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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Tech

Deep tech thoughts

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 6, 2009, 10:59 AM Apr 6, 2009
7

Which technology is most likely to fulfill its promise? And which is a solution in search of a problem?

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Facebook’s flood fighters

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 23, 2009, 10:59 AM Mar 23, 2009
2

Social networking sites have become the primary means for the call for volunteers to help fight the flooding along the Red River.

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The death switch

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 19, 2009, 5:01 PM Mar 19, 2009
3

If you die, how will your online friends know?

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Weapons of mass mosquito destruction.

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 18, 2009, 5:54 PM Mar 18, 2009
3

A laser weapon to kill mosquitoes. It’s the brainchild of the team that worked on President Reagan’s Star Wars initiative.

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A plug for productivity

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 17, 2009, 6:27 PM Mar 17, 2009
8

Do you stop what you’re doing and read each piece of e-mail as it comes in? How much is worth reading?

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Wikileaks banned

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 17, 2009, 10:05 AM Mar 17, 2009
4

The Web site that published Norm Coleman’s database is being banned in Australia for revealing the censorship of the Internet in Denmark.

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The Twitter experience

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 16, 2009, 8:25 PM Mar 16, 2009

A stranded airline passenger provides a lesson in how companies can survive in a bad economy?

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No Wonder

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2009, 9:20 PM Feb 26, 2009
5

Mysterious — so far — audio problems confound some TV viewers in the Twin Cities.

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DTV assistance

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 13, 2009, 11:17 AM Jan 13, 2009
2

Assistance centers for digital TV are opening in the Twin Cities.

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A time to Tweet

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2008, 12:19 PM Dec 22, 2008
4

Your jet has crashed and is burning. Is it a good time to be engaging your social network?

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Who do you trust?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 16, 2008, 8:12 AM Dec 16, 2008

It’s not Google anymore, a survey says.

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Is the Internet all it’s cracked up to be?

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 15, 2008, 2:14 PM Dec 15, 2008
3

The third Pew report on the future of the Internet raises questions about whether we’re a more tolerant and forgiving society because of it.

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DTV

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 15, 2008, 12:00 PM Dec 15, 2008
6

With two months to go before analog TV ends, some groups say certain communities — including Minneapolis-St. Paul — are ‘at risk.’

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News Cut: Evening Brief

smullis November 18, 2008, 6:30 PM Nov 18, 2008

Ordering pizza with your TiVo, space spiders and Hillary Clinton’s future.

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Codeweavers promotion crashes site

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 28, 2008, 5:05 PM Oct 28, 2008

Nearly 500,000 people got free software from a St. Paul firm on Tuesday.

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