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On the bag: Ai Miyazato again on top in LPGA scramble for No. 1 Read this on the publication's site
USA Today  |  Ai Miyazato has been piling up trophies this year, five in all, the latest coming Sunday at the Safeway Classic. | More...
The best Web browser: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, or Safari? Read this on the publication's site
NetworkWorld.com  |  Not too long ago the job of a Web browser was simple: Get the text from the Internet and pour it into the If a tag like comes along, change the font. | More...
SEC Wants Securitization Made Easy Read this on the publication's site
Atlantic Monthly  |  The Securities and Exchange Commission has been assailed over the past few years for its failures. It didn't catch the deep problems at some of the investment banks that collapsed. | More...
Copyright
Ency of New Media (SAGE)  |  Copyright is law that regulates the copying of creative works. Under U.S. law, it is a right granted to authors and artists (and in some cases to the companies for which they ...
The Rise of Generation C: Implications for the world of 2020 Read this on the publication's site
AME info  |  In the course of the next 10 years, a new generationGeneration Cwill emerge (the "C" stands for connect, communicate, change). | More...
Dave DeWalt's next big challenge: make Intel-McAfee marriage fruitful Read this on the publication's site
USA Today  |  The 60% share-price premium McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt got Intel to pay to acquire McAfee doubled the share-price premium DeWalt garnered the last time he flipped a mid-sized tech ... | More...
Cyberpunk
Ency of New Media (SAGE)  |  The literary genre called cyberpunk , which is most closely aligned with science fiction, arose in the early 1980s.
Why does everyone hate Microsoft? Read this on the publication's site
CNN Money  |  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Why don't investors love Microsoft? Sure, shares of of the software giant are down 19% so far in 2010. | More...
Googles email nastiness Read this on the publication's site
Reuters  |  Yesterday afternoon, I started wondering why my steady stream of emails seemed to have come to a halt. | More...
If you're bumped from a flight, you may be... Read this on the publication's site
USA Today  |  Lots of luck catching another flight if you've been bumped or miss a connection. Commercial airlines in the USA have never been so full. | More...
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Disposal of Computers
Ency of New Media (SAGE)  |  Computing is often thought of as a “clean” industry, but the disposal of computers has become a significant environmental and economic problem.
Hillis, W. Daniel
Ency of New Media (SAGE)  |  1956– Technology Innovator and Entrepreneur W.
Licklider, J. C. R.
Ency of New Media (SAGE)  |  1915–1990 Computer Scientist, Internet Pioneer There has long been a war of semantics, revolving around ...
Papert, Seymour
Ency of New Media (SAGE)  |  1928– Mathematician and Computer Scientist Seymour Papert is best known for his contributions to our ...
Telephony
Ency of New Media (SAGE)  |  While the term telephony usually conjures images of point-to-point communication by voice, telephony actually describes a related set of technologies: telephones, switchboards, ...
Cellular Telephony
Ency of New Media (SAGE)  |  Cellular telephony is based on the idea of using radio waves (instead of copper wires or fiber-optic cables) to connect mobile telephones to one another and to the ordinary ...
Distance Learning
Ency of New Media (SAGE)  |  Distance learning is teaching that utilizes a variety of telecommunication technologies (video, voice, and data), sometimes in combination with print materials, to send and ...