Samsung announces new hi-end displays at CES

January 10, 2012 – 2:47 pm |

Samsung Electronics America Inc., introduced a new generation of premium monitors with its visually striking Series 9 monitor. With over five years of global market share leadership, the new Series 9 monitor incorporates the best that Samsung has to offer in monitors, including its exclusive Natural Color Expert technology, which provides a richer viewing experience for discerning consumers working with photos and video content. The new 27-inch Series 9 monitor (S27B970) will be shown ... Read More

News
Business
Internet
Media
Technology

Social Networking Modern Madness

January 24, 2011 – 2:44 pm |

Sherry Turkle a sociologist, says “the way in which people frantically communicate online via social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook can be seen as a modern form of madness”, according to a Telegraph report. Writing in her new book, Alone Together: “A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological.” “We have invented inspiring and enhancing technologies, yet we have allowed them to diminish ... Read More

WikiLeaks Julian Assange Movie Planned

January 24, 2011 – 1:01 pm |

A film about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange moved a step closer after studio producers Barry Josephson and Michelle Krumm picked up the screen rights to the upoming Julian Assange biography The Most Dangerous Man in the World by award-winning Australian writer Andrew Fowler. The book details Assange’s life. Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, software developer and Internet activist. He is the founder, spokesperson, and editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a ... Read More

Phase One Announces 80 Megapixel IQ Camera Backs

January 24, 2011 – 12:06 pm |

Phase One, announced a bold new generation of medium format digital camera backs. The Phase One IQ180, IQ160 and IQ140 digital camera backs feature maximum resolutions of 80, 60.5 and 40 high quality megapixels respectively. This series sets new standards for medium format camera system handling and performance. The Phase One IQ180 captures at full-frame 80 megapixel resolution, with a dynamic range of 12.5 f-stops. It is the first product of its kind to feature a USB3 connection, ... Read More

IBM Launches Virtual Desktop

January 24, 2011 – 11:48 am |

IBM is offering a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) package that costs US$150 per user annually. “The IBM Virtual Desktop for Smart Business offering should help ease the high administrative overhead normally associated with setting up VDI deployments,” said Dan Cerutti, general manager of IBM’s Smart Business Solutions unit. “We’ve dramatically simplified how you order and buy these things. Everything is included in the Virtual Desktop Solution,” ... Read More

Google Working on Groupon Competitor

January 21, 2011 – 10:16 am |

Google is reported to be working on a Groupon competitor. A Google spokesperson said that the Internet giant was recruiting businesses for a new Google Offers service. According to web reports, Google Offers looks and operates much like Groupon or LivingSocial. It is saidinclude Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Google Buzz and e-mail sharing options. “Google is communicating with small businesses to enlist their support and participation in a test of a pre-paid offers/vouchers ... Read More

Twitter Has Almost 200M Accounts

January 20, 2011 – 10:57 am |

Twitter has reached nearly 200 million users registered accounts who post 110 million tweets per day as of the January 1, 2011, writes Oliver Chiang on Forbes. That’s up from 160 million registered accounts as of September 2010 and 95 million tweets per day as of early December Full article: http://blogs.forbes.com/oliverchiang/2011/01/19/twitter-hits-nearly-200m-users-110m-tweets-per-day-focuses-on-global-expansion/ ... Read More

Amazon Web Services Announce Elastic Beanstalk

January 20, 2011 – 10:41 am |

Amazon Web Services has announced Elastic Beanstalk in beta. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an even easier way for you to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. At the same time, with Elastic Beanstalk, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application and can ... Read More

BlessedWays.com New Social Network for Christians

January 19, 2011 – 12:58 pm |

After a year of development, the social network for Christians, BlessedWays.com, has officially launched its’ new website. The site functions similarly to Facebook, but is unique because it caters specifically to a Christian crowd. BlessedWays social networking site allows users to create a profile, search other profiles, share photos, videos and stories and create or join groups. Users can find sermons, play games, add events, join discussions, send private messages and see all ... Read More

£98 PCs and Subsidized Internet Connections Announced by UK Government

January 19, 2011 – 10:51 am |

Emil Protalinski on TechSpot.com writes “UK government to offer PCs for £98, Internet for £9. “The UK government wants to offer low-cost computers as part of a 12-month trial during Race Online 2012. The scheme, which aims to reach out to the 9.2 million adults that are not yet online, 4 million of whom are considered socially and economically disadvantaged, aims to “make the UK the first nation in the world where everyone can use the web.” Prices will start at ... Read More

Using Google Analytics Video

January 19, 2011 – 8:14 am |

Tubetorial has posted a useful article an video “Getting Started With Google Analytics”. This program gives you a lot of stats about your site including traffic numbers, the keywords and sites that send you traffic and much more. Video at: http://www.tubetorial.com/getting-started-with-google-analytics/ ... Read More