http://www.post-gazette.com/ Technology articles and blog entries from TechMan en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 02:09:51 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1209095-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml The ghosts of two doomed antipiracy bills hang over a new and unrelated issue on Capitol Hill: proposed legislation to help secure the nation's nuclear plants, water systems and other essential infrastructure from hackers and terrorists. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1209096-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml Correction Appended Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1209097-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml Nabbing the iPhone was a victory for Sprint Nextel, but the blockbuster handset has yet to pay off in profits for the company. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1209098-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml SAN FRANCISCO -- John T. Chambers, chief executive of Cisco Systems, made one of his classic bombastic predictions Wednesday, claiming that the world's largest maker of computer networking equipment is poised to dominate the construction of cloud computing systems. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12040/1209099-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml Correction Appended Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208793-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml Workers in the digital era can feel at times as if they are playing a video game, battling the barrage of e-mails and instant messages, juggling documents, Web sites and online calendars. To cope, people have become swift with the mouse, toggling among dozens of overlapping windows on a single monitor. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208631-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml Stephen Wolfram, a 52-year-old scientist, software designer and entrepreneur, tends to go his own way -- often with noteworthy results. He published his first physics paper at 15, earned his Ph.D. from Caltech at 20 and two years later won a MacArthur prize. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208460-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208461-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml PARIS -- European activists who participated in American Internet protests last month learned that there was political power to be harnessed on the Web. Now they are putting that knowledge to use in an effort to defeat new global rules for intellectual property. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208462-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml BERLIN -- As Wall Street prepares for a record, multibillion-dollar initial stock sale from Facebook, the social networking site, a meeting with the potential to shape the economics of the deal was set to take place Monday in Vienna. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500