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April 10, 2017 Seizure of computers from Enmore NDC
On Thursday, the eGovernment Project Execution Unit, accompanied by the State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU), descended on the Enmore/Hope Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) and seized 15 computers. Its reason for doing this, according to a statement from the Ministry of Public Telecommunications, was that it had become aware of a plot by the NDC to […]
COMPUTERS 
April 3, 2017 Google Training Ad Placement Computers to Be Offended
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Over the years, Google trained computer systems to keep copyrighted content and pornography off its YouTube service. But after seeing ads from Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart appear next to racist, anti-Semitic or terrorist videos, its engineers realized their computer models had a blind spot: They did not understand context. […]
COMPUTERS March 20, 2017 Old computers refurbished for Mid-Ohio Valley schools
Photo by Kate York Fox Computers owner Jonathan Jeffers, front, and Paul Prachun look over a computer they refurbished at the shop. MARIETTA — A local business owner is hoping to turn one man’s trash into a local school district’s treasure, with plans to refurbish computers and put them directly into the hands of students. […]
COMPUTERS 
March 15, 2017 Computers could get 100,000 times faster thanks to laser light pulses
Computers could in future run up to 100,000 times faster than today’s electronics after a team of researchers made a breakthrough in so-called ‘lightwave electronics’. The discovery by an international team that electrons in ultrafast laser pulses can be steered through a semiconductor, and at incredibly fast speeds, could even pave the way for quantum […]
COMPUTERS January 31, 2017 IRS Ups Deduction vs. Depreciation to $2,500 for Computers, Phones
The Internal Revenue Service has increased the amount small businesses can expense versus depreciate on their taxes each year. It’s a change that should simplify record keeping and increase the amount of a capital investment you can write off in a year. Specifically, the federal agency has boosted the so-called “IRS safe harbor” limit businesses […]
NEWS January 4, 2017 Feds Urge You Uninstall QuickTime from Windows Computers Immediately
As much as we all love the digital world we currently live in, the issue of security is an annoyance we could all do without. One of the latest security risks was announced by the Department of Homeland Security’s United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) with an alert urging customers to uninstall QuickTime from […]
COMPUTERS January 1, 2017 Donald Trump: ‘Computers Have Complicated Lives Very Greatly’
Photo: Twitter Many people would say that computers have been a boon to both science and society, facilitating calculations and communications unfathomable in the pre-digital age. President-elect Donald Trump, however, is not one of those people. Has Donald Trump Ever Used a Computer? The personal computer revolutionized the American home in the 1980s and 90s. […]
COMPUTERS December 26, 2016 HP Reinventing Traditional Computers With Mini Desktop PC
What you know about the traditional desktop computer, at least on the surface — forget it. HP’s latest entries on the market aim to change what a desktop computer looks like. The company recently introduced the HP Pavilion Mini Desktop and the HP Stream Mini Desktop. Both take the idea of a desktop tower and shrink it down […]
COMPUTERS December 19, 2016 Trend Toward Notebook Computers
Toshiba is another computer manufacturer seeing the lure of the SMB market. It is introducing a series of notebook computers aimed specifically at smaller businesses. According to Toshiba, the trend among smaller businesses is following the trend among consumers, which is toward smaller, notebook PCs. Toshiba plans to capitalize on this trend by offering a […]
December 19, 2016 Wade Foster of Zapier: When Computers Do More, Humans Create New Businesses
Small Business Trends: Can you tell us a little bit about your personal background? Wade Foster: I had an engineering degree. I have a marketing degree as well. I started helping a lot of small business do a better job at online marketing and also just running their businesses more efficiently. I spent a lot of time […]
ELECTRONICS December 19, 2016 HP Reinventing Traditional Computers With Mini Desktop PC
What you know about the traditional desktop computer, at least on the surface — forget it. HP’s latest entries on the market aim to change what a desktop computer looks like. The company recently introduced the HP Pavilion Mini Desktop and the HP Stream Mini Desktop. Both take the idea of a desktop tower and shrink it down […]
COMPUTERS December 19, 2016 Antamedia Software Eliminates Security Risk on Public Computers
You can now safely and securely turn any computer into a self-service kiosk thanks to Antamedia Software — the providers of software for Internet cafe software and WiFi hotspot billing. Antamedia Ultimate Kiosk Software solution essentially locks down parts of a regular computer, allowing the user to leave it open for public use without security […]
