Microsoft taking orders for 128GB Surface Windows 8 Pro, units expected to …
Microsoft’s Surface Windows 8 Pro model has been a bit hard to come by since its launch last week, especially for customers in the hunt for the 128GB model. There’s some good news tonight for anyone that’s still in the hunt for either Surface Windows 8 Pro unit, though, as As is…
Erewhon: The 1872 Novel About Robot Wars That Presages Thomas Nagel’s …
It may be that the distance between educated amateur and scientific expert has widened since the 19th century, but the religious sensitivities Darwinism inflames seem to have remained fairly consistent. We live in an era of scientific triumphalism, when leading researchers in any number of fields claim they are supremely…
Tech stocks: BlackBerry rebound, Netflix near $200
Workers prepare the podium before the start of the BlackBerry 10 event on Jan. 30, 2012, in New York City.(Photo: Mario Tama, Getty Images) After taking a hit on Thursday, BlackBerry stock appears to be on the way back up. Let’s look at the stocks to watch as we close out the…
Firefox is Shrewdly Embracing Windows 8
If there’s one thing you can say about the corporate strategy of Mozilla it is that it is adaptive. That flexibility has allowed the company to survive and thrive, hanging its hat on various operating systems and winning fans with its Firefox web browser. According to Mozilla, the company is…
BlackBerry Eases On Report Samsung Plans Enterprise Push
BlackBerry shares are trading modestly lower Friday on a new worry: competition from Samsung for the enterprise market. Research firm Detwiler Fenton this morning asserts in a note to clients that their checks find the South Korean electronics giant is “making an aggressive push into the enterprise segment,” and that…
Ames’ bipedal robotics research featured in Design News
The robotics research of Dr. Aaron Ames, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been featured in Design News. The magazine also named Ames one of its “Rising Engineering Stars.” Science fiction has long promised two-legged, humanlike robots that can walk among…
Netbooks Hang Strong In Classrooms
Six Ways The iPhone 5 and iOS 6 Amp Up Social Opportunities (click image for larger view and for slideshow)The education market remains a stronghold for netbooks, according to a recent report by ABI Research. InformationWeek Education interviewed ABI analyst Joshua Flood by email about this phenomenon. InformationWeek: ABI found that…
Charities must make the most of smartphone and tablet technology
Is your organisation making the most of smartphone technology? Photograph: FocusMedia/Alamy A recent article by Zoe Amar for the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network was a clarion call that chimed with our own mantras about the role technology has to play in growing giving. We’ve spent the last decade innovating…
Android dominated smartphone sales in 2012
By Heather Kelly, CNNupdated 5:47 AM EST, Fri February 15, 2013 | Filed under: Mobile Apple and Samsung are battling for the hearts and minds of the world’s smartphone faithful. STORY HIGHLIGHTSReports: Android, Apple make up vast majority of global smartphone sales Samsung was the top phone maker in 2012 thanks to its popular (CNN)…
Tactical yet practical
Are you always on the lookout for the the perfect iPad carrying bag, like me? Something that is not so small that I can’t put my accessories in but not so big that I feel like I am toting a suitcase around. The Kato tablet + netbook mini-messenger from Hazard The…
