The Google Fiber site has been updated to a Save the Date announcement for at least the past week. Tomorrow the announcement will be known and hopefully we will see some more details on Google's project to deliver high-speed broadband access to Kansas City, Kansas. For those that may not remember, Kansas City was finally chosen after a long deliberation period by Google with … [Read more...]
Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion now available in the App Store
You can now find OS X Mountain Lion available for purchase from the App Store. The update, as stated at its announcement, runs $19.99. It is 4.05 GB in size and can be installed on Macs running 10.6.8 or later. … [Read more...]
USB 3.0 could become a standard power adapter for laptops
Smartphones have come a long way in recent years with almost all of them (except the iPhone) standardizing on micro-USB for data and power charging. In the future, notebooks could also be ditching the proprietary chargers and standardizing to charge with USB. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group provided a news release (.pdf) to announce the USB Power Delivery specification has been … [Read more...]
What’s coming from Google Summer of Code 2012?
Google Summer of Code has been around since 2005. In the program, Google partners with open source software projects and technology-based groups to fund students interested in working on real world software development for three months. Students gain good experience and advising from mentors while the tech groups get specific projects developed while increasing the developer … [Read more...]
Update your applications in the spirit of International Technology Upgrade Week
Skype, Adobe, TomTom, Norton and other companies have gotten on board with International Technology Upgrade Week. The main mantra of the event seems to be that software maintenance isn't that big of a deal when you consider you regularly do home maintenance, car maintenance, yard maintenance, and even beard maintenance. Many of those can cost a pretty penny and take up a good … [Read more...]