Information Technology
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Review: Microsoft email better, not revolutionaryFeb 23, 2013 5:15 am - NEW YORK — Longtime users of Hotmail, MSN and other Microsoft email services will start noticing a big change: When they sign in to check messages, they’ll be sent to a ...
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New fingerprint technology tests for pulse tooFeb 23, 2013 5:00 am - RAPID CITY, S.D. — Futurists have long proclaimed the coming of a cashless society, where dollar bills and plastic cards are replaced by fingerprint and retina scanners ...
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Microsoft’s Azure storage service suffers outageFeb 22, 2013 4:36 pm - REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is dealing with a worldwide outage in an online service that stores data for a wide range of business customers. The software maker says its A...
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Zoo institute seeks to better engage youthFeb 22, 2013 3:33 pm - A new educational institute at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo is launching several initiatives to better engage young people in science learning. The Hurvis Center for Learn...
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Boeing proposes 787 battery fixFeb 22, 2013 2:22 pm - WASHINGTON — Boeing attempted a major step Friday toward getting its 787 Dreamliners flying again, proposing a fix for the plane’s troubled batteries that could allow th...
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District 207 replacing textbooks with ChromebooksFeb 22, 2013 10:05 am - All incoming Maine Township High School District 207 freshman and sophomore students must purchase Google Chromebooks from the district as part of a new program that wil...
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Google adds new touch to line of Chrome laptopsFeb 22, 2013 5:51 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Google is adding a new and more expensive touch to its line of Chrome laptops in an attempt to outshine personal computers running on software made by ri...
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United Airlines drops 787 through June 5Feb 21, 2013 3:20 pm - United Airlines cut the grounded Boeing 787 from its flying plans at least until June and postponed its new Denver-to-Tokyo flights on Thursday, as airlines continued to...
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'Father' of the cellphone honored 40 years laterFeb 21, 2013 10:00 am - As Marty Cooper looked over the crowd of 350 at the gala where he accepted a prestigious award from the National Academy of Engineering, the 84-year-old retired Motorola...
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New technology helps Schaumburg Convention CenterFeb 21, 2013 9:00 am - When the Schaumburg Convention Center opened in 2006, a major problem that popped up almost immediately was wireless connectivity. There wasn't any. Participants at meet...