hi tech

Hi-tech (or High-Tech) is a phrase that originated in the 1950s and refers to the most advanced, cutting edge technology available in a time period. Because technologies are continually advancing, growing, changing and evolving, examples of 'hi-tech' also change with time. A high-tech gizmo in 1959 is obsolete or low-tech by 1969, let alone by 2009! Because it is not a clearly defined term, hi-tech is used regularly to hype any shiny new tech product to hit the market.

Like other Technology and Tech terms, Hi-Tech is widely used throughout the blogosphere, generally referring to computers, the internet and an entire array of electronic devices, gadgets and gizmos. Hi-Tech blogs can include new product reviews, debate on emerging technologies, research, and processes, as well as general news and opinion pertaining to technology.

Some blogs using "hi-tech" or "high-tech" as tags include zmogo.com, gadgetsblog.org, and gizmodo.com.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “hi tech”

• HootSuite lets you schedule status updates on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  HootSuite, which started as a way to navigate your Twitter stream, is broadening its grasp on the social web — it’s adding LinkedIn updates and letting you schedule status updates on the social networks it tracks.The idea is to become a social media dashboard, so you can update your Facebook, LinkedIn, Ping.fm and ...
  11 hours ago

• Small Business Owners Can Engage in Social Media as Customers Too

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by PartnerUp.Companies across the globe are hitting the social media scene hard in an effort to better reach their customers and deepen relationships. This kind of activity is visible on sites like Twitter or industry/company-specific online communities.While many small business ...
  12 hours ago

• Adconian Media Group buys Joost assets, ending a long saga

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Content network firm Adconian Media Group said today that it has acquired the assets of Joost, the online video service founded by Skype founders and the subject of a lawsuit drama this fall.The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company was founded by Skype and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. ...
  12 hours ago

• Adconian Media Group buys Joost assets

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Content network firm Adconian Media Group said today that it has acquired the assets of Joost, the online video service founded by Skype founders and the subject of a lawsuit drama this fall.The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company was founded by Skype and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. ...
  13 hours ago

• Roboni-I: The wandering robot that lets you play video games

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  South African firm Robonica hopes to conquer the hearts of gift givers this holiday season with hybrid entertainment that combines the interactivity of video games and the physical fun of toy robots.The company’s first product, Roboni-I, is a robot with two wheels that wanders around on its own. Since you can play ...
  13 hours ago

• Gravity Sling shows how virtual goods sales work on the iPhone

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Riptide Games has revealed how well virtual goods sales work on the iPhone with its new game Gravity Sling. It’s yet another case study in how to get ahead in the iPhone economy.There’s a lot of hope that virtual goods sales — known as in-app purchases on the iPhone — will help make Apple’s AppStore ...
  15 hours ago

• Pixable lets you print out customized calendars from Facebook content

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Online photo service Pixable, which lets you print albums from your Facebook content, is launching its Calendar Creator feature today. The new feature will let you print out calendars to remember important dates from your information stored on Facebook, which is where many of us now have all of our photos (Facebook ...
  15 hours ago

• Office Bus allows the flexibility of personal transportation

  
  The Design blog — Authority: 652
  Balancing economic growth with environment is one of the major problems for almost all the nations that require an immediate attention before we go beyond the limits. Addressing the issue, the “Office Bus” is a public transportation that allows brisk commutation while sustaining the environment. Apart from ...
  19 hours ago

• Nintendo DSi LL sells 103k in two days, ripped open in two minutes

  
  Latest Gadget & Tech News — Authority: 168
  The newer, embiggened Nintendo DSi LL (as it’s known in Tokyo Town) has been available to the kids in Japan since the beginning of the week, and Enterbrain, Inc. is reporting that Nintendo has pushed 103,524 units in its first two days. To perspectivize things, the DSi was snatched up to the tu… technology ...
  20 hours ago

• Touch DJ – Be Fatboy Slim with this new iPhone App

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  This article titled Touch DJ – Be Fatboy Slim with this new iPhone App was first published on the Gadget Blog gizmodose.Perhaps you are growing tired listening to the same old playlist, or maybe you are growing tired of your same old Apple iPhone Apps. Perhaps you have been sitting on a bus, or heard [...]Related ...
  20 hours ago

• FastLane Goes High Tech!

