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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 |
Verizon Pursues Local Cable Franchises . Telecommunications giant has applied for cable franchises in three Washington area jurisdictions -- Howard County, the city of Bowie and the town of Herndon -- as part of a broader effort to expand its telephone network and offer an array of services nationwide. By Dina ElBoghdady. [Washtech]
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Mind May Affect Machines. Researchers at a Princeton University laboratory believe they've demonstrated that peoples' thoughts can have a miniscule but measurable effect on machines' output. Skeptics remain dubious. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News: Technology]
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Blogs Taking Off in Cambodia. A Cambodian nonprofit worker traverses the country, teaching students to publish blogs. The project promotes democracy and spurs internet use in a land where few people have access to the web. Matt Reed reports from Phnom Penh. [Wired News]
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
HP restructure and job cuts. HP is expecting to announce a huge restructuring that could mean between 5,000 - 25,000 redundancies, reports the Wall Street Journal. HP's new Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd, who was appointed in late March, plans to make significant cost cuts at the technology company which he said "has a cost structure that is off benchmark in many areas". The restructure is likely to be announced at the end of the fiscal third quarter on July 29. The layoffs could bring around $100 million in... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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Computer-Recycling Business Booms. RetroBox, a fast-growing Ohio company, buys discarded computers that it recycles and rebuilds. The goal is to keep the machines out of landfills -- the U.S. government alone throws away 10,000 computers a week. [NPR Topics: Business]
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Monday, July 18, 2005 |
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005 |
I like this! I have been collecting "old" computers for years.
Geek Chic: Old Computers As Collectibles . The year was 1986 and Bud Ballos was an eighth-grader, a proud owner of a brand-new computer with what was to him "a weird thing" called a mouse. By Jose Antonio Vargas. [Washtech]
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Classroom Clickers Make the Grade. For students weaned on TV remote controls, it's the perfect classroom interaction gadget: a 'clicker' that lets them respond anonymously to teachers' questions. It serves the 'instant-gratification generation,' says one professor. [Wired News: Technology]
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Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use Crusade. Rep. Rick Boucher is the rare legislator who defends file-sharing technology and thinks Congress is way too chummy with the entertainment industry. Boucher chats about content, law and technology in the digital age. Wired News interview by Katie Dean and Evan Hansen. [Wired News]
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Monday, July 04, 2005 |
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Sunday, July 03, 2005 |
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Saturday, July 02, 2005 |
A funny thing has happend to our little blog. It has become part of a stockmarket-shares trading game. Check the link listed above or do a search for "Michael J. Much" in google and follow up. As a result I plan to resume posting news during the summer. I expect things will really pick up when classes begin in the fall.
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Red Hat's 1Q Sales Jump 46 Percent. Red Hat Inc., the leading distributor of Linux software, on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings beat Wall Street projections as sales increased 46 percent from last year. [Linux Pipeline]
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