Technology
Apple Releases Info on
Leopard, Safari Public Beta
By Dean Woodley (June 13, 2007)
In a somewhat anticlimactic move, Apple released more details on their new operating system, Mac OS X ‘Leopard,’ as well as a public beta (test version) of the web browser that will be included with it, called Safari 3.0.

Technology
Google Spying on Internet Gamers?
By Nick Farstad and Dean Woodley (May 30, 2007)
Google is currently planning to create a new method to decide which advertisements to display to an individual.

Technology
Microsoft Aims for Yahoo! Takeover
By: Dean Woodley and Nick Farstad (May 9, 2007)
Four days ago Microsoft reportedly re-entered discussions with Yahoo! over a proposed takeover according to the New York Post

Students Address Text Messaging
(Edited by Dean Woodley and Nick Farstad (May 3, 2007)
(Students in Ms. Knoke’s technology class were asked to respond to a report by an education commission in Ireland that blamed the popularity of text messaging on mobile phones for supposedly causing a significant increase in errors in students’ abilities to write in grammatically correct forms. When text messaging, people use a wide variety of new abbreviations that bear little resemblance to standard forms of expression. Below are the students’ responses to this report.)

Technology
Amazon Plans To
Compete with iTunes
By Dean Woodley and Nick Farstad (April 25, 2007)
Amazon plans to foray into the digital music sale world in competition with Apple sometime within the next few months

Technology
YouTube Faced with Dilemma
As Major Media Merger Forms
By Dean Woodley and Nick Farstad (March 28, 2007)
The popular video sharing network YouTube is experiencing the possibility of a major blow to its financial stability as well as to its viewer base, and will be forced to prove its ability to adapt its business model in a fast-moving market.

Technology
Apple Releases ‘Apple TV’
By Dean Woodley and Nick Farstad (March 26, 2007)
On March 20, after a long, two-month wait from the product’s original unveiling on January 9 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple Computer began shipping its heavily anticipated “Apple TV,”

Technology
Students Debate Wikipedia Concerns
Edited and compiled by Dean Woodley and Nick Farstad (March 9, 2007)
Students from Mrs. Knoke’s ITGS (Information Technology in a Global Society) class addressed modern-day technological issues, this time focusing on the reliability of Wikipedia articles.

Technology
Mrs. Knoke’s ITGS Students Address Online Security, Part II
By Dean Woodley and Nick Farstad (February 21, 2007)
Students from Mrs. Knoke’s ITGS (Information Technology in a Global Society) class answered the following question regarding online security on social networking sites.

Technology
Students Address Online
Security Issues
Compiled by Dean Woodley and Nick Farstad (February 19, 2007)
Students from Mrs. Knoke’s ITGS (Information Technology in a Global Society) class answered the following question regarding online security on social networking sites.

Technology
Microsoft Releases Vista, New MS Office
By Dean Woodley (February 8, 2007)
Last week, Microsoft formally unveiled its new operating system software, Windows Vista, the first major update to Microsoft’s popular Windows software.

Dangers Lurk
Redesign of Rockets, Satellites
Needed to Reduce Space Junk
By Emilio Ramos (February 7, 2007)
Floating miles above the surface of the earth are hundreds of thousands of bits and pieces of derelict satellites, jettisoned space craft appendages, and countless other debris whirling about the earth at speeds close to 25,000 miles per hour.

The Tech Whip
Apple Drops a Bombshell,
Releases ‘iPhone’
By Dean Woodley (January 10, 2007)
In a move that has been both expected and anticipated by analysts and tech fans alike, Apple Computer today released the “iPhone,” Apple’s take on a cell phone.

Top Picks of Techie Gifts
By Emilio Ramos (December 21, 2006)
It’s that time of the year again, the time when people flood the malls searching for gifts for everybody on their lists. For techies in your life, I’ve assembled a list of must-have gifts for tech-heads.

A Spy Inside Your Car?
The Little Black Box
By Lauren Factor (December 18, 2006)
Event-data recorders (also knows as EDRs) are black boxes installed in certain automobiles that are used to record mechanical and human performance before and during a crash

Ranking the Top 3 Game Consoles
By K-K Bracken (December 13, 2006)

Optimism and Excitement for
The Future of Technology
By Colin Lauer (December 8, 2006)
Are computers the Model-T’s of the future? The answer to this question is undoubtedly “yes.”

Photo Manipulation:
A History of Deception
By Ashley Thompson (December 8, 2006)
The use of photo manipulation, also known as doctoring or altering photos, has become extremely popular.

Commentary
Video Games: Friend or Foe?
By Nana Saynieva (December 3, 2006)
With Playstation and Xbox consoles reaching prices upwards of $500, it is not hard to see how big a part video games play in the life of everyday people.

The Dilemma of Digital Alteration
By Alyssa Godwin December 3, 2006)
Over the years, digital photos have become more and more popular. “The United States military has become increasingly reliant on digital images from drones and satellites to give soldiers a sense of the battlefield.

Microsoft News: Vista OS Finally Ready
By: Emilio Ramos (November 9, 2006)
After five long years of development, the computer operating system once code-named, “Longhorn,” then renamed Microsoft Vista, is now complete

Apple News: MacBook Pros Go Merom
By: Emilio Ramos (October 31, 2006)
At long last, the MacBook Pro line of laptops by Apple received Core 2 Duo processor upgrades on Tuesday.

Microsoft ‘Zune’ Media Player gets Price, Release Date
By Dean Woodley, October 4, 2006
In a highly anticipated move by software giant Microsoft, the Microsoft “Zune” portable media player has been officially tagged with a competitive price of $249.99 with an equally competitive feature repertoire, set to enter the US market on November 14.

Video Game News:
Nintendo Announces Date and Price for Wii
By: Emilio Ramos (September 25, 2006)
In its long-awaited press conference on Thursday, September 14, in New York City, Nintendo of America announced the definite price and release date of their highly anticipated Wii video game console.

Microsoft News:
Zune is Launched
By: Emilio Ramos (September 20, 2006)
On Thursday, the computer giant, Microsoft, announced the Zune digital audio player. The Zune MP3 player is the first of many, as of now, unnamed products that will be released under the Zune brand name.

Jobs Introduces New Technology for iPods and iTunes
Once Again,“It’s Showtime” for Apple
By Emilio Ramos (September 15, 2006)
At a press conference entitled “It’s Showtime” on Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs released a flurry of news about the iPod, Apple’s extremely popular digital audio and video player, as well as the release of iTunes 7 and the prototype for the tentatively-named “iTV.”