Technology Stocks Tumble As Broader Market Retreats (Fox News)

Posted on December 1, 2008 By admin in technology

Technology Stocks Tumble As Broader Market Retreats
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Defense Technology Stocks Discussed in Wall Street Transcript Homeland Security & Defense Technology Report (Wall Street Transcript via Yahoo! Finance)

Posted on December 1, 2008 By admin in technology

67 WALL STREET, New York - December 01, 2008 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Homeland Security/Defense Technology issue, a report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This 24-page feature contains expert industry commentary through in depth interviews with CEOs from 4 firms and 2 analysts. The full issue is available by calling …
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How To: Make Your Computer Start Faster

Posted on December 1, 2008 By admin in technology

One of the biggest frustrations about having a computer for any length of time is that it begins to take longer and longer to boot up.  If you’re someone that hits the power button on your computer, and then walks away for a few minutes to do something else because it takes so long to turn on, then this is the post for you. After you log in/start to see your desktop, you shouldn’t have to wait five minutes before you can start using your computer.  The reason why it runs slowly right away is
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Pownce Deadpooled?

Posted on December 1, 2008 By admin in technology

My little friend Nabaztag gave me news today (not sure which RSS feed this was coming from,) that Pownce.com, a competitor of Twitter, will be permanently coming down on December 15th, 2008. Uhh… wow? I have to admit, I wasn’t keen on the idea of turning to Pownce and letting go of Twitter for a long time. Twitter had the bigger userbase, and none of my friends used it. However, over the past couple of months, I have been using it more often. If anything, it seemed like more people were using
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Petronas banks on polymer technology centre (Business Times (Malaysia))

Posted on November 30, 2008 By admin in technology

STATE oil and gas firm Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) is banking on its world-class polymer technology centre in Kertih to help attract investments worth RM2 billion at the Kertih Plastics Park (KPP) in Terengganu.
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Technology Waiting in the Wings (ETFZone.com via Yahoo! Finance)

Posted on November 30, 2008 By admin in technology

Technology has been dragged down by the credit crisis, but it might well lead the way out of recession.
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Microsoft, Yahoo said in talks on search deal

Posted on November 30, 2008 By admin in technology

According to one report, Yahoo and Microsoft may once again be working on a search deal. The Times of London reported this weekend that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s search business for $20 billion. According to the paper, former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller and fomer Fox Interactive President Ross Levinsohn are set to head the effort. “Senior directors at Microsoft and Yahoo are understood to have agreed the broad terms of a deal, but there is no guarantee that it will succeed,” The T
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Ineptitude Trumps Human Creativity Every Time

Posted on November 30, 2008 By admin in technology

For most of human existence, progress has moved slowly. It took quite a few generations of hunter-gatherers, to figure out that mastodon seared by lightning or grilled in a grass fire tasted better than mastodon tartar - at least until a nice Cabernet arrived a few millennia later. But progress being what it is, humans got smarter and new technologies grew in parallel with human evolution. In other words, for hundreds of thousands of years, shit happened - and therein lie the roots of our m
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Wahpeton fundraising for technology with lefse (The Wahpeton Daily News)

Posted on November 29, 2008 By admin in technology

Wahpeton Public Schools are selling Carl’s Lefse of Hawley, Minn., with the proceeds going to technology. Orders can be placed by contacting Central Elementary at 642-8328 or Wahpeton Senior High School at 642-2604. The price increase this year is due to the increased cost of flour and potatoes.
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Nokia N85 & N79 unveiling the fusion of technology and style (AME Info)

Posted on November 29, 2008 By admin in technology

Nokia Saudi Arabia, the global leader in mobile communications, announced today the arrival of the much anticipated members of the Nseries technology to Kingdom, heralding a new dawn in convergence.
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