Daily technology news - 12-Mar-2007

Talkback: What are your cell phone commandments? (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) technology may update and improve at a staggeringly fast rate, but some tech stories always seem to remain relevant no matter what new developments arise -- or even because of new developments.

Tech info offered at March of Technology (The Springfield News-Leader)"I live and breathe this stuff," says Terry Roberts, who plans programs for the ICON Users' Group and is the ideal person to coordinate the second annual March of technology.

Smith: Aiding Pittsburgh technology (Times Leader)Don Smith Jr. has been credited with helping Pittsburgh to reinvent itself and attract technology companies through programs involving the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, according to published reports.

High-technology stocks come of age (Baltimore Sun)Like teenage drivers, technology firms can become more responsible with age.

MIT to offer its courses free online by year end (CNN.com)BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will become by year's end the first U.S. university to offer all of its roughly 1,800 courses free on the Internet, a school official said on Friday.

FormFactor at top of its game: Firm earns Smithsonian status for its wafer testing technology (Contra Costa Times)It's a Wall Street darling whose technology has been inducted into the Smithsonian Institution. And it does it all here. Livermore-based FormFactor Inc. manufactures a semiconductor test method that has so influenced the way semiconductors are produced that chipmakers around the world are buying up its product in droves.

Worship On The Go (WISC Channel3000.com via Yahoo! News) technology-savvy people download music and movies for podcasts, but now there's another option available ? church services.

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