In 1985 Commodore revolutionized the home computer market by introducing the high end Commodore Amiga with a graphic power that was unheard of by that time in this market segment. Based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor series the Amiga was most successful as a home computer, with a wide range of games and creative software, although early Commodore advertisements attempted to cast the computer as an all-purpose business machine.
On June 29, 1855, American physician, scientist, inventor, and humanitarian John Gorrie passed away. He is considered the father of refrigeration and air conditioning. Today, refrigeration as well as air condition has become a commodity. But, the importance of refrigeration to modern civilization as a means for conservation of food cannot be overestimated.
InfoQ.com (Information Queue) is an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development, targeted primarily at the technical architect, technical team lead (senior developer), and project manager. InfoQ serves
Political group. One goal is to raise awareness in the media of digital rights abuses. Just think - an e-mail must at least be protected as a postcard. It couldn't be that the administration now started to copy all information on postcards to be able to a
The Library Technology Guides website aims to provide comprehensive and objective information related to the field of library automation. This site has no affiliation with any library automation company. Whether you are in the process of selecting a library automation system, or just want to keep up with developments in the field, Library Technology Guides is the place to start.
Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks.
"I own the collection of comments on my blog, and you own the comments you've placed on my blog and all others. I should be able to back up a complete set of comments on my blog, and also back up a copy of all comments I've placed on all blogs."
"The smart thing to be doing online these days is tumblelogging, which is to weblogs what text messages are to email - short, to the point, and direct."
kleines update bei der hackr.search (einer google cse basierten suchmaschine, die in den tollsten deutschsprachigen webtechblogs sucht): ich habe alle vorwiegend englischsprachigen blogs aus deutschland und österreich in die momb.search gesteckt (diese ist überhaupt auch ans herz gelegt, die ist nicht schlecht.) neu dabei sind viele blogs und einige tech-bezogene nachrichtenportale (futurezone, heise, zeit digital, …) und es gibt jetzt labels (fathead, longtail, analysis, hackr), mit denen man den skopus einschränken kann. in folgenden quellen wird derzeit in der hackr.search gesucht
On May 27th 1937 The Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco spanning over the opening of the San Francisco Bay and connecting the City with Marin County was opened for public traffic. When the planning for the bridge started back in 1916 many experts said that a bridge couldn’t be built across the 6,700 ft (2,042 m) strait.
Indian breaking news, top stories and headlines from sports, finance, politics, technology, entertainment, business at a glance only at indiagoes a new generation news service that aggregates and delivers Indian news flawlessly
Slashdot (often abbreviated to /.) is a popular technology-related website/Forum updated many times daily, with articles that are often short summaries of stories on other websites, links to those stories, and provisions for readers to comment on each sto
The centre maintains a list of academics interested in the application and development of e-learning in the Biosciences. Our initial purpose for this reference group was to enable community comment on specific matters or issues.
How are blogfolios different from e-Portfolios? They aren't exactly, they're more of a subset of e-Portfolios, or another way of looking at the traditional e-Portfolio.