Personal technology is political

Dan Gillmor, who was the San Jose Mercury News's leading tech columnist during the dotcom years, and was one of the first reporters to go Mac, has switched over to using all free/open source software: Ubuntu GNU/Linux on a Thinkpad, Cyanogenmod on an Android phone. In an essay that strikes at the heart of how we make our technology decisions,...

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Railway Budget 2015: Technology to be tapped for better services

Suresh Prabhu has earmarked Rs. 5,000 crore for information technology, and research. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu’s maiden budget offers a lot of hope to the IT and telecom sectors as the Ministry taps technology to enhance the efficiency of the rail sector. Some of the measures he announced are 24X7 helpline number 138 and...

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Rail Budget 2015: Forget trains, Suresh Prabhu's speech was all about technology

Indian Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu presented his maiden Railway Budget in line with PM Narendra Modi’s ‘Digital India’ vision. Breaking from the annual ritual of announcing new trains, Prabhu emphasised on “technologisation” of the Indian Railways. Here are the slew of tech announcements by the minister: # Technology...

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Qualcomm preps technology to reduce burden on mobile networks

The sign hanging outside the Qualcomm booth is seen at the International Consumer Electronics show (CES) in Las Vegas. Photo: Reuters  0  0 Share0   Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm wants wireless carriers to set up new technology that would offer cellphone users better reception in places like subway tunnels and shopping...

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Police turn to new DNA-powered technology in hopes of finding killer

Composite and actual photo of McRae Greytak, the bioinformatics manager at Parabon NanoLabs. ( Parabon NanoLabs/ Parabon NanoLabs) By Melody Schreiber February 23 at 2:57 PM Four years ago, Candra Alston and her 3-year-old daughter, Malaysia Boykin, were murdered inside their South Carolina apartment. Police in Columbia...

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Police turn to new DNA-powered technology in hopes of finding killer

Composite and actual photo of McRae Greytak, the bioinformatics manager at Parabon NanoLabs. ( Parabon NanoLabs/ Parabon NanoLabs) By Melody Schreiber February 23 at 2:57 PM Four years ago, Candra Alston and her 3-year-old daughter, Malaysia Boykin, were murdered inside their South Carolina apartment. Police in Columbia...

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Police turn to new DNA-powered technology in hopes of finding killer

Composite and actual photo of McRae Greytak, the bioinformatics manager at Parabon NanoLabs. ( Parabon NanoLabs/ Parabon NanoLabs) By Melody Schreiber February 23 at 2:57 PM Four years ago, Candra Alston and her 3-year-old daughter, Malaysia Boykin, were murdered inside their South Carolina apartment. Police in Columbia...

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How technology is helping this visually impaired journalist see and report

Only last night, I finished reading ‘Lights Out’, a brutally honest book by my former journalist colleague L Subramani, who has written about gradually going blind at 18 from a degenerative retinal disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa; and this morning, I have this sudden desperate desire to speak to him. I manage to get his number from...

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