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Difference Engine No. 2

Considered one of the most startling achievements of the 19th century, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 has come to life 150 years later. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to see the machine in action and meet the men who turned Babbage's...

Tags: News, charles babbage engine no. 2, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, computer history museum, victorian, invention, mathematics, Productivity

Videos 2008-05-02

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Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?

Google has entered the virtual world game with a project called Lively and Second Life and IBM have pulled off a few interoperability experiments. Add it up and we may be seeing a little tipping point for virtual worlds. There may be even a few corporate uses in the future....

Tags: Google Inc., Virtual World, Avatar, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Microsoft addresses 9 security vulnerabilities with 4 "Important" bulletins

Microsoft announced 4 "Important" security bulletins today that cover 9 separate vulnerabilities. Of note were vulnerabilities reported in Windows DNS server and client, and within SQL Server. Briefly, the vulnerabilities involve: Cache poisoning and insufficient socket entropy flaws in Microsoft DNS Server A remote...

Tags: Attacker, Microsoft SQL Server, Vulnerability, Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Outlook, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-08

A Modest Privacy Proposal

The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-08

How dependent are sites on search engines in May 2008

Category Traffic from search engines Growth of search engine traffic Traffic from Google Growth of traffic from Google Health and Medical 45.76% 3% 30.86% 5% Travel 34.81% 11% 24.26% 21% Shopping and Classifieds 25.48% 2% 16.84% 8% News and Media 21.70% 7%...

Tags: Search Engine, Search, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Microsoft-Yahoo on again?

Carl Icahn and Steve Ballmer announced plans today for Microsoft to acquire some or all of Yahoo if the current board was ousted in an upcoming election on August 1st. While they didn't come out and say it was a done deal, it does appear that Microsoft is still interested...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Search, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Linux - Still chasing that elusive 1ò0market share

Linux - Still chasing that elusive 1ò0market share.....Not buying less than 1%. 3% yes, 1% no. The problem is there is really no reliable way to count ALL the Linux machines out there, then determine which are server, super computer or desktop or embedded.Linux's strength in diversity creates a near...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirms

Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirmsThe only way Icahn could "save" GM would be to buy up shares cheap, andthen sell them to Toyota for double the money.... matchnow which one is the Match and who is the striker They are both very incendiary...

Tags: Corporate governance, Micro$oft, board, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Confirms, Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Smart HCCI cars talk to the pump

Smart HCCI cars talk to the pumpSimplify the problemSticking to a single cylinder engine would make achieving consistent cooling a little easier. Also, used in a hybrid, such engines could spend a lot of their time running at constant load use the batteries to smooth things. Indeed they could spend...

Tags: Engineering, Smart HCCI

Discussion threads 2008-07-05

MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search

MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about searchAdding a crappy search engine ....to another crappy search engine is not going to make MS Live better.The main reason why MS search engine is so unpopular is because it sucks. Adding another sucky unpopular search algorithm is not going to improve the...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, SEARCH, Powerset, MSFT, acquisition

Discussion threads 2008-07-05

MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search

The recent $100 million acquisition of Powerset, the semantic search engine company, by Microsoft looks to be more to do with advertising than beefing up the software giants' search capabilities. So far, Powerset has only demonstrated its technology against Wikipedia. It's a neat exhibit but it is...

Tags: Acquisition, Yahoo! Inc., Contextual Advertising, MSFT, Search, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-04

Smart HCCI cars talk to the pump

Researchers from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society CITRIS are developing more efficient engines for cars. They are specifically working on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignited HCCI engines. An HCCI engine 'combines the efficiency and versatility of diesel engines with the cleanliness of spark-ignition engines.' For...

Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Engine, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-04

2009 Acura TSX

Photo gallery:2009 Acura TSXBecause of its solid and comfortable everyday driver demeanor, buyers of the new 2009 Acura TSX will probably opt for the five-speed automatic transmission, for ease of driving in traffic and urban settings. And that's unfortunate, because to appreciate Honda's capability to build truly efficient engines that...

Tags: Acura, Acura TSX

Product reviews 2008-07-03

Trick out your fleet with fuel consumption monitors from Networkcar

OK, I admit it. When I bought my car a year-and-a-half ago, comparing the fuel consumption metrics among the different models WAS part of the equation, but not the most important part. Now, with gas lines forming in my own little town and people putting summer trips...

Tags: Monitor, Performance, Technology, Performance Management, GPS, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?

The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG.  Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer.  AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer.  This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...

Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

NoScript vs. Internet Explorer 8 Filters

NoScript plugin writer Giorgio Maone posted a commentary on IE 8's new filters, drawing comparisons to his own widely popular NoScript Firefox plugin.  Maone writes: I'm happy to learn that IE8 is going to implement a less ambitious version of a feature which NoScript users have enjoyed for more than one...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, XSS, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Attack, Maone, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers

Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...

Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-03

AdvancedLinkFinder (zip)

AdvancerLinkFinder is the way to locate related link in any niche you choose keywords search based. It will help you to find every link you want and got every back link you need. AdvancedLinkFinder search for page that rank in Google for a particular phrase and makes it easy to...

Tags: Link, Link Finder, AdvancedLinkFinder, AdvancerLinkFinder, Search

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Metadefender Lite (zip)

Metadefender Lite provides application developers with an easy way to integrate ClamAV AntiVirus detection engine into their applications to perform real time virus scanning. Metadefender Lite uses the native port of Clam AntiVirus ClamAV. Version 1.5.62 includes several changes such as file and console logging functionality is expanded, documentation is...

Tags: Metadefender, Metadefender Lite, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4

Something about getting a new neck earlier this spring made me start thinking about how to change my life to make America a better place. Here a few that you can try to make the country better over the Fourth of July weekend: 1.) Turn off your...

Tags: Phone, PC, Cell Phone, Computer, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-02