SWON Libraries: Tech News You Can Use

Tech News You Can Use

Each month SWON Libraries' Technology Coordinator, Glen Horton, delivers a 1-hour webinar that highlights recent technology news and resources. This page provides links to the stories discussed in each episode of Tech News You Can Use.

Visit SWON Libraries' technology events to register for upcoming episodes. Subscribe to this page's RSS feed to keep up with future posts.

Tech News - November 2009

8 things you need to know about Windows 8

Social Networking: Google Announces Social Search; The TwitterPeek is... a Peek for Twitter?

Internet regulator Icann approves web addresses in multiple languages

Cloud Computing: Los Angeles adopts Google e-mail system for 30,000 city employees; Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard!

5 new technologies that will change everything

Ebooks: Barnes and Noble's Nook Steps into the Ring with Kindle; Google sparks e-books fight with Kindle; Why E-Books are Hot and Getting Hotter

Space hotel says it's on schedule to open in 2012

Internet Librarian 2009: Blog Search for IL2009; Librarian in Black Coverage of IL2009

What does Google Suggest suggest about the state of humanity?

| Submitted by Web Manager on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 12:04pm

Tech News - October 2009

Security updates: Big Patch Tuesday Coming for Microsoft; Adobe to Patch Acrobat and Reader Next Tuesday; Microsoft: No TCP/IP patches for you, XP

Microsoft Security Essentials Launches Tuesday

Next versions of Windows and Office: 8 Things To Think About For Windows 7; New Ways to Try and Buy Microsoft Office 2010; Test-drive: Office Web apps technical preview

Google Micropayments Coming: Can It Save Newspapers?

Ebooks: A Big Boom in the Universe of Electronic Books; Barnes and Noble's E-Reader Like a Kindle/iPhone Chimera; Microsoft's Courier Tablet Details Emerge; Most People Still Have Never Seen A Kindle; Overdrive Over-the-Air Downloading

First USB 3.0 product gets certified, floodgates get closer to breaking

Bing grabs 10 percent of search market

Google Docs Viewer

| Submitted by Glen Horton on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 11:27am

Tech News - September 2009

Google to Launch a New Version of Google Search

Kids' search terms: Sex, games, rock 'n' roll

Ebooks: Sony announces Reader Daily Edition, free library ebook checkouts; Google Now Offers Over a Million Free Ebooks in EPUB Format; More Competition for Amazon's Kindle: Barnes & Noble Partners with Irex; New Asus Color E-Reader Folds Like a Book; Amazon, Open Your eBooks or Watch Out

The future of libraries, with or without books

Goodbye, DRM; hello "stealable" Digital Personal Property

Gartner Hype Cycle 2009: Web 2.0 Trending Up, Twitter Down

Augmented Reality: Mobile phones get cyborg vision; Does your reality need augmenting? Try these apps

US Bank To Allow Check Deposits via iPhone

More Alleged Screenshots Of Google Chrome OS

What is the Future of Teaching?

| Submitted by Web Manager on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 10:11am

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