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In Today's Viral World, Who Keeps a Civil Tongue?Late last month, Charisse Carney-Nunes fired up the
computer at her home in Northeast Washington to check her e-mail. Her brain already was on morning drive time: breakfast for the kids, her day's work at a government agency. She glanced down at her screen, then froze.
Washington Post Sunday, October 11, 2009Montgomery County Lab Visit Stirs Interest in ScienceMontgomery County has hit on the formula for getting young people interested in science: Unleash 190 seventh-graders in a building full of robots, prosthetic limbs, microscopes, remote-controlled surgical arms and bacteria-filled flasks, and watch what happens.
Washington Post Sunday, October 11, 2009Fast Forward: Yea for Android, Nay for Windows MobileWill a new gadget stick around? You can't tell from its first act, but you might know by its second or third
release. Or maybe its seventh. Consider two new follow-on performances in the wireless-phone industry: One broadens the appeal of
google's Android software , while the other cements the...
Washington Post Sunday, October 11, 2009T-Mobile says all missing Sidekick data lost for goodAbout two weeks ago, T-Mobile subscribers with Sidekick woke to a shock: all of their precious data, stored on Sidekick makers Danger’s servers, had gone missing. T-Mobile invoked the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy clause: don’t panic, we’re working on getting your data back. In the meantime, T-Mobile Sidekick users have had to do without [...]
Geek.com Sunday, October 11, 2009Computers still beat cameras for image processingFrankfurt - Although some newer digital cameras are coming out with photo processing functions, computers still remain the best platform for doing such work, according to the German Photo Industry Association. These days, it's not unusual for a camer...
Earth Times Sunday, October 11, 2009Microsoft offers free virus protectionBerlin -
microsoft has created an anti-virus pogramme for free download: Microsoft Security Essentials. Along with virus protection, the programme also works to keep other cyber threats from ever accessing a
computer, such as spyware and Trojan horse...
Earth Times Sunday, October 11, 2009Test shows laser printers are power hogsHamburg - A test by German
computer magazine Computer Bild has shown that most laser printers are energy hogs. Six tested devices used between 174 and 334 watts during use. Ink jet printers tend to use only double-digit wattage levels. ...
Earth Times Sunday, October 11, 2009Everybody's Business: Looking at Life as One Big SubscriptionSubscriptions, for gadgets like cellphones or services like rental cars, can be efficient for consumers and lucrative for businesses.
New York Times Sunday, October 11, 2009Novelties: A New Way to Inhale, Not Inject, InsulinA small inhaler and insulin powder created by the MannKind Corporation are before the F.D.A. for marketing approval.
New York Times Sunday, October 11, 2009Unboxed: To Do More With Less, Governments Go DigitalWith money very tight, state and local officials hope to mine vast troves of government data for insights to streamline services and guide policy.
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