Sustaining Technical Programs - Webinar this Friday

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This Friday, Oct 9, will be the free NetWorks webinar:  Sustaining Technical Programs.
The highest levels of community college administration face significant challenges in supporting technology programs at their institutions. They are faced with a quandary. For economic development in their region, a skilled workforce is critical in the IT, manufacturing, engineering technology and biotechnology sectors, […]

Beta no more

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Google Gmail, calendar, and other Google applications have lost their beta status.
Google is removing the “beta” label from many of its key services, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Talk, and Google Video for Business. The move is seen as a way to attract large businesses to Google Apps, its suite of messaging and […]

A Quick Way To Find All Acronyms In A Word Document

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Our company is called MATEC (Maricopa Advanced Technology Center) and we’re partially funded by a grant from the NSF (National Science Foundation). Part of MATEC is NetWorks which is an ATE (Advanced Technological Education) National Resource Center.
If you were able to follow that first paragraph then you can see that we deal with acronyms quite […]

Remembering Past Lessons

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A friend, who would like to remain anonymous, sent me an email that I got me thinking so much that I asked if it could be published as a blog.  Luckily, they said yes.
My only source of entertainment while driving (since my radio was stolen) is my mind, and that is dangerous enough, but when my thoughts shifted […]

Technician Career Opportunities in Energy

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Michael Lesiecki of MATEC NetWorks and Dan Hull of OP-TEC are going to be presenting a join workshop on Technician Career Opportunities in Energry at the High Impact Conference.  Dan sent us his complete blog on the subject to post on TechSpectives as well:
Technician Career Opportunities in Energy
One of the hot topics in the news these […]

Laptop with SSD

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I wrote a few weeks ago that the start of the demise of mechanical hard drives had begun. Here is a laptop that ASUS debuted at the electronics show, the S121 with a 512GB solid state drive that further cements this belief.
1/6/08 - Asustek Computer Inc. on Tuesday debuted an ultrathin, light netbook […]

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