TECHNOLOGY
Webster named chair of department of coatings and polymeric materials at NDSU
Dean Webster has been named chair of the department of coatings and polymeric materials at North Dakota State University in Fargo, N.D. For more, visit http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/1...
Posted on 2/9/12 at 2:39 PM
Forum Communications Co. releases photo gallery app for iPad
FARGO, N.D - Forum Communications Co. announced today that it has released a new iPad app designed to aggregate the work of its dozens of award-winning photojournalists from newspapers throughout th...
Posted on 2/3/12 at 4:36 AM
Adding a Featured Image to your post
Have you had a chance to check out our updated Areavoices homepage? It's pretty cool. It displays our featured blogs in a more visually pleasing way. Instead of a row of text, you see the blogs displa...
Posted on 2/2/12 at 10:12 AM
Crashed computers and Grandma Lil - perhaps it is half true.
My NDSU laptopfroze upunceremoniously yesterday. When I had to shut it off and restart it, I was a bit put-out andirritated. Then I learned -after about a dozen attempts to restart it that ended in wh...
Posted on 1/30/12 at 9:43 AM
QR Code Best Practices
If you havent seen a QR code by now, you are one of the few. They have exploded onto the marketing scene in the past couple of years. And for the past couple of years, I have encountered and collected...
Posted on 1/30/12 at 9:01 AM
Funny how the Grammy comedy category has changed
By Deborah Vankin , February 07, 2012
Looking for work? There may be an app for that
Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps — the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network.By Michael Liedtke , February 07, 2012
Available apps
There are hundreds, even thousands, of smartphone apps for agriculture. Some are more useful than others. Here are some of the apps suggested by John Nowatzki, with the North Dakota State University Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department.By Herald Staff Report , February 05, 2012
Basic smartphone terms
Technology has inspired a growing crop of new words and phrases The world of smartphones is filled with obscure acronyms and technical jargon. Below are just a few of the terms you may encounter.By Herald Staff Report , February 05, 2012
Social network Pinterest draws interest online
By Aimee Tjader , February 03, 2012
Facebook users get more than they give, Pew study finds
By Barbara Ortutay , February 03, 2012
One class taught in two or three classrooms
The high school in Hillsboro, N.D., doesn’t offer an aviation class and the public school in Hatton, N.D., doesn’t offer an auto repair class. But by the start of the next school year, students there and all over the Grand Forks region will have access to such classes and more.
By Pamela Knudson , February 02, 2012
Re-crafting a violin masterpiece 
Stradivarius violins are so prized that their name is synonymous with perfection. Three Minnesota men say they have come close to re-creating that ideal using a mix of modern technology and old-school artistry.
By Kristin Tillotson , February 01, 2012
Facebook plans to go public, files for IPO to raise $5 billion 
By Barbara Ortutay and Michael Liedtke , February 01, 2012
U.S. weapons for future include key relics of past 
The lineup of weapons the Pentagon has picked to fit President Barack Obama’s new forward-looking defense strategy, called “Priorities for 21st Century Defense,” features relics of the past.
By Robert Burns , January 28, 2012
Activists, bloggers around the world fear Twitter censorship 
By Michael Liedtke , January 27, 2012
Report: Health care system's conversion to electronic records still buggy
Hospitals and doctors' offices increasingly are going digital, the Bipartisan Policy Center says in a report released today. But there's been little progress getting the computer systems to talk to one another, exchanging data the way financial companies do.By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar , January 27, 2012
Privacy concerns triggered by U.S. cybersecurity efforts into parts of private industry 
In a report for release today, The Constitution Project warns that as the Obama administration partners more with the energy, financial, communications and health care industries to monitor and protect networks, sensitive personal information of people who work for or communicate with those companies could be improperly or inadvertently disclosed.
By Lolita C. Baldor , January 27, 2012
'Insatiable hunger for other people's money': Canadian man gets nearly 18 years in high-tech fraud case 
By Dave Kolpack , January 23, 2012
Supreme Court rules warrant needed for GPS tracking of criminal suspects 
The decision was a defeat for the government and police agencies, and it raises the possibility of serious complications for law enforcement nationwide, which increasingly relies on high tech surveillance of suspects, including the use of various types of GPS technology.
By Jesse J. Holland and Pete Yost , January 23, 2012
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