Computers-on-a-stick are not this year’s favorite cheap toy that you can win at the county fair, but real things made by some serious companies (Intel…
OPLIN 4cast #435: Stick computers
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Computers-on-a-stick are not this year’s favorite cheap toy that you can win at the county fair, but real things made by some serious companies (Intel…
The Pew Internet folks released another of their surveys at the beginning of this month. This one is about U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015, and…
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Beginning a little more than a year ago, the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began implementing a plan to expand the number…
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Just about everybody would like to feel that the things they do on the Internet remain private, at least sometimes. In reality, many of us,…
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Ethertronics Inc. got some attention in the technology media about a month ago when they announced that they had developed a chip for wireless routers…
Any library that has a sizable number of patrons using the library’s public Internet computers has probably seen more than a few copyright infringement notices.…
We read a lot of technology blogs every week, watching for things that might interest readers of this 4cast blog. Recently, a couple of the…
There are conflicting signals coming of out colleges lately in regard to digital textbooks. Are they the wave of the future or are print textbooks…
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In June 2009, television stations in the United States stopped broadcasting analog signals and switched to digital transmissions. This released large areas of broadcast frequencies…
Last week, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) posted a message stating that they had “…approved the following document: ‘Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2’…as Proposed…