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Review: OnLive Desktop brings the PC to tablets

So you love your iPad, but you wish you could work on Microsoft Office software, watch Flash video and generally have more of a PC-like experience? OnLive Desktop is one way you can.

Technology / Software

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

TED blends animation with education at new website

The non-profit group behind the thought-provoking TED conferences launched a website devoted to video lessons cleverly crafted to captivate students.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google's Punchd wants to replace loyalty cards with an app

Over the years, Google has changed the way we search online and the way many businesses advertise online. With Android, the company has built the most popular smartphone operating system in the world. And now the tech giant ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Review: Baseball scores big with At Bat mobile app

(AP) -- Baseball is back, which means die-hard fans like me are hungry for updates and highlights when we're not near our televisions or computers.

Technology / Software

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wikipedia founder: Public needs online references

(AP) -- The man who helped create the online reference Wikipedia said Tuesday that the end of Encyclopaedia Britannica's print run shows the world's growing reliance on the Internet as a base for knowledge.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

USDA Forest Service and NASA release Web-based forest disturbance monitoring tool

The USDA Forest Service's Eastern Forest and Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Centers recently unveiled a product that helps natural resource managers rapidly detect, identify, and respond to unexpected changes ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Last entry for Encyclopaedia Britannica book form

Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years, someone among the editing minions of free ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Wal-Mart to bridge online gap with disc-to-digital

(AP) -- Wal-Mart pledged to help introduce Hollywood's emerging online movie locker system to its customers, many of whom have never owned anything digital in their lives.

Technology / Business

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chinese downloads 25 billionth Apple app

Apple announced Monday said that downloads from its App store had hit 25 billion, with a person in eastern China grabbing a $10,000 prize for taking the tally to the landmark level.

Technology / Software

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Microsoft sees future in Windows 8 amid iPad rise

(AP) -- Microsoft is scrambling to preserve what's left of its kingdom. Since the company released its Windows operating system in 1985, most of the sequels have been variations on the same theme. Not that ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 52

EU prizewinning researchers decongest the internet

The Internet has become part of our everyday lives, in ways we would never have imagined 30 years ago, but how often do we pause and think about the how and why of getting online? A team of EU-funded Spanish researchers are ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft cuts about 200 marketing employees

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. said it laid off some of its marketing staff on Wednesday as part of an effort to restructure its operations.

Technology / Business

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cockroach 'let's hook up' chemical signal could benefit endangered woodpecker

A North Carolina State University discovery of the unique chemical composition of a cockroach signal -- a "Let's hook up" sex pheromone emitted by certain female wood cockroaches to entice potential mates ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Newspaper website visits up despite paywalls: NAA

Traffic to US newspaper websites rose over the past year despite the introduction of paywalls by a number of outlets, the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New York Times adds 43,000 digital subscribers

The New York Times added more than 40,000 digital subscribers in the third quarter but advertising revenue continued to slide.

Technology / Business

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0