Category: Technology

Baltimore Sun
They came. They bobbed - some awkwardly. They sang. “Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you.”

Then after three minutes and three seconds, the young fans of 1980s British …

WBAL.com
The Baltimore County Library System is ending its dial up Internet service.

Bcpl.net has been offered for subscription since 1995 in the county to anyone in the area who wanted to pay for the service.

Library spokesman Bob Hughes tells WBAL …

Lori Barrett reports that Yellow Cab is purchasing Toyota Prius hybrids for their Baltimore fleet.

Tech Council of Maryland News Release
For Immediate Release Contact:
Michelle Ferrone
Tech Council of Maryland
301-514-5509

For Immediate Release Contact:
Nancy Carr
Gilden Integrated
410-971-0668

TECH COUNCIL OF MARYLAND CHEERS HOUSE PASSAGE OF COMPUTER SERVICES SALES TAX REPEAL

ROCKVILLE, Md (April 5, 2008) – The Tech Council of …

WBAL TV
An antimissile system that could protect commercial airlines from handheld missile fire was unveiled at BWI Thurgood Marshall airport on Wednesday.

The system was developed and tested by Northrop Grumman. The company said it will protect planes from …

WBAL.com
Governor O’Malley met for about 50 minutes tonight with legislative leaders regarding whether to repeal the state’s sales tax on computer services.

The extension of the state’s 6% sales tax is due to take effect in July, though the governor …

Herald-Mail via Digg via ars technica:
Purposely surfing the Internet on someone else’s wireless connection, without permission, would be a crime under a bill Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr. presented Tuesday.

Myers, …

Baltimore Sun
Walter C. Abbott Jr. has sent e-mails from time to time to the governor and state legislators complaining about losing construction work to illegal immigrants.

He never received anything but a form-letter type response.

This week, the 44-year-old Parkville man …

WBAL.com
The Greater Baltimore Committee is launching a Web ad campaign today for repeal of the computer services tax.

The tax is set to take effect in July.

Greater Baltimore Committee President & CEO Don Fry says this is a tax that …

I’ve previously posted here about the National Federation of the Blind picketing outside a Maryland Dept. of the Environment meeting last fall that was looking at adopting California emissions standards by 2011. The protesters were upset that hybrids were …