‘Technology’ Archives
Windows Phone 7: New Kid On The Block
Microsoft unveiled its new Windows Phone 7 mobile software at a New York event Monday. While it may have "Windows" in the branding, it definitely is not the desktop PC experience shoehorned into a cell phone. After the failure of Windows Mobile and the Kin phone line last spring, Microsoft has a lot riding on this launch. The Windows Phone 7 [...]
OpenOffice Forks, Becomes LibreOffice
OpenOffice.org has long been the leading free and open source alternative to Microsoft's widely used Office package. The software has set download records on new releases, and estimates suggest it now accounts for about 10 percent of the overall office suite market. When Oracle bought Sun, the open-source projects such as OpenOffice.org and the [...]
Life Without Wi-Fi
Can you live without access to Wi-Fi? For many young adults, the answer is "No". Wi-Fi-enabled digital devices are now more central to life than television according to a recent study conducted by Wakefield Research. The study was commissioned by the Wi-Fi Alliance, a group devoted to the proliferation of Wi-Fi. Wakefield interviewed 1,000 [...]
