Google+ is a new social networking platform that will be available to the public on July 31st. So far, the reviews have been mixed, with bloggers weighing in on both fabulous features and where Google is falling short. In an article at TechCrunch, MG Siegler draws battle lines for the social media war among Google, […]
While health technology enhances patient care and improves efficiency, there are also risks in using these devices that all nurses should know. The ECRI Institute, a non-profit that provides research on health care, publishes an annual list of the top 10 health technology hazards to raise awareness in hospitals of technological dangers. The parts of […]
Tech Report is out with an update on the state of USB 3.0 for those not lucky enough to have recently purchased a motherboard or system with built-in USB 3.0, and answers the question “is it that much better than USB 2.0?”. Transfers of mixed files sizes (both reads and writes) took about half the […]
Wednesday, June 8 was World IPv6 Day, a large scale 24 hour experiment aimed at indentifying problems associated with IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol IPv4, reported an article on NetworkWorld. Over 400 organizations, including Google, Facebook, AT&T, Cisco and Microsoft all participated along with other businesses, universities and government agencies enabling […]
Western Digital was the first with a 3 TB hard drive, but Hitachi is now out with a 3TB drive that spins at 7200 RPM, vice WD’s 5400 turns per minute. The Tech Report has a write up here, that is notable for not only comparing Hitachi’s monster drive to Western Digital’s drive, but also […]