Tech & society

This slide show highlights the wide range of organizations that have benefited from TechSoup Global, and summarizes what each organization has done with the donated technology. Thousands of non-profits that have been involved in TechSoup Global's program over the past decade.

In the old days, IT ruled the roost and users, well, they used what they were told to use and that was the end of the story, whether they liked it or not. Well, turns out, many people didn't like it, and have started to take matters into their own hands, aided and abetted by a growing array of consumer applications on the Web and their mobile phones. How you respond to this trend and to your users will make all the difference.

It takes about an hour to lure the stray dog into a steel cage with food. During that time, Sean McCormack, a co-founder of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Taiwan, sits taking pictures and video with his HTC smartphone.

Drivers, start your engines! Um, did you start them? Can't hear a thing...

Videoconferencing is often the domain of CEOs and CFOs, but Idaho's Department of Fish and Game uses high-definition (HD) videoconferencing to discuss concerns such as wolf management and salmon runs.

Welcome to The Microsoft Home, where no wall or table in the house is safe from being a digital device.

It's summer movie time again, time for the movie studios to trot out its blockbusters with explosions and all sorts of fun

Few events have crystallized U.S. fears over a cyber catastrophe, or brought on calls for a strategic response, more than the recent attacks against Google and more than 30 other tech firms. The company's disclosure in January that it was attacked by China-based hackers -- and its subsequent decision to scale back operations there -- have stoked long-standing fears over the ability of cyber adversaries to penetrate commercial and government networks in the U.S.

CHF International shared its satellite link with other aid organizations in Haiti via a Wi-Fi network built by Inveneo.

Learn how supercomputers helped construct a faster bobsled for the 2010 U.S. Olympic Team.

More than 100,000 hours of testing has been completed to ensure the technology that makes the Olympics tick will run without a bobble. Here's an inside look at this gold metal setup.

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