SCIENTIST DETECTS CANCER WITH LIGHT
Posted on January 31st, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
KEEPING TRACK OF ALL THOSE EMAILS
Posted on January 31st, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
File email into folders for later access, with Mail Manager from Oasys-Software.com.
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60 MINUTES INTERVIEW: WIKILEAKS FOUNDER
Posted on January 31st, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange gave a rare interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Wikileaks, Assange said, is a conduit for information for other journalists (the New York Times recently published some of its leaks). If someone in the State Department knows of wrong doing and has no way of getting the information out to the public, Wikileaks can help, he said. As an example, he said 15,000 civilian deaths in Iraq went unreported. Assange refuted the idea that he is doing anything illegal. Military personnel can go to jail for sharing classified documents, but not publishers. In the last 50 years, none have, he said. Click here for interview.
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THE COMEBACK
Posted on January 30th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
MAKING STUFF SMALLER
Posted on January 29th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
SENIOR PHONE
Posted on January 28th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Starting February 2011, Jitterbug will offer an emergency service called “5Star,” for an extra $15 a month.
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A SINGULAR PHONE DOCK
Posted on January 27th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
WHICH SEARCH ENGINE MAKES THE BEST CONTESTANT ON JEOPARDY?
Posted on January 26th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
IBM is building a computer to challenge the best contestants on the TV show “Jeopardy.” But how would ordinary search engines do in comparison? Stephen Wolfram, founder of the company that makes Mathematica software and the calculating site WolframAlpha.com, did an analysis of 200,000 Jeopardy clues to find how quickly and correctly the leading search engines find answers. As you can see from the chart, Google wins by a nose, except against Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings, who blows them all out of the water. You can read Wolfram’s analysis here.
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INVESTMENT ADVICE: GOOD, BAD AND INDIFFERENT
Posted on January 26th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
At the beginning of each year, Barron’s, a leading financial journal, publishes the picks of ten luminaries of the investment world. So just for the heck of it, I looked at how these leading lights did on last year’s picks…
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REMOTE CONTROL
Posted on January 26th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Sometimes you want to use a program that sits on a desktop or laptop computer somewhere else. You can reach and control that computer with the “Ignition” program from LogMeIn. We’ve used it on the iPad and it now comes in a version for Android tablets. It lets you control another computer remotely from your tablet; all you need is an Internet connection. Except for the difference in speed, it’s almost as if you had that other computer with you. The app is $30 from Google’s Android Market. You can read more about it at LogMeIn.com.
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