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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
25 May 2012 12:30 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); LONGWOOD, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DoMark International Inc. (OTCBB: DOMK) announced today that management of its wholly-owned subsidiary, SolaWerks, has...
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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History Archive
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Gadgets of days gone by: Palm III
Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
This week at CrunchGear, we're looking back at some of our favorite gadgets from the not-so-distant past — old phones, computers, media players, toys... those devices that still stand out in our memories despite their obsolescence. Feel free to contribute some of your own nostalgia.
The Palm III was the first truly portable computing device I ever owned. Oh sure, I had a laptop at the time, but it was hardly something that could be considered "portable" in anything but the most literal interpretation of that word. The Palm III, though, slipped in my pocket, and went everywhere with me. Its clamshell design gave it its own protective case for the screen, so I didn't need to invest in fancy third-party protective gear. The Palm III traveled with me pretty much around the world, and it never let me down.
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Happy birthday, NCSA Mosaic!
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments
Good golly, was it really seventeen years ago that NCSA Mosaic 1.0 was released? How far we've come in the nearly two decades since images were first rendered inline with text. Now we take it for granted that we can watch movies in our browsers!
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Today in history: the flight data recorder
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
It's not entirely clear to me that March 17 is the actual birthday of the so-called "Black Box", but who am I to argue with Wired's This Day in Tech? According to them, the idea for the flight data recorder was born in 1953 by an Australian named David Warren. The first prototype was complete in 1957, and within a couple of years became a standard feature on all commercial airplanes.
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You know what’s fun? Napoleon: Total War
Posted on March 11, 2010 | No CommentsAn idea of how much I enjoyed playing The Creative Assembly's, by way of Sega, Napoleon: Total War pretty much all weekend long: I just ordered all four parts of Max Gallo's biography of Napoleon from Amazon France. I don't even speak French! (Well, a very little bit, but certainly not enough to read a four-volume biography written by someone who's a member of L'Academie française.) That's a pretty big endorsement: the game re-kindled my interest in Napoleon so much that I bought books that I can't even read. Wild.
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Happy Birthday, BBS!
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
WWIV, Wildcat, Celerity -- these hallowed names represent the best of a golden era of communication, back when "getting online" meant tying up the family phone line, remembering arcane Hayes AT codes to maximize performance out of the 9600 baud modem your dad borrowed from work, and TradeWars was the best multiplayer game available. Yes, I'm talking about Bulletin Board Systems, originally text based and later augmented with ANSI graphics. The first public BBS celebrated its birthday yesterday, and I think it's a fair bet that few of us would be engaging in discussion today if it weren't for that simple little computer bulletin board in 1978. Why even our esteemed leader John Biggs ran a bulletin board system for a brief while!
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Happy Birthday, LISA!
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No Comments
Is it ironic that this $10,000 computer only sold 10,000 units? Released on January 19, 1983, LISA (Local Integrated Software Architecture) was a gigantic flop, but paved the way for the success of the Apple Macintosh, which paved the way for the success of the MacBook, which paved the way for the success of the iPhone, which paved the way for the success of the Apple Tablet!
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Gopher: Content > Presentation
Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments
If you spend any amount of time using the Internet as we know it today, chances are you have suffered some inconvenience from the variety of interpretations of the various "standards" used to create the web. Every web browser renders web pages slightly differently; some Flash content isn't compatible with older versions of Flash (and some versions of Flash aren't supported on some operating systems at all!), etc. If you make your living creating web content, all of those problems may be amplified several times. Doesn't it make you long for a real standard, where content is king, and presentation of said content is the same, regardless of whether you're shopping for shoes or looking for an academic journal? The Gopher protocol, created in the early 1990s, had all that, and it ain't dead yet!
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SketchPad: the world’s first electronic drafting program
Posted on September 3, 2009 | No Comments
If you think AutoCad is complicated, what with its terrifying number of keyboard shortcuts, you should check out SketchPad, the world's first electronic drafting program. Designed by Ivan Sutherland in the 1960s, it allowed an operator to draw line segments, arcs, and circles on an oscilloscope with a lightpen and a complex set of buttons, switches, and knobs. Videos after the jump!
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Do one thing, and do it well: 40 years of UNIX
Posted on August 21, 2009 | No Comments
Generally speaking, 40 is considered "over the hill" in human beings. I'm 35, and as I get closer and closer to the crest of that hill, I can tell you with some certainty that the best is yet to come. I think the same holds true for operating systems. UNIX turns 40 this month. That's right: it was four decades ago that Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson worked in the AT&T Bell Labs on the successor to Multics.
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10 years ago today, Halo debuted at MacWorld
Posted on July 21, 2009 | No CommentsWhere were you 10 years ago today? Where were you July 21, 1999, to be redundant? (Me? I can guarantee that I was reading and refreshing wrestlezone.com.) In any event, you should know that 10 years ago Microsoft debuted Halo at MacWorld. Oh, how times have changed.