Category Archives: Technology

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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The best tech deals this Black Friday

By doris | Published: November 22, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com Whether you’re already in line for a Black Friday sale or still figuring out what you’ll do with Thursday’s leftover turkey, now’s a good time to review the best offers of this shopping season. We’re here to help with handpicked tech deals. A few things to note: These deals are Black [...]

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Report: If you’re under 45, you probably own a smartphone

By doris | Published: November 4, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com If you’re under the age of 45, you might have noticed that your peers seem to be gravitating toward more smartphones, a trend that Nielsen says is most prominent for mobile subscribers ages 25 to 34.Nielsen’s findings for the third quarter of this year reveal that the “vast majority” of mobile [...]

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Why your next phone might be bendable

By doris | Published: November 1, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — As we enter the final months of 2011, the thoughts of tech watchers like me are turning to what we can expect in 2012. Voice recognition in all our devices? Touch control replacing the mouse and keyboard? The death of the wallet as mobile payments become mainstream? Maybe. But [...]

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HP decides to keep its PC business

By doris | Published: October 30, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hewlett-Packard announced Thursday that it will continue selling personal computers after all, reversing an earlier decision to exit one of its core business lines. The company shocked Wall Street and the tech industry alike when it announced Aug. 18 that its board was exploring “strategic alternatives” for [...]

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Farm groups turning to Web to burnish image

By doris | Published: October 16, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com KANSAS CITY, Missouri — October is a busy month for Kansas farmer Darin Grimm. With 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans to harvest, the third-generation family farmer is running a combine nearly dawn to dusk. But he still makes time to tweet. Whether it’s touting the benefits of a new fertilizer, [...]

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Our future: Empty pockets, except for our phones

By doris | Published: October 12, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com “We definitely hope one day you can walk out of the house with your phone in your hand — and nothing else,” said Marc Freed-Finnegan, the company’s product manager for Google Wallet. It aims to digitize everything in your pockets in coming years by collapsing all that paper, plastic and metal [...]

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What Steve Jobs taught us: It’s OK to fail

By doris | Published: October 6, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com College dropout. Fired tech executive. Unsuccessful businessman. Steve Jobs will always be best known for his incredible success in guiding Apple Inc. and transforming the entire consumer computer and phone industry. But he’ll also be remembered fondly as the poster child for how making mistakes — and even failing — can [...]

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Verizon unveils first unlimited prepaid plan for $50

By doris | Published: September 14, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Verizon Wireless is launching its first prepaid unlimited phone plan on Thursday, with voice calls, text messaging and Web access for $50 a month. Verizon (VZ, Fortune 500) Wireless has offered prepaid plans since its inception in 2000, but its previous plans offered services only a la [...]

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E-mail typos result in 20GB of stolen data

By doris | Published: September 9, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com – Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail over six months. The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would [...]

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