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Book Report: “Googled”

Posted by: | December 7, 2011 | No Comment |

Ever since its inception in the late 1990s, Google has been the issue of much debate in politics, economics and overall public welfare. From its humble beginnings as a PhD dissertation project to its current state as one of the United States’ most successful corporations, the little company that could is standing at the apex […]

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Google it!

Posted by: | October 13, 2011 | No Comment |

  I’ve always been of the philosophy that if you don’t know the answer — don’t admit that you don’t know it! Just Google it! It sounds like cheating and may even seem impractical at times, but for the most part we are always within arms reach of a device that has Googling capabilities. Impress […]

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Bigger. Faster. Stronger.

Posted by: | September 27, 2011 | No Comment |

Happy birthday, Google! Just a few short years and you’ll be borrowing the car and taking your gal YouTube out for a malt and a drive-in movie (kids still do that, right?) So you’re a teenager now. What’s on your wish list for the Big 1-3? A new smart phone? A trip to… Kansas? Kansas City, […]

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Old Man Google

Posted by: | September 5, 2011 | No Comment |

Google. The name stands alone as one of the most revolutionary innovations in recorded history, fifteen years after its inception in 1996 as the “web crawler” BackRub, “designed to traverse the web.” Where its predecessors Yahoo and AOL, with their once-widely popular search engines, have failed to corner the search market, Google founders Larry Page […]

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Have we ever trusted journalist?

Posted by: | November 18, 2010 | No Comment |

Watchdogs. Honest. Gatekeepers. Objective. We have a lot of different words to describe journalist, but some how “trustworthy” never seems to be one of them. It seems the integrity of journalist has been questioned by the public for longer then many of us might realize — since 1648 (at least). In twenty first century journalism […]

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The wall is moving

Posted by: | November 4, 2010 | No Comment |

Look out iPad, you are not the only one running the digital media world any more. HP introduced a “slate for businesses”  in late October. The new HP Slate 500 Tablet PC is running on Windows 7 and is giving the Apple iPad a run for its money in that snug category between cell phone […]

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