Category Archives: Technology

Apple ‘determined’ to improve conditions at plants in China

By doris | Published: February 19, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com San Francisco (CNN) — Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday said that the world’s most valuable tech company is doing everything it can to address growing concerns over working conditions at its Chinese manufacturing plants. “We know people have a very high expectation of Apple,” he told hundreds of investment professionals [...]

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8 things you should know before building a mobile app

By doris | Published: February 5, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (Mashable) — App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! The upshot of producing the next Angry Birds or beer-chug simulator? So high! Heck, with just a small investment of time and cash, it’s not hard for would-be mobile moguls to turn a concept into a steady stream of [...]

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Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call

By doris | Published: February 4, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com LONDON (AP) — Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet. Unfortunately for the cyber sleuths, the hackers were in on [...]

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How smartphone camera tech will evolve in 2012

By doris | Published: January 28, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (WIRED) — We love documenting our lives. If we didn’t, well, there probably wouldn’t be a hugely successful online behemoth called Facebook. And smartphone photography wouldn’t be the thriving phenomenon that it is today. Smartphones accounted for more than a quarter of all photos shot in 2011, according to research from [...]

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50 new tech tools you should know about

By doris | Published: January 26, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — You may have dozens of apps on your phone and scores of websites bookmarked on your laptop, but that doesn’t mean you have all the latest tech tools at your fingertips. New mobile apps, services, social networks and other digital tools pop up so frequently that keeping up with [...]

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Why the iPad won’t transform education just yet

By doris | Published: January 23, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (Mashable) — Apple’s announcement on Thursday that it would be introducing a new iPad textbook experience and iBooks authoring tool presents huge opportunities for technology in classrooms. The company is selling textbooks from McGraw-Hill, Pearson and Houghton Mifflin at a price comparable to print versions, and it’s presented an unprecedented opportunity [...]

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Windows XP finally giving way to Windows 7?

By doris | Published: January 3, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com Is it finally out with the old (Windows XP) and in with the new(er) Windows 7 — especially with Windows 8 on the way? Many of you have said “no” in the past year, but new figures show that XPiration is heading out at last, more than 10 years after the [...]

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Bill that could ‘break the Internet’ delayed until 2012

By doris | Published: December 23, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A congressional vote on an anti-piracy bill that Internet heavyweights like Google say would be an online Armageddon has been delayed until 2012. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which was introduced in the House of Representatives in late October, aims to crack down on copyright infringement. [...]

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LeWeb: Access to web, phones key to helping the poor

By doris | Published: December 11, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com PARIS, Dec 9 (Alertnet) – Governments worldwide must boost internet accessibility in order to nurture democracy and economic development, entrepreneur Loic Le Meur said at the prestigious LeWeb technology conference in Paris which he founded. The conference brought together some 3,500 of the world’s top digital experts and entrepreneurs from 60 [...]

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Tech firm wants to ban office e-mail

By doris | Published: December 7, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com To office workers everywhere struggling to stem the tide of messages filling their inbox, it probably sounds too good to be true. But a French tech company wants to make it a reality. Calling the volume of its e-mail “unsustainable,” IT services firm Atos plans to ban internal e-mail from company [...]

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YouTube gets its biggest makeover ever

By doris | Published: December 3, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (Mashable) — We already knew about YouTube’s redesign, which tech-savvy readers have been enabling for the past 10 days. As of now, however, the new YouTube is available to everyone. Unlike parent company Google, which tends to roll out redesigns over a period of days, YouTube pressed the button and switched [...]

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Apple offering Black Friday discounts on iPads, iPods, Macs

By doris | Published: November 23, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If you’ve been weighing buying a new Mac or iPad but are holding out for one of Apple’s rare discounts, Black Friday is your chance. As it’s done in recent years, Apple is holding a “one-day shopping event” for the day after Thanksgiving. A page on Apple’s site invites [...]

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