- Local News

via News5: There is an incredible effort beginning in Cleveland to bridge what is called the “Digital Divide.” Currently, data shows roughly half the city does not have reliable broadband or internet access. When 49 percent of people in your city can’t get online easily, it impacts their ability to apply for jobs, to pay […]

National

via NationalDayCalendar: National App Day is observed annually on December 11.  The word “App” was listed as the word of the year in 2010 by the American Dialect Society. Short for Software Application, apps quickly appeared as our mobile cellular phones incorporated smart technologies including processing chips, internet connectivity and touchscreens. Since that time apps have […]

- Discussion

The smartwatch on the little girl’s wrist is off by about four hours. She’s not sure how to fix it, but that’s OK. She only uses it to count her steps. In the three-bedroom home she shares with six people in Daly City, there is no computer. There used to be one, the 9-year-old said, […]

- Discussion

For years, parishioners at the Calvary Hill Community Church have learned to live by the code. Now their children are learning a different kind: computer code. The San Francisco church is one of the first to take part in an initiative from Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition to forge a new generation of computer […]

- CLE

  Cuyahoga County residents can recycle unwanted computer equipment during April by dropping it off at one of 46 participating city service locations. Equipment that will be accepted includes: CPU’s, monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, terminals, modems, and software. Cellphones and accessories, and ink printer cartridges will also be accepted, but not TVs or other electronics. […]

National

GTECH Corporation opened its After School Advantage computer lab at Amazing Grace Conservatory/AGC in Los Angeles, co-founded by Wendy Raquel Robinson (BETs “The Game”) during an official ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, October 8, 2011.  Amazing Grace Conservatory offers a well-rounded, culturally-enriching educational program to at-risk youth in the performing arts in Los Angeles co-founded by […]

National

September 22 is the first day of the rest of your life, or at least that’s what Facebook would have you believe. Their VP of Global Communications Elliot Schrage recently told Tech Crunch that this year’s F8 conference will be “either the most important, or the second most important F8 yet.” Already, Facebook has been […]

National

September 22 is the first day of the rest of your life, or at least that’s what Facebook would have you believe. Their VP of Global Communications Elliot Schrage recently told Tech Crunch that this year’s F8 conference will be “either the most important, or the second most important F8 yet.” Already, Facebook has been […]

- CLE

It was twenty-five years ago that four keys on our keyboard formed a union that would change our world forever. "25 years ago today a company called Symbolics registered the first ".com" domain name for the world wide web

- CLE

It was twenty-five years ago that four keys on our keyboard formed a union that would change our world forever. "25 years ago today a company called Symbolics registered the first ".com" domain name for the world wide web