Winter snow can wreak havoc with road travel, a reality many municipal governments are addressing with technological solutions. Is This Thing On?, or ITTO, is our Wednesday column showing how everyday people use technology in unexpected ways. People now have new tools to help out as the flakes fly this winter, ranging from websites to apps that [...]
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Twitter is bringing viewers back to television, signaling an increasingly beneficial relationship between old and new media. The growing popularity of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter often leads to predictions that viewers will walk away from their television sets to more customizable, Web-based media such as Hulu, YouTube, and Netflix. However, recent television events like [...]
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LG signed a patent agreement with Microsoft, joining tech companies that agreed to pay licensing fees for Android-powered devices. The agreement’s terms haven’t been disclosed, but other companies, such as HTC and Samsung, are paying per-device costs to the Redmond, Wash.-based company, which, while costly, are still less expensive than product bans or drawn-out legislation. “We are [...]
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18. January 2012
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