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Wi-Fi Isn't Dead! (It Never Went Away): Insight Brief

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:30:11 +0000

Leverage Wi-Fi to gain productivity and control roaming costs as employees carry more devices and Wi-Fi becomes more ubiquitous. Many enterprises are trying to find a fast and reliable Wi-Fi connection for traveling employees. Learn about trends making Wi-Fi attractive and strategies for enterprises in leveraging Wi-Fi, whether private or public.

Poisoned Chinese iPhone workers still seeking treatment

ITworld staff — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:15:05 +0000

A group of Chinese workers who were poisoned while manufacturing iPhones say Apple and its supplier have yet to provide for the additional medical treatment they urgently need.

Google funds tools to expose government attempts to censor, shut down the Internet

ITworld staff — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:57:32 +0000

In the wake of Internet blackouts in Egypt and Libya, Google has announced it is awarding at least $1 million to Georgia Tech researchers working on tools that will immediately reveal when governments are trying to shut down or censor use of the Internet.

MIT robots take stage in new opera [video]

ITworld staff — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:03:20 +0000

In Death and the Powers, a new opera by MIT Media Lab professor Tod Machover, the main character wishes to leave the physical world, but remain there digitally. He downloads himself into The System and continues to interact with the audience and other characters through robots and a technique called disembodied performance.

Developers donate proceeds, services to Japan relief efforts

ITworld staff — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:06:05 +0000

The multiple disasters afflicting Japan--earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear--have created an outpouring of charity around the world. As part of the effort, several Apple-oriented software developers are donating services and money to ease the suffering of victims and their families.

Japan to face rolling blackouts starting Monday [video]

ITworld staff — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:29:40 +0000

A series of planned electricity blackouts will begin rolling through east Japan Monday, Tokyo Electric Power said Sunday evening.

Facebook, Samaritans to help suicidal social networkers

ITworld staff — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:02:58 +0000

Facebook has joined forces with the Samaritans in a bid to ensure distressed or suicidal social networkers receive help from the charity.

Kinect Powered Robot Could Help Earthquake Victims

ITworld staff — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:06:15 +0000

A Kinect-powered robot could soon be helping locate earthquake victims, thanks to the engineering ingenuity of a group of U.K. students. The rescue-robot, developed at the University of Warwick by the geeky Warwick Mobile Robotics (WMR) team, could help significantly reduce the costs involved in earthquake rescue attempts.

Mobile device etiquette keeps going down the drain, survey finds

ITworld staff — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:30:59 +0000

Etiquette by users of mobile devices keeps getting worse as use of the technology proliferates, a survey has found.

Early-warning sensors in focus after New Zealand quake

ITworld staff — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:15:23 +0000

Authorities from Asia to California are working on computerized systems to warn people of large earthquakes, which are in focus again after the deadly temblor in New Zealand. None of the warning systems have faced the real thing yet, though.

Man creates working Angry Birds birthday cake [video]

keithshaw — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:05:32 +0000

The Angry Birds fad phenomenon continues - a video making its way around the Internet shows how a dad made a birthday cake for his 6-year-old son that shows an Angry Birds level. But more than that, he added a slingshot and made the cake "playable", which raises the bar just ever so slightly.

IPhone workers still sick after chemical poisoning

ITworld staff — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:16:16 +0000

Guo Ruiqiang says he still feels sick more than a year after he suffered chemical poisoning while working on an iPhone production line.

Big-company survey predicts cloud will cause IT hiring dip

KevinFogarty — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:21:14 +0000

Cloud computing could slow IT hiring in 2011, according to Hackett Group, contradicting studies by analysts involved in the hiring process.

Wicked cool man vs. machine moments

ITworld staff — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:38:16 +0000

As IBM's Watson computer digs in for its competition on "Jeopardy!" this week, we are reminded that this is the first in a long series of classic man vs. machine moments. Here we have a look at some of the famous real and not so real man vs. machine action.

Stuxnet is back, and Anonymous has it

KevinFogarty — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:59:06 +0000

The Stuxnet virus hit not one group in Iran, but five, all by direction. Now the 4Chan Anonymous hactivists claim to have source code.