Last month, Google Maps Street View cars could be seen going street-by-street in an effort to update the old maps taken back in 2007. Did you know Naperville was one of the first communities to have Google Maps? Continue reading here.
Local citizens are hired on temporary contracts to drive the street view cars through their local neighborhoods. Google now has street views of all seven continents...yes, that includes Antarctica.
Earlier in November, individuals from around the suburbs and city attended a unique, out-of-the-box technology event based on sharing world-changing ideas and opening minds. SiliconPrairieSocial was able to be a partner of this incredible event. Continue reading here.
Attendees listen as one of TEDxNaperville's unique speakers talks on their "idea worth spreading", a unique, world changing idea.
Original Post (10/12/12): Last week one of the 500 or so million daily attempts to hack the City of Naperville’s website succeeded, bringing down the website and email systems. The city is working to remedy the situation and believes it to be the work of a skilled hacker, not a virus. Continue reading here.
Update (10/15/12): Naperville web systems will be down another week as website vulnerabilities are being addressed and new security software implemented. Continue reading here.
Update (10/18/12): Naperville has authorized nearly $700,000 to discover how their website and email system was infiltrated and to find the best way to stop it from happening again. Continue reading here.
Update (10/22/12): Naperville’s web and email services are still down and being worked on by officials. In the mean time, the city has created a new email address so it can be contacted via email while the system is still out. Continue reading here.
Update (10/25/12): Naperville’s city manager states that the website should be almost 100% functional by this Friday but that the email systems will still be down. Continue reading here.
Update 11/26/12): When the city’s network was shut down in early October, city staff had to find a way to adapt and operate, even though they could no longer use the tools needed to conduct business-as-usual. Continue reading here.
As their website was hacked recently, Naperville City Officials have stated that no credit card information has been compromised and an investigation has begun to find the culprit. Photo from myfoxchicago.com
Z-Tech of Naperville is the only precision window tenting company in the western suburbs that has the computer-aided tools necessary to create perfect window tents. The company utilizes an advanced plotter and computer to custom create tints for any vehicle. Continue reading here.
DJ Bertolini shows off this 3M display. Shades of tints are measured in percentages, ranging from 5 to 50 percent. The higher the number the more light is allowed in. | Daina Saleh~For The Sun
Many schools have policies against cell phone use in school, let alone tablets and computers. Indian Prairie School district 204 hosts “Bring Your Own Technology” days that allow students to utilize their own technology to enhance school lessons. Continue reading here.
London Swift from Naperville, left, and Dania Rayal from Naperville, right, look up at the screen to see the next question as they share Swift's iPhone during a class exercise in Beth Wisner's 7th grade Language Arts class at Crone Middle School on Tuesday, October 16, 2012. Wisner said that about 80% of the students in the class are able to bring their own devices which she uses to make the lesson's more interactive. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media