2009 April | Teleactivities

Poll: Swedish pro file-sharing party gains su...

AP - A new poll shows a Swedish party that calls for legalizing Internet file-sharing could win a seat in the European Parliament in June. [+]

Poll: Swedish pro file-sharing party gains support
(AP)

Computing

Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and developing computer technology, computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the science of [+]

Companies mine Web clues for signs of pandemi...

AP - Weeks before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization alerted the public to a growing number of swine flu cases, a startup based in Seattle's suburbs already had a hunch something was up. [+]

Companies mine Web clues for signs of pandemics
(AP)

Ajax

Ajax, or AJAX, is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so [+]

Cablevision has fastest Internet speeds for c...

AP - Cablevision Systems Corp. is set to unveil Tuesday the fastest Internet speeds available from any cable or phone company. [+]

Cablevision has fastest Internet speeds for cable
(AP)

Networks

A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. Specific examples include: transport networks, roads, railroads, shipping routes and airlines, pipelines (gas, petroleum, water, sewage), electric circuits - a network of electrical components. electricity networks (electric power - generation, transmission and distribution.) social and/or business [+]

Information technology

Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware."[1] IT deals with the use [+]

Yahoo’s feeble 1Q triggers nearly 700 m...

AP - Yahoo Inc.'s first-quarter results tread familiar ground as the Internet company's financial erosion triggered another round of layoffs and management promised better days ahead. [+]

Yahoo’s feeble 1Q triggers nearly 700 more layoffs
(AP)

Web development

Web development is a broad term for any activities related to developing a web site for the World Wide Web or an intranet. This can include e-commerce business development, web design, web content development, client-side/server-side coding, and [+]

After IBM dalliance, Sun goes to Oracle for $...

AP - Sun Microsystems Inc.'s scramble to find a suitor landed the slumping server and software maker in the arms of Oracle Corp., which agreed to pay $7.4 billion in cash for Sun in a startling marriage that would transform [+]

After IBM dalliance, Sun goes to Oracle for $7.4B
(AP)

Telecommunication

Copy of Alexander Graham Bell's original telephone, at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris Telecommunication is the technique of transmitting a message, from one point or place to another with the typical additional attribute of [+]

Windows washer: Meet Microsoft’s antido...

AP - Julie Larson-Green hopes you'll like Windows 7. If not, well, now you and a billion other people know whom to blame. [+]

Windows washer: Meet Microsoft’s antidote to Vista
(AP)

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