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Technology: Flexible Phones
Contributed by Rick DeVan on August 12, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET
When I watch this I keep thinking of those pocket protectors everyone used to love to hate and, apparently, some still do.
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Technology: DUMBO Goes Wireless
Contributed by Rick DeVan on June 3, 2011 at 4:12 pm ET
Resource: New York neighborhood first to go wireless via Reuters.
A waterfront area in the New York borough of Brooklyn has become the first city neighborhood to feature free wireless service on streets and in parks and plazas.
Hooray! Free public WiFi is getting closer to all of us.
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Technology: Internet Traffic Forecast to Quadruple By 2015
Contributed by Rick DeVan on at 4:03 pm ET
Resource: Internet traffic to quadruple by 2015: Cisco via The Sydney Morning Herald.
Global online traffic will quadruple by 2015 as the number of gadgets linked to the internet climbs to 15 billion, according to a forecast by networking colossus Cisco.
Resource: Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2010-2015.
Exciting and frightening at the same time.
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World Backup Day 2011
Contributed by Rick DeVan on March 31, 2011 at 9:22 am ET
Resource: World Backup Day.
When a hard drive fails, if the data isn’t backed up, it’s gone. And it’s not a question of if your hard drive will fail, it’s when.
Today is World Backup Day, although, really, every day should be a backup day.
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Readings: Technology Trends for First Responders (Pew Research)
Contributed by Rick DeVan on February 25, 2011 at 7:00 am ET
Resource: Midwest Disasters 2.0 – Technology Trends for First Responders at Pew Internet Research.
Midwest Disasters 2.0 – Technology Trends for First Responders
View more presentations from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
More of a “viewing” than a “reading”, but you get the point.
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