Blogs: Tech Tease

To FCC is working on enabling 911 emergency services to receive texts, photos, and videos. At the 2011 APCO Conference in Philadelphia August 10 , FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his five step action plan to chart the transition to Next Generation 9-1-1 services (NG911). According to the FCC’s August 10th press release: NG911...
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The FBI has released the Child ID app, a free iTunes download, which provides parents with iPhones a place to store “photos and vital information” about their children. For now the Child ID app is only available on an iPhone, but the FBI plans to develop the cell phone app for other types devices....
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My dad had just celebrated his 30th birthday. At the time he was working all nighters for the first cable company in San Antonio, Rogers CATV. Tonight, he came home somewhat early with a light brown box in hand that had little black and white numbers. The appliance was then connected to our television...
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Sweatshop is a web browser video game where players struggle to meet the demands fashion with workers who are under-paid, and under-nourished. “Sweatshop is a light-hearted game, but it’s based upon very present realities that many workers around the world contend with each day.”-playsweatshop.com Littleloud Studios and London’s Channel 4 worked with experts to...
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The Email Charter was created in response to the massive time suck of email correspondence. The call to action was originally initiated by TED Curator Chris Anderson and TEDScribe Jane Wulf with a blog post read by over 45,000 people. By visiting http://emailcharter.org you can read the charter, sign it, and share it with...
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Today Walmart.com announced their arrival into the world of HD streaming. They’re prepared to go head-to-head with rival content streaming giant Netflix. Now Walmart.com customers have the option to select a digital VUDU title streamed to more than 300 VUDU-enabled devices, including select HDTVs, Blu-ray Disc players and the PlayStation®3. Again, Walmart continues playing...
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30 Days of Creativity is a social initiative encouraging people to create stuff (anything) every day for 30 days in June.
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“When a celebrity dies the whole Internet turns into a battleground of one-up-man-ship” via @jsmooth995
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President Obama made history as the first president to use a social media network as a public forum. Thousands tweeted to the #AskObama hashtag on everything from the economy to the Texas execution of Humberto Leal Garcia.
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Cisneros’s shilling for an AT&T/T-Mobile merger as a boon for Latinos strains his remaining credibility.
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Where can you find an interactive google map of First Friday? Any happy hour specials you should know about off South Alamo? Shane Broussard from Ped-ads bring you the MySouthTown app. A free application downloadable to both iPhone and Android handsets. Some of the application features include self-guided walking tours, happy hour specials, and...
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An Apple Retail Workers Union group page has popped up on Facebook. The page currently has a little over 300 likes, and is updated frequently. According to previous blog posts around the net the initiative is spearheaded out the San Francisco Bay area. San Antonio resident and media justice activist DeAnne Cuellar blogs throughout...
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