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From IT World: Telle Whitney, president and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, knows firsthand that women are an essential part of the Information Technology world. Even so, she believes they aren’t currently attracted to the industry at the same rate as men, and there are several reasons why. “Often I …
From MSNBC: Besides leaving the hospital with a birth certificate and a clean bill of health, baby Mila Belle Howells got something she won’t likely use herself for several years: her very own Internet domain name. Likewise newborn Bennett Pankow joined his four older siblings in getting his own Internet moniker. In fact, before naming …
From CNN: It was August 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turned 25 years old on Friday — and whose future is …
From IT World: Forrester Research will not stop until it has found a satisfied corporate Vista customer. The analyst firm has published an informal follow-up to an earlier study it conducted in May that showed limited adoption of Microsoft’s latest operating system among big businesses. It’s not that everyone was saying no, but 31 percent …
From CNN: Over the past 20 years technology has been shrinking in size as fast as it has been expanding our communication and entertainment horizons. Today’s latest gadgets are so refined and petite that they clip on to a belt or slip easily into a pocket or a bag. The next challenge confronting designers and …
From TechRepublic’s IT News Digest: U.S. researchers printed, yes, printed a battery and they’re looking to scale up the process to run devices from pacemakers to pickup trucks with batteries printed on a printing press. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s team published a description in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of how they’ve printed …
From Reuters: Content online is king. Internet users spend nearly half their time online viewing news or entertainment content, surpassing activities such as sending e-mails, shopping or searching for information, according to a study released by the Online Publishers Association on Monday. The four-year study, conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings, tracked a 37 percent increase in amount …
From the New York Times: In politics, every serious candidate for the White House has a health care plan. So too in business, where the two leading candidates for Web supremacy, Google and Microsoft, are working up their plans to improve the nation’s health care. By combining better Internet search tools, the vast resources of …
From PC World: With easy online access to up-to-date medical information and reference materials, more adults in the U.S. are using the Internet to find out about their health, then talking to their personal doctors about what they find. In fact, according to a new telephone poll by Harris Interactive Inc., about 160 million of …
From NewsFactor: When Best Buy Co. Inc. bought the Geek Squad five years ago, the two companies pledged to “protect the world from the assault of computerized technology Relevant Products/Services.” Geek Squad “agents” even wore badges and drove vehicles resembling police cars. But as this squadron of techno-nerds has mushroomed into the largest collection of …