World Wide Web - What happens behind the scenes
A short explanation of what makes the World Wide Web work: browsers, packets, servers and links.
 
The Complete History of Internet
An animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

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The personal computer (PC) is expected to advance in both intelligence and form factor over the next 10 years, evolving into a merger of computing devices and peripherals that can help carry out “the higher cognitive tasks of what people do to get their jobs done,” says Intel research director Andrew Chien.
The laptop form factor [...]

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A recent IBM Academic Initiative survey found that 80 percent of 1,600 college students polled agreed that high-technology skills will help them succeed, and a majority expect to have to master new technologies while in the workforce.
More than 50 percent of the students said they plan to improve their technology skills before they graduate, with [...]

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Henry Tirri, Nokia’s head of research, says the economic downturn will lead to more investments in collaboration tools, broadband, video, and mobile technology to eliminate the need for travel.
Over the next few years, people will move some of their computing functions onto mobile devices, including Internet browsing and media consumption. Tirri says that by 2020, [...]

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The economic downturn is forcing many IT professionals to re-assess their job prospects, especially now that many companies are bowing under the pressure to downsize their workforce.
In some cases, companies are cutting thousands of IT professionals at one time, regardless of skill level, tenure or seniority. As a result, over-qualified and under-qualified IT professionals face [...]

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Dave Willmer, executive director of Robert Half Technology, weighs in on the current hiring environment for IT professionals.
Despite fears of economic recession, companies are still moving forward with key IT initiatives and hiring to fill specific needs. In fact, during 1Q 2009, 12% of CIOs polled by Robert Half Technology still plan to hire new [...]

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India has unveiled a prototype laptop, called Sakshat, which will reportedly cost $20 and provide a way to deliver online educational materials to students throughout the country.
The Indian Education Ministry says the laptop has two gigabytes of random-access memory, wireless and fixed Ethernet connections, and consumes only two watts of power. The ministry says it [...]

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University of Michigan engineers have set up a solar-powered satellite dish in Entasopia, Kenya, that provides the small village access to the Internet through several computers.
In many rural areas in Africa, mobile phones have become the main mode of communication. From 2002 to 2007, the number of Kenyans using cell phones increased almost tenfold to [...]

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Researchers say that computer circuits based on quantum packets of heat instead of electricity could use the heat generated by processors to perform computations and store information.
Recent research into the physics of controlling the flow of heat packets has led to designs for heat-based diodes, transistors, and logic gates capable of performing “and,” “or,” and [...]

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Demand for Oracle, SAP, .NET, VMware, and similar skills will remain high over the next few years despite the economic downturn, according to a survey from the National Computing Centre (NCC) in the United Kingdom.
The survey found that 33.7 percent of organizations experience problems recruiting or retaining people with Oracle, SAP, .NET, Web development, business [...]

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