By Jamie Welch, Network Administrator on March 4, 2010
U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has issued a permanent injunction that bars RealNetworks from selling RealDVD, the DVD-copying software that Hollywood claimed in a lawsuit violated copyright law.
Posted in Tech, Tools & Utilities
By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on March 3, 2010
Listen to this NPR story which delves more into the process used by CereProc to create these more acurate voices and some examples of their results.
Posted in Gadgets and Gizmos, News, Tech
By Jamie Welch, Network Administrator on March 3, 2010
The common use of videophones could happen through three technologies that separately aren’t exactly considered bleeding edge today: high-speed Internet, a television, and Skype. Samsung says it will put the VoIP calling service Skype as an application on its televisions.
Posted in Internet, Tech
By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on March 3, 2010
Apple alleged numerous patent violations in lawsuits against HTC Corp., a Taiwan-based manufacturer of smart phones.
Posted in Android, Apple, Tech | Tagged Android, Apple, HTC, lawsuit
By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on March 3, 2010
Soon TAT will introduce a gesture powered 3-D home screen for Android phones that combines UI technology with remarkable design elements.
Posted in Android, Tech | Tagged Android, design, Home Screen, TAT, UI
By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on March 3, 2010
Last week Apple began banning so-called “blue” iPhone apps containing “overtly sexual content.”
Posted in Apple, Tech | Tagged Apple, ban, sexual content
By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on February 26, 2010
MacHeist is at it again. They are about to offer a new bundle on March 2nd. Details are not announced but in the meantime they are offering a “teaser” software,Squeeze, for free to tide us over.
Posted in Giveaway, Tech | Tagged Giveaway, MacHeist, Sqeeze
By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on February 24, 2010
In a landmark case today, the Italian court convicted three Google executives of privacy violations saying that they did not act quickly enough to remove an online video that showed sadistic teen bullies pummeling and mocking an autistic boy.
In a very closely monitored case around the world, because of it’s implications for Internet privacy and [...]
Posted in Google, News, Tech | Tagged convicted, court, executives, Google, Italy, youtube
By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on February 24, 2010
By now we have all heard the story about Harriton High School in Lower Merion Township, PA giving their students laptops to use in school and then remotely switching on the web cams to purportedly “locate missing computers” which remain the property of the school. However, a student was approached by an assistant principal who [...]
Posted in News, Tech | Tagged Harriton, laptops, Lower Merion, spying
By Jackson Berger on February 23, 2010
Microsoft, the company largley accredited for starting the mainstream adoption of home PCs, has now announced their latest initiative – Windows Phone 7.
Posted in Tech
By Adam on February 23, 2010
We get it, Verizon has a big network, AT &T is faster…
Posted in Mobile Carriers, Tech | Tagged ATT, cell phones, Commercials, maps, Verizon
By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on February 23, 2010
Facebook is now allowing you to connect with iChat. Some of my students were asking “how do you do that?”. It is really quite simple. Here are the steps in order to add a Facebook chat account to your iChat.
In iChat, open Preferences, and go to the Accounts tab. Click the plus sign at [...]
Posted in Tech, Tips | Tagged chat, Facebook, iCHat, Jabber
By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on February 21, 2010
Bloom Energy will be revealing to the world its potentially revolutionary new fuel cell system-The Bloom Box. Why revolutionary?
Posted in Gadgets and Gizmos, News, Tech | Tagged Bloom Box, energy, fuel cells
By Jamie Welch, Network Administrator on February 20, 2010
Facebook users have been complaining about problems at the social media site.
Users in the U.S. and other countries reported problems beginning Saturday morning.
Some could not log in, and the site was unusually slow and glitchy for others. Users in London, Bangkok and Mexico City reported problems. Many used Twitter to complain.
Facebook spokesman Matt Hicks said [...]
Posted in Social Networks, Tech
By Jamie Welch, Network Administrator on February 20, 2010
Skype and Verizon announced a partnership Tuesday to bring the Internet-calling technology to a number of 3G BlackBerry and Android phones starting in March.
Posted in Mobile Carriers, Tech
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