http://www.techreviewcentral.com If it's current, runs on current, we'll review it. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:34:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, the usual Google logo has been replaced by the ubiquitous black-and-white bar code design to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the first bar code patent. On October 7, 1952, inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver were granted the first patent for their invention. The only difference between the ... http://www.techreviewcentral.com/?p=65 Walmart is not alone in the eCommerce world for going overboard with bleeding-edge web development practices. Rather than using W3C standards, a set of guidelines created by web developers all over the world to ensure that all web sites work with all browsers, Walmart and companies like them are ... http://www.techreviewcentral.com/?p=64 IBM has announced a new initiative with ghostly reflections from the past, but perhaps with a more promising future. In a climate where business users are unimpressed by the bulky and costly lackluster Windows Vista, IBM is offering corporate customers a viable alternative. IBM has created a ... http://www.techreviewcentral.com/?p=63 Satellite TV piracy has been going on since HBO first scrambled their C-band broadcast back in the early 1980's. More recently the hot topic is the use of FTA satellite equipment, designed to receive free, unscrambled broadcasts, modified to receive DISH Network paid programming. This new age of ... http://www.techreviewcentral.com/?p=62 Godaddy.com promotes their web site services all across the various media outlets. They even spent millions on a Super Bowl campaign in 2007. They claim that anyone can have a professional e-commerce web site for only pennies! Visiting godaddy.com reveals pages of smiling non-technical people, mostly attractive women, ... http://www.techreviewcentral.com/?p=61 On November 17th 1951, the J. Lyons Company began weekly operation of a bakery valuations job on a computer called LEO (Lyons Electronic Office). This was the first business application to go live on a stored program computer anywhere in the world. David Caminer, LEO's systems and programming manager at ... http://www.techreviewcentral.com/?p=60 Has an eBay seller ever shortchanged you, the item wasn't nearly as good as described or had some defect? When the seller wouldn't make things right, you wanted to leave that person a negative, but wouldn't, because you knew they'd retaliate. That was the flaw in the old ... http://www.techreviewcentral.com/?p=59 Are you suddenly becoming aware of web sites like angieslist.com and craigslist.com? If so, you're not alone. The craigslist.com site has been around over a decade now and remains a free "classifieds" service for local communities. Alternatively, angieslist.com is a paid premium referral and review service, which ... http://www.techreviewcentral.com/?p=58 The Gateway computer company unofficially, but for all intents and purposes, ceased to exist at the end of 2007. It was split asymmetrically and sold to two different companies. ACER has acquired most of Gateway, including the low-end home user line of notebooks and desktops. They ... http://www.techreviewcentral.com/?p=57 A "Solid State" computer is one with little or no moving parts; a fanless system using flash storage or an EPROM based solution as opposed to a typical spinning platter type hard drive. Moving parts have the highest likelihood of failure, due to friction, which also produces heat. ... http://www.techreviewcentral.com/?p=56