It’s probably safe to say that Whopper Sacrifice, Burger King’s impish Facebook campaign that offered users free burgers in exchange for dropping 10 friends, wasn’t aimed at retirees. But maybe it should have been. A recent report from Forrester Research indicates that while it might be...
Devin Krauter sits on the end of his bed, tapping buttons on his video game controller to shoot down alien beasts while chatting with other players through a headset, texting on his cell phone and talking to a visitor. The 17-year-old high school junior is ranked...
Madison - Wisconsin will collect sales taxes on Internet downloads of music, games, books, ring tones and other video entertainment - a decision that angers some who will find the 5% tax added to their credit-card bills after Oct. 1. On Thursday, Gov. Jim Doyle signed...
While it might have been a tad on the excessive side to call the police on a 14-year-old girl for texting during class, the teen in question certainly didn't help anything by trying to hide her phone away in her butt. Read full article>>...
Marquette students frustrated with campus Internet speed should resist the urge to pull out their hair — a substantial boost in campus Internet capacity is in the works. The university is planning to enlarge the Internet capacity for students from 100 to 700 megabits per second,...
SAN FRANCISCO — It's boom — and bust — for Silicon Valley companies these days. Literally. Facing their worst economic climate since the dot-com bust in the early 2000s, high-tech companies are treating 2009 with dread — but also with a tinge of optimism if they...
Healthcare providers are becoming more cautious with IT spending and are looking for products, such as self-service solutions, that have a measurable return on investment, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by Healthcare Informatics Research, polled 435 IT professionals between Nov. 25 and Dec....
It's not hard to see that 2008-09 is going to get worse before it gets much better. Some sectors, such as storage, data center automation and e-discovery, seem immune to the downturn, but chip, computer, handheld, flash memory and server makers continue to struggle big...
UC Berkeley researchers have found that cloud computing has great opportunity to exploit unprecedented IT resources if vendors can overcome a litany of obstacles. UC Berkeley researchers have outlined their view of cloud computing, which they say has great opportunity to exploit unprecedented IT resources if...
Parts of the federal economic stimulus bill resemble a dog-eared Democratic Party wish list, rescued from a dusty “Great Society” desk drawer. But other portions of the $790-billion bill might actually accomplish what President Obama intended - which is to create jobs relatively quickly while...