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- News to know: FTC, Psystar, Vonage, Apple-Palm, Oracle
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies Richard Koman: FTC publishes final rules on blogger...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Vonage Holdings Corp., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Psystar, FTC, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Desktops, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate
- Any bets on how long it takes someone to hack in and screw it up? nt...Why don't I feel good about this???Hmmm... Could it be that some government a55-clown could store sensitive data in the cloud... And that there are tons of other countries with extremely skilled hackers that would...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Virtualization, Apps.gov, agency, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- White House not equipped to hold keys to the Internet
- Am I the only one who is alarmed?Obama has already seized control of the auto industry, the banks, insurance companies, and is well on its way to nationalizing the health care system. Now, they want control of the internet? Does anyone besides me see a pattern here? ...
- Tags: Internet, White House, Bush, Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- Climate WARS in WARShington
- Climate WARS in WARShingtonI vote he also turnsoff his computer, disconnects his house from the grid and sells his car and goes and lives in a cave somewhere.But it will never happen. You see, he's too important to the cause. You and I must suffer, but, sadly, no doubt, he...
- Tags: Warshington
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Smart Grid vulnerable to cyberattack
- Smart Grid vulnerable to cyberattackSystems - The Bigger They Come, the Harder They FallRun to the library and read the last chapter of the book "I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium." That chapter is called "What's At Stake", and is a treatment of huge...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, cyberattack
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- News to know: Palm; Google; Apple; Yahoo's Bartz; Hacking Safari
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm: Demand tanks ahead of Pre launch; Pre needs to save the day Andrew Nusca: Google CEO Schmidt: China 'obvious prize,' Twitter 'poor...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Hacking, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- News to know: Rigged PDFs; Obama's CTO; Android bug; Windows 7
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100? CNET News: Memo to Intel: Netbooks morphing into notebooks Ryan Naraine: Rigged PDFs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, CTO, Adobe PDF, E-waste, Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
- Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testingBest overview of LHC ever.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtMRE: Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testingAhhh, this is just awesome news. I'm so glad the Europeans are picking up the ball on High Energy Particle Physics, as Bush seems hell-bent on catastrophizing particle physics research here in the US, just...
- Tags: Large Hadron Collider, stem-cell, theory, LHC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid
- In my last article I described what it feels like to have your house struck by lightning. Luckily there were no injuries or structural damage thanks for your kind words in the comments, but our gadgets and other electronics inside the house weren't so lucky. This is their tale. ...
- Tags: Game, Phone, Router, TiVo Inc., Grid, Cable, Cable Guy, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Why I still prefer Internet Explorer
- I wrote a blog post last week where I discussed some of the good lessons from the success of Firefox. I truly believe Firefox is a great browser, and I am glad that competition has forced Microsoft to pull its IE developers out of suspended animation to update its ability...
- Tags: Apple Safari, CSS, DIV, Internet, John Carroll, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera Software ASA, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Web Development
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Building your own supercomputer
- Building your own supercomputerOkay I have a horse in this race but...I just came from the BARC conference (Boston area ARChitecture, dumb acronym, good little conference) last week. We always get a higher-up rep from Intel or AMD along with the folks from the Universities around Boston-- it's a...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Development tools, Parallelism, supercomputer, desktop, chip, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-01
- Home wind turbines turn fashionable in Britain
- Home wind turbines turn fashionable in BritainWonderfulThis is a wonderful concept, and needs to be adoped by more countries.http://one.revver.com/watch/79286/format/flv/affiliate/23672Nice Britain but ....In my country, Cyprus, things are even better. You get a subsidy of 55% of the cost and in the case of solar panels you get a 15 year...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, Benefits, good cause, tax, renewable energy, subsidy, turbine
- Discussion threads 2006-10-14
- Power, water and refrigeration in one box
- Engineers at the University of Florida have developed and built a system that can provide power, water and refrigeration from a single unit. This project, funded by the U.S. Army, will lead to units small enough to fit inside a military jet or a large truck. The prototype system is...
- Tags: refrigeration, Lear, turbine
- Blog posts 2006-08-04
- Grid Wars 5.3 (Windows)
- Grid Wars is a free interpretation of the minigame Geometry Wars from Project Gotham Racing 2 on the Xbox. Move and shoot in eight directions as your number of enemies gradually increases. Limited smart bombs will destroy every enemy on the screen.
- Tags: Enemy, Mark Incitti, Game Players, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2006-05-10
- Grid Wars v5.4 patch (Windows)
- This patch for the freeware arcade game Grid Wars updates version 5.3 to version 5.4. Changes include a pulsing blackhole, re-arranged generator order of generators, an 11x multiplier fix, and a reduction in the blackhole "harvesting" points.
- Tags: Generator, Freeware, Microsoft Windows, Mark Incitti
- Software downloads 2006-05-10
- DHS program tries to connect far-flung information, but at what privacy cost?
- DHS program tries to connect far-flung information, but at what privacy cost?"Privacy Review"???Hey, Mr Fed . . ? If we already can't trust your agency with this information about us, what makes it possible for us to trust your appointed s/t/o/o/g/e "Privacy Reviewer" . . ?And what elseI can...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Discussion threads 2006-02-27
- Attention Metaphor
- The idea behind good technology is calm. GooChat is good and calm. Even as pinheads roam the GooglePlex issuing blacklists against news organizations, engineers create smooth ponds of application space, clean rooms where clarity emerges like a a cupped hand from a mountain brook.You don't agree? Fine. But try GooChat...
- Tags: Portals, Desktops, E-mail providers, Web technology, Instant messaging, GooChat, Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Macintosh, portal, Google Gmail
- Blog posts 2005-08-24
- Does Oracle have a demographics problem?
- Does Oracle have a demographics problem?The usual reminderThat the proper alternative to Oracle is a DBMS that implements the relational model faithfully. As all the necessary knowledge is in the public domain it seems an admirable project for open source.Nice"...the predictable Microsoft bigots and the free thinkers..."So no one who...
- Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Databases, IBM Corp., Paul, thinker, Oracle Corp., free thinker, open source, innovation, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-06-29
- Will Apple switch to Intel?
- There's a report, apparently in today's Wall Street Journal but summarized on the Mac Observer and by Reuters, to the effect that Apple has been negotiating use of Intel CPUs. As part of the report, there's speculation that Apple could abandon the PowerPC for Pentium and the usual less than...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-05-23
- Will Apple switch to Intel?
- There's a report, apparently in today's Wall Street Journal but summarized on the Mac Observer and by Reuters, to the effect that Apple has been negotiating use of Intel CPUs. As part of the report, there's speculation that Apple could abandon the PowerPC for Pentium and the usual less than...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-05-23
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