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From the Globe and Mail: The digital divide between rich and poor countries is narrowing as mobile phones and Internet use become more available, but the developing world still lags far behind, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said mobile phone subscribers have almost tripled …
From USA Today (with a great picture): Technology that doctors expect will help detect precancerous cells faster and less painfully also could someday take cameras to parts of the body where no camera has gone before. Cameras the size of pills could “put eyes on tools” for laparoscopic surgery, snake inside a bile duct or …
From ABC News: When the Internet suddenly collapsed early last Wednesday across the Middle East and into India, it provided a stark reminder of how the Net’s virtual spaces can still be held hostage to real-world events. Almost simultaneously, two separate undersea fiber-optic cables connecting Europe with Egypt, and eventually with the Middle East and …
A week or two ago I received information from Paragon Software about their latest version of Partition Manager, which I have reviewed in the past: I’d like to let you know about new Paragon Partition Manager 9.0. The product was designed to be the safest and most reliable partitioning software available. This new version includes …
I’m sure you are all familiar with the various satellite image services out there. Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, and others have amazing aerial views of land. Someone recently shared with a cool link with me. If you visit FlashEarth.com you will find a site that focuses on the images themselves, and lets you easily …
From ReportOnBusiness.com: Microsoft Corp. revealed plans for a surprise $44.6-billion (U.S.) cash and stock takeover offer for struggling Internet search pioneer Yahoo! Inc., in a move that would not only dramatically increase its share of the global Web search business but would have serious implications for top dog Google Inc. The world’s largest software company …
Download Squad covered this a while ago… Serving as a webmaster’s Swiss Army knife, Test Everything! allows you to run a bunch of different tests on your website and domain name, ranging from Alexa traffic details to CSS validation. To use, simply type in your website’s URL, select a category, and check the boxes next …
From ComputerWorld: LAN technology recently passed a milestone — it’s been around for 30 years, some of them tumultuous. But while the LAN seems ubiquitous now, there are those who think its future may be more troubled than its past. “Comparing the present environment to our original vision, the temptation is huge to say that …
From USA Today: After ordering pizza for the gang on Super Bowl Sunday, many folks will be able to go online and track the progress of their pies. Domino’s, the pizza-delivery kingpin, on Wednesday will unveil a technology, Pizza Tracker, that lets customers literally track their pizza from the moment they place the order until …
Several of my blog feeds this week featured a story of how a couple in New York did some very impressive work and was able to track down the owner of a found camera based upon images contained within the camera. Losing your camera is of course one of every photographer’s nightmares and we cannot …