ProFile Discovery

10/02/2012

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/tech/innovation/compact-disc-turns-30/index.html

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel's "52nd Street," was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording pop music and the music industry has moved on to the next hot medium.

10/01/2012

http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10013988.html

The magazine's editors award its highest honors to 109 products and a group of innovators whose work is changing the world.

09/19/2012

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57515558-83/bromium-secures-computers-by-holding-apps-in-isolation/

New security software separates apps and their processes from the operating system to keep attacks at bay. Read this blog post by Elinor Mills on Security & Privacy.

08/27/2012

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
~ Henry Ford

08/03/2012

http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/01/technology/microsoft-robot-boss/index.htm

Microsoft is building your robot boss

08/03/2012

http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/02/technology/angry-birds-wall/index.htm

Startup Ubi has developed a software-and-Kinect combo that makes almost any surface interactive.

07/13/2012

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/yahoo-breach-extends-beyond-yahoo-to-gmail-hotmail-aol-users/?ref=technology

Yahoo confirmed on Thursday that hackers had breached its systems and posted online a file of 400,000 usernames and passwords, but it said the file was old and that only 5 percent were still valid. The breach comes one month after LinkedIn, the online social network for professionals, had millions o...

05/11/2012

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44162183/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/t/theres-ape-orangutans-love-their-ipads/ #.T60h91JNu9s

Orangutans, it turns out, love the iPad and its games just as much as some humans do.

05/10/2012

May 10
1752 Benjamin Franklin first tested his lightning rod.

05/09/2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/us/clicking-like-on-facebook-is-not-protected-speech-judge-rules.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Exactly what a “like” means played a part in a case in Virginia involving six people who say Sheriff B. J. Roberts of Hampton fired them for supporting an opponent in his 2009 re-election bid.