whether to chop other perks such as transponders.
  • Cooler Master NotePal U3 Review Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 11:26PMLaptops these days produce a lot of heat, and it's a good idea to try to pull some of that heat away from the components in the computer to help make your laptop more stable, increase your laptop life, and, if you choose to overclock your laptop, to unlock a little extra potential.
  • Freshmen descend on Shippensburg University campus Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 10:44PMSHIPPENSBURG -- Almost 90 percent of today s Shippensburg University students will haul a laptop computer, not a notebook and pencil, to classes next week, and all of them will go without a landline in their dorm room.
  • Bloomfield Teachers Association shows solidarity to school board Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 9:07PMMembers of the Bloomfield Teacher's Association (BTA) displayed a show of solidarity to the Bloomfield Board of School Trustees at Thursday night's monthly meeting.
  • Brisbane Girls Grammar orders Windows 7 & the lot Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 8:16PMBrisbane Girls Grammar School (BGGS) was the first private Australian education body to undertake a roll-out of Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint across a whole organisation. The IT team recently upgraded 1, 150 desktop PCs, laptops with Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Exchange 2010.
  • On the Record Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 9:16AMJewelry, etc. stolen from home MEDFORD—Several pieces of gold and silver jewelry, two laptops and two digital cameras were stolen from an unlocked house on Pine Acres Drive sometime between 1 and 6 p.m. on Aug. 16, according to police.
  • How schools are putting the iPad to work Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 9:09AMWill the iPad herald a revolution in the classroom, displacing musty textbooks once and for all? Enterprising educators experimenting with Apple’s new tablet aim to find out.
  • Research and Markets: This Comprehensive Global Computer Hardware Industry Profile Is an Essential Resource for Top ... Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 8:50AMDUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Computer Hardware" report to their offering.
  • American Red Cross Selects Motorola For Mobile Blood Donor Program Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:51AMThe Motorola Solutions business of Motorola Inc., recently announced that the American Red Cross has selected Motorola's MC55 Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA) and wireless LAN (WLAN) access points to help document blood donations for more than 200,000 blood drives each year.
  • Corning to Expand Light-Duty Diesel Capacity in Germany Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:36AMCORNING, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) has approved a capital investment plan to increase the company’s light-duty filter capacity in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The $44 million investment will be part of Corning’s previously announced 2010-2011 capital expenditures. This expansion, which is expected to begin early production in the second half of 2011, will increase the ...
  • Granicus Builds 20 Custom Applications in 20 Weeks on Force.com to Manage Rapid Growth Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:30AMSalesforce.com , the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced Granicus, an award-winning cloud computing provider for government transparency, efficiency, and citizen participation, has built 20 custom apps in 20 weeks on Force.com to manage its rapid growth.
  • Corning to Expand Light-Duty Diesel Capacity in Germany Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:30AMCORNING, N.Y.----Corning Incorporated has approved a capital investment plan to increase the company’s light-duty filter capacity in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The $44 million investment will be part of Corning’s previously announced 2010-2011 capital expenditures.
  • Robot with frog egg smell sensor (w/ Video) Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:23AM(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Tokyo have invented a novel means of improving a robot's sense of smell, by using inexpensive olfactory sensors containing frog eggs.
  • Apple Patent Filing Shows Touch-Enabled iMac, MacBook Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 9:10AMThe application movies Apple's touch technology to both desktop and notebook devices and might support iOS apps coming to Mac OSX. Apple - IMac - Mac OS X - Macintosh - IOS
  • Back to school with high-tech supplies Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 8:43AMAs kids return to classes this month, most of you see them hauling bags filled with paper, pens, folders and the like. It wasn't too long ago that we started hearing parents complain about having to buy pricey computer thumb drives (which thankfully have since come down in price dramatically). And now the talk in some education circles is about having even more technology become part of the list ...
  • Jailbreaking your iPhone? Change your passwords Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 8:21AMSince the U.S. Copyright Office declared last month that it's legal to jailbreak your iPhone, lots of iPhone users have been doing just that -- nearly 9 percent of them as of late July.
  • Dragons' Den panel offer stunned inventors £900,000 for their 'Magic Wand' remote control Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 8:11AMChris Barnardo and Richard Blakesley were celebrating today after receiving the largest ever Dragons' Den offer from Duncan Bannatyne.
  • AMD execs describe next-gen Bulldozer server chips Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 8:10AMIDG News Service - Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday shared details about its next-generation chip architecture code-named Bulldozer, which will form the basis for its upcoming 16-core server processors.
  • ALLPRO Imaging’s ScanX Discover™ Assists Restoration of World’s Last Wooden Whaleship, the C.W. Morgan, at Mystic ... Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 8:09AMMELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ALLPRO Imaging is utilizing its ScanX Discover portable radiography system for non-destructive testing of the world’s last surviving wooden whaling vessel, at Mystic Seaport Museum.
  • Dell Eliminates Use of 18.2 Million Pounds of Packaging Since 2008 Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 8:08AMROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In its effort to make product packaging more convenient for customers and less impactful on the planet, Dell has eliminated the use of more than 18.2 million pounds of packaging material since 2008. For perspective, that’s approximately the same weight as 226 fully-loaded 18-wheelers or almost 4,184 small pick-ups. The reductions, reported yesterday in Dell’s ...
  • ALLPRO Imaging's ScanX Discover Assists Restoration of World's Last Wooden Whaleship, the C.W. Morgan, at Mystic Seaport Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 8:00AMMELVILLE, N.Y.----ALLPRO Imaging is utilizing its ScanX Discover portable radiography system for non-destructive testing of the Charles W. Morgan, the world’s last surviving wooden whaling vessel, at Mystic Seaport, Museum of America and the Sea.
  • Dell Eliminates Use of 18.2 Million Pounds of Packaging Since 2008 Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 8:00AMROUND ROCK, Texas----In its effort to make product packaging more convenient for customers and less impactful on the planet, Dell has eliminated the use of more than 18.2 million pounds of packaging material since 2008.
  • AMD Details Next-generation Server Chip Architecture Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 7:55AMAMD on Tuesday shared details about its next-generation chip architecture code-named Bulldozer. Bulldozer - Advanced Micro Devices - processor - Hardware - Bobcat
  • Man killed in fire identified Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 12:13PMA 79-year-old man who died in a fire at Heather Lee Apartments on Aug. 7 has been identified. The B.C. Coroner's office Tuesday identified the victim as Allan Orr.
  • Bozzuto's Search Engine Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 11:33AMOne of the most productive uses of the Internet in food retailing is the portal a secure gateway, or extranet, through which suppliers, brokers, carriers and retailers can share all manner of data. Wal-Mart Stores was the first retailer to recognize the power of giving its suppliers a view into real-time store sales data via its famed Retail Link portal. Since then, numerous retailers and ...