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Twitter to Start Charging for Business Accounts

Twitter to Start Charging for Business Accounts

Twitter has confirmed that they will start charging businesses to use their services in an effort to collect revenue for their currently-free social networking site.
Paid accounts will also offer access to statistics and analytics that are not currently available through the regular Twitter service.
For more information on this topic – click to read “Twitter to [...]

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Geeks Through the Years

Geeks Through the Years

Covering geek-dom through the years – from when it wasn’t cool to be a geek all the way to the present where Facebook and Twitter rule. From the Woz to Zuckerberg, read through the full article/slide show for the evolution of how being a geek finally became cool.
A Brief History of Geeks – PC World

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Obama Promising Increase in Sci-Tech Spending

Obama Promising Increase in Sci-Tech Spending

Everyone seems to be abuzz about President Obama’s first 100 days in office. In honor of that, here is some information about his pledge to spend some serious cash on Science and Technology R&D.

3% of the US GDP will be used for the pursuit of technological and scientific research,

To put that into perspective, 3% of [...]

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Did You Know?

Did You Know?

Queen Elizabeth of England sent her first email in 1976?

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Where Does Old Technology Go?

Where Does Old Technology Go?

Wired has an interesting article on their website this morning, titled “Where Gadgets Go To Die” – about what happens to old technology after it has served its purpose among the living. It turns out that the U.S. was shipping tons of old equipment to Asian countries where the environmental impact of disposing of such [...]

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An Old Fashioned iPod? Meet the Eye-Pod

An Old Fashioned iPod? Meet the Eye-Pod

We usually try to stick to new types of technologies on our blog; reviews, new releases, updates – that sort of thing.
But today, we bring you a different kind of technology. Brilliantly quoted as “from a time that never existed.” You will never listen to your music the same way again with this one-of-a-kind creation…
Presenting [...]

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Did You Know – Friday the 13th Edition

Did You Know – Friday the 13th Edition

Did you know-

Many hospitals do not have a room 13 and some tall buildings do not have a 13th floor?
2009 will have 3 Friday the 13th’s – which usually only happens once every 11 years?
Some people think 13 is only considered unlucky because it comes after 12? 12 months, 12 days of Christmas, 12 apostles, [...]

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Making Twitter Work For You

Making Twitter Work For You

Twitter has become one of the fastest growing trends in technology – we’ve mentioned it before in this blog but maybe you’re still unsure as to what it is, how to use it and how to make it work for you.
I’m thrilled to send you to an article written by one of our technicians, Jason, [...]

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Did You Know?

Did You Know?

Happy Fat Tuesday! Here’s a Mardi Gras version of did you know -

The first Mardi Gras parade was held on Febraury 24, 1857

Mardi Gras has only been canceled twice; during WWI and WWII but not during Prohibition

King Cakes are still a tradition of Mardi Gras – if you find the baby in your cake and [...]

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25 Random Facts

25 Random Facts

In honor of Facebook’s new phenomenon, “25 Things” – here is a list that is circulating the Internet titled, “25 Random Geek Tech Facts“.
Did you know some of these facts?

Floppy disks in the late 1970’s were about 8 inches in diameter.

The term “IP” stands for both Internet Protocol and Intellectual Property.

The cost of ink-jet printer [...]

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