Thursday, October 07, 2010

Simple Thoughts (Technology) – Newsletter for October 7, 2010

Thursday, October 7, 2010


Punjab and Sind Bank Invites Applicants for Clerk Officer

NEW DELHI, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com) — Punjab and Sind Bank invites candidates belonging to Indian citizenship for recruitment in Officer Cadre and in Clerical cadre for following posts :
1. Clerks : 300 posts in various states (UR-158,OBC-70, SC-56, ST-10), Pay Scale : Rs. 6200 23900, Age : 18-28years
2. Probationary Officer : 450 posts, Pay Scale …. Original source  : Punjab and Sind Bank Invites Applicants for Clerk Officer.

Facebook Gets Patents for the Inventions of Foursquare and Gowalla – What?

NEW YORK — The war among the Location based industry may have been started quite sometime ago but the latest player seems to grab all the trophies. Facebook may have got its pass into the location war battlefield with the birth of Facebook Places launching only a few months ago, but it’s been [..] Read the original article: here.

Facebook I Like It Statuses Viral on the Internet. What it Mean?

Facebook I Like It Statutes have gone viral in the internet. I you visit the Facebook you might end up scratching your head why every of your female friends have resorted to a same Facebook statuses like “I like it on …..”. All the statuses are same in the beginning and only the …. Source article  : Facebook I Like It Statuses Viral on the Internet. What it Mean?.

Yahoo jazzes up search results in attempt to stand out from Bing, bring in more ad revenue

Yahoo revs up search results in turnaround quest

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc. is jazzing up its Internet search results in an effort to orchestrate a revenue revival.
The additional features will begin appearing Thursday on Yahoo’s U.S. website.
The new tools are designed to get people to the information they seek more quickly, especially when searching about …. Source article  : Yahoo jazzes up search results in attempt to stand out from Bing, bring in more ad revenue.

Summary Box: Facebook introduces tools for separating friends, copying all personal info

Summary Box: Facebook’s new way to define friends

REDEFINING FRIENDSHIPS: Facebook introduced a new tool to make it easier to divide online friends into different groups so its more than 500 million users can narrow the audiences for different things that they post. For instance, one group might be composed of co-workers and others might be … Read more »»».

Verizon says fast 4G wireless coming to cities in Northeast, Calif., elsewhere by year’s end

Verizon says fast 4G wireless coming to 38 cities

NEW YORK – Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that its new wireless broadband network, which offers higher data speeds initially for laptop users, will be live before the end of the year in the cities on the Boston-to-Washington stretch as well as in California, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Verizon says fast 4G wireless coming to cities in Northeast, Calif., elsewhere by year’s end.

Review: Apple TV is improved, but doesn’t beat other ways to get movies from Internet to TV

Review: A better Apple TV doesn’t beat competition

NEW YORK – Apple is a pioneer in many fields, but in the race to connect our TV sets to the Internet, it’s been lagging badly.
Three years ago, the company put out a small box called the Apple TV that brought iTunes movies to the TV set, but [..] Read the original article: here.

Logitech unveils $300 set-top box to bring Google TV service to existing televisions

Logitech unveils Revue, a $300 Google TV set-box

SEATTLE – Logitech is unveiling a $300 set-top box that will bring Google’s new TV service to people who don’t want to buy a new television set.
Logitech International SA, which makes computer mice, webcams and other peripherals, said in May it would build a Google TV set-top box.
Google … Original article on : Logitech unveils $300 set-top box to bring Google TV service to existing televisions.

Draft trade agreement drops several provisions that alarmed technology companies

Draft trade pact more palatable to tech companies

WASHINGTON – For three years, technology and telecommunications companies have watched nervously from the sidelines as the United States and nearly a dozen trading partners have negotiated a trade agreement that critics feared could undermine all sorts of online activities.
But on Wednesday, the U.S. Trade Representative released the …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

FBI’s Mueller: Legal changes needed to ensure surveillance in terrorism, criminal cases

Mueller: Revise telecom law to aid terror probes

WASHINGTON – FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday called for changes in federal law to help his agents with surveillance of communications in anti-terrorism and other criminal investigations.
At a conference of intelligence experts, Mueller said that in some instances communications companies are unable to provide electronic communications the … Read more »»».

Raytheon gets $112.3 million Navy contract for radar technology

Raytheon gets Navy contract for $112.3 million

TEWKSBURY, Mass. – Raytheon Co. said Wednesday it has received a $112.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy.
The contract is to design and develop an S-band radar and radar suite controller technology demonstrator for the Navy’s new Air and Missile Defense Radar, called AMDR. Raytheon said the S-band component …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Report: Apple to make iPhones for CDMA networks such as Verizon’s, could go on sale in 2011

Report: Apple to make iPhones for CDMA networks

SEATTLE – A new report says Apple Inc. is getting ready to manufacture an iPhone model that works on the cellular network operated by Verizon Wireless, though it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s coming to that carrier any time soon.
It has long been rumored that Verizon Wireless will eventually … Read the original article on Gaea Times at : Report: Apple to make iPhones for CDMA networks such as Verizon’s, could go on sale in 2011.

Study says hospitals could save billions from change in rules on purchases of devices

Study: Medical device buying rules waste billions

NEW YORK – A study published Wednesday says hospitals and the federal government could save tens of billions of dollars a year if they changed the way group purchasing organizations – which buy medical supplies in bulk for member hospitals – are compensated.
The study said hospitals and health care … Read more >>>.

Facebook unveils tools for creating clusters of friends, copying personal information on site

Facebook offers new way to sort friends, copy info

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Facebook is trying to make it easier for people to share their updates selectively and draw distinctions between friends, family members and co-workers on the Web’s biggest social hub.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO, unveiled the latest changes Wednesday at a press conference [..] Read the original article: here.

Verizon Wireless says 4G high speed coming first to Northeast Corridor, Calif., Chicago, Miami

Verizon says 4G high speed coming to Northeast

NEW YORK – Verizon Wireless says its new wireless broadband network, which offers higher data speeds initially for laptop users, will be live before the end of the year in the cities on the Boston-to-Washington stretch as well as California, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Seattle and others.
In …. Original source  : Verizon Wireless says 4G high speed coming first to Northeast Corridor, Calif., Chicago, Miami.

Cisco takes corporate videoconferencing technology to the living room with $599 ‘umi’ box

Cisco to sell videoconferencing box for the home

SAN FRANCISCO – Cisco Systems Inc., seeking to become a bigger name in consumer electronics, said Wednesday that it’s going to start selling a $599 box that turns living-room TV sets into big videophones.
It’s the first entry by Cisco, the world’s largest maker of computer-networking gear, into a … Read the original article on Gaea Times at : Cisco takes corporate videoconferencing technology to the living room with $599 ‘umi’ box.

Qualcomm ends sales of portable TVs, puts future of mobile TV service in question.

Qualcomm ends sales of portable sets for mobile TV

NEW YORK – It looks as if U.S. consumers just aren’t that interested in getting TV on their phones and other mobile devices.
Wireless technology developer Qualcomm Inc. is pulling back on its efforts to sell mobile TV service under the FLO TV brand. It is ending sales …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Pentagon says global cyber war is just beginning

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon and its NATO allies are looking at how to improve their defenses against a cyber war, but the basic question of how to define a cyber attack is complicating efforts.he Pentagon says it is rapidly preparing for … Read the original article on Gaea Times at : Pentagon says global cyber war is just beginning.

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