  
  Prospere Magazine: In Work ... In Life... She Prospers — Authority: 131
  Cynthia Cheng FastLane had its recent networking event at Woo, an Asian buffet restaurant right in the heart of the city. Featured at the event was the return of HiTech Tattoos , previously a regular fix at FastLane.  As usual, they were there to personalize people’s mp3 players and phones.  With the theme ...
  22 hours ago

• BookRenter raises $6M to challenge Chegg in textbook rentals

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Textbook rental site Chegg.com may be raising tremendous amounts of funding, but competitor BookRenter isn’t sitting still — it just announced a $6 million first round.That number is dwarfed by the $84.2 million Chegg has raised (not counting debt), but BookRenter chief executive Mehdi Maghsoodnia says his ...
  22 hours ago

• PlayMesh brings farming to the iPhone with iFarm

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  PlayMesh became famous on the iPhone when it launched its iMafia game in January. The app had a novel virtual goods model in the days before Apple had its own way of embracing what has become an extremely popular business model for monetizing virtual goods.The iMafia game was a hit and it was designed to [...]Related ...
  23 hours ago

• Vidly adds video comments to your blog … and Chamillionaire’s

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Video startup Vidly is holding true to its promise to expand beyond Twitter with a new tool called Vidly Express, an easy way to add video comments to any blog.The San Francisco company says publishers just add some code to their site, and the code creates a button for video replies next to every post. [...]Related ...
  23 hours ago

• Gridwise, IEC make pact to make utilities smarter

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  The Gridwise Alliance, a nonprofit coalition of stakeholders developing the Smart Grid, signed a memorandum of understanding today with the International Engineering Consortium, to team up to make utilities more intelligent.Presumably, the Alliance will integrate its intelligent utilities curriculum integrated into ...
  1 day ago

• AOpen ION Powered GP7A Series HTPC

  
  Latest Gadget & Tech News — Authority: 168
  AOpen USA has come up with a new barebones mini HTPC, giving you one more option whether you’re planning to set up an HTPC in your living room. The XC Mini GP7A series PC supports full 1080p HD video playback via it’s integrated NVIDIA ION (GeForce 9300M) graphics chip, and will plus su… technology watches ...
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• Roundup: Microsoft and News Corp. plot Google’s demise, Taptu and Google Maps Navigation hop on Android, and more

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Here’s the latest action:Amazon Web Services now calculates your app costs — To give users a better idea of how their applications will work and how much they will cost to run on Amazon Web Services, the company has just released a redesign of its AWS Simple Monthly Calculator. This tool allows users to select ...
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• Google-backed Pixazza opens up photo tagging service to help blogs earn revenue

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Pixazza, a Google Ventures-backed startup, is opening up its crowdsourced photo-tagging service which can turn any Web site into an online store.The Mountain View-based startup uses an army of taggers to identify products and link them to shopping sites like Amazon or Zappos. For example, you might see a photo of ...
  1 day ago

• Amazon promises update to better ‘organize Kindle libraries’

  
  Latest Gadget & Tech News — Authority: 168
  whether you’ve found yourself somewhat irked by the Kindle’s lackluster organizing abilities, you clearly aren’t alone. A post by The Kindle Team by on Facebook has made clear that Amazon is aware of the shortcoming, and it’s currently toiling away on a “better way to organize your growing Kindle l… ...
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• Big Bang machine achieves first particle collisions - Reuters

  
  HI-TECH news — Authority: 137
  BBC News Big Bang machine achieves first particle collisions Reuters ZURICH (Reuters) — Scientists have smashed together proton beams for the first time in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the French-Swiss border in an initial step toward discovering how the universe came into existence, they said on Monday. ...
  1 day ago

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