TECHNOLOGY IN THE NEWS


JOIN NSTA

 

LOCAL TECH BRIEFS
TECHNOLOGY COMPANY MEMBERS
Submit your company's press release to STNnews@nsta.info.
We will post it and send it out.





Print  
PLACES TO SEE
20TH Century Technology Museum
231 S. Fulton St.
P. O. Box 868 • Wharton, Texas 77488
(979) 282-8810

  Brochure • Facebook • In the News
Print  
News Links to the World of Advancing Technology Across Every Genre

Wolfe's Den: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers
Multicore processing is exploding, as evidenced in designs like Intel's 80-core Tera-scale prototype processor. Ultimately, will we see entire data centers implemented in silicon? InformationWeek interview

Paper Clip-Sized Implant Could Reduce Hospitalizations, Change Cardiac Medicine, Study Says
A tiny, high-tech implant may change the way doctors treat the problem of heart failure and offer huge potential to save lives and money. ABCNews

Seoul: The World's Most Wired City

Nearly 95 percent of homes in the South Korean city have a broadband internet. ~ABC "Good Morning America" - 062510
Smart Cities of the Future Being Wired Today
IBM is setting the pace of looking at cities in the future. By 2050, it is estimated that approximately 70% of the world's population will be living in cities. Today, that figure is over 50%. Current infrastructures are stressed as it is now. Go to IBM's "Smarter Cities" website and review the multi-level presentation to see both the challenges and proposed solutions. For more information, check the sources in the "Smart Tech" sidebar on this page.

'Tapping Your Doc' App Debuts in Africa

A smartphone app designed and launched in South Africa is quite literally a pocket doctor for those who can afford the mobile phones required.  ~ BBC Technology News

Ingenius Hack Attack Reveals Your Address
A booby-trapped website could direct attackers to a person's home, a security expert has demonstrated. "This is geo-location gone terrible. Privacy is dead, people. I'm sorry." Another expert, seeing the demonstration, notes: "The thought that someone, somewhere on the net can find where you are is pretty creepy." ~ BBC News

 
TECH NEWS SOURCES
TECH TIDBITS











 

SMART TECH
"Smart" Technology is taking digital computerization to all-new vistas that few even imagined not many years ago. The word "ubiquitous" comes to mind. Here are sources that will tell you all you need to know.
SMART Cities
IBM's "Smarter Planet"
City Forward
YouTubeVIDEO: Smarter Cities
Smart-Cities.net
SmartCity.com
Smart City Wikipedia
 


 

 
THANK YOU NSTA SPONSORS!
Corporate Partners

         

 

Associate Partners
NSTA is an organization of organizations, an association of associations in the broad industry of Advancing Technology.
Our "Associate Partners" are non-profit, tax-exempt organizations that either represent the industry of advancing technology in some capacity, or have partnered with NSTA in full support of our Vision & Mission and wish to show public support of the same. Partnership with NSTA does not necessarily reflect our support of their philosophies in all matters, but we do recognize their role in the community in which they serve and their commitment to education and information relative to technology's positive impact on our lives and our culture worldwide.