http://www.post-gazette.com/ Technology articles and blog entries from TechMan en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:09:58 -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/12041/1209326-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml SAN FRANCISCO -- Google is developing a home entertainment device, according to people with knowledge of the company's plans, in a move that would bring it more broadly into consumer electronics. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209327-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml Some people are born flirts. For everyone else, a pocket-size Cyrano de Bergerac awaits. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209328-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml When I was growing up, my parents had a 20-inch Sony Trinitron television. There was a 25-inch model, but having a TV that big seemed vulgar. When I would ask my father why he didn't splash out for the bigger set, he would say, "Who am I, George Lucas?" Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209329-96-0.stm?cmpid=tech.xml BERLIN -- Nokia, the biggest maker of mobile phones by volume, said Wednesday that it would eliminate 4,000 manufacturing jobs, or 7 percent of its global work force, as it moved to streamline operations and save money from its production of smartphones. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 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