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Highway regulators: Car 'black boxes' can't be secret

Highway regulators: Car 'black boxes' can't be secretThey said that about governors, too ...... and you can disable those just by buying a third-party engine-management chip. APR, for example, makes chips for Volkswagens and Audis that change the behavior of the engine, making it a bit less conservative less reliable...

Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, black box

Discussion threads 2006-08-22

Thinking inside the box

Thinking inside the boxMessage has been deleted.Oh boy... another one... Mr. MeyerDear Mr. Meyer,You need to get experience of some other companies who already went that path and I could mention one of very large corporations I used to work for.Software sale is ultimately different than hardware and no you...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, hardware, software, black box, security, Software sale

Discussion threads 2005-03-28

Additional Resources

News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed

Apple has shipped another whopper of a patch to cover a total of 40 documented vulnerabilities affecting the Mac OS X ecosystem. The Security Update 2008-007, available for Tiger and Leopard, covers a range of third-party components and Mac OS X flaws that could users at risk...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Vulnerability, Arbitrary Code Execution, Application Termination, Apple Mac OS X, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Buy an ASUS Eee Box mini PC, get free malware!

Proud owners of ASUS's Eee Box mini PC got more than they bargained for - malware. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: ASUS, Malware, mini-PC, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Apple makes it official. Notebook announcement next week.

The blogosphere was abuzz this morning with news of a sub-$1,000 Mac notebook - based on a price list that was given to retail stores  and subsequently leaked to bloggers. But where's the confirmation from Apple? The company wouldn't announce some sort of milestone - and a sub-$1,000 notebook is...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?

I was browsing on webmagazine Salon when I came across an interesting review written by Scott Rosenberg of the book "Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know" by Randall Stross. (The title of the article is, "Google's Vulcan death grip." Boy am I a sucker.) ...

Tags: Google Inc., Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Productivity, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Asustek to offer touch-panel Eee PCs?

While the Web swoons over news of Apple's latest $800 market entry, Asustek is planning to launch touchscreen Eee PCs in the first quarter of 2009, which the company expects will help drive sales further, according to Samson Hu, general manager of Eee PC business at Asustek, by way of...

Tags: AsusTek Computer, Keyboards, Notebooks, Sales Strategy, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Processors, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales, Security, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malware

Asus has confirmed and apologized to customers (press release in Japanese; translated version) for shipping malware on the recently introduced Eee Box desktop computer : "According to an email sent out by Asus, PC Advisor reports, the Eee Box's 80GB hard drive has the recycled.exe virus files hidden in...

Tags: ASUS, PC, Malware, UPC, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Apple iPhone 3G (16GB, black)

Apple iPhone 3G (16GB, black)Is it worth it?Is it worth it to switch to AT&T just to be able to use the Apple Iphone?

Tags: Apple iPhone, Is It Worth It, Is It Worth, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?RE: Palin e-mail hacker indictedIf someone opened your U.S. mail box and took your mail he or she would be prosecuted and possibly jailed . . . this is no different.RE: Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice...

Tags: Social Security, Palin, Palin e-mail hacker, e-mail hacker, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply

Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supplyWho cares?particle colliders and whatnot- how about: let's try living our own lives and find out something useful once they've RUN an experiment! It's difficult enough dealing with the paramount necessities and the trivialities of our own lives- why bother to focus on others'?There's...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, power supply, Hadron Collider

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

The invisible frontier of our solar system

The invisible frontier of our solar systemIsn't this phenomenom explained by the Electric star theory ?Well, it seems to me that the Electric stars theory give an excellent explanation for this phenomenom.Off course as the official theory discard any possibilities of electric current acting on a large scale in...

Tags: phenomenom, theory, solar system

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Apple dominates the teen vote, but...

Apple dominates the teen vote, but...But of courseit's a cultural thing that hasn't had a black eye yet to turn people off, and in retail, at least the MP3 category is labeled iPod then mp3 players. iPod is held up as that category. The iPhone was pimped out...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Games, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Codes & Cheats Fall 2008: Prima Official eGuide (exe)

Codes & Cheats Fall 2008: Prima Official eGuide. Covers: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, WII, X-Box and X-Box 360. Note: The Download Now link will download a small installer file to your desktop. Remain online and double-click the installer to proceed with the...

Tags: Sony Corp., Nintendo Co. Ltd., Sony Playstation, Prima Games, Game Players, Desktops, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-10-08

Crash: Mind Over Mutant: Prima Official eGuide (exe)

Crash: Mind Over Mutant: Prima Official eGuide. Skunks with rayguns, bears with tusks, and strategy to pocket them all. Covers: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation Portable, WII and X-Box 360. Learn the locations of all hidden collectables and all secret mutant-only areas. Featurse detailed strategies for obtaining every Xbox 360...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Prima Games, Game Players, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 2008-10-08

2009 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring

Photo gallery:Mazda CX-7 Grand TouringEarlier this year, we tested a Mazda's CX-9. So when we heard that we were getting a CX-7 Grand Touring in the CNET garage, we braced for more of the same, only smaller. The tiny Mazda crossover didn't disappoint; the CX-7 has a lot in common...

Tags: Mazda CX-7, Mazda Motor Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-07

Backgrounder extension for jailbroken iPhones

Backgrounder extension for jailbroken iPhonesOnce again, Windows Mobile offers better user experienceI laugh and laugh at all the effort you guys undertake in order to make your iPhones work like our Windows Mobile phones do out of the box! :)

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Handhelds, backgrounder extension, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

A question about web server volume failures

A question about web server volume failuresWrite heavy loadI don't think you can compare a write-heavy do-not-call registry to a mostly static wordpress site.It wouldn't hard to mock-up a simple registry site and test it.The question you seem to be askig is.. how do i make my site scalable.Lets start...

Tags: Web servers, Firewalls, Storage, Web server, server, database, router, firewall, Web

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)

How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)Adrian - why would Apple write good Windows software?Apple has historically had an edge with video editing / graphical design applications. Now, since they've moved to an Intel platform, any hardware advantages...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Desktops, Digital media, Operating systems, software, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Vista behemoth, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple QuickTime, quad-core

Discussion threads 2008-10-07