Technology Keeps Mobile Workers on Move

Home health nurse Connie Gardner uses a cellular phone, portable fax machine and pager to stay in touch with hospitals, doctors and her bosses as she zips around Jefferson and Franklin counties in her little red pickup. Financial planner Gary Goldberg places his clients' orders for mutual...

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Technology: Mobile Network

VILLA TALEA DE CASTRO, Mexico (AFP) - Left out by telecom firms like the one owned by billionaire Carlos Slim, a remote Mexican mountain village now runs its own mobile phone network to communicate with the outside world. Tucked away in a lush forest in the southern state of Oaxaca, the...

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Sharp Technology Join Mobile Phone Industry with Sony Ericsson

Sharp Corporation made waves anew in digital technology, this time teaming up with Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc. (SEMCJ) to co-develop the base software and share selected hardware for 3G FOMA (Freedom of Multimedia Access) mobile phones for NTT DoCoMo, Inc. of Japan. Using...

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Coaches Help Teachers, Technology Fully Compute

With his cell phone stacked on top of an iPod Touch, a half- dozen memory cards hanging around his neck and two laptops slung over his shoulder, technology coach Mike Benko is ready to avert any technology disaster at North Hills Senior High School. "If Mike as a coach were not here, there...

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Embrace New Technology to Increase Your Value in the Workplace

IT'S no secret that keeping up with advances in technology is critical to surviving and thriving in the business world. There are numerous examples of top companies that suffered by resisting change (Kodak, Blockbuster and Borders are recent examples). The lessons learned from these failures...

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Narrowing Technology's Gender Gap

Tina Bitton and Natalie Wood are thoroughly modern women: well- educated, career minded, and entrepreneurial. They may also turn out to be pioneers. Each is likely to take part in a first-of-its-kind project to narrow a yawning gender gap that has made America's newest industry, technology,...

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Technology LawAlliance Working with Webroot

TECHNOLOGY Law Alliance has been appointed to Webroot's global legal panel, for advising on technology law matters. Webroot is an award winning technology organisation, delivering next-generation endpoint security and threat intelligence services, to protect businesses and individuals around...

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Technology Revival Spurs Demand for Corporate Financiers

There is light at the end of the tunnel for corporate financiers who specialise in technology. Their sector is moving back into fashion and companies are in hiring mode.The head of technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) at one European bank said the outlook for technology bankers has...

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Technology for Technology's Sake? Lessons, Teaching Can Get Lost in Schools' Computer Race

Mark Mueller still shakes his head over the time his school bought $2,000 computers to help students do math drills. At the time, the Libertyville teacher says, Highland Middle School had perfectly good machines that did the same thing, but for a whole lot less money. "To use a $2,000...

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Technology's Presence Grows at Museums

Rising computer sales and soaring Internet usage are just a hint of the public's growing interest in technology. Indeed, the march of technology has become such a powerful force in society that entire museums are now being founded to help explain it. One is the Tech Museum of Innovation...

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Technology Blueprint School Board Expected to Approve 5-Year Road Map

At tonight's School Board meeting, the board is expected to approve a proposed five-year strategic plan developed to serve as a road map for where the school system should be in terms of technology. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. in the auditorium at the School Board Administration Building...

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