IT Cuts for 2009
Posted on July 20, 2008 - Filed Under Economy, General | Leave a Comment
Companies plan big reductions in contract staff, professional services, and hardware purchases — plus very little investment in cloud computing in 2009. Things are really looking tight.
Read More..>>Video on Demand
Posted on July 20, 2008 - Filed Under Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Television | Leave a Comment
In a move designed to beat out the local video store and keep people in front of their televisions and computers, Amazon.com has introduced (to a limited number of users to start) a new online store of TV shows and movies,
Read More..>>Netflix + XBox
Posted on July 17, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Netflix | Leave a Comment
Microsoft’s Xbox will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal with Netflix that highlights the way gaming devices are expanding into all-purpose home-entertainment hubs.
Read More..>>Google Templates
Posted on July 16, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Google Docs, Site News | Leave a Comment
You’ve got a job to do and Google docs is the place you go to do it. But when you get there, you are presented with a blank form. It’s hard to start with a blank document, especially when it should have some sort of standard format.
Read More..>>Google Search Growing
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Internet, Microsoft, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
The climb continues. Google accounted for over 69% of all U.S. Internet searches in June of 2008, that according to new data from Hitwise. What’s even more unbelievable is that even at that level,
Read More..>>Printer Privacy
Posted on July 14, 2008 - Filed Under Devices, General, Tech News | Leave a Comment
The decreasing cost and growing popularity of color laser printers is causing concerns in some circles that your privacy may not be worth the paper you’re printing on.
More manufacturers are producing laser printers with technology that leaves microscopic yellow dots on each printed page that identify
Cuomo and Child Porn
Posted on July 13, 2008 - Filed Under AT&T, Internet, Usenet, Verizon | Leave a Comment
By now, you’ve no doubt seen the ‘coup’ that Andrew (Andy) Cuomo, Attorney General of NY pulled off this past week. He got AT&T and AOL (more on that one later), to join some other major players like Verizon and voluntarily shut off access to a large segment of newsgroups hosted on the ISP’s own […]
Read More..>>YouTube Location Search
Posted on July 12, 2008 - Filed Under Google, YouTube | Leave a Comment
When you upload a video to YouTube, one of the optional fields lets you enter the place where the video was recorded. Now you can restrict YouTube’s search results to videos from a certain location.
Read More..>>Intel Home Health
Posted on July 11, 2008 - Filed Under General, Health, Intel | Leave a Comment
With the government having drawn back somewhat from home health care nursing which had grown to huge proportions by the early 90’s, there is room to bridge the gap left behind by the much less frequent home visits from a nursing professional.
Read More..>>Huge Drives
Posted on July 10, 2008 - Filed Under General, Tech News | Leave a Comment
My goodness, it seems like only yesterday that drive manufacturers were breaking through to the 1 Terabyte hard drive. Actually, it was in early 2007 when it happened so 18 months have passed and that seems to be the timeline for seeing new advances hit the market.
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