Tag archive: Knoxville

Coulomb Technologies, a company that builds electric vehicle charging stations in urban areas, announced a new method of locating charging stations through TomTom navigation systems. When accessing the locations through TomTom, drivers can also pull up the connection type, speed of charging and the cost to recharge a vehicle. This application is being shown off at the Plug-In 2011 conference in Raleigh, N.C., but Coulomb representatives… Read More

It created a brief fuss when someone posted mails from the Yahoo e-mail account of Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, on WikiLeaks, indicating she’d breached the law by using private mail accounts for official business. However, the hacker wasn’t too clever. He left enough clues to be quickly traced – and he was. David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of a Tennessee Democratic state legislator, was… Read More

David Kernell, the University of Tennessee student accused of hacking into Republican Vice President candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account, has been in front of a grand jury. But it ended its session without returning an indictment against Kernell, who is the son Tennessee Democratic state representative Mike Kernell. Reports from several sources show that the IP address used to hack Palin’s account was traced to the… Read More

Internet service provider Earthlink has announced it’s going to shed 900 jobs and close four of its offices as it attempts to control operating costs. The affected offices are will Orlando, Knoxville, Harrisburg, and San Francisco. Additionally, the company will “substantially reduce its presence” in Atlanta and Pasadena. The company currently employs about 1,900 people, and expects the reductions to save it between $25… Read More