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Ogden council resolves to give $100,000 to mobile app lab

Last updated Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 6:33am

OGDEN — The city’s mobile apps program is getting another financial boost.

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FILE - This undated publicity image provided by Sony shows an ultra-HD 4K TV set. At the biggest trade show in the Americas, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas, TV makers will be doing their best to convince you that HDTVs are old hat, and should make room for "Ultra HDTV." (AP Photo/Sony, File)

Vegas gadget show devices getting 'smaller' and 'bigger'

Peter Svensson The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 4, 2013 - 11:01am

LAS VEGAS -- Think your high-definition TV is hot stuff -- as sharp as it gets? At the biggest trade show in the Americas, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas, TV makers will be doing their best to convince you that HDTVs are old hat, and should make room for "Ultra HDTV."

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Ogden's app lab plugs into $1M in federal funds

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 10:58pm

OGDEN — Ogden’s burgeoning mobile app industry just got a financial boost from the federal government.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration announced Thursday it will give the city $1 million to help fund the creation of a lab to train workers as well as provide space for business startups in the field of software applications for mobile devices.

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Google introduces 'Hangout' apps for video chats

Mike Swift San Jose Mercury News

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 4:36pm

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Christine Egy Rose realized she was on to something powerful. Instead of the awkward monosyllabic two-minute exchange her two-year-old son Jackson typically had over a video chat link with relatives, he spent a full 50 minutes happily working on a shared drawing with his grandmother in Florida, using the video chat's embedded drawing feature that Egy Rose was developing.

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Philip Dailey is the general manager of the Andaz West Hollywood, in West Hollywood, California, which has remodeled its lobby to encourage tech-savvy guests to hang out. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

iHotel? Lobbies adjusted for high-tech check-in

Hugo Martin Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 4:44pm

LOS ANGELES -- Welcome to the iHotel, where you can check in -- but there's no check-in counter.

At the Andaz West Hollywood, a host stands near the entrance to register guests on an iPad tablet.

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Texting, tweeting lingo creeping into schoolwork

Elaine Marsilio Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, Texas)

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 3:54pm

Clarissa De La Paz said she has caught herself writing at school like she texts with her friends.

"I'm just, like, 'Oh my gosh! I just said LOL,"' the high school junior in Corpus Christi, Texas, said.

OMG moment or no prob?

Clarissa, 16, tends to erase those kinds of mistakes before she turns in an assignment, but some teens may not be so lucky.

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Idaho moves to ban texting while driving

William L. Spence Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 8:46am

BOISE, Idaho -- After discussing the problem for years, House lawmakers sent "a strong message" Tuesday and banned texting while driving on a 53-17 vote.

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A new Apple iPad on display during an Apple event in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 7, 2012. The new iPad model features a sharper screen and a faster processor. Apple says the new display will be even sharper than the high-definition television set in the living room. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

New iPad has sharper screen

Mike Liedtke, Peter Svensson The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 3:25pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple's new iPad model, with a sharper screen and a faster processor, will go on sale in the U.S. and six other countries next Friday, the company confirmed Wednesday.

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Whether you're looking to upgrade or join the almost 50 percent of mobile subscribers with a smartphone, you're in for a daunting task.

Ignore smartphone jargon when upgrading

Tyler Dukes News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Last updated Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 12:47pm

Whether you're looking to upgrade or join the almost 50 percent of mobile subscribers with a smartphone, you're in for a daunting task.

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University of Utah Opportunity Quest winner EMRID Technologies pose with their $5,000 check. The team is (from left to right) David Kent, Austin Aerts and Emily Theisen. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Technology Venture Development

UofU students design virtual ID badge to combat online hackers

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 11:56am

SALT LAKE CITY -- A student entrepreneurial team at the University of Utah believes it has come up with a winning business plan for a virtual ID badge that operates off of any mobile device.

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Rachel Denning, Dan Lynch and Brian Speckart browse the recently released 1940s census data at the Find My Past booth during the RootsTech conference at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City this week. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Pay-as-you-go U.K. company entering U.S. genealogy market

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 8:15am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Evidence of an explosion of interest and technology is the best way to describe the RootsTech genealogy conference, which runs through today at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City.

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Fourth-graders Austin Curry (left) and Brook-Lynne Tarbox record their voices reading text about animals. They later listened to the recording to better understand which words they missed or mispronounced. (SHNS photo by Angela Dice / Special to the Kitsap Sun) (RS)

Classrooms increasingly turn to mobile devices

Angela Dice The Kitsap Sun

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 3:21pm

BREMERTON, Wash. -- A classroom full of fourth-graders scrambled to their seats as teacher Scott Wisenburg announced it was time for a reading lesson.

Some reached straight for iPods and others hurriedly wrote down predictions about the text they were soon to read.

Last year, he and two other teachers in fourth and first grades began using iPods, and this year the program -- called iLearn -- has expanded to 15 classrooms. "They're a great discipline tool," Wisenburg said of the devices, which he is using in his classroom at View Ridge Elementary School in Bremerton. But Wisenburg and other educators say that mobile devices like iPods and touch-screen tablets are much more than that.

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