Posts Tagged ‘technology’

via the New York Times
By JEREMY KAHN
Published: December 8, 2008

David Guttenfelder/Associated Press
A soldier in Mumbai during the siege of the Taj Mahal hotel last month. The attackers studied satellite images of the city online.

MUMBAI, India — The terrorists who struck this city last month stunned authorities not only with their use of [...]

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By Jacqui Cheng | Published: November 17, 2008 - 11:53AM CT
No matter how into gadgets and hardware we are, we’re all forced to face a cold truth every once in a while: our PCs and gadgets sometimes break. What’s important, however, is how often it happens and how easy (or difficult, as the [...]

Via Metro
Tech Now by Paul Brent
October 30, 2008 03:27

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By Jacqui Cheng | Published: October 20, 2008 - 01:14PM CT
It turns out that the typical American family is also the most networked, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. In addition to having 1.34 children, a dog, and a white picket fence, the American nuclear [...]

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By John Timmer | Published: October 13, 2008 - 01:19PM CT

The governmental sales branch of the giant technology vendor CDW apparently got interested in how its wares were being deployed in the classrooms of US college campuses. To find out, it commissioned an online survey that pulled in roughly similar numbers of students, faculty, and [...]

Via Tech Now by Paul Brent
September 11, 2008 02:49
The kids are back at school and the laptops, cellphones, iPods, MSN, text messaging and every other form of technology are all  getting a real workout from the younger generation.
A feeling for just how important technology is to young people comes via a survey done by a group [...]

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October 7, 2008 - 3:01 pm PDT - by Rob Diana19 Comments

With the presidential election soon upon us, politics are at the forefront of many discussions. Given that “brand management” is such a hot topic, should these political discussions be avoided? Many people that use social media sites like FriendFeed are consultants in some form. Brand or [...]

Via the New York Times
By DAMON DARLIN
Published: September 20, 2008
EVERYONE has been talking about an article in The Atlantic magazine called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Some subset of that group has actually read the 4,175-word article, by Nicholas Carr.

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Christophe Vorlet

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